Arsenal vs Chelsea (PL) Sunday 1st March 16:30 GMT

I’m not being touchy, I’m talking facts.

You are comparing the team that can only score on corners to one of the greatest sides in the league, ever.

Get a grip. They have absolutely nothing on the Terry Lampard Drogba team. Nothing.
Talking facts in your own head.

Listen to me, they are the type of team we used to build. A big imposing team of players coming into or are in their prime and a team looking to win, I couldn't give two sh*ts how they win.

I did not compare them to Terry, Lampard and Drogba.

 
there are some low iq supporters we have for sure ...just ignore man... I am seriously worried the way our belived club is heading.I am afraid and worried. few of my fellow CFC friiends are drifting away. they are still fans but not watching games much as we used to.
I never understood what some think it means to be a "true fan". We should stick by our club through thick and thin......I agree with that, but what if I don't recognise it as my club anymore? I see the club badge, stadium and fans that look fed up, but I don't Chelsea Football Club anymore. I see BlueCo's Chelsea LDN. I don't see how me backing this unconditionally, clapping like a seal and shouting "go on lads" somehow makes me a true fan. It would make me a simple minded fool that is easily led, but not a true fan. I've felt closer to this club through periods where I was worried if there was even going to be a club anymore, but I have felt growing disdain for the club since the BlueCo era began.

 
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No we weren't, we lost, got outscored and lost a man to a red card. By any metric, we were not the better side today.
We lost due to yet another Sanchez clanger and then Neto being stupid, reducing us to 10 men.

For large parts of the game, we looked comfortable and we should have got a draw and on another day might have nicked all 3 points.

Really hope Arsenal don't win the PL, but if they do, it will be comforting to know that they will be the worst PL winners in a long time. Very little flair and totally reliant on set-pieces.

 
I never understood what some think it means to be a "true fan". We should stick by our club through thick and thin......I agree with that, but what if I don't recognise it as my club anymore? I see the club badge, stadium and fans that look fed up, but I don't Chelsea Football Club anymore. I see BlueCo's Chelsea LDN. I don't see how me backing this unconditionally, clapping like a seal and shouting "go on lads" somehow makes me a true fan. It would make me a simple minded fool that is easily led, but not a true fan. I've felt closer to this club through periods where I was worried if there was even going to be a club anymore, but I have felt growing disdain for the club since the BlueCo era began.
Yeah what ever this is, it isn’t Chelsea. Even in the 90’s we showed more bo**ocks and talent than this current overpaid bunch of w**kers.

 
We lost due to yet another Sanchez clanger and then Neto being stupid, reducing us to 10 men.

For large parts of the game, we looked comfortable and we should have got a draw and on another day might have nicked all 3 points.

Really hope Arsenal don't win the PL, but if they do, it will be comforting to know that they will be the worst PL winners in a long time. Very little flair and totally reliant on set-pieces.
On another day it would have been Chalobah making the mistake, or Tosin, or Fofana, or Badiashile, or Hato, or Gusto, or Garnacho, or Caicedo, or Enzo, or Delap, or even Palmer these days. It's always somebody in every game. We almost never play 90's minutes of football that doesn't have the most ridiculous errors. We'll see it again at Villa. They can be in the sh*ttiest of form, but we'll still find a way to match that level, we always do.

 
We lost due to yet another Sanchez clanger and then Neto being stupid, reducing us to 10 men.

For large parts of the game, we looked comfortable and we should have got a draw and on another day might have nicked all 3 points.

Really hope Arsenal don't win the PL, but if they do, it will be comforting to know that they will be the worst PL winners in a long time. Very little flair and totally reliant on set-pieces.
There is no "should". We lost. Our record against them in 11 games is 3 draws 8 losses.

Our last win against them is in 2021.

