Goodness, people are certainly not seeing it my way today, huh? In due order:
We might not have looked like Barcelona, but we were certainly not drab in those matches. Spring saw most people optimistic, as I recall. Fair play if you really didn't feel that way at the time.
After 20 or so mins Chelsea found their feet in the first half, and we looked like shit after the 70 minute mark, giving Chelsea a solid 26 mins of domination, that's far from us having two thirds of it.
I completely agree though, it's absolutely sickening to see us completely forget how to not invite pressure after we go ahead
That we certainly did... and we've lost to NON LEAGUE sides under Fergie (with Ronaldo on the pitch, we weren't fielding academy youngsters). We gave up a 3-0 lead against Liverpool under Fergie. We lost 6-1 to City under Fergie. I mean, his career has been longer than most, and you'll see all sorts of stuff happen in that time, but to take this tone that LvG is spectacularly shit for not having us see out a lead against Chelsea at the Bridge (shit or not, it's not as if we're world-beaters these days) is a bit of an overreaction to me. We should have done better, but to say that any decent coach would never see this happen is patently false.