We had the fortune though we weren’t too brave. Essien took full advantage of a lucky rebound and scored his second goal in two matches. We managed to hold on to the lead after surviving a nervous second half. It was a very poor performance but a good result.
I’m more than convinced that SWP should go; rather should have gone. Another forgettable match for Anelka. The 4-3-3 formation sounds like a very attacking formation but players are not able to play an attacking game. We’re slightly improving. No own goals this time, just an honourable rebound. Once again, it was not a champions performance. Out of the 35 matches in this league, not even in three or four matches we played like champions. We simply don’t deserve this title or the tag ‘champions of England’. No way.
May be Avram thought this was such a boring match and tried to lighten up things a bit. This post match interview by Avram is a better thing to publish than a match reaction. Read this. Hilarious!
A deserved win Avram?
Yes.
What particularly pleased you about the performance?
I’m pleased.
What in particular pleased you?
(after an eight second delay) I don’t know.
Is it a relief to win here?
Yes.
You seem lost for words by the performance. Are you more satisfied with the performance or the victory?
Both.
You seem distracted. Do you have a problem?
No problem.
Is there an issue?
No. I’m ok. I have nothing to say.
Do you have a message for the Chelsea fans?
You represent the Chelsea fans?
They must believe you are still in the title race, do you have a message for them?
No message.
Does this result mean you are back in it now?
I don’t know.
How many steps have you climbed to undertake this press conference?
I don’t know.
You seem less voluble than usual. Is it because of Sky TV moving the game to a Thursday?
Maybe it’s because of you. I don’t know. I am ok.
You are saying that you don’t know if you are still in the title race?
No.
Is it easier to say nothing Avram?
I don’t what to answer. It is a good question. I don’t know what to answer.
Is this because of Sky?
No. Sky is ok. I enjoy watching them.
Is it a protest against newspapers?
No. Why?
Why else would you come in and refuse to answer our questions?
I answer every question.
You are two points behind Manchester United and you don’t know if you are still in the title race?
No.
Have you told the players that you don’t know if you are back in the title race?
What I tell the players is something else. You want me to tell you what I say to the players?
We just want you to answer the question really. Are you in the title race?
I don’t know.
Would you not like to gain some positive publicity for the result rather than this bizarre silence?
I’m sorry. You can write whatever you want and I can answer what I want.
Do you feel under pressure to deliver a trophy. Is that the reason for the monosyllabic answers?
No.
Are you upset? Do you feel you have been misrepresented?
Maybe I have said because it is a bad season.
Did Michael Essien faint?
He had some problems, but he is ok.
Michael Ballack?
Injured.
What’s his problem?
Ask the doctor.
He’s not here Avram.
Well call him then.
Have you ever played the yes/no game Avram?
…..
Chelsea Press Officer: “This is going nowhere. Let’s end this”
That’s it. I don’t know what happened to Avram. He’s behaving like a 5 year old. For all the press coverage that Chelsea establishment did not like, the embarrassment churned out by Avram is much harder to manage for Chelsea now. The above responses are completely out of order. If he is not happy with the press, he could have told them and walked away. This interview is a massive blunder by Avram. He is never going to earn the respect of the English press anymore.
Read this article on ESPN Soccernet. In one line, the reporter writes “Journalists laughed with Mourinho. They laugh at Grant.” which pretty much sums up what they feel about Grant. The excerpts below:
Perhaps Jose Mourinho talked too much for his own good. This was the night Avram Grant said too little and, in the process, did too much to his chances of maintaining the job few believe he merits. In a bizarre press conference, he contrived to undermine his own position with a remarkable sequence of non-committal, unhelpful and at times inaudible answers.
Strangest of all, he contrived to insist that he didn’t know if Chelsea – two points behind Manchester United – were still in the title race. This was Avram Grump, unhappy but ineloquent and refusing to reply precisely why. Grant has had his monosyllabic and mumbling tendencies before, but this was a deliberate ploy, though quite what it achieved only he knows. And were he asked, he would presumably respond: ‘I don’t know.’ His were the actions of a man seemingly struggling to cope, cracking in the limelight and ultimately, perhaps, signing his own P45.