 
I never understood what some think it means to be a "true fan". We should stick by our club through thick and thin......I agree with that, but what if I don't recognise it as my club anymore? I see the club badge, stadium and fans that look fed up, but I don't Chelsea Football Club anymore. I see BlueCo's Chelsea LDN. I don't see how me backing this unconditionally, clapping like a seal and shouting "go on lads" somehow makes me a true fan. It would make me a simple minded fool that is easily led, but not a true fan. I've felt closer to this club through periods where I was worried if there was even going to be a club anymore, but I have felt growing disdain for the club since the BlueCo era began.
When we lost the CL final in 2008 I was heartbroken but above all I felt terrible for JT. I kept thinking how gutted he must be after missing the penalty. You could see that the players cared and that is all you can ask for as a fan.

I'm sure Reece, Trev and Josh will be hurting tonight. They understand what this means to the fans. Not sure I feel the same about the others.

Making the same mistakes over and over again week in week out shows that they don't care.

 
I never understood what some think it means to be a "true fan". We should stick by our club through thick and thin......I agree with that, but what if I don't recognise it as my club anymore? I see the club badge, stadium and fans that look fed up, but I don't Chelsea Football Club anymore.
It’s funny, but I could have said that when Abramovich bought the club. I didn’t recognise Chelsea FC anymore. We were a yo-yo club that always had a mixture of young potential talent and older journeymen players that cost little and usually came from lower league sides or Scotland or the odd has been.

Then the struggling club with a loyal and decent but not huge following were buying all the best players and had a better 2nd eleven than the next best team. Then supporters started popping up all over the place. Where were they all when I was amongst 8000 watching us draw at home to Rotherham United in Division 2 in April 1983?

My dad witnessed the promise and excitement of Dave Sexton’s team fall apart. He went from seeing Osgood and Cooke in cup finals to seeing the mess of the late seventies. That collapse saw the club in a far bigger mess than we’re in now.

Just thought I’d try and throw some context into all the whining, wailing and entitlement going on.

 
It’s been a few hours since full time and I’m still absolutely fuming. This game was our biggest chance to beat Arsenal for a long time and to be honest, there really isn’t a better time to beat them.

Usually I’m calm and rational, try to see the positives but I can’t see any now. I’m so so sick of this squad messing up in every big game. Sick of it.

 
Given that you've been posting about your penis a lot recently, would you like me to bring it up?
Excellent, thank you.

Apologies, you were my first choice but I didn't want to bother you during Lent. I figured @Valerie was likely the sort of Calvinist who leaned towards 'predestination renders choice moot so I can be as decadent as I want'.

Anyway, Arsenal beat us on dead balls this evening, however after seeing the goth oddities at the pub (who I assume were assembling before some sort of white makeup and shouting concert), I think I can assemble an XI to beat them.

 
It’s funny, but I could have said that when Abramovich bought the club. I didn’t recognise Chelsea FC anymore. We were a yo-yo club that always had a mixture of young potential talent and older journeymen players that cost little and usually came from lower league sides or Scotland or the odd has been.

Then the struggling club with a loyal and decent but not huge following were buying all the best players and had a better 2nd eleven than the next best team. Then supporters started popping up all over the place. Where were they all when I was amongst 8000 watching us draw at home to Rotherham United in Division 2 in April 1983?

My dad witnessed the promise and excitement of Dave Sexton’s team fall apart. He went from seeing Osgood and Cooke in cup finals to seeing the mess of the late seventies. That collapse saw the club in a far bigger mess than we’re in now.

Just thought I’d try and throw some context into all the whining, wailing and entitlement going on.
But nothing really changed with Abramovich, we were still the same Chelsea, the only difference was that we won more games and had more money. Almost everything else about the club remained untouched. It's got less to do with being good or bad on the pitch and more to do with stripping our identity away and moulding it into something unrecognisable.

 
It’s funny, but I could have said that when Abramovich bought the club. I didn’t recognise Chelsea FC anymore. We were a yo-yo club that always had a mixture of young potential talent and older journeymen players that cost little and usually came from lower league sides or Scotland or the odd has been.

Then the struggling club with a loyal and decent but not huge following were buying all the best players and had a better 2nd eleven than the next best team. Then supporters started popping up all over the place. Where were they all when I was amongst 8000 watching us draw at home to Rotherham United in Division 2 in April 1983?

