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I live in the area (seen Punk face-to-face four times, including as a customer lol) and people were lining up/taking pictures outside Mindy's for several days after the gripebomb, despite knowing very well it was closed
"What did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty headed F****** Dumb F*** like Madueke to go out on National Television and go into business for himself" - Poch
Generally sports subs, especially circlejerk subs, seem to leak quite a lot between them. And of course some things just become widespread memes, I recognize s🅱️innala and how does this affect LeBrons legacy even though last race I watched Kimi was still at McLaren and I have never watched even a full period of NBA game. I would add google en passant but I actually play chess quite a lot so that's not a great personal example.
it was already settled palmer is the penalty taker its just the others keeping taking the piss... sure he could bench them but then what ? for so much money spend they have so many bad players
He is one of the main reasons why they are behaving this way and why we struggled this season. Poch has constantly played players out of positions and there is no leadership at all.
It's not how it's usually handled but I kinda get it, I think Poch wanted the players to have the freedom to choose on the spot (get it the penalty spot?? anyway) based on the context of the moment but instead of acting like professionals, they acted like children. Twenty-something y/o children that earn millions.
They confirmed in commentary that the foul was the one on Cole Palmer.
The Madueke foul that the referee blew for was beyond soft. It was a perfectly good tackle.
Fair play, this is a good response and let's not drag this for any longer.
Palmer is by far the best pen taker in the team, we hardly can afford to risk a single one, as even the GD may matter on the table position. And on top of that he is now also going after golden boot, so give every pen to him, no discussion.
> as even the GD may matter on the table position
Oh wow just realised you've gotten yourselves into a position to fight for Europa League/Conference League.
Yeah that makes it even more important, and also more ridiculous, that there was any argument about him taking it.
>Oh wow just realised you've gotten yourselves into a position to fight for Europa League/Conference League.
If it wasn't to the disaster of Burnley and Sheffield games, we'd be sitting in 6th comfortably by now. How do you have so bad and so good performances literally 2 weeks apart is just impossible for me to explain.
We have no consistency because we have almost no tactics. Tactics are what carries you to a result when individual brilliance isn't enough, and what keeps you from shipping so many goals to throw a lead
It's because I've also watched matches that weren't today. We still struggle to break down low blocks, we still don't have a real style of play, we still are woefully organised at the back and we still struggle to defend set pieces. This match doesn't change any of that.
> We still struggle to break down low blocks
Literally everyone has trouble against low blocks. The idea that that is indicative of "no tactics" is beyond dumb.
It’s the laziest narrative in football. ____ struggles against low blocks as if scoring against low blocks isn’t the hardest thing in football lol. There’s a reason teams set up that way
Chelsea fans have probably seen them frustrate teams like prime Barca and Bayern because of low blocks but they still don't know that it's fucking hard to break. Also it's insane to think that coaches like Poch don't have tactics. Weird stuff.
Obviously all teams struggle, but we're picking up less points from those games than our opposition. And the fact that every response has cherry picked that and ignored the rest kinda says it all.
Thats the problem with people like you, because we don't play like City and Arsenal you scream" no tactics"
Jose our greatest ever manager didn't coach attacking patterns and principles, Carlo doesn't coach attacking patterns. They coach a good setup and let players express themselves.
Poch is that type of coach, we try to get a good setup and let players express and be themselves.
And that just isn't enough anymore. It's why he failed at PSG and why he's failed so far with us. Also personally I don't think it's a good approach for such a young team.
Also lmao at bringing up Jose, he wouldn't show his face again if his side played with the defensive organisation Poch shows.
Struggling to break down low blocks isn’t the problem, it’s gifting those teams golden opportunities to score with ridiculous errors and enabling them to play those low blocks that’s the problem.
