Off a Chelsea site, Losing to Tottenham in a major Cup Final hurt. But being outsung

[C0YS]

OUr fans sometimes don't get behind the team when we are down, or doing poorly, though against Sevilla, with the team losing, they were incredible, sang to the end for the team.

well..they wernt bad when we were 1-0 down!!

 

[mkkid]

Im not really bothered about Chelsea,I always make a point of tell them when they mention we are their Arch rivals.
I get the same amount of pleasure from beating palace,Charlton or QPR as them!
The look on there face is always priceless!

 

[snake1]

Here is some postings off a Chelsea site, a very good read for a Spurs fan.

http://forums.cfcnet.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=33449&st=25
Losing to Spurs in a major cup final really f*cking hurt. I'm still in pain to be honest. But what hurt even more was the lack of passion or vocal backing provided by our so called support.

I was in the Upper Tier, back row, so I had a great view of all the Spurs fans. They were all standing; all up for the day and were all full of passion and emotion. I looked down to our bottom tier and I saw everyone sitting down and giving no vocal support whatsoever. It was embarrasing. Surrounding me were a mix of normal looking Chelsea fans, all happy to be sitting there chatting amongst themselves and booing and abusing the players at will. It's Tottenham FFS. Show a bit of f*cking passion. For the sake of us and the club, I do hope things improve. Even walking up Wembley way, they were singing, shouting and abusing our club. And we just bloody took it.
Now I don't mind if you give a player a bit of stick, but give them some bloody support as well. I could rant on about this for hours, but I'm busy and all that is needed to be said, has been said.

Losing to Tottenham in a major Cup Final hurt. But being outsung and taunted by them hurts just as much.
Where's our Chelsea gone?



Couldn't have put it better myself mate. Absolutely shocking support from us, I was embarrassed to When they beat Ar5ena1 in the semi I was giving a Spurs fan some stick the next day about how their players did a lap of honour after the game and how the crowd was celebrating as if they had won the European Cup, when it fact it was just the semi-final of a competition that most of the big clubs aren't even bothered about. But deep down I was envious too - I miss those days of expectation and passion that comes with supporting a club that's gone a few years without success. They enjoyed that night against Ar5ena1 more than we enjoyed beating United in the proper cup final last May. I saw them on the tube and walking up Olympic Way before the match and they were all so pumped up...for most of us it was just another game almost. I couldn't feel any real sense of expectation or excitement and again, I envied them.
In the old days I always thought of Spurs as a very fickle crowd. And for sure, complacency would affect them just the same as us if they have continued success. I don't think the problem is unique to Chelsea although the gentrification of our support in addition to our complacency is becoming a real problem.
be a Chelsea supporter.

We can't just blame it on JCL's either. I think the main problem is our support has gone stale. There's just not enough youngsters at our matches anymore, and I don't mean kids with their mum and dads, I mean groups of lively teenagers that are gunna come and make some noise. The club need to start reducing ticket prices, and we need a standing area, until that happens, things aint gunna change imo.

And can I just ask, how can people sit there in silence for a cup final against our biggest rivals? I just don't get it!!! And even more so, stay sitting there silently when the Spurs fans are ripping us singing "your support is fcuking ****"

To be honest I don't know what has annoyed me more, losing to Tottenham in the final or our support getting completely embarrassed by their fans off the pitch.

Here's hoping the prawn sandwich brigade or anyone who refuses to sing while Grant is in charge doesn't go to Barnsley away, hopefully we'll see the proper Chelsea support out for that one.

:rofl:

Love it!

 

[bomberH]

2 things.

On the comments on youtube, anyone notice one from a certain 'grobmark' from the USA? Chat users will know what i'm on about

Secondly, as much of a good read that is, i really think it's just par for the course for crowds to be reasonably subdued if they've had massive success over the last few years. Especially in a league cup final. If we'd won the league twice, the league cup 2 or 3 times and the FA cup too in the last few years, our support would've probably been subdued too (maybe not against Chelsea, but against a team we usually beat, like Everton for example). WHL has been a tad subdued at times this season and it's down to expectations. I hope we never become as quiet as Chelsea, but if we ever have their success, i wouldn't bet against it. Not just us by the way, that goes for any club anywhere. How often do Man U create a magical atmosphere?

I was never good at maths, but i believe Expectation levels divided by Success = subduednessnessity.

Saying all that, it's still great to see them suitably embarrassed by themselves. They obviously realise that the way they've achieved success through money and not very good football, isn't half as fucking good as achieving it through the normal channels.

One more thing, on a separate note, this quote from Terry pissed me right off, arrogant ****:

"On a bad day we should be good enough to beat Tottenham," said Terry. "No disrespect to them but we have got a lot of talent"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/27/sfnche127.xml

The other weird comment was "These chances don't come along very often and it is down to myself, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba to pick people up and get everyone going."

Ashley Cole must love reading that. Or Carvalho. Or Essien. Or Makelele. Or Cech. Or Ballack.

One more thing. I just watched it for the 3rd time. And i still can't believe we fucking done it. Brilliant. Yay!

 

[AirTito]

terry is a twat for that...

