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Gently Oozing With Pride

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Good afternoon.

A gutsy well earned point against the usual vexations of  Secondhand Fridge. Some crummy refereeing and a conveyor belt of petty cheating from a team so screwed up they believe they can manage themselves.

The only criticism was the absence of one touch passing. Our average was three and that buys the other lot time. The midfield was massively congested and neither side seemed capable of challenging that. 

Bale was vastly improved. So was Walker and had Adebayor not spent the entire game fighting for every ball I doubt we’d have taken a point. He was less successful attacking but hey. Them’s the breaks. 

It was a classic Mourinho- esque Cheatski performance and I’m telling you now that a Martin Jol side would have buckled. Crucially Arry’s mob did not and that was the difference out there. Chelsea lacked the killer edge today. From front to back we blunted the knives of  a still very, very dangerous side.

Was it two points dropped because we missed a few gilt edge chances? No. Our recent bad run has generated dozens of reasons to get heated and today we showed what a politician would call some genuine green shoots of recovery.

Player ratings in the morning. To our lot this afternoon I say in the softly spoken words of the young Mr Grace, ‘You’ve all done awfully well.’

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  • Frontwheel 2 says:

    Man city play Arse in 2 weeks,I want them to stay in the race to give scum a hard game,I am cheering for City at Stoke but it doesn’t feel right.

    • SP says:

      The ARSE have to go to the Britannia – I want Stoke to be confident and on-form for that one; united still have to visit the Etihad, so I think Citeh will still consider themselves in it even if they lose today. In fact, losing today may even fire them up for a must win game against the Goons.

  • COYG says:

    Oozing with Pride…what, after being 13 points above Arsenal a few weeks ago, but now 3 points behind (16 fewer points than the great AFC during the same period)?

    You bottlers make me laugh. And to top it all, ‘Arry:

    “Spurs can win the league” to “Spurs will finish above Arsenal in 3rd” to “we need to win six of the last 8 games to get CL football”…to…

    As I say, bottler scum

  • Frontwheel 2 says:

    What a goal by lanky bollocks,never done that for us

  • mikey says:

    3MP has just scored goal the of the season :freu

  • david says:

    Looks like we may have played ourselves back into a bit of form, particularly with the second half performance where we got better and stronger as the game went on.
    Of our remaining games, Sunderland away could be tricky, the scum still have to go to Stoke and have to play City and the Chavs at home.
    If we can pull our fingers out for 8 games we may yet redeem ourselves.

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