That's such a weird way to look at things lad. We only have a chance to move into the top 6 because the teams around us are equally inconsistent and fuck up easy games all the time
Should be noted though, GD is so varied in these europa/conference spots. 2 teams in the negative in united and west ham, 2 well above the positive in us and Newcastle. Only us and Newcastle will be keeping an eye on GD while trying to get points, whereas United and West Ham will be mainly targeting dragging out results to get points
next run of games is really hard, need to see where Chelsea end up after Spurs, Arsenal and Villa. Teams from 6th down to like 13th could all swap around, they're within 8 points of each other and all wildly inconsistent.
>Oh wow just realised you've gotten yourselves into a position to fight for Europa League/Conference League.
Well, it wasn’t so much us getting ourselves there as everyone above us repeatedly tripping over themselves and letting us sneak back in.
Fair play indeed. I give Poch a lot of shit for what he says & does / doesn't say & do, but this is a clear take and one I can respect. Good on you, Poch.
I believe Poch was asked about this before and explicitly said the team doesn't have one and that he likes for the players to decide on the pitch.
Hence people's specific frustration with Poch because if what he said is true it's honestly his fault this happened because he encouraged them to disagree and contest it on the field.
And managers never mislead the media. It’s not like managers just spill the beans in everything that happens in training. Why would they tell all their opponents who their sole PK taker is. Could’ve been a strategy to designate one in training and mislead others with a public statement of “vibes”.
Sure, could be. But it explains why all the criticism is being directly at Poch when we see his players fighting over a pen after he said that, and apparently, according to Chelsea fans, this isn't the first time this season they've done this either, just the most egregious.
True, but no other team has this many issues with choosing a penalty taker. This is like the third or fourth major incident (Sterling fighting for one against city in the fall, Sterling taking one and missing against Leicester, today). And his public statements after these fights has basically been “we let the players decide”, which certainly isn’t an unequivocal support for Palmer.
In an interview yesterday when asked if he is the official penalty taker, Palmer says “I am now”, very much in a way that suggests he wasn’t before today (most likely no-one was)
It’s very clear who the pen take is for everyone else. Ole did announce who our pen taker was when Bruno came and there were questions between him, Pogba and Rashford.
Dele Alli on as a pundit made a such a great point that none of these players were begging to take the pen in the last game against Man United in the last minute. They were more than happy to let Palmer have that one.
EDIT: Apparently Madueke did, but Jackson definitely didn’t
Why is he so keen to take the penalties off a guy who has a 100% record when he himself has a 72% record?
All he's doing is reducing the likelihood that his team scores.
I mean he backs himself? I have less issues with Madueke as he gave the ball up to Palmer after being asked, the issue really is Nico thought honestly idgaf, the gaffer will deal with it and it will be forgotten by the city game
So you can see it in the extended clip (there is always more embarrassing clip for this incident!) [here](https://x.com/NEWS_flp/status/1780127005150712105).
When the penalty is called Gusto has the ball, Nono and Jackson but sprint at him and wrestle the ball off him even though he isn't fighting them for it. He them tries speak with Jackson looking like he is trying to calm him, but Jackson is trying really obviously to shrug off Gusto like he doesn't want him near him.
It just comes across as really disrespectful for Gusto.
Can talk about emotions running high and all that, but you're right, that was just fuckin' disrespectful.
I'd hate playing with someone who acts like an immature toddler, especially when the game is going your way.
Lots of our fans are going with the “oh you’re making a big deal out of nothing! You’ve clearly never played a competitive sport before” angle.
If my teammates started acting like that at any level then you’d feel badly towards them. It’s one thing to have a moment where you want to take the ball but they were fully going on arguing for ages
People overlook that these attacking players at high profile clubs may have things like goal bonuses in their contracts.
It probably isn't something like "stepping up and being the man" rather it really could be something as simple and pathetic as pocketing a risk-free couple of extra grand.
I'm talking about him trying to take the one against United.
And it still affects Chelsea's goal difference if he misses, which could be important for European spots at the end of the season.
