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Leeds United vs Chelsea (FAC) Sunday 26th April 15:00 GMT

First game I've missed on here since "I can't remember" ... great to make the final !

Good positioning from Fernandez for the header. Some nice saves from Sanchez to keep us in it (one of them looked very lucky - the one that hit him half way up his arm and then went over the bar)

We have a puncher's chance against Man City ... well, a girlie punch anyway !

 
Cant stand players feigning injury, people on here saying its ok obviously they are younger then me, these players nowadays wouldn’t have lasted 5 mins before 2000

All clubs do it but should they? Gusto is one of the worst culprits, Sanchez was never injured yesterday, Tosin told him to go down to annoy Leeds,

Players go down and immediately other players tell the opposition to put the ball out, NO its upto the ref to stop the game

Anyone who saw the Liverpool game Saturday saw their keeper go to the floorand try and get the game stopped because Palace had the ball and he was on the floor but Muniz chipped it in to the goal, while Liverpool players stood there wanting the game stopped

 
Cant stand players feigning injury, people on here saying its ok obviously they are younger then me, these players nowadays wouldn’t have lasted 5 mins before 2000

All clubs do it but should they? Gusto is one of the worst culprits, Sanchez was never injured yesterday, Tosin told him to go down to annoy Leeds,

Players go down and immediately other players tell the opposition to put the ball out, NO its upto the ref to stop the game

Anyone who saw the Liverpool game Saturday saw their keeper go to the floorand try and get the game stopped because Palace had the ball and he was on the floor but Muniz chipped it in to the goal, while Liverpool players stood there wanting the game stopped
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I Hate it - I think most of us do. We can't moan when we see other teams do it if our players are as bad, if not worse.

Gusto really annoys me. When he had that knock yesterday I was kind of glad and hoped Acheampong would get on early, but oh no he was fine. Enzo goes down a lot too - always looking for the ref as does Neto. And now one of the worst is Caicedo and of course Cucurella, anytime anyone goes near that lovely hair of his! It's embarrassing.

 
Cant stand players feigning injury, people on here saying its ok obviously they are younger then me, these players nowadays wouldn’t have lasted 5 mins before 2000

All clubs do it but should they? Gusto is one of the worst culprits, Sanchez was never injured yesterday, Tosin told him to go down to annoy Leeds,

Players go down and immediately other players tell the opposition to put the ball out, NO its upto the ref to stop the game

Anyone who saw the Liverpool game Saturday saw their keeper go to the floorand try and get the game stopped because Palace had the ball and he was on the floor but Muniz chipped it in to the goal, while Liverpool players stood there wanting the game stopped
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Hate it, yes. But Drogba did it a lot and there are days when we're up against the better team with 2 minutes to go and we're winning.

One of those gamesmanship things that in principle I don't like but will use if the need arises

 
Hate it, yes. But Drogba did it a lot and there are days when we're up against the better team with 2 minutes to go and we're winning.

One of those gamesmanship things that in principle I don't like but will use if the need arises
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I think Drogba only seemed to go down and stay down if he won a freekick but i don’t remember him going off unlike Gusto and Pedro to name 2 who get a tiny touch and they roll on the floor even when its not a foul and the game goes on around them

 
I think Drogba only seemed to go down and stay down if he won a freekick but i don’t remember him going off unlike Gusto and Pedro to name 2 who get a tiny touch and they roll on the floor even when its not a foul and the game goes on around them
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Those two players are absolute wimps

 
When Drogba first came he used to dive and roll about with the best of them but either his team mates or JM got hold of him and he was a far better player for it.

He became a monster who gave centre half’s a torrid time by the end.

I hate to be a if u can’t beat them join them but European teams have used the dark arts for years and it would be a bit naive of us to not try and gain similar advantages.

When I played the last thing you did was show your opponent you was hurt, now you can hear the screams from the stands🙄

 
When Drogba first came he used to dive and roll about with the best of them but either his team mates or JM got hold of him and he was a far better player for it.

He became a monster who gave centre half’s a torrid time by the end.

I hate to be a if u can’t beat them join them but European teams have used the dark arts for years and it would be a bit naive of us to not try and gain similar advantages.

