Chelsea thread

If that's the criteria for a red card you'd be sent every game.

I've never seen this thread so busy. Good job we have AFC, MUFC and LFC fans to keep it going

Just keeping the racist fan percentage down tbf.

players look tired but should fall over the line.

Well done on winning the league.

Yep.. Congrats to Chelsea

Premier League Champions

League Cup Winners

UEFA Youth Cup Winners

FA Youth Cup Winners

EPL Player of the Year (Hazard)

Championship Player of the Year (Bamford - on loan at Middlesbrough) - though he didn't make Championship Team of Year

Six Players in PFA Premier League Team of the Season (Terry, Cahill, Ivanovic, Matic, Hazard, Costa)

Womens Player of the Year (Ji So-Jun) - Chelsea women are currently top of the league & in the Womens FA Cup Final (v Notts County)

Anyone heading to Sydney to watch the Blues play Sydney?

Sydney was brilliant, great build up from the NZ, Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne CFC Supporters groups at the Aurora Hotel leading up to the game.

Broke as now but really enjoyed it

So we've signed Falcao on a loan. Will be interesting to see if Jose can get more out of him than van gaal could. Used to play with Costa at Atletico too

He will get more out of him as he was still injured when he came to us and you could tell by his movement that he was not 100%.

It was in the last few weeks that you could see the improvement.

Kerry Dixon jailed for nine months after being found guilty of assault

• Former Chelsea striker attacked man at a pub in Dunstable
• Judged describes attack as ‘shocking and sickening’

Kerry Dixon arrives at Luton Crown Court, where he was jailed for nine months after being found guilty of assault. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

Press Association

Friday 19 June 2015 15.50 BSTLast modified on Friday 19 June 2015 16.15 BST

The former Chelsea and England striker Kerry Dixon has been jailed for nine months after being found guilty of assault.

Dixon, who scored 147 goals for Chelsea, was sentenced on Friday at Luton crown court for attacking a man in a pub.

Jailing the 53-year-old, Judge Barbara Mensah said the attack was “shocking and sickening to watch”. The judge said the violence was “disproportionate, unnecessary and completely over the top”.

Dixon had denied attacking a fellow drinker who had been sitting on a bar stool in the Nags Head pub in Dunstable in Bedfordshire.

The assault on the 38-year-old father-of-two Ben Scoble in the early hours of 15 May last year, was caught on CCTV. Mr Scoble, a builder, was punched off the stool and then subjected to a flurry of blows while on the floor.

The judge said the shocking footage showed how Mr Dixon launched at attack “out of the blue”, which had drawn “a gasp” from jurors when first played to the court during his trial last week.

“You were not just striking him, knocking him off his bar stool, but continuing to strike him when he was on the ground,” she said. “Then you continued to pummel him on the ground.”

Dixon, who played for Luton Town, Reading, Southampton, Millwall, and Doncaster Rovers, and earned eight caps for England, had pleaded not guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He alleged he had acted in self-defence, However Dixon, from Dunstable, was convicted by a jury after a five-day hearing with the judge describing the attack as “completely unprovoked”.

I hope Lapmard goes well in the States

Contact looked a few inches outside the box but would have been hard to tell for ref or linesman.

I thought it looked inside the box, but you could definitely argue a yellow with the defender coming back and the ball pushed away from goal

He was last man so red card was right.

Not sure about that, the ball was heading away from goal, and Cahill was there to collect. 

Cortois did not deny a clear goal scoring opportunity. Was outside of the box, but would have been impossible for the ref to see.

Hilarious official Chelsea match report after the dismantling at Man City:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/chelsea-match-report-appears-to-have-been-written-by-jose-mourinho-as-club-publish-heavily-biased-account-of-30-defeat-to-manchester-city-10458639.html

I am afraid it just got worse.

Got Arsenal next week.

if Newcastle win you'll be in the drop zone.

No one picked Chelsea to start this bad.

All signs point to yo beating Arsenal now :(

Be seeing you next season?? I think the special one will pull a special rabbitt out of the hat though. He always does.

When you are not winning all the time, it makes victory much more enjoyable than when it is expected. Jose is right.

Jose will figure something out.

Not the first time we've been struggling

Better than "we're racist and that's the way we like it" I guess.