Other Premier League fixtures New Years Day

[bluej]

Hahahaha get in!

[brite blu sky]

fuck me 3-3

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

WoAH

[brite blu sky]

cmon Villa hold this!!

[The Man In Blue]

fuck me albrighton close there

[bluej]

I hate to bang on about 'that' game at OT last year but Villa scored during injury time and the ref still blew up bang on 5 minutes. Where's the consistency?

Great result for us that.

[brite blu sky]

Albrighton could have nicked it there.

2 more point dropped for Chelsea.. and to VILLA!! haha

[brite blu sky]

It is difficult to understand what has happened to Chelsea, from being about 5pts clear at the top to now being in 5th, 6 pts off and in really poor form, all that from the moment they sacked Wilkins.

I was chatting to a Chelsea fan over xmas and he said he had heard the players were well pissed off with the Wilkins sacking and the belief with the fans was that initially the players threw the first few games afterwards. It sounded too far fetched to me at the time but maybe there is a deep set pissed offness there now.

[marvin]

Can't believe that Wilkins sacking had anything to do with it, but Chelsea are right on the edge now

[Ted Hughes]

It is difficult to understand what has happened to Chelsea, from being about 5pts clear at the top to now being in 5th, 6 pts off and in really poor form, all that from the moment they sacked Wilkins.

I was chatting to a Chelsea fan over xmas and he said he had heard the players were well pissed off with the Wilkins sacking and the belief with the fans was that initially the players threw the first few games afterwards. It sounded too far fetched to me at the time but maybe there is a deep set pissed offness there now.

I think Mourinho built a great, very direct, powerful team & it's getting older, slower, less powerful, has a manager who adds absolutely nothing & is very lucky to have inherited a team that runs itself, & an owner with itchy feet who, so far, won't spend big to replace the players who've gone. Tbf that's not surprising when you see the utter shite Ancelotti has spunked £20 million on.

I recon Abramovic would have Ancelotti out tomorrow if he could but he doesn't have anyone else to replace him with, yet. Wouldn't rule out a return to Chelsea for Mourinho in a year or two, if Bob stays on track at City & Ferguson stays at the rags.

[brite blu sky]

Can't believe that Wilkins sacking had anything to do with it, but Chelsea are right on the edge now

I thought it was just a coincidence that they started losing from that precise moment.. but this guy said that is what he heard. I mean how do you go from flattening teams 4, 5 or 6-0 to getting beat and struggling to even beat teams like Villa at home!

As you say they are on the edge now and in serious danger of being in trouble. The other aspect is that they now look at games like their next one at Wolves and instead of being confident of getting 3pts they know that Wolves are going to be smelling blood and they are going to have one hell of a battle to get anything.

As Ted say they have an ageing squad, but no-one would have predicted such a rapid drop in form we have just seen.

[s1ty m]

It is difficult to understand what has happened to Chelsea, from being about 5pts clear at the top to now being in 5th, 6 pts off and in really poor form, all that from the moment they sacked Wilkins.

I was chatting to a Chelsea fan over xmas and he said he had heard the players were well pissed off with the Wilkins sacking and the belief with the fans was that initially the players threw the first few games afterwards. It sounded too far fetched to me at the time but maybe there is a deep set pissed offness there now.

Lampard, Terry and Drogba in ealry decline, at the same time. Cech unravelled. Buying dross like Ramires does not help, no juicy youths coming through. Chelsea will be a dozen points behind us by the end of the season.

Move over Roman, it's our turn now.

[zuricity]

It is difficult to understand what has happened to Chelsea, from being about 5pts clear at the top to now being in 5th, 6 pts off and in really poor form, all that from the moment they sacked Wilkins.

I was chatting to a Chelsea fan over xmas and he said he had heard the players were well pissed off with the Wilkins sacking and the belief with the fans was that initially the players threw the first few games afterwards. It sounded too far fetched to me at the time but maybe there is a deep set pissed offness there now.

