Call YourSelves True Blues?

hmmmm i agree for the most part with your article @Emelia, especially wrt to negativity on here and booing at home games (which is directed at the manager but the ill feeling gets lost when the team havent won). However i disagree that we cannot call Rafa Benitez Tubby, we still dont like the guy but i dont think that should translate into booing our team at home....RB is a stop gap and we should support him and the team whilst his interim status lasts, but thats as far as it goes for me...He is still the "Tubby Spanish waiter" to us and i hope he does well for the team but he has to go at the end of the season

LOL JohnnyOz@Tubby Spanish waiter.HAHAAHAAA!!!We have had similar articles.I don't understand whats the point of another one.SameX and KAKU were quarreling.We have had this debate before.Your article,with all due respect,won't make any difference to the supporters or haters of Benitez.Consider me as a mixed breed of a supporter and a hater.

Spot on B_B

I agree, Emelia! Fans at the Bridge should GET OVER IT...and support the team! The booing and negative crap can't help but affect the boys on the field. If I could be there, I wouldn't be booing Torres, Benitez or anyone on our team.

.. I just wish we could find a solution to the Torres problem. It's getting so frustrating...sigh..

I love chelsea and i would continually support the club no matter what. What i don't love is these scouser rejects who have infiltrated our camp (thanks to roman) and i earnestly wish they leave asap......#No appologies

Emelia,no one needs to abuse you. You have stated your opinion and you have every right to do so. What we will do is respond with our opinions and thats about it. Rafa will always be Tubby,The spanish waiter or whatever we decide to tag him! He is a proud egoistic person and the fact that we have 2 scouser rejects pulling our beloved club into the mud fills me with rage. If i pay my hard earned cash for a ticket,make the journey to Fulham station,buy a pie and a beer at an expensive rate as it is being sold at the grounds,only to realise that we have lost the match due to the incompetency of Tubby,i will not be happy. You only have to experience it to know how bad it feels. I dont like him,i will never like him but i dont hate him either. Plus cmon,you cant deny the fact that he does look like Tubby.lol

I feel this lad is another daniel sturridge in the making, he'll leave us and perform wonderfully well wherever he is loaned to theshedender.com/2013/01/tabloid-talk/marin-set-for-a-loan-spell

Well let's be clear on a few things; As humans we tend to react to certain scenarios/events differently. Passion actually means an emotions such as love, joy, hatred, or anger. Its not that fans that Boo rafa are less passionate of the club they just react to their anger and hatred for him differently. Does that make them less of a fan? No. Some people get slapped on the face,they turn the other cheek,some get slapped on the face they leave a fist on ur face,some get slapped on the face,and they react by shooting u with a Revolver. Some fans react differently to emotions,and as a fan of the club for decades i don't Boo and never have (don't have the energy to...lol). In the past,I use to be disgusted by tourist fans who spend their time taking pictures,don't care if we are losing or wining,don't bother to cheer the team...they are there laughing and enjoying their time regardless of what's happening on the pitch. Over time I've learnt to understand its their excitement and passion that brought them here in the first place,and we are a big club now and are attracting fans all over the world. Would I call them less of a fan? No. We are Chelsea FC and we are one...bounded by the passion and the blue blood that runs in our veins. Let's not further cause divisions that already exist by saying some are true fans and some are not. Bottom line we all Love this Club.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha 'real fans' !!! OMG that is just priceless... I cant recall ever meeting a real Chelsea fan... Added to the fact that most of them support City now... But seriuosly thanks for the laugh hunny! lol real fans...

The last game I attended was the QPR match..and at one point in the MHL I thought two groups of fans would come to blows over the abuse being directed at Tubbs. The best place to release that prssure valve of frustration is on forums like this one. Once you enter the hallowed turf you need to show your loyalty folks!

@johnny there goes one of em trolls...Mix26.

I'm with you Emilia. No matter how much you hate certain players or managers, (I know I do) support the team.