‘I have nothing to say,’ he said at one point. In which case, why appear at all? Some may question – perhaps legitimately – what purpose press conferences serve. But they affect public perception and can act as a conduit to the supporters. When asked if he had a message to the Chelsea fans, Grant replied: ‘No message.’ What, they might have wanted to know, pleased him most with his side’s performance. ‘I don’t know,’ came the response.
‘You can write whatever you want,’ he murmured at one stage, echoing one of Steve McClaren’s less well-advised answers. The verdicts are likely to be damning, even from his diminishing band of advocates. The last time Grant came to Goodison Park he muttered something about Albert Einstein that bemused his listeners.
This was still stranger, a five-minute, 39-second exercise in obfuscation and miscommunication that suggested his unsuitability for his role. It appeared a protest against something though he insisted (briefly) not the television company that had the game rescheduled tonight or the newspapers that have criticised him. It seemed a display of petulance. Perhaps, for once, Carlo Ancelotti, Frank Rijkaard, Michael Laudrup, Guus Hiddink and Roberto Mancini would have struggled to emulate Grant. Maybe he managed something his predecessor couldn’t.
But journalists laughed with Mourinho. They laugh at Grant. So, too, will a more widespread audience. Transcripts will be circulated and they make him appear ridiculous. His tour de farce culminated in the question: ‘Have you ever played the yes or no game, Avram?’ There was no reply. It signified a complete breakdown of relations between him and the press. Whether or not a similar situation exists with his players, they contrived to beat a below-par Everton.
Such an embarrassment. He has only himself to blame.
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cmon tis keeps us in the title race, we need man utd to slip up to blckburn and you never know what will happen because SAF will rest players for cl against barca
Very poor performance from all the players except essien, carvalho and mikel.
The only thing SWP did in the game was to make a mistake which funnily led to the only goal. That dwarf has to go. Anelka was poor as usual, i didn’t even see him kick the ball in the second half. Jcole was good in the first half but flopped in the second, kalou was poor and so was the rest of the team.
I see no reason why we should have anelka ( a 15 million pounds player) who can’t shoot the ball for the whole 90 minutes. I’m not even begging him to score but to shoot the ball. I think he’s just an overrated player and i have no doubts that sheva would have scored today if he started the game.
My 5 year old sister (who is a die hard chelsea fan) reminded me in the 93rd minute that Sheva will soon come on; that says how much damage Grant has done to his career, did we buy a player for 30 million pounds to play 30 seconds? ( that’s a million pound for each second he plays…lol)
All our matches since september can easily contest for the worst match of the season; the commentator said at one point that he can’t believe Grant still talks about attractive football cuz this was one boring match. I believe we were more attractive under mourinho than Ram Rant even though i’m not a mourinho fan.
Verict: Ram Rant has clearly proved to us that he is not fit to be hear next season so he should be sacked as soon as we lose to liverpool at Anfeld……. or does anyone think we can win with theses stupid performances?
Congrats Michael Essien.
He deserves a bonus.
Bad performance, good result.
Have a laugh…. Avram’s in charge!!!
HUGHESY DO YOUR JOB
HUGHESY HUGHESY DO YOUR JOB
HUGHESY DO YOUR JOB
The title has gone…. forget about the title. Concentrate on next Tuesday when we go to the Red side of Stanley Park!!!
We get three points and Sky got what they deserved.
Essien keeps Chelsea’s title dream alive!! he did it monday but we failed to hold our lead we would have been right up there with man u now ….just football i guess!
Essien must not be left out of ur mid field.. Mikel is also a great player!!!
come on chelsea…
Manu ur move…….!
bad display but i think mikel and essien deserve praise as they ran the show in first half. hope bently can cruise through united vooooommmm….
Once again I wondered why we are not able to kill the game even from the fourth or fifth counter-attack in the row. It seems to me that the players just run as fast as they can, one of them has the ball… and that is all that happens until the man with the ball is eventually stopped by a defender. No pass to free areas, no movement from other players except a dull run forvard. Just once Malouda did a good run to the space between central defenders, but was not able to receive a pass correctly. Avram should practice it, sooner than players forget entirely what they learned so precisely during Jose era.
