Posted on 04 October 2011 by The Ranter. Tags: Chelsea, CPO, Rant
Everything’s easy with hindsight. I bought my Chelsea Pitch Owners share on the 30th January 1985 on my way to Hillsborough for the quarter final replay of the then Milk Cup.
At that point I’d only ever seen Chelsea win one trophy, the 1970 FA cup … I was only four then and it’s still the earliest memory I have of my life.
So imagine standing on the terraces at Hillsborough at half time that evening … 3-0 down … gutted. The rest of that night is, as they say, history.
Yes Liverpool, history … “3-0 down, 4-3 up, then old Dougie fcked it up.” A hundred pounds was a lot of money for me then but I bought the share as we were fighting a battle to save Stamford Bridge.
It was only really thanks to the property crash in the late eighties that we ended up keeping our home … we we’re that close to ground sharing with Palace. If you’d told me that 25 years later, we would regularly get crowds of over 40,000 I’d have said you were clinically insane.
Remember those days of struggling to get 12,000 and against Cambridge at home if my memory serves me right, less than 7000 in Stamford Bridge ? My point is that a lot happens in 25 years. Will Abravomich still be our owner then ? Probably not.
Having 16,000 fans own the freehold to Stamford Bridge and the name of Chelsea Football Club gives us total protection forever. The offer from Chelsea is insulting. If they don’t build a new ground by 2020 they have complete control over where we play.
I don’t trust Bruce Buck … his last interview on Radio 5 made me cringe … an American stating his life long passion for Chelsea … where was he when we were shit?
Vote no at the AGM … it might seem trivial now but in 25 years time you could look back on it as the decision that saved our club.
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Posted on 15 August 2010 by The Ranter. Tags: Booing, Rant
OK we have just had match day one and the idiots have already taken over the away section, well what few West Brom brought with them.
Just what do they think is going to happen when they boo the Chelsea England boys? Are the three lads in question going to turn to a lump of quivering jelly and end up playing badly, or are they going to stick two metaphorical fingers up at the twats and play out of their skins?
You would think they would learn from JTs display at Burnley away last season just after the News of the Screws brought out the revelations, that are still to be proved true as yet by the way, and JT just got on with the game and scored.
But no the idiots in the Shed End corner yesterday booed continually, and Ash had another brilliant game, making runs and put in delightful crosses. JT was imperious at the back and Frankie? Well he was just Frankie and ran midfield and scored a wonderful goal from an equally delightful pass from Ash.
So oppo fans everywhere take note booing just isn’t clever and it will not make Chelsea players play badly. It will just make them play better and the Chelsea fans get even more behind the team.
But somehow you just know that morons will still turn up and think it oh so clever to boo Chelsea and equally we Chels fans know that it wont make a blind bit of difference.
Up the Chels and let’s silence the boo boys (& girls).
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Posted on 26 March 2010 by The Ranter. Tags: Ancelotti
OK so Ancelotti has won a few titles in Serie A and he has also won the Champions League, as well as losing it after being three up against the Scouse Scum. He came to us in a blaze of publicity. But what has he achieved?
It comes to something when I agree with certain hacks who have said we should have walked the league this year with our squad, and the spirit, left to him by Guus, but somehow he has managed, or mis-managed, the squad to now be in a position where we’re chasing Man United again, with the resurgent Gooners in there as well despite us having won all three games against those teams.
Roman, if you believe the media, wants the Champions League (a subject for another rant) above all else and saw Carlo as the man to bring him that missing trophy but, after going out very early by our own recent standards, that faith has already been proved to be false.
From my own perspective I don’t see him as any kind of saviour I just see him as Ranieri Mk II, and let us not forget he didn’t win anything for four years. Where I sit in the MHU we are already in despair at his lack of nous to select the correct teams for the job, his ability change it early enough when his original selections muck it up, and his apparent lack of motivational skills in dealing with this squad of big names.
Point in case when the cameras panned round to him and Wilkins at Blackburn at the weekend they just sat there looking like they had run out of any ideas and, as it turned out, they had.
I return to where I started, Ancelotti’s successes have come from a league that cannot in any way be compared to the English Premier League. Serie A is soft and slow by comparison and to send teams out with a mentality of not losing will win nothing here. I would contend that he is the wrong man to manage Chelsea to domestic league titles which, no matter what Roman and Ancelotti think, is the number priority every season.
Of course it is all about opinions and you are at liberty to want to subscribe to the theory he should be given a chance to sort the squad out in the summer and build “his” team, but I would just say that he has two windows to do that and has changed nothing.
I do not have the confidence that he can do it. Please prove me wrong Carlo, and bring me the League and Cup double this season.
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