@johnny that was some funny comments from Rafa defending himself. "He's lying," Benitez said. "Marco Materazzi's lying. He's lying. Just lying. Everything he said is a lie. Everything that he talked about me, the things that he said about me, when he was talking with Jose Mourinho, is a lie because nobody knew that I was going to Inter - even me. He's a liar. About the pictures, he's lying, so he's a liar." Can't count how many times he used the word 'LIE' 'LYING' or 'LIAR'

i dont hate him because of his time at liverpool, i merely somewhat dislike him for that, i hate him for his inability to affect a match once the first 11 have been made. i dont understand how torres can get into the team ahead of ba but booing torres while he's coming on or warming up is disgraceful.

We gifted the Manchester clubs the title the day we appointed RDM as permanent Manager

Instead of anybody policing the site, I think the editors can do that wonderfully without the advertisements, nobody can shut any other fan up for what they believe

Hey guys, please I wanna write an article where do I go? Have forgotten

Balance is everything. While the author has some valid points let us not kid ourselves, fan support is an emotional exercise..it is not neccesarily rational. For a full grown man or woman to wear some of the ridiculous costumes i have seen in stadia i have been to while attending matches..to shout, sing , dance etc etc for the full duration of games needs a level of spontaniety. As some have mentioned the cost some of these people pay in terms of ticket prices, transport costs, weather etc is not minor. Just as these fans spontaneously cheer and celebrate there will be times when the same spontaniety causes them to boo or otherwise voice their disapproval of what they see on the pitch. If we want automatons in our stands that is the only scenario where you can expect all fans to be cheering machines when what they see on the pitch does not warrant it. People are different in the way they express their emotions and allowance within reason for that has to be permitted. I have never used insulting or derogratory language against Rafa even when i have criticized things he has done. I dont hate the man but i dont have the emotional investment in him that i had with RDM..to expect that of me simply because he is our coach now is laughable because it will never happen. Similarly i never felt El Nino was a good fit for our team..i never wanted him to join us but since he came i have hoped for him to flourish..the realist in me tells me it will never happen ...i will never abuse him but my expectations of him are so very low and i can never have the emotional investment in him that i have for someone like the Drogs or even for David Luiz, Ramires or Ashley Cole....not to mention someone like Zola..it is what it is..we should understand, accept and celebrate diversity of opinions while we should strive to remain civil and committed to the greater good of our club. What i will not subscribe to is blind idol worship of players, managers or even club administrators simply because they are after all "our club boys" Criticism is healthy and important if done with the right motives and done with fair respectful language.

@gabeu, I'll say thank u to u and @nely who talk without any sentiments or bias, neither with any form of condescending attitude which is boring and stifling as if we are kids that can be told to git! Every fan is a human not a robot, rafa is paid to do his job and if he doesn't do it as expected he gets the stick, that is the reason he is paid!! No fan here has a uefa B license but they doesn't mean we don't know our football, if his (rafa's) mistake are once in 10 games, then we'll say its a bad day for the team in the office, but his is a re-occurring problem and with my expectations, I don't and won't condone mediocrity, I am a firm believer of the getting value for money school of thought

You have a valid point @GabeU and your point that there is an emotional part to being a fan is true.... I understand that the fans have a right to boo but we also can't deny the negative impact it could have on the boys and team morale... Wilkins, Zola, Desaily and a host of others have all recently expressed the same concern... That's is even understandable, the appalling thing is the level of negativity here these days... criticism is okay when it's constructive but a lot of the criticisms here lack objectivity and logic....I don't like Rafa as a coach, I never saw the signing of Torres as a good deal, but I can't continue to hold on to that everyday in the name of emotions....The level of negativity on Sunday was too much and there was an urgent need for some other fans to write articles like this to at least suppress the growing wave of negativity..... but it seems you've made the point, which is that "fan support is not necessarily rational"..... but even at that, we should make effort to bend towards more of a rational than excessive irrational comments......

Benitez doesn't react quickly to changes in the game. Mourinho is better on this point.