Also a change JC – Make was strange. Is it really necessary to play 2 defensive midfielders, when we want to hold on the ball? Is Make of any use when an opponent plays long high balls to the penalty area? I cannot understand why Ballack was not even on the bench; he could have helped much more.
Final minutes – simply kicking the ball as far and high as possible. This is not the best way how to control the game, however Avram can be satisfied. We saved only a couple of seconds before another dangerous long ball went to the area again. It is really better to have the ball and do some passes before leaving it to the opponent
But we have points and that is what counts. Lets give Avram some peace… for now
ballack had a training ground injury
i excpect the side for united to be like this:
—————Cech—————
–Feriera–Terry–Carvalho–Cole–
————Makelele————–
——Essien———Lampard——
—J.Cole——————Kalou–
————-Drogba—————
We need drogba for this, And maka for experience, ferriera has owned ronaldo in previous seasons so lets play him, portugese vs portugese. Hope lampard is back in time for this game. This is must win, well all our games are but this one is biger because we can reduce the gap to 2 if united win at blackburn.
Well dont take me wrong i am blue thru n thru but it will a travesty if Chelsea
wins anything this year with the type of “sexy attacking football” that AG claims.
It only shows that money alone doesnt buy titles, I am trying to recall any period in the “past” and “before” when chelsea played this unconvincingly.
Ao Anelka an above average player, a confirmed goal scorer where ever he has played, even in Bolton,
since arriving at chelsea and being manager by AG, just looks a very very ordinary player, as he forgot how to play and create chances?
Well 3 points in the bag, but if RA can not see the type of football chelsea plays under this puppet, then there is not much hope. I am amazed at some fans, when saying that we should analyse AG in one full season.
Nope not in my book, he AG, has had 3/4 of the season under his management and the only thing he has managed so far, is to destroy a squad full of very very good internationals, it seems that it doesnt matter if he plays the top players or the reserves, if I can call those players reserves, there is no flame, no pattern of play,no desire to win, complete desinterest, unbelievable.
Well now the excuse is that this is JM players, but damn it JM inherit Ranieri’s squad with 3 extra buys and gel the players from day 1 and won the title, playing and demolishing the opposition.
Well 1-0 and 3 points against a depleted Everton, that latelly looks mor and mor a 6th place team then a 5th, can’t recall everton g/keeper saving a difficult shot.
Now lets get liverpool for the CL a team in disaray and turmoil, if this time it isnt the best time to play Liver I dont know when it is.
What a circus, but after all “its football”
What a toad, well no season ticket or merchandise whilst this monkfish is still there.
sorry for the typos
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/n…..mp;cc=3888
Guys go there and read this, LOL what a clown.
i was one of many who felt anelka could form a fearsome partnership with drogba, unfortunately, grant is not tactical enough to know how. the match with arsenal showed how allowing lampard drogba and anelka to play closely causes problems.
Something about chelsea’s style of play causing problems? no, its the manager, anelka played brilliantly under lesser premier league teams when he had the freedom to play, chelsea does not suit his style at all. I was dissapointed with anelka as our signing, berbatov would have done alot more for us at chelsea, would have won the carling cup for starters.
2 goals in 19 starts for anelka. 7 goals in 27 starts for chelsea till last year for Kalou. Isn’t Sheva better than them ?
Sheva’s problem is the 30 MM tag that comes along and is expected to score every game ..
Can’t we find even one striker who can score. Franco Di Santos would have better today .
With so much talk about immigration, I wonder who gave this monkfish the work permit.
With the Australian “points system” I dont think he couls managea tean in OZ land.
lol that was the funniest press conference i’ve ever listened to. toad has certainly lost it. chelsea fc must be embarrassed to have a manager like toad. how can he be such an arrogant prick? i hate him completely. i hate avram grant the person.
did you guys notice that PA announcement ‘avram is sleeping. avram grant has woken up and wants to know the score’. lol. he is a fecking clown. everyone is making fun of him, laughing at him.
thanks for Essien he did very good jop and he awalys good player keep chelsea title !!!!!!!!!!!