Lampard, Terry and Drogba in ealry decline, at the same time. Cech unravelled. Buying dross like Ramires does not help, no juicy youths coming through. Chelsea will be a dozen points behind us by the end of the season.

Move over Roman, it's our turn now.

Yes but they bought danny boy. The savior of English football !

You know city only relase players ott, like Liverpool in the eighties.

The premier league is getting harder each season. I'm just waiting for united to crumble, as they will. Luck as they got yesterday has to run out sometime soon.

[Beefymcfc]

Regarding Chelsea, it's been mentioned about their ageing and somewhat decrepid squad, as well as the Wilkins factor, but what also has to be factored in is the depth of it. With only 19 senior players registered at the start of the season, they were bound to have problems if players got injuries.

[urlnp=http://www.premierleague.com/page/Headlines/0,,12306~2142220,00.html]Link to Prem League Squads[/urlnp]

[mr_nool]

I saw the last 10 minutes of the Villa game. Totally loved it. Chelsea celebrated like they'de won silver wear when they scored 3-2, but one minute later they defended worse like than a pub team and it was 3-3. The bridge went totally silent.

[mcfc1632]

I wonder if Mr Sturridge is still feeling as fucking cocky as he was when he first left us???

[spiv]

I wonder if Mr Sturridge is still feeling as fucking cocky as he was when he first left us???

He thought he was a good player, he wanted to go to a big team.
Well,,,

[Ted Hughes]

Can't believe that Wilkins sacking had anything to do with it, but Chelsea are right on the edge now

I thought it was just a coincidence that they started losing from that precise moment.. but this guy said that is what he heard. I mean how do you go from flattening teams 4, 5 or 6-0 to getting beat and struggling to even beat teams like Villa at home!

As you say they are on the edge now and in serious danger of being in trouble. The other aspect is that they now look at games like their next one at Wolves and instead of being confident of getting 3pts they know that Wolves are going to be smelling blood and they are going to have one hell of a battle to get anything.

As Ted say they have an ageing squad, but no-one would have predicted such a rapid drop in form we have just seen.

That's true but it shouldn't be forgotton that a fair few of those players are Champions, so they've still got plenty of potential to come back from this situation, even if they had no manager. There's not much chance of them repeating it very often in the future though, even if they do pull this season out of the shit. Big rebuilding job on the horizon, as with the rags.

[john68]

Whatever the morale of the playing squad after Wilkins sacking. Someone pointed out theother week how Ancelotti's match behaviour had changed.
Previously, he had spent long periods in close conversation with his No2, mooching through sheets of paper and obviously analysing strategies and tactics. After Wilkins went, he was to be seen as a solitary figure, standing for most of the game on his own in the technical area.
No matter how successful Chelsea has been in recent years, it never seems to be a happy club.

[brite blu sky]

Whatever the morale of the playing squad after Wilkins sacking. Someone pointed out theother week how Ancelotti's match behaviour had changed.
Previously, he had spent long periods in close conversation with his No2, mooching through sheets of paper and obviously analysing strategies and tactics. After Wilkins went, he was to be seen as a solitary figure, standing for most of the game on his own in the technical area.
No matter how successful Chelsea has been in recent years, it never seems to be a happy club.

Thats a good point John.. and one that would reinforce the idea that they have been affected by the Wilkins departure.. right through to the manager perhaps.
I would have thought they will get over it and get on with it, they have the experience.. but if Wilkins had a fairly active role, even if that was just the oil that kept things smooth, and now there is a big gaping hole, you can see how it would have an effect. The big question for them is how long it will take them to shake it off and what sort of state they will be in by the time they do.
I just took a look at their fixtures coming up and there are now some really tricky games for them in the state they are in.
Wolves away will not be an easy game. then perhaps a false confidence building easy one at home v Blackburn. then two tricky away games at Bolton and then Sunderland. They could by that time be right out it and down in 6th or something.