Chelsea 1-1 Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[The Edge]

Just watched the football show slot on SSN. Danny Mills and Gabby as the guests. Mills banging on about VAR not doing it’s job with the Grealish supposed foul on Christiansen. Gabby of course saying there was no foul. Mills doesn’t like us much. I’m okay with that because he means nothing to me.

I saw that show and Mills definitely has an anti Villa attitude. When Gabby said we were due a bit of good  fortune from VAR Mills brought up the Sheffield United ghost goal from last season the tosser. Gabby could have responded with the numerous times VAR has gone against us but he failed which was a bit of a let down. I think Ian Taylor would be a much better bet to fight our corner but he doesn't seem to get much media work these days.

[Drummond]

Danny Mills in having controversial opinions for money shocker. Why oh why anyone listens to Talkshite I have no idea.

Anyway cracking performance from the lads today, really enjoyed the tenacity and willingness to not be dictated to by a talented team. What we learnt is that we’re talented too though as Amazon Primes whole agenda seemed to be about Frank and his squad as usual we got no credit for what we did. That’ll change soon enough....

Townsend Le Saux very complimentary about us. Berlin was a bit of a Dick but I thought the coverage was fair.

Some of his comments took my breath away.

Clappy thing.

I AMA doughnut

? Don't get it!

[amfy]

The one thing Beglin managed to say in various forms 2-3 times that I kept having to correct....
He kept saying something along the lines of ‘The Villa player just getting to the ball first in order to draw the foul’ (not just about Grealish). So, put another way, that’ll be the Chelsea player getting there late & committing a foul then?

[paul_e]

I dont get the Beglin bias, what did he actually say that's making everyone so sensitive? His most notable contribution was his revelation that he broke his leg from a hop-ball to which his co-commentator could only reply "Really?".

He also did that slightly lazy thing of his research and insight on Villa being confined to the last time he saw us in the flesh (Burnley) rather than mentioning our play and tactics in the games since then.

I agree with you in beglin. There are times when I get so annoyed with the bias of the commentators or studio pundits. But last night wasn’t one of them, I thought beglin went on about the potential grealish foul a little bit, but didn’t really over egg it, otherwise I thought he was ok and he made McGinn MoM, I thought McGinn was brilliant but he could of made other choices, so I thought he was ok. Le Saux and Townsend were good pundits I thought

I think he did over-egg it, they got input from Clattenberg who said there was nothing in it and the goal was correct and then 2 minutes later Beglin started talking about how lucky we were again. I annoyed me at the time because it created a controversy that didn't need to exist and lots of people are now clinging to it as proof that we cheated and didn't deserve the point, which is bullshit. The reality is Grealish passed it on and Christiansen just stepped into his path meaning there was no option but for them to run into each other, Jack got straight up and carried on, not his fault Christiansen sat sulking for 15-20seconds as both Terry and Sherwood (amongst many) have pointed out.

[Risso]

I saw loads of Leeds fans all over Twitter moaning about us scoring, with a Chelsea man down.  Apparently it was exactly the same scenario as occurred at Elland Road in the Championship.  Efforts to inform them that the problem was that they pretended to knock it out of play before actually going on to score sadly fell on deaf ears.

[amfy]

I saw loads of Leeds fans all over Twitter moaning about us scoring, with a Chelsea man down.  Apparently it was exactly the same scenario as occurred at Elland Road in the Championship.  Efforts to inform them that the problem was that they pretended to knock it out of play before actually going on to score sadly fell on deaf ears.

Along with the fact that at the time they told us that you should ‘play to the whistle’ but now that we do that isn’t right either.

[algy]

Danny Mills in having controversial opinions for money shocker. Why oh why anyone listens to Talkshite I have no idea.

Anyway cracking performance from the lads today, really enjoyed the tenacity and willingness to not be dictated to by a talented team. What we learnt is that we’re talented too though as Amazon Primes whole agenda seemed to be about Frank and his squad as usual we got no credit for what we did. That’ll change soon enough....

Townsend Le Saux very complimentary about us. Berlin was a bit of a Dick but I thought the coverage was fair.

Some of his comments took my breath away.

Clappy thing.

I AMA doughnut

? Don't get it!

Ich bin ein Berliner.

[rob_bridge]

I saw loads of Leeds fans all over Twitter moaning about us scoring, with a Chelsea man down.  Apparently it was exactly the same scenario as occurred at Elland Road in the Championship.  Efforts to inform them that the problem was that they pretended to knock it out of play before actually going on to score sadly fell on deaf ears.

The player in question for Chelsea was not injured

[Arsey]

Danny Mills in having controversial opinions for money shocker. Why oh why anyone listens to Talkshite I have no idea.

Anyway cracking performance from the lads today, really enjoyed the tenacity and willingness to not be dictated to by a talented team. What we learnt is that we’re talented too though as Amazon Primes whole agenda seemed to be about Frank and his squad as usual we got no credit for what we did. That’ll change soon enough....

Townsend Le Saux very complimentary about us. Berlin was a bit of a Dick but I thought the coverage was fair.

Some of his comments took my breath away.

Clappy thing.

I AMA doughnut

? Don't get it!

I feel the need, the need for speed

[danno]

Jim Beglin did make me laugh yesterday. " I thought that was a foul". Referee waves play on and Villa score. VAR don't get involved and the goal stands. They then have Mark Clattenburg explain why it wasn't a foul and the goal stands.

That's three referees that have seen it and decided it's a goal.

Jim Beglin: " I thought that was a foul". 

[mcgrath_85]

Jim Beglin did make me laugh yesterday. " I thought that was a foul". Referee waves play on and Villa score. VAR don't get involved and the goal stands. They then have Mark Clattenburg explain why it wasn't a foul and the goal stands.

That's three referees that have seen it and decided it's a goal.

Jim Beglin: " I thought that was a foul". 

He seemed very anti Jack and Villa didn’t he. Jack had the ball and was fouled. A minute later we scored.

[LeeB]

The centre half leaves his leg out to stop the one two, then makes out he’s injured in an effort to avoid a booking. I can’t believe there is/was any debate about it

[Marlon From Bearwood]

I saw loads of Leeds fans all over Twitter moaning about us scoring, with a Chelsea man down.  Apparently it was exactly the same scenario as occurred at Elland Road in the Championship.  Efforts to inform them that the problem was that they pretended to knock it out of play before actually going on to score sadly fell on deaf ears.

Along with the fact that at the time they told us that you should ‘play to the whistle’ but now that we do that isn’t right either.

Also, a lot of people seem to have (deliberately?) forgotten that that game at Leeds was a dead rubber. As admirable as Bielsa’s gesture was, I don’t think anyone really thinks he’d have done that in a game that had something riding on it.

[paul_e]

The centre half leaves his leg out to stop the one two, then makes out he’s injured in an effort to avoid a booking. I can’t believe there is/was any debate about it

That's how I saw it as well, he absolutely intended to block Jack off, how the contact happened doesn't matter, it was caused by him initiating it.

[SaddVillan]

Another pile of ordure from the mouth of Jim  "I think the goalie should have done better there" Beglin.

Instead of slagging Jack off for an imaginary foul, this expert football pundit could have focussed on how Jack git up and made a run into Chelsea's box, distracting and occupying the defender who then left Anwar free to score.

But no, that would have meant that the tosser would have to have shown some insight and understanding of what was happening on the pitch. Something he's never done in all the time I've heard him commenting.