Chelsea, classless fans, classless players, classless club

noodlehair

Come on now. Ignoring the rest of the idiocy in this thread, it just isn't possible to not find the idea of Didier Drogba getting kicked in the chest at least slightly funny.

and besides, he was the one who tried to take out Evans after the ball had gone. Evans just out kung fu'd him

antihenry

I hate Drogba's antics more than most rival fans do and wish he'd completely cut out that part of his game but alas, it's probably wishful thinking.

Sorry, but I don't see what Drogba did wrong in that episode. To listen to some here, he was at fault for meeting Evans' leg at the wrong time in the wrong place. Let's swap players in that incident and imagine the outcry for a moment.

It was a disgusting challenge and in all honesty should have resulted in the straight red for Evans. I may talk a lot of shit in the heat of the moment and my pro-Chelsea bias is obvious but I would never stand for that kind of action from any player, Chelsea or otherwise. And certainly wouldn't celebrate it by salivating over the incident and chuckling over the injured player's pain.

Hate Drogba for his theatrics all you want but once you approve of what Evans has done, you cross the line. If Chelsea player was guilty of the same I'd demand the harsh punishment for him, too and I mean it.

noodlehair

No you wouldn't, and Drogba was at fault to some degree. The ball was gone, and he decided to try and run through Evans anyway, hence why he was booked. Evans saw him coming and decided to kick him in the chest. It was funny. A bit like that youtube video where the two chavs try and nick some girls bag, and instead get beaten up by her boxer boyfriend.

I wouldn't be happy if someone did that to one of our players, but because it was Drogba, nobody gave a shit. Not even his own team mates.

Moultz

All this just leads to the song

Hollow, hollow, hollow,
Chelsea's success is fucking hollow,
All the money it took, Off that big russian crook,
But they'll never win three in a row...

Team Brian GB

I couldn't hear anything from the opposite end of the ground.

MUFCgal

Of course they won trophies before the Russian crook came along but there's no getting away from the fact that they've had their most successful period in the club's history since he poured money into the club and took them over.

ralphie88

Yes, but there's a difference between "success" and "history".

Notts County, for example, have significantly more "history" than United.

::sonny::

Abramovich will not live forever...

A one man club has no future

REDMULLERS

As has been mentioned in another thread I think there were a couple of late arrivals chanting Utd as they came up the stairs, during the minutes silence. They soon shut up when they realised the circumstances.

londonredmaniac

Yeah diving around like fairies for ninety minutes was class as fuck.

Oooohhh it's a conspiracy

antihenry

I may be biased but I didn't see Chelsea or United players for that matter do much of a diving in this particular game. There were plenty of tantrums and referee crowding from MU players especially after they went a goal down, though.

Laphroaig

I can only remember two, Drogba's weird reaction to admittedly real pain, and Carvalho rocking like a cradle.

Eriku

Not really, no...

It's more of a symptom of how the game's become, and there are far less contenders for the biggest prizes compared to prior to these twenty years you are talking about.

Post WW2 United have consistently been a tremendous size, either with regards to what we've been competing for, or our fanbase, or both... This is prior to muppetry and worldwide availability of our brand, let alone a brand name at all...

And it was clear that we had more in our locker than the Chelsea fans throughout the game in general, at least from the telly. I know that can be misleading, but I'd rather take the word of the seasoned travellers on here rather than some bitter Blue who keeps berating Ferguson for being a bully, conveniently forgetting he's also one of the most supportive managers, according to most of the peers that have dealt with him (he rightly rolled his eyes at your organisation's chucking out Scolari after half a season), and has many a time admitted that the opposition have earned what they've gotten, or that a ref has been correct in his decision even if it's gone against us... It's a mixed bag with Ferguson, definitely... but you're as bad as the people you're slagging off for having a black and white view...

And get orff your high horse, ALL fanbases have a huge contingency of twats who rub their hands at the sight of a rival team's twatty player going down due to careless play from the opposition, e.g. Evans on Drogba, Carragher on Rooney, or whatever... hypocrisy is rife, but far from ubiquitous.

And saying that a twatty supporter getting kicked by Cantona is getting what he deserves is NOT the same as saying that we reckon Cantona should get away with it... You'll find people who have any combination of these views, and I think you'd do yourself a huge fucking service if you stopped pretending like it's just the one or the other... and if you generalise that rule ;P

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