5 Questions To Ponder Over!

who the hell takes over from Benitez if he's sacked tomorrow Merlin???

That's a good idea Springy....Merlin to take over

Benitez was brought in 2 improve results as RDM dismissal statement said; even his best of supporters will agree that he has failed in dat aspect. Loss against Corinthians in d club world cup who no disrespect ain't Barca/Bayern nor is Swansea exactly Liverpool/Napoli. He has failed n every1 including Roman knos dat. Look at d number of points we have lost dis season against below botton opposition den u kno we re done 4 with tuby.

if you are in charge uncle merlin , play Lamps as striker , he is a better striker than Fernando .

Roman wants Lamps out cause of the AVB thing. We need a good/pacey/strong ball distributor for the Pivot. Mikel can't pass forward Mata has to drop deep so that Mikel can pass the ball to him.

good shout! JT for captain - lol

And I disagree with point 4: roman should get rid of those who advise him.

Point 4 - bring back Peter Kenyon then?

fair enough point - I wonder if Roman wishes he could turn the clock back!

I think you are probably right!

this chelsea patch sort of reminds me of the liverpool situation with Rafa in charge....hope we do not dip like liverpool did.

5 Questions To Ponder Over! 1:Why hasent benitez got the sacked? 2:Why hasent benitez got the sacked? 3:Why hasent benitez got the sacked? 4:Why hasent benitez got the sacked? 5:Why hasent benitez got the sacked?

Kenyon knows about football for sure, but I wouldn't bring him back. I would take all football decisions away from the chief executive and the chairman. Employ a different tech director and then cleanse the board and put people in charge who know about the game. I suggested a 7 man football board.

1. Hard to understand why any one still doubts Lamps ability. Yes he's lost some of his pace,but the will and desire to put up a top performance week in week out for the badge is ever present. An extension till the like of De Bruyne and Josh Mature into the role. 2. Well I was willing to stay on my surf board and ride the Rafa wave till the summer,but its looking like things might get worse before the summer. I gave Rafa a mandate of 7 points minimum for our next 3 games (Newcastle,Wigan,& Man City),since we lost against Newcastle the most we can get is 6 points...the sooner he goes the better. Steve Holland as interim,JT and Lamps as assistant. 3. We used up our Luck wining the UCL. Lol. 4.Obviously not! He means a lot to Chelsea FC,but its important to note that fans mean a lot to the club as well. Just a little disappointed with his advisers. 5.Who employs an assistant that doesn't even have a coaching license? Yeah! You guessed right,Tubby.

1. Hard to understand why any one still doubts Lamps ability. Yes he's lost some of his pace,but the will and desire to put up a top performance week in week out for the badge is ever present. An extension till the like of De Bruyne and Josh Mature into the role. 2. Well I was willing to stay on my surf board and ride the Rafa wave till the summer,but its looking like things might get worse before the summer. I gave Rafa a mandate of 7 points minimum for our next 3 games (Newcastle,Wigan,& Man City),since we lost against Newcastle the most we can get is 6 points...the sooner he goes the better. Steve Holland as interim,JT and Lamps as assistant. 3. We used up our Luck wining the UCL. Lol. 4.Obviously not! He means a lot to Chelsea FC,but its important to note that fans mean a lot to the club as well. Just a little disappointed with his advisers. 5.Who employs an assistant that doesn't even have a coaching license? Yeah! You guessed right,Tubby.

Cfc is not a 3tier team to be managed by plays who cant even follow instruction.is cfc bankrupt to accomodate players who are half deadwood.infact the legends u adore like terry will even be denie cöntract after poor performance we see.lamps is not alone.

Train up a chimp over the next week and let him take over, he couldn't be worse than Benitez. Seriously, the man is inept. He dragged Liverpool down in an unthinkable manner for a great club and now he's doing it to us even faster. Get him out before the damage is irreparable, 'Pool are still paying now for not getting rid of it quickly enough.

Calm down lads.......Roman has to learn his lesson. The guy is tough and the only way he will ever learn is by losing a tonne of money when we fail to qualify for the UCL. That way,even more heads will roll. The three amigos arent safe,Rafa is a dead man walking and some of the legends are leaving as well.