 

[guiltyparty]

One more thing, on a separate note, this quote from Terry pissed me right off, arrogant ****:

"On a bad day we should be good enough to beat Tottenham," said Terry. "No disrespect to them but we have got a lot of talent"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/02/27/sfnche127.xml

The other weird comment was "These chances don't come along very often and it is down to myself, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba to pick people up and get everyone going."

Ashley Cole must love reading that. Or Carvalho. Or Essien. Or Makelele. Or Cech. Or Ballack.

I thought exactly the same thing on the way home yesterday. They should beat us on a bad day? You what? You rarely beat us by more than a goal on a good day.

 

[Flatters]

terry is a twat for that...

No, Terry is just a twat. He's more of a twat for that though.

 

[Barmy_in_Palmy]

The problem with Terry and Lampard is that they were lead to believe by Mourinho that all they hype about them was true, Mourinho would tell them that they were the greatest players in the world and they believed it and it went to their heads. While Mourinho was in charge Chelsea were winning things so they never had any reason to doubt what Mourinho was saying anything but the truth, so they started acting like ****s (though in fairness they were both ****s before, Lampard in Greece, Terry at heathrow drunk laughing at Americans rights after sept 11).

But the thing was that Lampard and Terry (more Terry than Lampard) are average to good players but never were they great, and neither of them having been playing to the potential that they were prior to the World Cup (Robinson isn't the only one to have sucked since Germany). Since Mourinho has left Chelsea have stopped winning but instead of thinking that "hey maybe I'm not playing so well?" Lampard and Terry still think they are God's Gift to English Football and it is their God given right to win stuff, so when they don't play well and Chelsea lose they blame everyone and their dog for the defeat but accept no responsibility for their own shiteness.

Terry would refuse to believe until he's dead that we outplayed them in the Final, as far as he is concerned, Chelsea were the better team, the better players and they played Spurs off the park, so the fact that Spurs won is a travesty to him, a grave injustice.

Anyway, Terry's a ****, Lampard's a fat **** and we won the fucking Cup.

 

[Wiener]

The big difference between the Chavs and Manure, Liverpool, Arsenal (possibly Everton and probably even Newcastle) and ourselves is that they don't have a big enough long-term fan base. By that I mean fans that have been through the ups and downs, that know the songs and the history. Even if we had won a couple of league titles and a number of cups, I would still be singing the same songs and going to as many games as I could, and there are plenty of yids out there who would fill my place if I couldn't be there.

We all know the truth about the Chavs. They have a small hard core, racist, white trash fan base. The rest is made up of glory hunters. Their success has been bought. Bates nearly bankrupted the club. Abramovich has lent the club more than £250mln. We've had our fair share of crooks at Spurs, but nothing like these two.

As a west London Spurs fan, Sunday could not have been sweeter. As a football fan, it was great to see a real club win. Let's hope this marks the beginning of the end the Chav farce.

COYS

 

[paul_1979yid]

Great thread. Not telling us anything we did nt know about them really though. We dont sing 'Small club in Fulham' for nothing! YID ARMY!!

 

[Fordy]

loved reading that! all day the yids were outdoing them, whether it was taking the piss on the tube on the way up or in the stadium.
only time i sat down was at half time.

 

[paul_1979yid]

Love it

Also loved Tainio winding them up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdFHd4OSgkE

What a yido

That was superb. Tainio reminding them of the score haha

 

[worcestersauce]

My only arguement with the original post is that their support was always f*cking shit.

 

[Davey-O]

F*** you Terry - what a tosser - hate the Chavs

 

[BoringOldFan]

Interesting to read because I was obviously at the other end (aka "The Winners Enclosure") and Wembley is a big place. I could hardly hear anything from the other end - mind you I was giving it plenty myself.

bomber has a good point about us being not as used to occasions like that of late. But I was at the 1984 UEFA Cup final which followed a period in 1981/82 of us getting to Wembley 7 times in 16 months. The noise and passion that night was as great as it was when we won the FA Cup in the replay in May 1981.

Face it. We're just better than them :wink:

 

[Cicada]

fuck you terry you ****

 

[SpurSince57]

Some good things have come out of Chelsea: Bobby Smith, Les Allen, Greavesie, El Tel, Gus—can't think of too much else, though.

Ooh! Frode Grodas!

 

[Chaplain]

Zola?

 

[llamafarmer]

I like the way they call themselves a big club. At the moment they are one of the top clubs, but they aren't a big club. When they go through a lean period just see how many of those silent fans actually bother turning up, they'll be off to the next 'big' thing.

If the prawn sandwich brigade turn to Spurs in their droves, we should be telling them where to shove their prawns.

Unfortunately, if we go on to better things from here, the new stadium development will bring them flooding in and the club will welcome them and their money with open arms.

I just pray the club take note of how important it is to keep the atmosphere at the Lane and try to avoid building a corporate piggy bank instead of a proper footy ground!

 

[nickspurs]

Unfortunately, if we go on to better things from here, the new stadium development will bring them flooding in and the club will welcome them and their money with open arms.

I just pray the club take note of how important it is to keep the atmosphere at the Lane and try to avoid building a corporate piggy bank instead of a proper footy ground!

If we end up getting our own PS Brigade maybe we can put them in boxes away from the proper fans and just amplify the noise of the stands to compensate for the bigger stadium. :wink:

I'd love to be in charge of that sound system remote control. Imagine being able to jack up the volume when the oppo get a penalty!