Manager for next season

[Clampy]

This hopefully will end up being a masterstroke of an appointment. Welcome Swiss Rob.

[john e]

Red Star were not the richest club on the planet and probably the only way of winning was by stealth
Chelsea had a myriad of world super stars yet played like a lower league team against a top quality side
theire football was shit in that final for the money spent on players, you would have thought they could muster some attacking intent rather than a parked vehicle and a breakaway every now and then
absolute crap in my view

what was even worse was when Mourinho was there and they played Barcelona, admitedely Barca were an ace side, but Chelsea had spent more money on players and should have been able to at least compete,
yet the special one had them watering a quagmire of a pitch which was an embarresment to see, the grass was to be replaced after that particular game, but they were so shit at actually playing decent football like a conference side they made the conditions as bad as they could to give themselves a better chance, and this with all the millions spent

Chelsea are a shit club, with tosspot supporters and don't deserve to win fuck all, especially when playing like a Pulis side and spawning the final,
Wankers, and that's my final word on the subject

[Hillbilly]

I'll bet the Inter team in the mid-60s were pretty miserable to watch. From reading reports of the '67 final pretty much the whole of Europe was grateful to Celtic for playing some actual attacking football against the kings of catenaccio.

[enigma]

Are we complaining about how the potential new manager beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich on the way to winning the European Cup?

No, I'm saying that Chelsea side are the worst European Champions ever. Something we probably all agreed on before we hired Di Matteo.

And if that's the case then the manager who dragged the worst European Champions ever to the trophy must have done a pretty phenomenal job.

Or they fluked it

So he's a lucky manager then?
Good, we could do with a load of luck.

Well let's hope so. People have jumped to the conclusion that I'm 100% against this appointment when all I said was I'm underwhelmed. But that goes for the coming season and just football generally.

That said, he didn't have much of that luck at his other clubs.

[Monty]

I'll bet the Inter team in the mid-60s were pretty miserable to watch. From reading reports of the '67 final pretty much the whole of Europe was grateful to Celtic for playing some actual attacking football against the kings of catenaccio.

Miserable to watch, but brilliant at what they did.

[Malandro]

Red Star were not the richest club on the planet and probably the only way of winning was by stealth
Chelsea had a myriad of world super stars yet played like a lower league team against a top quality side
theire football was shit in that final for the money spent on players, you would have thought they could muster some attacking intent rather than a parked vehicle and a breakaway every now and then
absolute crap in my view

what was even worse was when Mourinho was there and they played Barcelona, admitedely Barca were an ace side, but Chelsea had spent more money on players and should have been able to at least compete,
yet the special one had them watering a quagmire of a pitch which was an embarresment to see, the grass was to be replaced after that particular game, but they were so shit at actually playing decent football like a conference side they made the conditions as bad as they could to give themselves a better chance, and this with all the millions spent

Chelsea are a shit club, with tosspot supporters and don't deserve to win fuck all, especially when playing like a Pulis side and spawning the final,
Wankers, and that's my final word on the subject

I'd like a bit more John, that was great. Spot on.

Football is supposed to be about entertainment.

[KevinGage]

Red Star were not the richest club on the planet and probably the only way of winning was by stealth
Chelsea had a myriad of world super stars yet played like a lower league team against a top quality side
theire football was shit in that final for the money spent on players, you would have thought they could muster some attacking intent rather than a parked vehicle and a breakaway every now and then
absolute crap in my view

what was even worse was when Mourinho was there and they played Barcelona, admitedely Barca were an ace side, but Chelsea had spent more money on players and should have been able to at least compete,
yet the special one had them watering a quagmire of a pitch which was an embarresment to see, the grass was to be replaced after that particular game, but they were so shit at actually playing decent football like a conference side they made the conditions as bad as they could to give themselves a better chance, and this with all the millions spent

Chelsea are a shit club, with tosspot supporters and don't deserve to win fuck all, especially when playing like a Pulis side and spawning the final,
Wankers, and that's my final word on the subject

Tell it, brother.

[DaveD]

Well, I had reservations about RDM, but if we get the full set of coaches being talked about, I think that's a really strong team.

And obviously the man's got the job now, so he has my unconditional support for at least the next year and a half.

[Clampy]

The way Chelsea fans treated Benitez was despicable. They're a classless bunch are arseholes.