@3nity, sincerely it came as a shock for me that he chose to go anzhi, but I guess his rapport with shakter became frosty when they rejected our bid for him last year and he saw the opportunity as one in a life time opportunity, but shakter blocked him and I guess he became bitter, I was part of the few fans who believe he is a fantastic player that we might have gotten in the last window but I guess I was wrong about his ambitions, but his ability can't be questioned. Shame

Does everyone not understand this....Lampard is gone because of the AVB fiasco...Also, Lampard is always played out of position...Is that the manager's fault or is it more of Lampard being a bad team mate? Don't know..

What annoys me is that in all these games we are still actually the better team. perhaps Newcastle yesterday shaded us but apart from that the only teams that have actually outplayed us this season are Atletico and Man. City. Arsenal somewhat in the 2nd half at the Bridge as well, but apart from that we are the better team in all other matches. So WTF is going on? I also notice that Lady Luck (decisions and circumstances against us) seems to have walked on by the Fulham Road actually for quite some while overall although we did have a bit of a return against Barcelona and Bayern but that was all in the past few years, but at Man. Utd. she seems to be a permanent fixture.

1.We will miss his goals, but Im keen to see youth given a chance. Aston Villa will come out of this stronger and will be a real force in a couple of years. 2. I believe Rafa is just a symtom our problems stretch back to the Ancelotti era. The board put us in this position by not replacing our best players in good time and by buying players we wanted as opposed to those we needed. For hiring someone a manager the fans did not want. 3.We used used up most of our luck in Barcelona and Munich. 4. Roman is not without blame but to wqnt him out is just silly really. 5.Why did she even bring Zenden?

There must be some other hidden factors behind the Lampard contract situation, its against logic for Chelsea not to keep him. Lampard should have been given a new contract, given his performance this season and how he still can contribute next season. I'm sick of seeing fans blaming Roman, without Roman Chelsea wouldn't even be competing with the best in the world, and some of the supporters wouldn't even be with us. Without a suitable replacement manager anywhere, I don't see how we can replace benitez, lets hope he can turn things around. It's disappointed to see bad results, but we have to keep the faith. I hope I'm not asking for too much, but I'm still hoping for a top 3 position at the end.

Given the dearth of top quality managers who would actually want to come here, I believe equally important is that Roman appoints Hiddink as DOF and breaks the catatonic malaise that is the current Chelsea Board. Only then, and maybe, will the top managers feel they can come here and operate under their own steam, whilst having a sensible footballing head to consult with on future strategies. I would like to see that appointment even before any new manager, actually I think it's essential. Otherwise, recent history will just keep repeating itself.

Regardless of who gets the managers job, we should be looking to appoint a dedicated defence coach (same way we have a goalkeeping coach), just as we used to have in Stevie Clarke. Someone who drums it into our defensive squad as to what their responsibilities are. Someone who makes them work like clockwork, robotic in taking up correct positions and knowing their role. Developing the best central partnership that know each other better than their own wives / girlfriends. You get the picture. As it stands, I cannot see any actual coaching going on at our Club, not to mention any idea of formation or tactics. The Tubby speaks a lot about all this in his Press conferences, but it's all hot air. He does not connect with the players, never has wherever he may be. So often, our play has been non-coherent, disjointed and confusing, so often the players don't actually seem to know what exactly their role is. I am surprised by this with Rafa, but then again not surprised, as many keep saying, the players know he is only temporary. There is no connection, and any player that says there is (Cahill) is just playing lip service to the reporter.

@3nity: Its simple, Willian moved to Anzhi for money. Money matters, lol

Chelsea executive football board: owner, DOF, life president, CPO chairman, youth academy director, 2 former players. That should be our board. Maybe buck can stay on the board as he might do well surrounded by these people. Apart from that gourlay and Romans mates need to run the business and that's it. Emenalo can go back to pot washer.

