Big Phil and Adams sacked

[Assasin]

chelsea fired big phil and Tony Adams fired by Portsmouth.

[Lazie]

chelsea fired big phil and Tony Adams fired by Portsmouth.

After seeing the goals Portsmouth allowed on Saturday, I'm surprised they didn't fire him from then. Why was Scolari fired? Because he brought in Quaresma?

[Sir X]

Tuff , Chelsea made a wrong move.

[Assasin]

Grant fired for second place so if Big Phil a big coach then him have fi get first(mi nuh know). Ask Warlord a him know bout the big coach them.

[Lazie]

Grant fired for second place so if Big Phil a big coach then him have fi get first(mi nuh know). Ask Warlord a him know bout the big coach them.

Chelsea have too many players pass dem prime, plus too many midfielders. At the look of things Aston Villa look good fi second spot.

[Assasin]

long time mi a say that them have too many central midfielders, and yes age catch up with them too.

[Jangle]

Cho, me waan tek the credit for stating that fact from a long time ago. I think when they bought Ballack, it was a bad move. Right now Ballack is playing like a rich man enjoying his hobby. I didn't see him and Lampard playing well together because they are both leaders, especially in the midfield. At Bayern Munich, the team was built around Ballack, just as the German teams that he captained. He excells in this role as the leader and at Chelsea he has to play second fiddle to Lampard in the middle; now with the arrival of Deco, he has to challenge for the "other" midfield spot after Lampard and Mikel's names are written on the starting 11. Another soon-to-be-failure is Anelka despite his current form. He is a big fish in a big pond, when he should be a big fish in a medium sized pond.

[Assasin]

added to that they have nobody to play wide. Teams like Man U, Villa, West Ham will eat them for lunch as all Chelsea do is play down the middle.

[Lazie]

Cho, me waan tek the credit for stating that fact from a long time ago. I think when they bought Ballack, it was a bad move. Right now Ballack is playing like a rich man enjoying his hobby. I didn't see him and Lampard playing well together because they are both leaders, especially in the midfield. At Bayern Munich, the team was built around Ballack, just as the German teams that he captained. He excells in this role as the leader and at Chelsea he has to play second fiddle to Lampard in the middle; now with the arrival of Deco, he has to challenge for the "other" midfield spot after Lampard and Mikel's names are written on the starting 11. Another soon-to-be-failure is Anelka despite his current form. He is a big fish in a big pond, when he should be a big fish in a medium sized pond.

Well Ballack is another one that made the wrong choice turning down the Empire for a second tier team.

[Sir X]

Well known Chelsea fan and former 606 presenter David Mellor said: "I'm shocked but not necessarily surprised. Because of the way Chelsea are run, they can turn any problem into a disaster. Where is the point in dismissing a man with his record? "I cannot see the point in getting rid of him, it just leaves a vacuum in the dressing room at the vital moment. The idea that Chelsea's problems begin and end with Scolari is nonsense."

[Gamma]

i agree.....it is now within the realm of the ridiculous!!

[Assasin]

it is another Dallas Cowboy where the owner want to be the coach and want control.

[Lazie]

I recall how some were saying that Chelsea were favourites to win the EPL because of Big Phil's experience .... where did it all go wrong?

[Lazie]

Why Scolari couldn’t save The Damned Chelsea

Theory 1: Scolari was the New Clough
Roughly seven weeks from now, The Damned United will open in cinemas up and down the country.
Adapted from David Peace’s darkly brilliant novel imagining Brian Clough’s torrid 44-day reign at Leeds United, it’s entertaining enough – when was Old Big ’Ead not? – but lighter and fluffier than the book, so not in the same league.
Watching it a few weeks ago, though, a thought did cross FourFourTwo’s mind – a thought that came crashing back in with the summary dismissal of Luiz Felipe Scolari on Monday afternoon.
And that thought is this – that in 2009, Scolari is playing the part of Brian Clough, damned in his doomed attempt to follow a club legend (Mourinho/Revie) who had become a cult at the club after guiding it to unheard of success.
There’s flimsy circumstantial evidence to back up the theory. Just as Cloughie kept on raiding his Derby team for reinforcements, so Scolari seemed intent on signing every Portugal player he could get his hands on. And without the transfer restrictions, who could say for sure that Helder Postiga and Nuno Gomes wouldn’t have joined Deco, Bosingwa and Quaresma at Stamford Bridge?
But there are also louder whispers, echoes from history, backed up by FourFourTwo’s sources close to the Blues.
Admittedly the Brazilian didn’t walk into the dressing room on his first morning at the club and call JT and Lamps "cheating b******s". As the results become a millstone, he didn't set fire to the furniture. But nor did he walk in with a Don Revie-style dossier on the opposition. And that, it seems, was the root of his problem.

