Ok, been in London all day so I can someone give me a summary?
We got butt fucked by the Chinese!
Ps the game was in London…where you were…
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Fuck off and eat a goat you fat cunt. (not a euphemism)
I was in East London learning how fascists can take advantage.of negative feeling towards a minority.
Watch out fatstuff the night of the long carving knives is coming and threrss a lot of carving.
PS anyone got a summary?
Someone needs their bed.
Not even 8pm.
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Still no answers from our Head of moaning
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We made 6 changes. Vvd out as was Charlie Austin. We defended A LOT as you’ probably expect but right before ht Fraser fucked up. Groundhog day?
Second half we defended A LOT and then Mauricio put on chas and he nearly scored with first touch. He was generally more of a threat than anyone else had been from our team in entire first half. By all accounts redmond was very poor but we defended well.
Generally if we’d beaten Leicester then this result wouldn’t feel so negative.
Just wish we’d been told when MP took over that he was a bus parker by nature and not the bullshit we were fed about high intensity attacking football which clearly was a lie.
Anyway… after match Mo Pe refused to confirm that virgil wouldn’t be sold in Jan etc etc.
3 points off bottom 3 so next game feels quite important.
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Pile of pants…
One day old, or heavily soiled?
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What do you prefer?
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Having only just got back into going to football since my illness (first game back being Wednesday’s debarcle), I managed to score a couple of spare tickets to the game after meeting this Norweigen footballer playing poker at the Empire on Friday night so took a Chelsea-supporting ladyfriend and sat on my hands in the Chelsea end (but not before linking up with my Saints boys for a few beers and songs in the Courtfield Tavern pre-match).
We weren’t terrible. Chelsea played pretty well so I’d say our defending was pretty solid to keep the score down to 1-0. I feel like Forster should have done more with the free-kick but then again he had an otherwise fantastic game so can’t really complain at him letting the one in.
Yoshida and Hoedt both had very good games and I thought Hojbjerg, Lemina and Romeu did OK as well, despite being dominated by a completely superior opposition away from home. (Oh and by the way LOL at Danny Murphy’s nonsense the other month about Ruben Loftus-Cheek being better than Bakayoko - who together with Kante completely ran the show - along with the rest of Chelsea’s more attacking midfielders who just never gave the ball away and had the pace of the game completely under control I’m sorry to say.)
The issue is going forward. We just had nothing whatsoever. Austin’s first effort was tame and predictable and I feel like as the ‘target-man/centre-forward/slow-but-tough’ mould of striker that he’s supposed to be, he should have been a bit stronger to hold off Christensen for the second chance and muster a bit more of a shot than the toe-poke aimed through Courtouis’ legs. On the other hand, he did at least look vaguely threatening and certainly more than Gabby who’s beginning to look like the soft, ineffective and unathletic kind of player you worry that a signing from Spain or Italy is liable to be (Juanmi being a great example).
Boufal added a little something when he came on but the eternal problem with Saints is that we just never seem to have runner from midfield arriving late into the box to support the striker when a cross comes in, leaving Austin or Gabby all alone up front and easily marked and nullified.
All in all, the performance wasn’t a disaster and if it had come in the context of our recent improvements prior to the Leicester game I don’t think the reaction on here or Fiverweb would be anywhere near as pessimistic.
Again, we’ll see what happens over the next few weeks.
I don’t necessarily think we ought to sack the manager but I do think we need to come to some kind of a decision on when we ought to make a decision however.
The next five matches represent a useful yardstick of a mixture of winnable games against teams around us coupled with what in the context of a relegation battle can now be considered ‘bonus games’ away to two of the Big Six. I think that after that little lot, we need to decide whether to give the manager the boot or stick with him to the end of the season. Either way, we have a run of Burnley, Stoke, Newcastle, Swansea and West Ham (four of those being away from home) which begins at the end of February that I honestly think will decide the fate of our season, so whatever the case, let’s at least make sure we’re as ready as we can be for that - be it with a new manager or a firm decision to stick with Pellegrino until the end of the season.
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Man city are the fucking balls
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I have a man crush on Pep, he’s a dude with his smart tactics and sparing use of a v neck sweater,
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As @areloa-grandee philosophers would probably pose, does Forster having an otherwise great game make up for his visual kinetic experiment whereby he tries to save a moving footabll by looking 90 degrees THE ACTUAL OTHER FUCKING WAY?
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Although I prefer Ghandi
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But the real reason I make no comments on football is because me and So-crates at best bros who thinks the same
‘’ I am the wisest man alive,for I know one thing, that I know nothing’’
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But onethat has escaped Bazza is perhaps that which my good friend Victor Frankl manged to put into such eloquent prose
‘‘Between stimulus and repsonse, there is a space. In that space is our power to CHOSE our response’’
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