Good questions Merlin, and each could probably have its own article in response. Regarding the calls for Roman to go: You can't have your cake and eat it too. If lots of capital, prestigious signings and managers, and competition at the top level is priority among fans- then Roman's role in the club is the most obvious solution. However, you can't complain when the man with the money decides he want to spend it as he sees fit. The alternative scenario would have involved someone buying the club off of Roman or Ken Bates. The former almost certainly won't happen, the latter didn't happen- so its no use crying over spilled milk.

Who will Luiz, moses and Mikel replace in the current team? If you refuse to give a credible replacement then I know fans are also part of CFC failure.

@TheFamous#7 "Ramires should've got a red then as well for a deliberate stamp" He would have if we were playing REFEREE UNITED. i guess u are judging by those standards lol.. in any other game thou, that wasnt even a yellow card offense! I just love how u guys get all menstrual whenever the topic referees is brought up, give it a rest! the whole world (apart from u incurably delusional, glory hunting plastics) knows what goes on in the BPL.. u dont always have it ur way but unlike other teams, u get at least 6-7 extra points per season from some atrocious decisions.

"Not even going to get into this as you like all the others no doubt don't have a single fact to put forward to support your hysterical ridiculous argument." part 1) http://diminbeirut.typepad.com/my-blog/2012/09/the-truth-is-out-there.html part 2) http://diminbeirut.typepad.com/my-blog/2012/10/corruption-and-influence-peddling-in-the-english-game.html part 3) http://diminbeirut.typepad.com/my-blog/2012/10/the-whole-worlds-watching.html

there was a foul in the build up to our first goal (the same can be said about their goal) but it wasnt high, reckless/malicious. it was a simple mistimed challenge. we could of had two more penalties in that game when diaby wrestled oscar to the floor in the 2nd min or when vermalen handled the ball late on... point is, 4 most team the decisions even themselves out over the course of the season. 4 some, like ourselves n referee united, they dont! in two very different ways thou..

In two very different ways lol! Ask any supporter outside the big 4 if the refs favour all the teams in the big 4 and I can guarantee the answer is yes, yes they do. Stop deluding yourself, you get numerous decisions in your favour, at least us united fans can admit it, difference is we're not going to cry corruption about it just because we don't like it. Its laughable and even more laughable still that you call others delusional when you yourself have got a bad case of it, Chelsea don't get decisions lol!

Your summary of me is about as accurate as your post. You're the one coming up with ridiculous allegations and the lack of facts supporting your argument is very telling. Why should I provide facts for an argument that isn't even there? You've given me nothing to counter argue to par observations about refs and a tweet from Rio (who most call camel gob, guess why?) I posted a relevant comment to the article pal, hardly trolling. Careful flinging about the moron tag when you're posting misspelt replies with no grammar. Laughable, delusional and hypocritical again.