That gap's only gonna get wider...

Because while Chelsea’s results have undoubtedly been getting poorer as the season has gone on, that’s merely a symptom of a deeper problem: that the players have failed to adjust to Scolari’s laid-back approach.
Under Jose Mourinho, Chelsea’s egotistical superstars didn’t have to think, and footballers – especially English footballers, sadly – rather like that state of affairs. Witness Fabio Capello’s reinvigoration of England with a few strict rules like "no ketchup". Under Scolari, they were given the freedom to think. And look what happened.
With Jose – like Revie – everything was planned with military precision (think of a really good army here. Not for example, San Marino). Every player knew exactly what he was – and wasn’t – supposed to do. He’d been told how his opponent would play, what to look out for, how to deal with him. If he did it, fine. If he didn’t, he’d be substituted/dropped/sold.
If a player got injured and another player came on, the team already knew how that would affect their shape and their tactics. It was a fool-proof system.
Under Scolari (like Clough), it was off the cuff. Training was more relaxed. Players could ‘express themselves’. Dossiers were those blokes down the dole office. It worked with Brazil, it worked with Portugal – it even worked in the short-term with Chelsea. For a while there, the players looked freer, happier, easier on the eye.
But in the end it bred too much uncertainty among a group of players who needed to know in minute detail what was required.And so Scolari failed at Chelsea, just as Clough failed at Leeds. His team scored more goals, but looked like ending up empty-handed.
Roman Abramovich’s next appointment might want to consider the old saying: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Theory 2: Fergie knows best
That’s one theory. Another, equally plausible explanation was given by Sir Alex Ferguson back when the season had just kicked off.
Leafing through a pre-season copy of the Racing Post, the normally mild-mannered Scot felt his blood begin to boil.
“Every analyst in there was tipping Chelsea for the title,” Ferguson recalled. “One guy wrote: ‘The reason is Scolari is in town.’ He said Scolari will not be intimidated by me. He suggested that Wenger, Mourinho and Avram Grant couldn’t ‘handle me’.
“The paper mentions me as having ‘had a go’ at Chelsea by saying that a team [with players] over 30 can’t win the league, which is absolute rubbish. I never said that. What I did say was that a team over 30 doesn’t improve a lot. But Chelsea, given their performance last season, don’t have to improve a lot to win it.

Scolari: If it stinks so bad...

“Then, the same writer argues that Scolari is a better manager than me. I’m not so arrogant as to believe that’s impossible. Scolari may be a better manager than I am. But how can a sensible writer say that about a guy who has never managed in England? If you look at Scolari’s CV, he has managed about 17 teams.”
Fergie had actually forgotten Brazil and Portugal. But between 1982 and 2001, Scolari had indeed coached 17 teams: (deep breath) CSA, Juventude, Brasil de Pelotas, Al-Shabab, Brasil de Pelotas, Juventude, Grêmio, Goiás, Al Qadisiya, Kuwait, Criciúma, Al-Ahli, Al Qadisiya, Grêmio, Júbilo Iwata, Palmeiras and Cruzeiro.
Yes, he won the World Cup. Yes, he reached the Euro 2004 final. But in the end – as was proved in Chelsea's possibly pivotal 3-0 capitulation at Old Trafford last month – he just wasn’t good enough.

[OJ]

just shows too many owners who dont know the culture of the sport. I think this is a bit of a rash move.. Portmouth too... its not Adams fault Dentin kick and miss the ball and gave up the tying goal?..