“Ruud Gullit once said that he wanted people to hate Chelsea. He said that teams become popular when they're underachievers, that teams become hated when they're feared and that they become feared when they're successful. In other words, the degree of hatred that people aim at us is a reflection of our success. When people come on to this website and say that we're lucky, we're buying the title, we have no history or pedigree and that RA will disappear in a couple of years, it's music to my ears, because it's them acknowledging that they fear us and that we're successful.”
— 606 messageboard poster, RussianBlue.
Of course, most of the talk is fueled by the media– in fact, other FC fans in the UK are quite happy with our recent accomplishment… Any press is good, I suppose!
And now, for our boys in Blue: Ferreira and Drogba with the League Cup:
