It's a very Chelsea thing to do to pay £100m for a midfielder you don't notice.

I said that to my son today. Also agree I didn’t realise Declan Rice had played today. We played some lovely stuff and at least the team made up for the shambles waiting an hour to get in. The guy I was chatting to at the disabled gate in Holmesdale road had his 2 grandsons aged 5 and 7 inside the ground on their own as their cards had worked only for his phone not to work and yet they wouldn’t open the gate and let him in. Even the police told the senior steward this was a safeguarding issue and yet they still did nothing. 45 mins later when they realised they had no plan b they just opened all the gates. Surely some common sense should have prevailed before then.

Roy appears to have unlocked the potential of the forward players. The ball needs to go into Eze and there's more movement around him. Eze himself is finding the spaces to receive the ball and when these players have a yard or two in front of them they can be clinical - I think Ayew's goal illustrates this well.
Defence from set pieces is woeful, I'd expect Roy and Ray to work on this as a priority, all the good work at one end was nearly undone at the other, the far post being particularly vulnerable.
I'd like to see the side push on for the 50 point mark, I think it is doable, and would be a fine achievement since Roy's arrival.
It has to be said that Parish made the correct decision in sacking Vieira, something was very wrong, these are the same players but look at the resurgence and energy they play with under Roy - a credit to him and Ray Lewington, and to top it all we've moved up a place to 11th

Edited by southnorwoodhill (30 Apr 2023 6.04am)

Away for a week eh ! have you been a naughty boy and we’re you someone’s new best friend

Played well yesterday, apart from defending set pieces which has come into our play. It was never a pen, I would have been pissed off if that was given against us. Both teams are safe which is good, there are a few other clubs I would rather go down than West Ham.

When they got the last corner, from the reaction in my section, you would have thought they had got a penalty.
Where did the 8.5 minutes of injury time come from? During which Palace got a throw but WH player took it and they allowed play to continue