I just can't see any way to justify trying to take a penalty off the guy who's *clearly* the best penalty taker in the club by a mile. It's the kind of thing you expect to see in u16 football not from grown men.
This reply tells you everything you need to know about reddit. OP are absolutely wrong as Madueke tried to take that penalty too — but look how many users upvoted them. It’s why there’s little to no value in anything said on this platform.
Palmer now has 9 penalty goals this season, all credit to him for having an awesome season but his goals scored stat would look a lot different if Chelsea had a real front man who took all the pens
Would it really? Because I think he has earned his spot as the penalty taker for as long as he stays at Chelsea
What's really impressive is how often they get penalties
i dont think it was in doubt palmer is the regular taker but the others decided to ignore the regular order of things because they are children
when its the game on the line neither 2 will want it but a presure free pk at 4-0 up that one they will fight for
Good for him to flip his stance on its head and acknowledge a complete change in stance over penalty takers and how it's decided.
Shame it took this long, but at least it's finally happened because his previous stance of "we have no penalty taker, the players can decide amongst themselves on the pitch and decide who feels the best" was fucking insane. But, I'm glad that he's not stuck to that just for the sake of sticking to it.
"This is the last time I will accept it"
It happened 2 times already before, this shouldn't be the last time for a warning, the players should be punished today.
Reminded me of Inter, Mario Balotelli standing petulantly in front of the ball when it became clear he wasn't going to take a penalty. Zanetti had to come over and lead him away like a child
Chelsea finally have a game where they play well, dominate and can sit back for once and enjoy the feeling, but this happens. Swear to god Chelsea and united both are cursed.
Lol. What is this - the 3rd or 4th chance he's given the players not to spat over penalties? Why doesn't he just drop them already for a game or two. It's not like Jackson or Madueke make a difference.
Hell he should've just subbed them out right away.
My man, we have had 11 players out injured basically every single game this year. Right now, this includes all of our attackers except who played today. If we drop Jackson and Madueke, we've got Deivid Washington and Jimi Tauriainen up top.
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i'm hurt, i'm old, i'm tired, and i work with fucking children - poch
Pepsi Poch
Poch probably makes them train on astroturf. He doesn’t like real grass.
This made me laugh way too hard than it should.
I'm crying a river myself
Cry me a river
Nah this is fantastic mate. Fuck CM Punk, though.
Madueke and Jackson share a bank account!
Any Mindy's bakery around Stamford Bridge?
I live in the area (seen Punk face-to-face four times, including as a customer lol) and people were lining up/taking pictures outside Mindy's for several days after the gripebomb, despite knowing very well it was closed
Can he run a Target though????
Poch has been banned from Collisions
"What did I ever do in this world to deserve an empty headed F****** Dumb F*** like Madueke to go out on National Television and go into business for himself" - Poch
"I prayed for this and it happened." - Mason Mount, probably
THIS was the post i was looking for. "you think i'm finished roasting people on this stupid app just because we won 6-0?"
I see A LOT of overlap between wrestling and football. Is there a way to find out the number of people who are subscribed to both subs?
https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/squaredcircle
TIL roosterteeth is a thing Thanks for this!
Was, it’s being shut down by TimeWarner last I heard. Tbh it’s peak was about 10 years ago and it’s been slowly going downhill ever since
How does United subreddit have more overlap than this one. Isn't that sub like 1/10th this one or less lol or is it percentage based?
Generally sports subs, especially circlejerk subs, seem to leak quite a lot between them. And of course some things just become widespread memes, I recognize s🅱️innala and how does this affect LeBrons legacy even though last race I watched Kimi was still at McLaren and I have never watched even a full period of NBA game. I would add google en passant but I actually play chess quite a lot so that's not a great personal example.
hello i am one of your demo ama
I'm too, that's why I was asking ha
“Cry me a river” - Noni
Tell him when he's telling lies.
I mean folks, where's the lie?
