Chelsea v Everton. 16th Jan at 1500.

Chelsea...

  • Dagger

    Votes: 22 9.1%

  • Clinton

    Votes: 13 5.3%

  • Boots

    Votes: 13 5.3%

  • Flower Show

    Votes: 28 11.5%

  • Fat cockney scruffs

    Votes: 150 61.7%

  • They'll beat us here

    Votes: 17 7.0%
  • Total voters
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The Equaliser said:
Great watch that 2nd half, but the accusations of cheating and corruption are embarrassing and sound more than a bit rawkish.

It was great to see FM jump into the crowd when he scored what he thought was the winner but it was clearly the reason that the ref added on more than the 7 minutes originally signaled. The goal was clearly offside but it seems that the lino didn't see the flick on which caused Terry to be off as he was onside when the original ball was played, or he thought that it came off an Everton player. Unlucky but that's the way it goes. We have only ourselves to blame at end of the day as we should have had the ball down near their corner flag wasting time trying to kill off the game. Instead we insisted on playing it out from the back and inviting them on to us.

Would have taken a point before the game so there is no reason to be fuming, other than we again showed our inability to defend a lead. It was Bournemouth and Stoke all over again and it was disappointing not to take the 3 points against these nouveau riche beauts.

Biggest positive for me was Mirallas back in the side and scoring a superb goal. Long may it continue. Baines and Barry looked good as well, but Stones needs to cut out the showboating which is causing him to lose possession unnecessarily.

We are where we are in the league because that's where we deserve to be. On to the next one.
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Don't like being a moaner and certainly agree we've shot ourselves in the foot regularly this season, but can't not blame the officials today. We didn't do much wrong in terms of playing the game out. Such a bad error from the lino and the crazy amount of time added by the abysmal ref was very hard to take and completely undeserved.

Completely hate the old table doesnt lie cliche, because when you get scandalous decisions like today and to a lesser extent stoke and bournemouth, added to our incredible lack of luck it really does lie at times. We're certainly not top 4 material but we're miles better than 12th.
 
TommyDavo said:
Oh stop it. No team tries to play the offside line in the 6 yard box.
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But, Tommy, they were well outside the 6 yard box, weren't they? The back four were actually holding their line on the edge of the penalty area - 18 yards out - when the first ball came in.

They had dropped back to the penalty spot - 12 yards out - for the knock-down. Terry was at least a yard offside.

How can you blame Roberto for the goal?
 
Still totally fuming here tbh. Absolutely pathetic refereeing and it's about time these so-called professionals were made to explain such diabolical performances. Mike Jones isn't even fit to ref park football.

This season can sod right off as far as I'm concerned (unless we give the RS the 6-0 bumming we owe them in the LC Final).
 
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ToffeeTim said:
Don't like being a moaner and certainly agree we've shot ourselves in the foot regularly this season, but can't not blame the officials today. We didn't do much wrong in terms of playing the game out. Such a bad error from the lino and the crazy amount of time added by the abysmal ref was very hard to take and completely undeserved.

Completely hate the old table doesnt lie cliche, because when you get scandalous decisions like today and to a lesser extent stoke and bournemouth, added to our incredible lack of luck it really does lie at times. We're certainly not top 4 material but we're miles better than 12th.
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By this time next Saturday we could be 13th
 
Blueblooded said:
Still totally fuming here tbh. Absolutely pathetic refereeing and it's about time these so-called professionals were made to explain such diabolical performances. Mike Jones isn't even fit to ref park football.

This season can sod right off as far as I'm concerned (unless we give the RS the 6-0 bumming we owe them in the LC Final).
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I expect Clattenberg to ref it if we get there.
Shocking officiating - does Abramovitch pay for the officials' coke and hookers?
 
Gazlar said:
When we scored 90 minutes it was then a 1 min 20 seconds celebration until game resumed I think they add on 30 seconds for a goal so more time was added to the original call. If correct, then celebrations have cost us 4 points hence Bournemouth
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Not really!

There would have been the same amount of playing time however long the celebration was.
 
Just back from the match. Mate who is a Chelsea fan had a spare ticket and I've been working in london this week.

Had to sit with the chelsea fans on my hands.

Other than a 10 minute period where they scored twice we looked incredibly comfortable. We played well which made conceding two so quickly very hard to take.and one was a hammy deflection

Good news is Baines is back to his best. Rom bullied their backline and we looked great.

But that third goal. Oh lord. There is no way it should have stood. So clearly offside even if all then additional time was justified.

In was angry after Bournemouth and living after stoke. But I am still so so angry. The angriest I've been since Rodwell was sent off in the derby. Couldn't speak afterwards.

So angry. Referee needs to be sent to non league
 
Stanley Parker said:
But, Tommy, they were well outside the 6 yard box, weren't they? The back four were actually holding their line on the edge of the penalty area - 18 yards out - when the first ball came in.

They had dropped back to the penalty spot - 12 yards out - for the knock-down. Terry was at least a yard offside.

How can you blame Roberto for the goal?
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Will have another look Stan, my dogs name btw, just frustrated etc,
 
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