When I played the last thing you did was show your opponent you was hurt, now you can hear the screams from the stands🙄
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That's what I've always said. Players of years gone by would hate to show they had been hurt. No way would they feign injury. This current Chelsea side are hard to love and with players acting like that, it really doesn't help. Neto, Caicedo, Gusto and Cucurella, should try being on the end of a Ron Harris tackle - then they would have something to roll about for!

 
That's what I've always said. Players of years gone by would hate to show they had been hurt. No way would they feign injury. This current Chelsea side are hard to love and with players acting like that, it really doesn't help. Neto, Caicedo, Gusto and Cucurella, should try being on the end of a Ron Harris tackle - then they would have something to roll about for!
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A sign of the times, bunch of weak, woke, w**kers. Do we think Lampard played all those consecutive games without a cut or a bruise.

JT played every minute of every prem game at 35 when we won the league in 2015, imagine the medical team telling him to sit this one out. Imagine JM allowing them and that was just 10 years ago. And they don’t even tackle anymore. God I’m getting old.

 
The thing with faking injury is players nowadays leave us a man down, disorganised and end up conceding.

 
The thing with faking injury is players nowadays leave us a man down, disorganised and end up conceding.
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Yep and Gusto and Enzo are the worst culprits. I have lost count of the times these two have gone down and then the opposing team counter attack and we are under pressure. Then the attack is over and they are back up on their feet again having failed to win any free-kick. If I was coach, that would only have to happen once.

 
Garnacho, Gusto, Neto, and Fofana are players I simply just despise and wish I wouldn't have to see them play for this club anymore. Harsh throwing Gusto in there but he is just so thick it pissess me off.

 
You'renot seriously considering we could beat City in the final with this two Bob team and our Kinetic energy bench are you?
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This is Chelsea we perform when our backs are against the wall

 
A sign of the times, bunch of weak, woke, w**kers. Do we think Lampard played all those consecutive games without a cut or a bruise.

JT played every minute of every prem game at 35 when we won the league in 2015, imagine the medical team telling him to sit this one out. Imagine JM allowing them and that was just 10 years ago. And they don’t even tackle anymore. God I’m getting old.
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I mean, sure that was nice, but those same decisions made by Mourinho (then exacerbated by Conte) prematurely ended the careers of Fabregas and Cahill. Mourinho's attitude towards the medical staff also precipitated one of the all-time terrible club bustups. Yet Robben was sold by the club because of his repeated injury and absences or big games, even though Mourinho wanted to keep him and excused his unreliability. More recently, Chilwell and James repeatedly tried to return from serious injury, facilitated by a procession of managers desperate to save their jobs, resulting in permanent career-altering effects.

Terry reckons he was only 100% fit for five games in his career. Except those comments, made twice on two podcasts, were in the context of explaining that competition for places in the Abramovich era was so high, and he was so anxious about being replaced, that it made him play through injury. It would be very generous to assume that it had no impact on his performance, there were plenty of low points for Terry during that time and were it not for his off-field influence he would have been done at Chelsea by 2015.

These discussions about 'soft' modern players are absolutely hilarious, especially where Terry or Drogba are brought up as some sort of paragon, because you can search this very forum to see that both of them were repeatedly called 'soft' in comparison to those that came before them. Terry cried FFS. It is the sporting equivalent of "kids these days", a complaint that dates back at least to Ancient Greece.

 
You guys seriously forgot we basically lost a year of good Hazard performances from 2015-2016 because he was forced to play through injuries by Jose? We ended up 10th in the league and trophyless.

I appreciate the moments where players sacrificed their health for the team but it shouldn't be a common thing. Reece James will retire and spend decades of his life almost disabled. Batistuta said he played through injuries at times that after his retirement he had episodes of wanting to amputate his legs because it hurt so bad.

Survivorship bias isn't always a good thing.

 
I had to listen to my Dad talk about his day (chopper Harris et el)he had to listen to his talk about his day(WW2).

Every generation tries to make their kids lives easier which in turn makes them a little softer, especially in the western world.

Probably why the best heavyweights in recent years have come out the eastern block….. a much harder up bringing than any ghetto in America.

We have grown men in this country who can’t/wont handle raw meat. Think criticism is abuse and throw baby tantrums when they don’t get their own way.

It’s the way of the world,the easier our lives get the softer we become. These players a pampered from an early age and it shows… no point denying it.

 
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