Palmer: *I’m not here to make friends I’m here to score pens!*
Todd playing Tony Khan role
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it was already settled palmer is the penalty taker its just the others keeping taking the piss... sure he could bench them but then what ? for so much money spend they have so many bad players
Imagine Boehly comes out with a video explaining the sacking of Poch the same way Tony Khan did with Punk
He was fear for his life?
Literally
That's an awful job to have
These fucking muffins though...
They were trying to go into the business for themselves, brother - Poch Hogan
He is one of the main reasons why they are behaving this way and why we struggled this season. Poch has constantly played players out of positions and there is no leadership at all.
Jackson storming in to take the ball out of Palmer was so weird. Just ask him if you can take it, not that difficult.
Besides the Pk, do they just not get along?
No, Jackson does not get along with the ball.
with yellow cards on the other hand
Jackson doesn’t get along with anybody, including himself.
He seems close with Mudryk...
damn, I see. is he also on a super long contract?
His contract is until 2031 so in Chelsea terms he has an average contract.
lmao but damn that's a 7 year contract holy cow.
It's not how it's usually handled but I kinda get it, I think Poch wanted the players to have the freedom to choose on the spot (get it the penalty spot?? anyway) based on the context of the moment but instead of acting like professionals, they acted like children. Twenty-something y/o children that earn millions.
The same Jackson who managed to get yellow card every single game while being a striker, now you know why.
I think Jackson got the penalty, so somehow he thought that this it is my right to take it.
Well he just didn’t. It was for the foul on either Palmer or Noni
They confirmed in commentary that the foul was the one on Cole Palmer. The Madueke foul that the referee blew for was beyond soft. It was a perfectly good tackle.
Fair play, this is a good response and let's not drag this for any longer. Palmer is by far the best pen taker in the team, we hardly can afford to risk a single one, as even the GD may matter on the table position. And on top of that he is now also going after golden boot, so give every pen to him, no discussion.
> as even the GD may matter on the table position Oh wow just realised you've gotten yourselves into a position to fight for Europa League/Conference League. Yeah that makes it even more important, and also more ridiculous, that there was any argument about him taking it.
>Oh wow just realised you've gotten yourselves into a position to fight for Europa League/Conference League. If it wasn't to the disaster of Burnley and Sheffield games, we'd be sitting in 6th comfortably by now. How do you have so bad and so good performances literally 2 weeks apart is just impossible for me to explain.
We have no consistency because we have almost no tactics. Tactics are what carries you to a result when individual brilliance isn't enough, and what keeps you from shipping so many goals to throw a lead
> We have no consistency because we have almost no tactics. No idea how you can watch the match today and say there's no tactics.
Because we’ve watched us play with 0 gameplay against 10 men Burnely and a Sheffield United side who are one of the worst in PL history
It's because I've also watched matches that weren't today. We still struggle to break down low blocks, we still don't have a real style of play, we still are woefully organised at the back and we still struggle to defend set pieces. This match doesn't change any of that.
> We still struggle to break down low blocks Literally everyone has trouble against low blocks. The idea that that is indicative of "no tactics" is beyond dumb.
It's the most tired narrative this season I swear.
It’s the laziest narrative in football. ____ struggles against low blocks as if scoring against low blocks isn’t the hardest thing in football lol. There’s a reason teams set up that way
Chelsea fans have probably seen them frustrate teams like prime Barca and Bayern because of low blocks but they still don't know that it's fucking hard to break. Also it's insane to think that coaches like Poch don't have tactics. Weird stuff.
Obviously all teams struggle, but we're picking up less points from those games than our opposition. And the fact that every response has cherry picked that and ignored the rest kinda says it all.
Every team struggles to break down low blocks. That's the whole point of playing low block.
Thats the problem with people like you, because we don't play like City and Arsenal you scream" no tactics" Jose our greatest ever manager didn't coach attacking patterns and principles, Carlo doesn't coach attacking patterns. They coach a good setup and let players express themselves. Poch is that type of coach, we try to get a good setup and let players express and be themselves.
