Weekend Football 17/10 to 19/10

[bodacious benny]

I think that Chelsea under Lampard are good to watch, but not in the way that he'd want

They're generally pretty open, have plenty of goals in them but are also pretty poor defensively so you usually get good action at both ends of the pitch. Not just this season, last season too.

Leeds are good to watch but maybe the defeat to Wolves might ease the press love-in a bit.

[krully]

I wish we were enjoyable to watch

[bodacious benny]

I wish we were enjoyable to watch

I missed the entertainers years, but early 2000s under Sir Bobby with Solano and Robert on the wings, Speed and Dyer in midfield and Shearer/Bellamy up-front was decent

Andy Griffin scoring the winner v Juventus, a 2-2 in the San Siro, Shearer hattrick against Leverkusen, that game against Feyenoord

Plenty of exciting league games too, remember a 4-3 win at Leeds when they were one of the top teams, beating Man U 4-3 at SJP with a Robert screamer, winning our first away game in London in a century away to an excellent Arsenal team (3-1 I think) - some great memories. Of course there were some awful performances too, but it was entertaining to watch us.

As someone said, if you're a young fan now what do you have to get excited about? Grinding out a 1-0 win against someone like Palace at home? We still pull off the odd upset like when we beat Man C 2-1 and that was amazing (more so for the drama rather than the excitement of us playing well) but the legacy of the Ashley era may well be a lost generation of fans who simply got bored of being bored...

[Sanchino]

I wish we were enjoyable to watch

I missed the entertainers years, but early 2000s under Sir Bobby with Solano and Robert on the wings, Speed and Dyer in midfield and Shearer/Bellamy up-front was decent

Andy Griffin scoring the winner v Juventus, a 2-2 in the San Siro, Shearer hattrick against Leverkusen, that game against Feyenoord

Plenty of exciting league games too, remember a 4-3 win at Leeds when they were one of the top teams, beating Man U 4-3 at SJP with a Robert screamer, winning our first away game in London in a century away to an excellent Arsenal team (3-1 I think) - some great memories. Of course there were some awful performances too, but it was entertaining to watch us.

As someone said, if you're a young fan now what do you have to get excited about? Grinding out a 1-0 win against someone like Palace at home? We still pull off the odd upset like when we beat Man C 2-1 and that was amazing (more so for the drama rather than the excitement of us playing well) but the legacy of the Ashley era may well be a lost generation of fans who simply got bored of being bored...

Brilliant post. We were exciting to watch & had some great results in the 2011/2012 too were we ended 5th.

[Colly]

There's swings and roundabouts to it though, for all the quality of the 90s supporters had to watch mainly second division football in the 80s. My first games were in the late 80s and were absolutely terrible. I'm not saying we don't deserve better, but even the top sides have crap periods.