I'm happy to finally release an early version of a little database, free for all to use in analysis. I've added all Chelsea 25/26 match reports so far for all competitions. I hope to add past seasons and more detailed stats too in the future. sites.google.com/view/the-da…

This picture sums up absolutely every single thing wrong with this club. The fucking attitude on him, how fucking dare he act like that, he should be on his knees apologising ffs.

Fans not happy with Levi Colwill #CFCTOT #cfc

Interesting how hoofball has now become a term on Chelsea Twitter since I made that post

We’re in our Arsenal 21/22 phase

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t massively concerned about Xabi Alonso’s big game record…

His coaching was the same shit at Madrid without that. 90% of his subs are like for like in the 70-80th minute that change nothing. Got found out any decent opposition and just about scraped past the dross. It was never remotely convincing

Maybe it's just getting older or maybe it's the team and club wearing me down after years of this but my response this morning was mostly "Ah man that sucks" and then I went outside and read a book

From what I’ve seen in the second half, it just looks to me like not having JP completely messed with whatever plan Xabi had, a lot of which obviously had to do with the long balls, but we’ve also failed spectacularly at trying to expose their defenders lack of mobility like they’ve done to us in Lacroix. Should have also been clear Roger’s can’t hack it at CF if the plan is to just go long. He’s great at holding the ball and bringing others into play from long balls as a winger, but you are asking him to aerially dominate CBs at CF and aerials is his only weakness as a player. Lavia should have seen the pitch as well. Even bringing on Palestra at LB? Why? Biggest weakness is 1v1s and you put him up against Kudus? Best bet would have been to put a false 9 type of player there who can also stretch the lines and combine (maybe Neto or even Palestra) and keep your 2 inside forwards in Palmer/Rogers. Encourage the team to build up but also go long. When you only go long, the advantage it gives disappears because you become predictable. Didn’t watch the first half, but second half tells me this game had a lot to do with Xabi just getting it wrong. Losing to Spurs at home after how long? Terrible day. Gotta do better

Maxence Lacroix is not only an average defender, he’s an average progressor of the ball. Whilst a better raw defender than the likes of Chalobah, he is not going to fix tons of problems and is a mere better depth option to the likes of Fofana/Colwill.

Back to usual no IP plan but hoof long. We aren’t coached on the ball at all.

Are we conceding possession on purpose? Just such a weird set up, we’re at home where we’ve lost once in 38 games against Spurs and we’re just letting a RDZ coached team pop it about? We’re lucky Penders made those saves, where is our control? We’re not playing Football rn.