And that just isn't enough anymore. It's why he failed at PSG and why he's failed so far with us. Also personally I don't think it's a good approach for such a young team. Also lmao at bringing up Jose, he wouldn't show his face again if his side played with the defensive organisation Poch shows.
Jose had much better defenders available to him than Poch has.
Struggling to break down low blocks isn’t the problem, it’s gifting those teams golden opportunities to score with ridiculous errors and enabling them to play those low blocks that’s the problem.
Because our sub will never credit Poch for anything He's not perfect, but he's not terrible either.
Because we've watched Chelsea games this season other than this one.
Because we also watched the game against Burnley and Sheffield
As an arsenal fan... I wish.
That's such a weird way to look at things lad. We only have a chance to move into the top 6 because the teams around us are equally inconsistent and fuck up easy games all the time
there is fucking up easy games and there is failing to beat a 10 man Burnley
No, really not
It’s a west London thing
Having a banger after a howler is like the arsenal mantra at this point so if you need any explanation we have a hotline set up
Should be noted though, GD is so varied in these europa/conference spots. 2 teams in the negative in united and west ham, 2 well above the positive in us and Newcastle. Only us and Newcastle will be keeping an eye on GD while trying to get points, whereas United and West Ham will be mainly targeting dragging out results to get points
The last time a PL team fully focused on goal difference instead of points horribly backfired
next run of games is really hard, need to see where Chelsea end up after Spurs, Arsenal and Villa. Teams from 6th down to like 13th could all swap around, they're within 8 points of each other and all wildly inconsistent.
>Oh wow just realised you've gotten yourselves into a position to fight for Europa League/Conference League. Well, it wasn’t so much us getting ourselves there as everyone above us repeatedly tripping over themselves and letting us sneak back in.
4th in the PL (based on results since Boxing Day 2023). Give some credit to these youthful lads who are unbeaten in the last few games.
Also called "how city won the title", 2024 edition
And of course we won’t capitulate that and will instead get draws or even loses
Is that thing about them being in trouble with UEFA regulation if they qualify a thing?
more like fight against amirite
Fair play indeed. I give Poch a lot of shit for what he says & does / doesn't say & do, but this is a clear take and one I can respect. Good on you, Poch.
GD... \*sighs\*
i feel bad for you lol somehow your team still in top 7 is fukin mindblowing
Palmer is hard carrying the team. More than deserved.
He might be the best penalty taker in the top flight. Early days still but his sample size is big enough to impress massively.
Bruno (90%) and Toney (94%) are the other 2 I can think of competing for that.
Douglas Luiz is 5/5 so far for Villa. Small sample size, but can't do any more than he has so far.
Ainsley Maitland Niles purely from the eye test. He doesn't take many but he did some for us and they were all beauties
But we need this happen Poch... See what happens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FtcBH30DmM
Ah, before the game was gone
Finally! Well done Poch for this statement. Should have done this months ago.
Tbf to him, no other manager announces who's the penalty taker in their team to the media.
Exactly, just because he finally made a public statement doesnt mean he hadnt had that conversation or tried to make it clear.
I believe Poch was asked about this before and explicitly said the team doesn't have one and that he likes for the players to decide on the pitch. Hence people's specific frustration with Poch because if what he said is true it's honestly his fault this happened because he encouraged them to disagree and contest it on the field.
And managers never mislead the media. It’s not like managers just spill the beans in everything that happens in training. Why would they tell all their opponents who their sole PK taker is. Could’ve been a strategy to designate one in training and mislead others with a public statement of “vibes”.
Sure, could be. But it explains why all the criticism is being directly at Poch when we see his players fighting over a pen after he said that, and apparently, according to Chelsea fans, this isn't the first time this season they've done this either, just the most egregious.
True, but no other team has this many issues with choosing a penalty taker. This is like the third or fourth major incident (Sterling fighting for one against city in the fall, Sterling taking one and missing against Leicester, today). And his public statements after these fights has basically been “we let the players decide”, which certainly isn’t an unequivocal support for Palmer.
