Optimistic but Realistic

The earliest indications that Carlo couldn't hack it for me was the Istanbul in 2005.

Man for man that AC Milan team was so much better than Liverpool. It would be the equivalent of Chelsea going 3-0 up to say QPR and conspiring to lose.

Carlo just stood and watched whilst Milan capitulated, both my dad and I hate Liverpool (he is a United fan) and I to this day I couldn't forgive Carlo for that.

The players have to take responsibility, but I got the feeling that after the United loss the players simply didn't want to play under Carlo anymore, Kalou's reaction on Twitter summed it up for me and the lack of Chelsea players sticking up for Carlo in general.

It must be an Italian thing because Mancini is like that as well, if you aren't in his plans you are outcasted.

Josh, Sturridge, Bosingwa, Mikel and even Anelka for me have looked like different players under AVB and he has only been in charge for 6 weeks.

I don't care if other Chelsea fans want to slate me for saying this but I still maintain the belief that we should have won the title by a lot more than 1 point in 09/10. When Spurs beat us I genuinely thought that was it, thank fark Blackburn managed to hold United though otherwise it would have been curtains

Bubbles

Ancelotti for me was responsible for some of the worst performances I have ever seen from a Chelsea team

Being outdone by Mourinho and Ferguson I can just about take. Being undone so comprehensively by Steve Bruce...

One of my mates up at uni is a Newcastle fan, and a few weeks after that I went to see them crush that same outfit 5-0. It was almost painful watching that game, this was the same outfit we;d made look like Barcelona

What made all those games you've mentioned so painful to me was just how poor we were, we deserved everything we got, going out with barely a whimper

09/10 was a mixture of the very, very good and the very very bad

After Arsenal away I was convinced we'd won the title already. After we lost to Spurs I was convinced we'd blown it

Given Arsenal's inconsistencies and the fact that United had just sold Tevez and Ronaldo that title should have come an awful lot more easily

Performanvces last season were unforgivable. Genuinely can't remember a good performance from Carlo's Chelsea side since last September

I can never forgive those Liverpool or Sunderland home results

Ooops

Just seen That Newcastle-Sunderland game was before our Sunderland home game

My bad

Not that it makes it any better, my point still stands

When I remember just how poor Sunderland were and what they did to us...

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The only games we were good in IMO were Blackpool and Wigan and come on it WAS Blackpool and Wigan.

Having sat there and watched that pile of ----, I can honestly say the 2-1 to Spurs was as embarrassed as I've felt as a Chelsea fan which says a lot considering I've seen us lose heavily to Liverpool and United down the years and heck even Spurs as well.

Us only losing 2-1 to Spurs in 09/10 was the biggest miracle since Moses led the Hebrews across the Red Sea because quite frankly it could and should have been double figures, were it not for Cech and Pav profligacy it would have been. To lose that way to arguably one of our biggest if not biggest rival was just unacceptable.

Having said that Carlo had us playing some of the best football I've ever seen us play and got the best out of us from March onwards, but the performances in 10/11 in particular to rival sides I couldn't take. We lost to United FOUR times last season, FOUR!

I also can't forgive Carlo for us having to suffer the humiliation of losing home and away to Liverpool, something we hadn't had to endure since Scolari.

I remember a time where Liverpool used to be a 3 point banker for us at Home, this going way back to the early 90s.

I honestly believe that if we had of managed to beat Liverpool at Anfield or at least get a draw, which should have been s simple task considering the state they were in, Hodgson would have gone about a month sooner than he did, it reminded me of Rafa in 09/10 whereby their were rumours that if Rafa lost to United he would have been sacked there and then, as it is they waited till May, remember H&G already had Klinsmann lined up

I can't believe how poor we were against Liverpool, that must be the first time Hodgson has ever beaten us as manager, remember we had inflicted defeat upon him in every managerial job in England he has ever had, going back to Blackburn and then to Fulham.

We had Cech to thank again at Craven Cottage, because I'm not sure if I would have been able to cope with the embarrassment of losing to Fulham again (at least last time I could blame the ref), next you know we would have been losing to QPR which is probably just as bad if not worse

We seem to have some hoodoo around White Hart Lane at the moment

Makes me mad, that for a ground we used to refer to affectionately at 3 Point Lane we seem to have some mental block there now. I link that back to the 4-4 there under Grant which we would have lost had it not been for Cudicini's last gasp save

09/10 to me was a mixture of the very good (Stoke at home was as good as I've seen us in years) and the very bad. That game in Milan we were lamentable, those hopeless performances away to Hull and Spurs

For me, Carlo simply couldn't cope when things got serious. Any team who approached with a degree of pragmatism would likely get a result

His record against the big teams was poor. You can point to the 09/10 record against the top teams and our inability to close the gap

Even in 09/10. Arsenal were largely defeated near single handedly by Drogba

Liverpool were in turmoil that season, United we were helped by some dire officiating and Rooney's injury

10/11 saw Carlo really exposed. We deservedly lost in the Community Shield, lost to Hodgson's Pool side , were completly outdone by United in the CL

Thing with Carlo is when his teams clicked the other teams might as well play to keep the score down but when the wheels go off .....

..... just best not to even go there.