I'll post it here as the thought of red makes me puke on it's own. (Re ANOTHER stupid discussion going on in Scousers' thread).
When Jose came, he was clear about the aims we had at the start of season, which was to build a team for next year and then challenge on all fronts. That's why he always said City are favorites. I doubt it was anything like "mind games", you'll definitely not see him say that next season.
Was it a disappointing season for Chelsea? No. It was improvement. Was it a successful season? No, we aren't Arsenal to celebrate 3rd place finish. One could say we finished just about where we did last season so that's no improvement and Benitez wasn't horrible for us, now I'll address that.
We have young players, who with every year will improve and get more consistent. There has been tactical development, or so it was aimed although Jose reverted back to his good old tried and tested tactics after we shipped 7 goals in 3 consecutive games. (Sunderland 3-4 Win and Stoke 3-2 loss). There's no need to compare our season with Liverpool who have outdone everyone's expectations and it's good for them.
The reason why Chelsea fans are laughing at them bottling the title(despite bottling it themselves at one stage) is because of the hoo-haa going in media regarding Liverpool and Gerrard and how they deserve to win the title. It's also the barren spell and many largely don't expect Liverpool to challenge to this extent (not my opinion) and while we expect Chelsea to challenge even more so next season. Add to that the fact that Liverpool fans are so up their ****.
Why the neutrals are rooting for Liverpool
I know two Sunderland fans who said that their win was slightly marred by the fact that they might have just helped Liverpool win the title. (An answer to United fans judging the hatred of Chelsea fans despite them having more bitter and longer rivalry).
I'm sick of reading the same bullshit again and again and the comments of Chelsea fans on this forum have been taken out of context bajillion times now. None of us is "celebrating" this season, we just aren't disappointed because we, who follow the team constantly can see the evolution. Which isn't as much visible on stats sheet. And this evolution was what we needed along with managerial stability which has hurt us quite a lot.
Now regarding "Mourinho is ******* stupid, parks the bus yet Chelsea fans are so up his **** that they drool over whatever he does and says." and the main issue is his complaining about his strikers while Lukaku is scoring a good amount of goals at Everton.
There's something called tactical system, you know. Jose got Eto'o as makeshift striker as his pursuit of Rooney was unsuccessful (A striker with technical ability to play in tight spaces and link up, with off the ball movement to create space for AMs to score as well). Lukaku isn't that, that's why Torres started above him despite being 1/10th the player. Lukaku thought he'd be 3rd choice behind Eto'o and Torres so he asked to leave. This tactical reason is why Ba, who is better finisher than current Eto'o who always takes THAT one extra touch and Torres, hasn't played all that much.
