Fair do's ...

... Chelsea haven't brought through many of the English players themselves (there are as many products of Arsenal's youth system in the current England squad as Chelsea's) so that doesn't bother me too much.

Mourinho I find loathsome - I enjoyed his persona when he first arrived, then I found it quickly dissolved into self-parody and unjustified arrogance.

Shevchenko's a very talented player who's not delivered - there are individual players in the Chelsea squad I like but they're subjugated into the sort of system I'd expect a senior member of a Fascist organisation to devise if he were managing a football team.

Offset that against the foreign ownership, the involvement of Peter Kenyon, the tactic of paying ludicrous amounts for players they don't really want just to stop competitors having them and the presence of Arjen Robben and that makes (for me) a team I could only wish failure upon.

Posted By: Ottosson Foxtrot, Apr 10, 22:06:52