I'm glad Chelsea beat them. The pro Spurs agenda even from the commentators during the game has become really annoying. I don't mind Spurs, I just don't like having it rammed down my throat how special and deserving of praise they are...when they win something, praise them, not just because they turn up. No other team in the top 6 could lose a cup semi 4-2, and at the end of the game they're getting more praise/sympathy than the winners. If you concede 4 goals against the team top of the league, you will lose. There's nothing unlucky about that.
Also the Spurs fans at work have turned into idiots this season. They genuinely think they have a better team than Chelsea and have just been unlucky all season. Spurs are a good side but Chelsea have better players, quite easily. Spurs have done really well to be near them and that I suspect is mostly down to the manager.
I along with other fellow Chelsea supporters know Mourinho much better than most United fans, for obvious reasons. He's not doing anything new or original. I don't feel any bitterness towards him managing MU and I wouldn't be surprised if he wins a few trophies with the club, given his pedigree and huge financial resources at his disposal. But it's a well-known fact that Murinho's Chelsea were criticized constantly for being too pragmatic and dull, too defensive oriented. It was 'boring boring Chelsea'. Conte's Chelsea is a counter attacking team, but it's more adventurous than Mourinho's version ever was, and in his first stint at CFC Jose had the best and the deepest squad in terms of talent in the club's history.
In fairness though, if you put Mourinho's Chelsea side up against Conte's, I reckon Mourinho's would spank them. Better players, better organised, and better mentally, for me. Mourinho's Chelsea would never turn up at Old Trafford and roll over the way that happened the other week.
They also had to compete against Arsenal's invincibles, and a United team with the likes of Scholes, Giggs, Ronaldo, Rooney, Rio etc..whilst also going for the Champions League against top European teams. Conte's Chelsea has to compete with Harry Kane.
I don't really think there's any fair comparison to be honest.
Also, I'm not saying it is all Chelsea fans, but the ones I know, it is amusing how much their opinions of what Mourinho did have changed. Not sure if it's purely due to joining United, or more to do with his awful last season, but all of a suddent Mourinho "was always rubbish at that" or "never was any good at x"...you'd never had heard any of this before last season. Instead, you'd get nonsense like "every single thing Jose says is always correct"
Football fans are fickle idiots and I don't think it changes much from one club to another. United fans with Jose are a pretty good example of that too. A lot do seem to get angry at him doing exactly the same things he always did at Chelsea (and every other club), as if it some massive surprise...but it's not because they think he's out of order, it's because we'll have drawn 0-0 with West Brom a few days before.
