Summary
WHEN you hear the name Chelsea, what thoughts spring to mind?
Despising everything they represent; the Stevie Gerrard tap-up allegations; retaining a deep rooted grudge against fans who famously waved pounds 20 notes at Scouse visitors to Stamford Bridge in the 1980s; finding the chief executive a loathsome turncoat; needing pills to settle your stomach every time you hear the vomit inducing fawning over Jose Mourinho; losing the will to live whenever 'one man went to mow' reaches verse 545; nursing an irreversible disdain for Frank Lampard's tackle on Xabi Alonso; the Stevie Gerrard tap-up allegations; concluding that any club which hasn't won the title for 50 years isn't as 'big' as it thinks it is; recoiling at the image of David Mellor; and John Major; and that bloke from Soccer AM; the Mark Hughes inspired FA Cup comeback in 1997; the Ken Bates years; the fact Nigel Spackman gets called an ex- Chelsea legend by Sky when he only ever won medals at Anfield; the Stevie Gerrard tap-up allegations; electric fences in the mid-80s; Russian oil money; the lousy treatment of Ranieri; agent Zahavi; the Stevie Gerrard tap-up allegations; the Sven Goran Eriksson tap-up allegations; the Ashley Cole tap-up allegations; throwing shirts into the crowd at Blackburn because they won, er, 1-0; hugging at Anfield because they did the same; Brian Glanville's thinly disguised support; ditto Harry Harris; Mike Riley's failure to see a blatant handball; Dennis Wise; Liverpool's failure to sign Damien Duff when they had the chance; andMarcel Desailly; and Arjen Robben; Chelsea Village; the worst away end this side of Bucharest; disrespecting Arsenal, despite Chelsea winning barely a tenth of Arsene Wenger's trophy haul; taking a fair defeat in Barcelona with the grace of a sulking four-year-old; the Stevie Gerrard tap-up allegations; Graeme Le Saux and the slaughtering of Robbie Fowler because he was working class, Scouse and funny; their symbolising of Tory Britain; the Chelsea headhunters; only us winning at Stamford Bridge once a decade; the fact they wear silly white socks which look rubbish; John Terry being rated above Jamie Carragher; Lampard being spoken about in the same breath as Gerrard; Lampard nicking Gerrard's attacking role in the England team; Lampard blatantly trying to make sure Gerrard became his team-mate after Euro 2004; the Stevie Gerrard tap-up allegations; their mickeytaking match programme; the 'wacky' Chelsea TV presenter with his 'calm down' jokes; they were nothing when they were skint and they've still won nothing (yet); the first day of last season; the last day of the previous season; the fact they're no more than a reincarnation of Houllier's defensive Liverpool; the fact no-one ever writes they're no more than a reincarnation of Houllier's defensive Liverpool; and finally, lest we ever forget, the Stevie Gerrard tap-up allegations.See the full content of this document
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