You would never see something like that from Arsenal fans because they like us are real fans who actually feel emotion when their team wins and despair when the lose. Chelsea fans (of whom there were very few prior to 1996 which says it all) get no more excited about their soccer team than they do about Surrey Cricket Club or deciding what sandwich to bring for lunch to the Dixons or Currys they work at as computer geeks.

My point is don?t get worked up about the words of half-wits who probably would think Dixie Dean was a country singer and that Gary Lineker spent his whole career at White Hart Lane.

As already touched upon by toffeeweb, I cannot beleive that such a one sided piece of nonsense can be published on Chelsea's official site!

Chelsea's 'everybody hates us and we don't care' mentality is displayed at its worst by what this Giles Smith has to say. Yes Chelsea played very well and they should be proud, but to degrade Everton, a top 6 side that have already held Chelsea once at Stamford bridge this season and only lost due to a stoppage time calamity on Tuesday is disgusting in my view. Some of the stuff this guy writes is unbeleivable and I urge all Evertonians to read what he has to say. I for one have written to the Chelsea official club website to complain and I hope other blues will follow suit. We deserve better, even from a Chelsea fan!

Dear Giles

I read your piece on the Chelsea website regarding the midweek game with Everton this week with amazement. I have never read such a biased and frankly idiotic piece of sports writing in all my born days. Firstly, your suggestions for giving teams the choice of whether to play a second leg of a two legged semi-final are at best laughable. The first leg of this tie was played at Stamford Bridge and as such gave HOME advantage to Chelsea, so for your scheme to work there would have to be a neutral venue for the first leg. This of course would have an influence on the outcome of the game. Also, you suggest that this would be a good option where the outcome of the second game would be a formality, and seem to be suggesting that this is the case following a narrow away defeat for Everton which resulted from a fluke own goal. (If you can see far enough into the future to see the score could you let me know so I can put a bet on.)Everton are not the kind of team to roll over for anyone least of all a trumped up Millwall with money like Chelsea, and we are confident of getting a result at home against any side, even one that has spent £100 million more on players than ourselves.

You insult Everton and David Moyes in particular by suggesting that they would walk away from a semi-final tie for fear of being beaten. Someone has to lose in a semi-final, that's the whole point, but until the full 180 minutes are up then nobody has lost. You might well fall on your less than attractive face following the replay, but even if Chelsea do triumph it will not be a walkover and Everton FC will never lie down in any game, let alone a cup semi-final. Unfortunately, Everton will not bow out after 90 minutes, and you will have to go through the "tiresome formality" of playing another 90 minutes of football against a side that has exactly the same number of home wins in the league as Chelsea.

The "tiresome and hidebound" rules you speak of are the same for all the teams in the tournament and it sounds more like you are not relishing the prospect of having to travel up to Goodison Park and play against an attritional team that matched yours at 1-1 until a foul in the area from Shaun Wright-Phillips led to an OWN goal from Lescott. You also fail to mention that but for the foot of the post James McFadden would have given Everton a 2-1 lead in a game where they had a man advantage, which surely would have led to Chelsea pushing forward much more and leaving Chelsea's back line exposed to counter attacks.

I wonder if you were actually at the game? I was there and I saw a Chelsea team dominate despite losing Mikel to a red card that he probably didn't deserve - on that much I agree with you. But Everton did pile on pressure to good effect to pull level with a fine finish from Yakubu, and limited Chelsea to very few opportunities in the second half. The goal, as I mentioned above was an aberration by the otherwise heroic Joleon Lescott.

You finally state that you are "not sure what you are sure about" and this is the only part of your article that really made any sense.

See you at Goodison with your crystal ball 'Mystic Dick'.

Daniel Marfany

David, I don't know if this will reach you but this is an article from the official Chelsea site - hope you can use it to wind the lads up for the 2nd leg. Good luck, and hope you stuff them, Danny Broderick

I was delighted to get a reply shortly after saying ; Thanks for that Danny, David has seen it

Let?s just go for it on the 23rd January and thank you for taking the time to send an e mail through.

Regards

Sue Palmer

PA to the Manager

Hope he pins it up on the wall and the lads knock them out - it's all they deserve.

"I've just read the pathetic article on your website about last nightsmatch and am shocked at it's content, which ridicules Everton and putsChelsea across as a completely arrogant club. I'd expect to read such an article on a fanzine site but not on anofficial site. I'm not even going to go in to huge detail because you're not worth morethan this brief e-mail. All I'll say is, anyone can buy sucess which is all you've done. I'drather support a proper club with proper fans and roots. Half of yourfans don't even understand the rules and are middle/upper class yuppiescontent with being ripped off by your club. Have you compared Chelsea's honours list with Everton's? Well, you'll see that yours isn't a patch on Everton's. Where were you when you were shit?"

Chelsea Response

"Hi With regards to your email. Clearly the views in the article do not reflect those of Chelsea Football Club but should the article have caused offence among Everton fans then you have our apologies as that is certainly not the intention. Any article has to take into account the writer and Giles Smith is extremely well known as one of the most talented around. His style isbased on an off-beat and irreverent approach rather than causing offense. Kind regards, kayleigh