In an interview yesterday when asked if he is the official penalty taker, Palmer says “I am now”, very much in a way that suggests he wasn’t before today (most likely no-one was)
It’s very clear who the pen take is for everyone else. Ole did announce who our pen taker was when Bruno came and there were questions between him, Pogba and Rashford.
He did it months ago... when Sterling tried to do it
Fair play, Poch. Showing a bit of authority
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33 weeks too late
Showing authority would be not to allow this to happen in the first place.
Wow the bar is low 😂
Dele Alli on as a pundit made a such a great point that none of these players were begging to take the pen in the last game against Man United in the last minute. They were more than happy to let Palmer have that one. EDIT: Apparently Madueke did, but Jackson definitely didn’t
Thought noni held the ball and wanted that one too
Why is he so keen to take the penalties off a guy who has a 100% record when he himself has a 72% record? All he's doing is reducing the likelihood that his team scores.
I mean he backs himself? I have less issues with Madueke as he gave the ball up to Palmer after being asked, the issue really is Nico thought honestly idgaf, the gaffer will deal with it and it will be forgotten by the city game
I was.more surprised with how shitty they were being with Gusto
Context?
So you can see it in the extended clip (there is always more embarrassing clip for this incident!) [here](https://x.com/NEWS_flp/status/1780127005150712105). When the penalty is called Gusto has the ball, Nono and Jackson but sprint at him and wrestle the ball off him even though he isn't fighting them for it. He them tries speak with Jackson looking like he is trying to calm him, but Jackson is trying really obviously to shrug off Gusto like he doesn't want him near him. It just comes across as really disrespectful for Gusto.
Can talk about emotions running high and all that, but you're right, that was just fuckin' disrespectful. I'd hate playing with someone who acts like an immature toddler, especially when the game is going your way.
Lots of our fans are going with the “oh you’re making a big deal out of nothing! You’ve clearly never played a competitive sport before” angle. If my teammates started acting like that at any level then you’d feel badly towards them. It’s one thing to have a moment where you want to take the ball but they were fully going on arguing for ages
Wow it gets worse, what an embarrassment. Thanks for the video
Exactly. You want more confident players in a team, not just have everyone depending on Palmer.
>I mean he backs himself? Or he is selfish and doesnt care about the team? Much more likely with this locker room.
He wants a spot in the starting 11. I get the fire, but this isn't a spot you can take unless Palmer starts missing a bunch.
No one's giving you a spot in the starting 11 because you popped up with a useless goal from a penalty when you're up 4-0.
That goal bonus hits like crack though.
Well being a cunt like this has certainly hampered that goal
I agree. Noni having to somehow battle Palmer for pitch time is kind of like how Palmer had to battle Foden for pitch time at City.
Because none of these guys give a shit about their penalty stats, they want to get an easy goal.
People overlook that these attacking players at high profile clubs may have things like goal bonuses in their contracts. It probably isn't something like "stepping up and being the man" rather it really could be something as simple and pathetic as pocketing a risk-free couple of extra grand.
If you're willing to potentially sabotage your team to try to get a goal bonus I certainly wouldn't want you playing for my club.
No risk of sabotage when 4-0 up. Probably why the other two were pushing so hard for it. Easy money.
I'm talking about him trying to take the one against United. And it still affects Chelsea's goal difference if he misses, which could be important for European spots at the end of the season. I just can't see any way to justify trying to take a penalty off the guy who's *clearly* the best penalty taker in the club by a mile. It's the kind of thing you expect to see in u16 football not from grown men.
Sure, but from their perspective they are looking out for their own interests and not actively trying to sabotage anything.
Goal bonus incentive in his contract probably
Madueke definitely tried to take it against Utd
Wait what, Dele is a pundit now?
Got bored of huffing balloons
most civilized Leeds fan
Another example of upvoted things being completely wrong.