My dad witnessed the promise and excitement of Dave Sexton’s team fall apart. He went from seeing Osgood and Cooke in cup finals to seeing the mess of the late seventies. That collapse saw the club in a far bigger mess than we’re in now.

Just thought I’d try and throw some context into all the whining, wailing and entitlement going on.
The argument is really childish in a way, we climbed out of poverty, fought to stand on the same heights as elites, afraid to go back to poverty days then we get told, we used to be worse why are we so entitled.

We want to maintain the standards and build upon the hard work of the old fans, players, management that came before. When you were there watching us drawing Rotherham, didn't you want to see the club to one day be mentioned among the likes of great clubs? Now that we're finally there, why do we want to give it up so quickly?

 
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On the face of it, it was a good performance. We wasn’t far from nicking a draw and you could argue we deserved a draw.

But in reality and deep down, we all knew that Arsenal would win by a soft goal. We’re just not good enough in both boxes.

 
there are some low iq supporters we have for sure ...just ignore man... I am seriously worried the way our belived club is heading.I am afraid and worried. few of my fellow CFC friiends are drifting away. they are still fans but not watching games much as we used to.
I'm one of them. Just a fan. Didn't bother watching today's game as I've lost all my passion for this club. Seeing that we got another red card and Sanchez bozo moment proves why.

 
The argument is really childish in a way, we climbed out of poverty, fought to stand on the same heights as elites, afraid to go back to poverty days then we get told, we used to be worse why are we so entitled.

We want to maintain the standards and build upon the hard work of the old fans, players, management that came before. When you were there watching us drawing Rotherham, didn't you want to see the club to one day be mentioned among the likes of great clubs? Now that we're finally there, why do we want to give it up so quickly?
The big problem is we've gone back to poverty after wasting billions. It's not like the new owners have come into this club and not invested in the squad. That's why we will get no sympathy and deservedly so.

 
On the face of it, it was a good performance. We wasn’t far from nicking a draw and you could argue we deserved a draw.

But in reality and deep down, we all knew that Arsenal would win by a soft goal. We’re just not good enough in both boxes.
I don't think it was a bad performance; this team played as well as it possibly can and there lies the problem.

 
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I think what’s most damning about our place in history on this list, is the company we are keeping here, just look at these sides with us, embarrassing doesn’t even do it justice; it’s an absolute disgrace. It’s relegation fodder/‘nothing club’ traits.

 
Chelsea have something like 7 reds, in prem Liverpool 1, Utd 1....

Arse, Villa, City & someone else have none!!.😲...are their tackles & talking back to refs any different than Chelsea players!!!!... Fkn seems like an agenda or what.... How many times did Arse centre halves foul today alone yet 1 yellow at end of game for a foul at halfway... 🙄

 
Started off really shaky — mainly because Sanchez was scaring the life out of everyone with his passing. Otherwise thought we kept them at bay and thought Sarr and Hato did okay.

After the break we took the game to them more. Might well have got an equaliser if Neto hadn’t lost his head. After that it was game over sadly.

Can’t see us honestly turning it around now. It’s just whether Villa crash and burn faster than us. Disappointing season really but largely self inflicted. Poor recruitment, poor discipline, individual errors, points squandered, manager mayhem. Been a bit of a shambles all round.

 
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Chelsea have something like 7 reds, in prem Liverpool 1, Utd 1....

Arse, Villa, City & someone else have none!!.😲...are their tackles & talking back to refs any different than Chelsea players!!!!... Fkn seems like an agenda or what.... How many times did Arse centre halves foul today alone yet 1 yellow at end of game for a foul at halfway... 🙄
Beyond the Caicedo one, I think we had 2 for denying a goalscoring opportunity (Chalobah and Sanchez). The rest of our red cards haven't been second yellows I think. It is the volume of stupid yellows that is the real issue and has been a problem for several seasons now. We've getting pointless yellows for dissent and kicking the ball away etc. which then put players under pressure the rest of the game. Today Neto got his first yellow for dissent. I think the club needs to sort out the discipline and fast. Maybe start fining a week's wages for picking up stupid yellows like Neto today.

 
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