Football

Terry for player/manager

I am rapidly forming the view that managers should be fired as soon as they are successful.

Ancelotti won the double and then had a fallow year before being fired.
Di Matteo won the FA Cup and Champions League and was fired six months later after a torrid spell.
Mourinho won the League Cup and the League and then took us down to 16th place before being fired.
Conte won the League and then has dropped us down to fifth place.

Now, if each oif these had gone immediately rather than after being allowed to fail, we might have been a more successful team. Write it into the contract. Win something, big bonus and cheerio.

Don't forget Benitez!

Who would you like next?

Who's left?

City have the remarkable ability to make everybody look shockingly ordinary at the moment. Except Arsenal, they made us look bloody awful

yep clear lack of leadership on the pitch and beyond
A former big character on the coaching staff would be a great move to provide that link and give motivation to the team
As for the managerial situation its never plain sailing at chelsea, I can see Roman pulling the trigger if there is a bad result and poor performance vs Barca.

ESPN managerial merry go round click bait.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/23/blog/post/3406833/if-arsenaltottenham-and-chelsea-all-need-a-new-manager-who-tops-the-list

Mark Ogden is currently boiling my piss, with his random insertion of Pochettino into this story, plus the inclusion of Brendan Rodgers WTF!!

Why's your piss boiling? Don't Spurs need a new manager so they can actually win something, instead of talking about it?

Would you like to see a kind of long-term managerial project at Chelsea where a manager becomes an institution, or are you happy with success and rotation?

The former seems like a romantic and outdated idea now in some respects, and Chelsea, Barcelona etc. have shown that instability doesn't necessarily lead to a lack of success.

Post match pub discussion about Arsenal yesterday.
Appoint Viera (or possibly Arteta) as manager
Sign Vincent Kompany.

You're welcome.

Hands off our JT.

I'll swerve that one, as I've taken to swerving the majority of your ongoing spurs trolling comments.

To rephrase the Spurs trolling:
What has The Sheriff actually won with The Tottenham?
What have The Tottenham actually won in the last 10 years?
What has Daniel Levy delivered apart from a retooled Tottenham with another 3-4 players available for sells to the highest bidder?

Viera would take the job just to piss off big Weng

Before slating Brendan Rodgers, remember he has come far closer to winning the league than Pochettino (with a far more entertaining side).

"My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study and that's been my biggest influence."

Going to swerve that one as well...

Not sure why you think I'm trolling on this occasion? You linked to an article that speculates about the future of Conte and Wenger who, in the time that Pochettino has been in charge of Spurs, have won three bits of silverware between them. They're obviously both going to go, and I'm sure the situations are very different, but I'm curious to know how long Spurs will give Pochettino to translate the much vaunted potential into winning something. I'm also surprised that you're so outraged that a journalist would speculate on other European clubs being interested in him, if he's as good as Spurs fans think.

Most points in a calendar year cup
The Premiership (if you only count goals scored by English players).

N London traffic problems ahoy for the open top bus parade.

Record home attendance for a Premier League fixture
Record number of dives by an English player , but that's OK because he's English (On second thoughts Ashley Young may take some beating here)

Are they the holders of "we have Harry Kane" league trophy?

So much salt from fans of failing Liverpool.

Johnathon "Inverted Pyramid" Wilson putting the boot into chelsea's performance on the weekend.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/mar/05/chelsea-surrender-manchester-city-negative-tactics

"There can be no sugarcoating and no excuses. Chelsea are not bottom of the league; they are fifth and likely to remain so. They were only 1-0 down. And they did not fight. There have been times this season when City have blown teams away. This was not one of them: here, they knocked Chelsea over with a weary sigh."

Johnathon "Inverted Pyramid" Wilson

Fuck. Off.

Kompany is a good shout. Brings in the ability to defend and leadership we badly need and the recurrent injury problem will mean he'll fit right in