The Football.....

[User482]

Yep, only wish the same could be said for the Rs. The Canaries have been an example of how to move up a tier and that man Lambert is going places, hopefully for you Manga, with Norwich.

And FWIW User482, I think you'll end up back in the PL - Cardiff are always crap in the play-offs and you've now got the 0-2 advantage. That leaves Blackpool and Birmingham of which I think Blackpool will win, but I can see you winning in the final. But, because I love Olly, I would love to see the Tangerines go back up again TBH.

Norwich and Swansea have both shown it's possible to get promoted, and stay up playing good football - I'm delighted for them both, as they're great to watch. In some respects I think Lambert is the better manager - argually, Brendan Rogers is carrying on where Martinez left off.

As a lifelong Hammers fan, this season has been pretty hard to take at times, with Allardyce's fingerprints all over some exceptionally tedious football. But we've been better of late, finally playing with the ball on the floor and some width, and were well worth our win last night. I've never been to Wembley (the 2006 cup final was in Cardiff) so fingers crossed!

I can't decide if sacking Warnock was a mistake or not - on the one hand he's got a poor record in the PL, but it's not as if your situation's improved since. Still, it's not over yet.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I really don't see, one eyed bias aside, how not to call Chelski's performance outstanding. Captain sent off, early doors, 10 men vs the (relative) might of Barca, and they don't blow it but go on to get to the final. Sounds pretty exceptional to me.

 

[dan_bo]

Pub near me:

 

[Doseone]

Norwich and Swansea have both shown it's possible to get promoted, and stay up playing good football - I'm delighted for them both, as they're great to watch. In some respects I think Lambert is the better manager - argually, Brendan Rogers is carrying on where Martinez left off.

As a lifelong Hammers fan, this season has been pretty hard to take at times, with Allardyce's fingerprints all over some exceptionally tedious football. But we've been better of late, finally playing with the ball on the floor and some width, and were well worth our win last night. I've never been to Wembley (the 2006 cup final was in Cardiff) so fingers crossed!

I can't decide if sacking Warnock was a mistake or not - on the one hand he's got a poor record in the PL, but it's not as if your situation's improved since. Still, it's not over yet.

I agree with everything you say in that post, except the bit about Swansea being great to watch. I've been to the Liberty a few times this season, they were good great against Arsenal, but other than that they really aren't the most exciting team to watch at all.

 

[GilesM]

Superb isn´t it.

I lived in Madrid in the 1980s when Real were actually crap - but used to go.

I´d never seen such a high stand at the time and the Barca game was something else.

When you walk up inside one of the four corner towers and you're looking into the windows 10th floor of tower blocks (not that I look in peoples windows, that'd be wrong), you realise how impressive it is, the only thing wrong was no meat pies, and the queue for the beer.

And it´s in a really posh part of town - loads of great bars and restaurants nearby if you know where to go.

We walked back into the city centre and found a few places on the way back, better than the location of most English grounds.

 

[dan_bo]

This rings quite true. Goodbye Sol.

 

[dellzeqq]

Chelsea are going for Battersea Power Station.

Lumme!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Chelsea, a SOUTH London club.....?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Chelsea, a SOUTH London club.....?

There isn't really room for two, what with manchester United being there already.

 

[dellzeqq]

There isn't really room for two, what with manchester United being there already.

Manchester United are Surrey through and through!

When I was growing up in South London, Chelsea were thought of as a South London club, and, even fifteen years ago, fans walked across the bridges to the Bridge in their thousands. The support is a lot more cosmopolitan these days, and, perversely, more local to the ground.

It could be a good move for them. They'd surely get 60,000.

 

[mangaman]

Manchester United are Surrey through and through!

When I was growing up in South London, Chelsea were thought of as a South London club, and, even fifteen years ago, fans walked across the bridges to the Bridge in their thousands. The support is a lot more cosmopolitan these days, and, perversely, more local to the ground.

It could be a good move for them. They'd surely get 60,000.

When I lived in Battersea in the ´90s it was all Chelsea. The pubs after a home game were full of charmless Chelsea fans singing "No surrender to the IRA"

(I don´t know why - but I knew not to go out on a Friday in Battersea)

 

[PaulB]

he didn't

Get a room.

 

[MarkF]

I really don't see, one eyed bias aside, how not to call Chelski's performance outstanding. Captain sent off, early doors, 10 men vs the (relative) might of Barca, and they don't blow it but go on to get to the final. Sounds pretty exceptional to me.

Er, they lost their captain after 37 minutes, 7minutes to HT is hardly "early doors. However, they were already on a course, and as determined, to be as negative, unimaginative, niggardly and dull as they were in the first leg when they enjoyed just 22% of the possession with a full team for 90 minutes. I got no pleasure from either Chelsea performance and think calling the 2nd one outstanding is ridiculous, lucky is a more appropriate word. I fully understand why Chelsea fans believe the tactics were vindicated but I don't support Chelsea, I am a "football" fan so I hope that they get stuffed in the final.

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Can't wait for Sunday, but then again...

 

[Doseone]

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Can't wait for Sunday, but then again...

I have this horrible feeling we'll need to go to Citeh and win to stay up, and they'll need to win to win the Prem.

If we go down it's because we deserve to