Haha brilliant blus! You're a real bucket of laughs you know that? Love how you dropped what your doing to make yourself feel important, intelligent and busy. Right, I'll humour you shall I? I'll grant it 18% is quite a percentage until you add context to it, something you, for whatever reason, have avoided. 18% is how many penalties exactly? Lets delve a little deeper shall we? Have you seen alll the penalties? Can you tell me what percentage of the 18% were clearly, as in no doubt he got the call wrong when the decision was as clear as day, wrong calls and how many we're rightfully given? What's that? No you cant? Well then it's not a very good fact to use to back-up your argument is it? Referees are never banned from refereeing a certain team, you know that as well as I do, you're just twisting it to make it seem as if they were banned when they simply weren't chosen. Just to clarify you're insinuating refs are banned from reffing united games so the next time they do they give a decision in uniteds favour? If this allegation is true please tell me why a ref would ever give a decision against us in the first place? Hole in your logic there... again... Refs have been banned for refereeing blunders also, you want names and cases well here you go: clattenburg (racial slur probe), Dean (allowing offside and handball goal), Attwell (list too long to post :P), Jones (beach ball incident), Dowd (not fit enough), to name but a few and the reason why. Like i said, uncommon punishment. Gill is part of the FA board, so what? The board is a panel full of members not just one person as such any punishment handed out is decided by a majority. Furthermore there are cases of clubs staff being on the board of how FA, Dein (Arsenal), Gartside (Bolton), Barwick (self-confessed liverpool fan) and Bernstein (City) were their accusations of corruption towards their respective club? What's that? No? Just to clarify your theory is the FA are corrupt and ensure united get decisions and win games? Again to point out a massive hole in your logic if the FA are there to serve Uniteds best interests why is it Fergie is the most punished manager in the premier league? Why is it other managers, who manage our rival clubs and title challenging opponents, say similar things but don't get charged? Seems like a conflict of interests to me. Back to the old ref affair, Alan Wiley suffered criticism from Fergie yet went on to ref many United games. Clattenburg didn't ref a single united game for 38 games, but only reffed 19 premier league games during that period altogether (1 game for each premier league team, well would you look at that?!)Foy failed to give United a penalty against spurs and despite reports he wasn't dropped and went on to ref premier league games. Jones didn't officiate a Liverpool game for a year after the beach ball incident. Webb was dropped due to public pressure. Rio said everyone yeah but his a united player and was brought up with a siege mentality, to him there's only them and us. Due to this siege mentality it's evident his use of 'everyone' is exaggerated whilst you use it to add authority as though it makes your opinion fact when it's not. Ah and you mistake my intentions with pointing out your grammar mistakes and poor spelling, simply saying you should avoid questioning others intelligence when you can't formulate a well written post. Not going to list the numerous errors as I'm not that pedantic and haven't got all night but the short hand text talk isn't proper English. You should also avoid calling people morons when you can't formulate your own objective, rational argument and instead use others (the link you posted), just proves you're one of those mindless bandwagon jumping drips. Finally the argument you linked in your post isn't fact, it's statistics deprived of context, ever heard of the line 'lies, damned lies, and statistics'? Typically used to describe a weak argument solely reliant on statistics deprived of context. Statistics can be manipulated to support any point, doesn't make the point fact nor any stronger and in actual fact makes it look weaker.

I don't need to make myself feel important, intelligent or busy. I have a PG degree, academic awards and published papers for that. I'm not some jobless low life who spends his days trolling from site to site going through every single article/comment. "18% is quite a percentage until you add context to it".. the man has been a pl referee since 2003, he has taken charge of over 500 games in his career (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Webb) most of which pl matches. he has come across at least 50 different domestic teams, n yet 18% of his penalties have gone to united. mate do u have a clue about probability/stochastic process? are u seriously arguing the probability that a foul is committed inside the box (in united games) is almost 10 times greater than any other game's ? isn't he the same ref who was handing out penalties like they were rubella vaccinations last season @ SB ? isn't he the same ref that gave united their penalty against spurs (while they were 2-0 down) despite replays showing gomez clearly made contact with the ball? the same ref that gave u a pen for a berbatov dive in the fa cup v pool? surely now u would expect a ref with a reputation like that to have given Wigan a pen when rio blocked a shot with an outstretched arm in a title deciding game in 2008 but.... do u get my drift numbnuts ? i gave u a list of 8 referees (including the time frames) who were not given any united games for a year after being heavily criticized by SAF. they all "coincidentally" gave shocking performances (in united's favor) upon their return. if u choose to believe all this was just "coincidence", suit yourself! wouldn't wanna be the one to burst your bubble of delusion. "Foy failed to give United a penalty against spurs and despite reports he wasn't dropped" i didn't say he was dropped altogether, i said he wasn't assigned for any of united's games for 1 year! now compare this with our situation with Foy, he was criticized heavily by AVB (rightly so) after his shambolic performance (QPR v CFC) and yet he continued to be assigned 4 chelsea games throughout the season, he even took charge of our CoC semi return leg this season. "Jones didn't officiate a Liverpool game for a year after the beach ball incident." first of all, links please? and second, u forgot to mention the part about how he performed when he was finally given a liverpool game (assuming u didn't lie). and also, don't try to build an argument based on isolated incidents i gave u almost a dozen cases regarding ref selections n performances. regarding my use of every1, "Ask 'ANY' supporter outside the big 4 if the refs favour all the teams in the big 4" isn't ur use of 'anyone' an attempt to add authority? i guess that makes u a hypocrite as well ! lol but if u wanna know what the popular opinion is regarding webb n united, i suggest u do a little research on social network sites! "fergie is the most punished" what punishment is that? sent to the upper stands of OT where he would have a better view and a direct phone line to his assistant? if u factor in the man's constant bitching n moaning about refs b4 and after matches. he got away with quite offending comments towards refs after the swansea and spurs game.. "short hand text talk isn't proper English" mate i don't give a tiny rat's furry crack about ur 'proper english', i'm here to get my point across! like i told u before, having a proper command of ur first language is not a yardstick for intelligence. that's where ur basic lapse in reasoning lies, u think posting properly punctuated/capitalized comments full of 'big' words with lots of syllables would make ur opinion sound supreme. there's very little (if any) substance/reasoning/logic in ur comments. what u really are is an imbecile douche! horrible combination when u throw arrogance to the mix.

