Into Another Semi Chelsea Swim By The Thames


Clock On

By BlueBlood
December 1 2004

It has to be said that when you lose at home 2-0 to the worse team in the league than you, that makes you the worse team in the league automatically then?

Well! When the Sunday newspapers start marking your players 2's and 3's for their performance and your manager starts ranting one off privately and then goes off on one on Sky Sports- you do start to think of the worse - cos only a few days later you gotta face the team that IS FIVE POINTS CLEAR and TOP OF THE LEAGUE. And then to add the final insult to injury you turn up for kick off take a look around and see that 25 to 30% of your support HASN'T even bothered to turn up. So what do you do??

Turn it on and cause the Premiership Leaders a whole heap of mischief. And seriously that is what Foolham did. Caused Chelsea a whole heap of mischief. And to be fair had Foolham won this Carling Cup Quarter Final, although it would have hit the richter scale at point 10, Foolham would have deserved it. They caused Chelsea no end of problems, reiterated the faith of their manager Chris Coleman and were unlucky not to at least get the game into extra time.

The Duff man opened the scoring in the second half from a shot that did take a wicked deflection from the hapless Van Der Saar and then seventeen minutes from time, Brian McBride slipped unmarked to put one in from a cross from the newly introduced Elvis Hammond.

Soon after Foolham's equaliser JM introduced his third of three substitutes - Super Frankie Lampard - before that came Joey Cole and Eider Gudjohnsen and although Foolham shaved the post, so did Chelsea and Eidersson did have a goal disallowed but TV suggested that he was quite a distance offside.

But it took one of the old hands and Chelsea vice captain, Super Frankie Lampard - to seal Chelsea's place in the semi-finals with a close control and hard strike which di appear to take another deflection and the flight of the ball went straight under the hapless Van Der Saar legs. This with a mere three minutes to go.

Sixteen days ago Chelsea went to Craven Cottage and gave a performance of Premiership champions. This time round, this was a performance of a team that just wanted to get to a semi-final of a cup competition. Nothing special but everything to gain.

COME ON CHELSEA!!

Next up its the Newcastle - 12.45 KO Live on Pay Per View Saturday 4th December 2004

JOSE'S 23RD

PREMIERSHIP P15 W11 D2 L1 F27 A6 PTS 36

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE P5 W4 D1 L0 F9 A1 PTS 13

CARLING CUP P3 W3 D0 L0 F5 A1 --

FA CUP -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

TOTAL P23 W18 D3 L1 F41 A8 --

v Man Utd (L) W1-0

v Birmingham (L) W1-0

v C Palace (L) W2-0

v Southampton (L) W2-1

v Aston Villa (L) D0-0

v PSG (CL) W3-0

v Spurs (L) D0-0

v Middlesbrough (L) W1-0

v Porto (CL) W3-1

v Liverpool (L) W1-0

v Man City (L) L0-1

v CSKA Moscow (CL) W2-0

v Blackburn Rovers (L) W4-0

v West Ham Utd (CC) W1-0

v WBA (L) W4-1

v CSKA Moscow (CL) W1-0

v Everton (L) W1-0

v Newcastle Utd (CC) W2-0

v Fulham (L) W4-1

v Bolton (L) D2-2

v PSG (CL) D0-0

v Charlton Athletic (L) W4-0

v Fulham (CC) W2-1

As usual, please comment on the board or send them to me at abis15@aol.com. I would love to hear from you.

 

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