I think Roman will soon realize his folly of sacking managers will not lead to a payoff. Though the jury may not favor AVB, Roman has let go of world-class managers. He needs to sack himself, otherwise, Chelsea will still be on the decline.

I am just loving the Spurs collapse!

GGMU,mark of champions......they possessed the ball, we scored the goals!!!

The team that had the best weekend was Arsenal.

After being outplayed for most of the match (contrary to @Impunity's assertion that Arsenal played well), another RvP moment of class sunk the Kop!Now they know how we felt when after outclassing them at Anfield for significant portions of the 5th round (or was it 4th?)FA tie,Kuyt scored an 87th minute winner.So I felt nothing for Dalglish and his men, but that was a great strike by RvP, and even classier pass from Song. Apparently he's the leader in assists this season, very surprising statistic.

The same scenario was replicated at White Hart lane - first half possession read 75:25 to Spurs but we were one goal ahead, only 2nd shot on goal. Fergie admitted that he'd got the first half tactics wrong, we had the ball for only the first 10 minutes. After Utd scored the 2nd, psychologically the game was half won, though if Spurs had pulled one back we'd have been nervous. Did anyone notice how Nani, after getting the throw in from Jones, had a chance to square off the ball to Rooney, but instead chose to pass it just infront of Friedel, who could have easily grabbed it, had it not been deflected by a defender on to Young's path? Valencia could have done the obvious, notwithstanding the fact that we scored. Of course the 3rd sealed it,and Young should be scoring more of those like he used to at Villa, there's only one corner where that ball was ending, same when Robben gets the ball onto his left foot. Young should really score more goals. Defoe's strike was too little too late, a dent on what was going to be a clean sheet, Giggs the forgivable culprit this time. Mancini just can't seemt to shake us off, and I hope it stays that way till Mon Apr 30th!

Poor AVB, we saw it coming a mile away, but Roman must be taking too much vodka if he thinks Pep will be answer to his woes. Chelsea were building something when Jose came, but the instability afterwards (7 coaches in as many seasons)has led to their current state - even City should stick with Mancini if he fails to win anything, they're building something solid there.

I was surprised how Bolton managed to resist until the 2nd goal in the 68th minute - I think the run in will be about dropping points to unlikely teams,the two big games over the weekend have shown the so called "big teams" can be unlucky on any given day.

Now to see if Chelsea and Arsenal can score 3 and 5 at home respectively without conceding....

Same used to be true of Real Madrid before Mourhino. He has come and looks like he is succeeding. He is the man for Chelsea.Problem is. it's difficult to see if they can work together again.

With the man with the golden touch (see link below), this is possible...but I believe Arsenal would have done better, had Wenger been wiser during the transfer window instead of making rush buys after the ManU humiliation...

http://www.footytube.com...-106803?ref=hp_ozeit_mem

Roman's curse !! he should leave it for the manager to manage and win trophies. Yeye angojee profit ama loss.

So Abramovich signed Torres and Schevchenko, same thing happens at Real Madrid and Barcelona....some players are signed because the President wants the there besides didn't we all expect those two players to perform well at Chelsea? At Stamford Bridge they are not interested in developing players, managers are signed with high salaries to win trophies that's why every manager who goes there gets what they want, money to bring in new signings! Why is it that when a manager fails to perform Roman gets blamed but when they win a trophy its the technical team that is praised, I just don't get! AVB had the full support of the owner but the same can't be said about the players. Look at the Chelsea squad (apart from Mata) players who were the best in the league have been mediocre this season. I don't think that has anything to do with Roman, as owner of the club he had to make a decision.

Pep Guardiola's contract at Barca will be over at the end of this season and he's in no rush to sign an extension. He has already achieved so much at Barca and the EPL might be an interesting challenge for the Spaniard. There are so many options available for Roman all he has to do is pick one!

...Sad what the modern game has become, however media pressure,players revolt and lastly results went against AVB am sure he will succeed in the future and will come to haunt teams in the premier league sometime in the future...watch this space.

...The evening turned out sombre as we drove back to London on the M1 from the Hawthorns and maybe the writing was on the wall going by the looks after the final whistle, however ALL players on Saturday were a total disgrace they dint play for the manager and it seems i will join the the kind of therapy Arsenal faithful have been undergoing lol.. That said am glad its Roman who sacked AVB personally Sunday morning not some junior emissary and he later went to the dressing room and threatened every-one if results did not improve immediately - needless to say there will be a summer clear-out judging by how that conversation went - can only mean good things for Chelsea!

On yesterdays game, the goal before half-time seemed to have knowcked the wind off Tottenham for sometime and they never recovered after that, however the fraud that is Phil Jones was uncovered by Tottenham jana, another overhyped English player was been rushed, and clearly Spurs smelt blood on his wing and how i wish Bale played...Young has a terrific curl on his right foot but so does Defoe arguable the best hitter of the ball in the EPL, however what more does he have? uselees passer, woeful defending, can't dribble..yet another GREAT Man U player coz he scored 2 goals. However they seem to have the bit between their teeth and will push City all the way, April 30th could not come sooner, however we will judge them on Thursday again.
By the way what happened to the signing of the DECADE, the pea????

Arry's chips are down, how fortunes can change in this game, from media darling to tactically inept, how i love the English Media..so now he is front runner with Jose to take over from AVB, we don't need either, DI Matteo will do just fine.

In Robin we Trust..enuff said!!

English players are usually overrated. In fact in the last few years extremely good english talent (read beckham, rooney, owen, gascoine) has been very rare.