and it's not a case of the 'powerful protecting the powerful'. unlike the serie A, the BPL is the most popular league in the world by a landslide! the media here are already making a ***** load of money as a result of that. why would they tarnish the reputation of this globally popular league and in the process take a major hit to their revenue streams in the long run?

Ah more theories again, you say, or rather the link who's argument you're using says, they gave a penalty in uniteds favour after not reffing united games for a long period but fails to say whether it was a legit call which, after reading and viewing (key word there) a large, large majority of the incidences were good calls. Seriously all you've done is look at the statistics and assumed 'ah they must be right' without viewing each one of the incidents and coming to your own conclusion and until you do so your argument will neer be valid. In 500+ games you've given me 3 incidents whereby Webbs got it wrong? The simple fact while 18% of penalties were given to united you still can't tell me how what percentage were blatantly wrong and there's no excuse for the ref to miss it, you're the presenting a half-arsed stat I want more detail. Yeah he did gives us penalties but if your going by the letter of the law the rules of the game stated we were deprived of even more penalties, actually view the incidents numbnuts why is that so hard to grasp? Oh and typically united would get more penalties, due to a combination of being far superior than our opponents and dominating proceedings and our style of gameplay is to put the opposition under so much pressure that they will be forced into making mistakes and Fergie putting pressure on the refs in the first place. As for the media again you're throwing a theory out, nothing solid or concrete. Oh and regardless of fergies bitching and moaning he is factually the most punished manager in the prem, cant argue with facts, can argue with statistics. You know what bollox to it this has got boring now, we're going in circles, you're throwing statistics about with a lack of context and I'm telling you they're baseless until you can actually prove, with video evidence, that the calls the refs made were blatantly wrong. We'll just wait and see, the Europol are investigating only one game in England (champions league fixture) for alleged match-fixing and let's see who it is and whether there was even any match fixing going on, eh? Not that the results will ever stop you, typically they don't stop bandwagon jumping blinkered 'fans' like yourself who can't even formulate their own argument, and as such defend it properly, and just use others arguments and present it as their own. See ya pal, have fun walking around showing other your pieces of paper to everyone and telling them how important and clever you are.

haha that's right run away numbnuts! u didn't stand a chance in hell in the first place.. "they gave a penalty in uniteds favour after not reffing united games for a long period but fails to say whether it was a legit call" not just pens but red cards, offside calls, failing to award the opposition pens etc... clattenberg's calls v Chelsea (torres' red card, the offside goal, not sending off rooney despite two bookable offenses while he was already on a yellow), foy v city (sending off kompany for what was a really good/well timed/controlled tackle on nani, refusing to award a pen to city when aguero was fouled inside the box and when smalling handeled kolarov's cross), halsey v pool (sending off shelvey for a 50-50 challenge and awarding united the match winning pen when valencia dived in the box), wiley, jones, oliver etc... its all there in the links i gave u including explanations as to why the calls were wrong.."someone Else's argument" ?? its not just an argument u moron it's a article written based on weeks of research and has all the statistical evidence to back the argument..and u failed to give me a link to back ur claims that jones wasn't given any liverpool game 4 a year after the beach ball incident, i guess that makes u a liar as well.."have fun walking around showing other your pieces of paper to everyone and telling them how important and clever you are." sounds fun! unfortunately i have my job to keep me occupied! but if i may offer a lil friendly advice, u need a job mate.. :)