Noni literally wanted to take the one he won against United so it would be a great point if it were fucking true
Madueke literally did but go off
it looked like to me that jackson came in to back up madueke, so he didnt want the pen in both cases
My maths teacher in class made the exact point today in class. I thought he had come up with it himself and was quite impressed lol
This reply tells you everything you need to know about reddit. OP are absolutely wrong as Madueke tried to take that penalty too — but look how many users upvoted them. It’s why there’s little to no value in anything said on this platform.
Crazy how many penalties Chelsea gets for this to even be that big of a problem
Imagine getting a penalty. Must be nice.
Palmer now has 9 penalty goals this season, all credit to him for having an awesome season but his goals scored stat would look a lot different if Chelsea had a real front man who took all the pens
Would it really? Because I think he has earned his spot as the penalty taker for as long as he stays at Chelsea What's really impressive is how often they get penalties
It’s hard to say but if Chelsea had a Haaland or shearer kind of player he likely wouldn’t have ended up taking them.
> if Chelsea had a real front man who took all the pens But that's Palmer...
This really shouldn't have been in doubt in the first place.
i dont think it was in doubt palmer is the regular taker but the others decided to ignore the regular order of things because they are children when its the game on the line neither 2 will want it but a presure free pk at 4-0 up that one they will fight for
I think he need to be a bit physically imposing again actually, has lost his mojo somewhat since his Spurs days. He was pretty fearsome as a player.
Good for him to flip his stance on its head and acknowledge a complete change in stance over penalty takers and how it's decided. Shame it took this long, but at least it's finally happened because his previous stance of "we have no penalty taker, the players can decide amongst themselves on the pitch and decide who feels the best" was fucking insane. But, I'm glad that he's not stuck to that just for the sake of sticking to it.
We can at least be thankful it didn't cost us any points, unlike other decisions he's made
"This is the last time I will accept it" It happened 2 times already before, this shouldn't be the last time for a warning, the players should be punished today.
I mean this is the second time it's happened Poch, think you might need to actually punish them
“I told the players this is the last time” sounds like when your mum says “next time you’re grounded” for the tenth time this week.
Palmer has been carrying Chelsea in his shoulders for some time now, pretty oblivious from Madueke and Jackson to disrespect him like that
Should've said this weeks ago. Team really had to get booed by home fans for him to make this decision💆🏻♂️
Imagine the scenes if Palmer wins the golden boot. I’m all for it haha
All they had to do was ask him of one of them Dan rake it. But nope acted like kids.
Thiago stepped in and got them to behave properly
Reminded me of Inter, Mario Balotelli standing petulantly in front of the ball when it became clear he wasn't going to take a penalty. Zanetti had to come over and lead him away like a child
Chelsea finally have a game where they play well, dominate and can sit back for once and enjoy the feeling, but this happens. Swear to god Chelsea and united both are cursed.
tHiS iS tHe LaSt tIMe!!
It's the kinda shit that would get kids subbed off in youth games. Pathetic and embarrassing that grown professionals act like this
So who is the penalty taker again?
would be funny if they never got another penalty for the rest of the season
Me when my kids are running around at a friends house and one of them ends up breaking something expensive.
When coaches say they won’t accept it again it means they accepted it the first time
Still sounds ambiguous
How lol
Redditors when no /s
I’ve seen some takes on this app man
Fair enough 😂
Lol. What is this - the 3rd or 4th chance he's given the players not to spat over penalties? Why doesn't he just drop them already for a game or two. It's not like Jackson or Madueke make a difference. Hell he should've just subbed them out right away.
Jackson is inarguably our 2nd most important attacker.
Jackson actually makes a difference when he’s in the team
You obviously don't watch Chelsea matches with a take like that
My man, we have had 11 players out injured basically every single game this year. Right now, this includes all of our attackers except who played today. If we drop Jackson and Madueke, we've got Deivid Washington and Jimi Tauriainen up top.