Bantering with friends is very different to addressing people who do not know where you are coming from.
Because he is doing what he thinks is best for the people that give him 80 grand a week? Doing as he is told? Come on mate, if Vlad the Impaler was their best player they would circle the wagons around him too.
To be fair, after the past couple of days I could quite easily not think about football until next season. I honestly couldn't give a flying **** about the Euros. Well, I might watch a couple of games....
Hey, guys! This is going to be the biggest intrigue over the Summer, for us neutrals. Whilst it is currently all cosy-cosy in the Chav camp, what with them having finally fluked the CL trophy, a real dilemma now faces the mad Russian owner. It was patently evident that, with the appointment last Summer of AVB he showed a blatant intention of clearing out the "Dad's Army" element in the Chelsea dressing room (John "lynch him, he's black!" Terry, Fat Frank, Drogba, etc). But that went all tits-up due to a mixture of (a) the Chelsea old-guard cottoning on pretty quickly what was happening and closing ranks (as they have done before), (b) the mad Russian's failure to back his man openly (in fact, he ended up turning on him like a Kremlin mole), and (c) AVB's utter incompetence. Rather than bravely stand toe-to-toe with JT and Fat Frank and remind them who runs his club, he chose, instead, to blame it all on AVB. He was sacked, and having no real time to appoint a new manager, the Russian lazily appointed AVB's No.2 in his place, as a holding measure. After all, there was unfinished business to attend to (ie. the removal of John "where's my hood" Terry and the Frank "mmm! this pizza looks tasty" Lampo). What the mad Ruski obviously failed to foresee was the fact that the No.2 would do so well, handing the Russian what (according to the press) he had always craved - the CL trophy. RDM achieved his success because he reversed AVB's tactics (ones that had been formulated for him by the mad Russian) of getting rid of the Dad's Army element in the camp, and brought the old-guard back into the picture, using their loyalty and desperation to stay on for as long as possible as his weapons to ride the luck that then followed. And we can be in no doubt that, despite the win, even the mad Russian will have seen that Chelsea achieved what they did, not through any great skill or tactical genius on the part of RDM, but as a result of sheer and utter outrageous luck. Napoleon famously said that "it is better to be lucky than it is to be good," but everyone seems to forget that his luck ran out spectacularly at Waterloo. A good general is always good, a lucky one not so. Be under no illusion that this fact will not be lost on the mad Russian. He did not make his billions by being stupid. He will know that, at some point, RDM's luck will run out, and then what will he be left with? I will tell you what he will be left with: a manager whose great achievement before the Chelsea job was to get sacked by West Brom, a manager who isn't really the Chelsea boss but in reality the "best mate" of those really running CFC (and we all know how John "roaster" Terry treats his best mates), and a dressing room full of Dad's Army extras. The mad dog Russian will be just about as far removed from running his club, and as far removed from the glory as he could possibly be, and we all know what happens to even the best managers when that happens. The Special One is a prime example of that; when he became bigger than the club, the mad Russian air-brushed him from CFC history, like a Polit Bureau agitator. And that is the dilemma the oligarch faces. Confirm RDM as manager, and hand over control of the club to Frank "more chips with that, please!" Lampard and John "vote BNP" Terry; or get rid of RDM as he rides the crest of the greatest day in CFC's history, and announce to the world, "Yes, I want rid of the two players that the fans love more than me!" It's going to be very interesting to see how the Beast of Moscow resolves this one.
Brilliant fcuking post mate I agree on so many points The love in with Roberto cos he panders, a mate not a leader When Di Matteo has had to pick the team and set tactics, as in the 3 games before the CL they lost to Newcastle Liverpool and Wigan. Roman knows he has not got his man in RDM Champions league win was totally dependent on the opposition missing over 20 good chances in 3 games in semi and final It is also true that you can use probability to make your own luck too That's being good and lucky
I mean rant not post, brilliant rant mad Ruski = Crazy Ivan Crazy Ivan = Submariners know it as doing a dramatic turnaround Fits RA perfectly
More importantly, Di Matteo was in the team when Terry and Lampard were making their debuts - in other words, it's another example of the Old Boys Network that has far too much prominence in English football compared to the rest of the world.
Don't confuse low cunning and deviousness with madness. They're two entirely different things. Abramovich is the former, not the latter.
What a fantastic post. You are wasted on not606 mate! Totally agree with what you say. Would not surprised to see them win nothing next year if they keep RDM on. That luck can't last a whole season. The best I saw them play was (sadly!) the 6-1 against my team. QPR. I can't tell you how sick I was to see JT dressed in the kit (allegedly including his shinpads) trying to grab a part of that trophy as it was hoisted.
Just a little reminder just for you HIAG: - Chelsea 2012 FA cup winners Chelsea 2012 Champions of Europe Chelsea to enter the champions league 2012/13 season at the expense of Spurs. He who laughs last...