blus you really are laughable. You insult others in a foul mouthed tirade in a desperate attempt to add authority to a losing battle. You act is if you're the voicepiece for everyone in a pathetic attempt to again add authority to what you're saying and present it as fact because 'everyone' apparently says it (because you know everyone and their opinions apparently and they elected you to tell them). You then flaunt your personal life achievement to again build this facade that you're important, authorative and clever. It's all quite pathetic really pal. It's the equivalent to playing chess with a pigeon, no matter how good a point or move i make you will knock over all the pieces, ***** everywhere and strut around triumphantly. The simple fact of the matter is you can't present any facts. You present statistics deprived of context as facts, well they're not pal, get that in your head. Stats can be manipulated to present any point in the world, thus why they're generally laughed at when people present them as they're a poor attempt to back-up a flawed argument. You call others deluded whilst building this delusion yourself that you're important, clever and superior, you delude yourself into thinking Chelsea never get any calls in their favour, you delude yourself into thinking stats are facts, you delude yourself into thinking an argument someone posted on the internet is your own. Which coincides with my next point, you call others hypocrites when you're a massive one yourself. You're a fine one to call other morons when you yourself can't formulate your own argument and make a post in even the most simplest of english. You're multilingual, impressive but text chat isn't a language, you'd find your posts easier to read if you utilised your ability to speak proper english without insulting those with an opposing view and would perhaps be considered a more respectable member of vitalfootball. You've got a sad obsession with being right and having the last word, even when you're evidently not and sidestep any question posed your way. I ask a very good question: If refs know they'll get banned for a year if they make a call against Man U why on Earth would they make that call in the first place? I present a massive hole in your logic and you've got no reply. I failed to give you a link whilst you give me a link written by a Liverpool fan (rivals by the way) who doesn't reference any of the sources of information he used, hardly the most liable and impartial source eh? You want a link just google it and there's a newspaper article on it. All these incidents you're quoting, all the handballs, red cards, penalties, etc, etc, go and actually watch the incidents then come back to me with your own stats and tell me how many decisions out of how many are truly wrong and even then how many of those are wrong and no excuse for being wrong (as in the ref had a clear view and the decisions was clear cut). Then if you really want to present an argument with some backing use your results to perform a chi squared test or something similar to see whether there really is any argument. Until then the argument you posted is nothing more than a theory full of holes with no substantial evidence to back it. Oh and by the way an article can be a number of things inclding an argument in the case of the one you posted, its an argument for corruption in favour of Man U. A little friendly advice for yourself pal, stop blinkering yourself into believe your opinion is right and the only one that matters, open your mind a little to others opinions and arguments. Whilst at it stop insulting others because they don't agree with you and maybe, just maybe, you might appear less ignorant and more respectable.

"text chat isn't a language, you'd find your posts easier to read if you utilised your ability to speak proper english" there's nothing wrong with using short hand versions of frequently used words like you, your, and etc... "You've got a sad obsession with being right and having the last word" mate u are the one who keeps coming back to OUR site to post utter garbage in a desperate and pathetic attempt to have the 'last word'.. you failed to give me a credible link to verify your little LIE, u can't counter any of my arguments with facts/valid reasoning, u keep giving me really stupid responses like "watch it again", "it's someone else's research", "post the videos", "list every decisions" .....there's quite an economical way of saying what u just posted in not more than 10 lines but u are hellbent on using all the fancy words/expressions u know in a desperate attempt to make ur opinion sound 'supreme' . u have a proper command of ur mother-tongue language, congratulations! that's the only thing u have going for u lol.. "you might appear less ignorant and more respectable." ROTFLMAO the jobless VF troll sees fit to give out advices about gaining respect! feel free to keep posting ***** about me. i won't be back to read it anyway :) u have wasted enough of my time already. ------conversation over------