Grant has gone mad…
Quite impressive first half performance…rarely Chelsea move ball with so ease and pace and that too at a tough place like Goodison…but then came break after which we didn’t turn up..I really can’t understand what happens to team and that too after supposedly energy boosting break…players just stop playing…same midfield which was running the show in first half goes crapper in second half…
but 2 points to make…first, Esien is untouchable as I have already mentioned several times..second,going by first half performance of midfield, its quite right to say that our midifeld is better off without those two laggards Lampard and Ballack…they just make our midifeld immobile, no movement, no tackling, just crap…
and I am quite happy with Anelka’s performance…he is not a poacher..he contributes to buildup unlike Drogba who can only shoot…we just need to add one or two young skilled MFs and we will be lethal….
Tis a pity that even when we get a good win with a whatever kind of performance ,the manager shows his true worth at the press conference and manages to embarass us , the fans with his bumbling- mumbling.
i cant wait till the end of the season to see if this jerk would be bounced out of CFC or would be given 100million pounds to shop for players….i hate this dude with a passion and i wish i could just shoot his brains out…lol….
i would pick anyone above this guy to coach chelsea…even my grandmother would do better…i hope the buzz about rikarrd is true
@BC
The interview was funny yet embarrasing…………i guess roman told him before the match that his fate has been decided
@BC
Oh c’mon man,the interview is funny and majority percieve it as avram’s way of protesting against fixture congestion……………..do you really give a sh*t what he has to say?????????
i m not at all defending grant but
*“Journalists laughed with Mourinho. They laugh at Grant.”
jose was the most laughed at manager with his super idiotic and stupid press-conference which only jose lovers appreciate.
@BC
This interview just proved that in 99% of case………….he is off in summer.
@BC
jose was the most laughed at manager with his super idiotic and stupid press-conference which only jose lovers appreciate.
SORRY I Forgot to add journalists………journalists always look for people who can fill their papers with something scandalous,stupid or pure idiotic notions…………..[no wonder rakhi sawant is that much in news]
TBF – JM was/is the held by the journalists at very high esteem. See what that article says. it was not written by BC. it was published by espn soccernet. it is the journalists who are saying that ‘they laughed with mourinho and they are laughing at grant’.
you have very little knowledge about football TBF. so who are you supporting this week? chelsea? avram grant? be open.
Chelsea FC is so embarrassed that they have not talked about this. normally after every match there will be a article called ‘match reaction’ in the official website, which talks only about the post match reactions of avram grant. that’s missing today.
@Arthur
Read post 27………………..who m i supporting?????????
let’s say i m not supporting mourinho………does that answer ur question………
And yes mighty arthur you are full up to brim with footy knowledge caus u love jose and i don’t love jose so obviously i’m supposed to lack the knowledge……..
for 100th time please come up with better points then “you lack footy knowledge etc and who are u supporting”
TBF – be surprised to know. i don’t like jose too. i love gullit. he is the best. and we all know you love avram grant. AG does not know football and he shows it with his actions and words and that’s the same with you.
really, i want to know who you’re supporting this week?
in a way TBF, you’re also like Avram Grant. no steady mind. you don’t surely know what stance you need to take. if i read your posts 24 and 25, you contradict yourself as your moods and opinions change so soon.
hey now it’s not me. tony cascarino says this:
“Yet Chelsea are second in the table, which shows the quality of the squad. If you tried to name the top 80 players in Europe, Chelsea would have about 15. It is not about talent but attitude. The squad is trying, but there is not that scent of success you could smell at Stamford Bridge during José Mourinho’s reign. There is an edge lacking, which is the difference between finishing first and second. And second, for Chelsea, is failure. The dominant emotion is not belief or confidence, but frustration. It comes from a sense of confusion felt from players to fans.”
Chelsea should try to beat SAF’s “best ever side”.
If Alex is still around five years from now, we’ll probably hear the same story?
Blah, blah, blah …
WHY CANT WE WIN A MATCH PROPERLY????
MAN UTD WIN BY AT 2 LEAST GOALS A GAME AND ARSENAL WIN WITH AT LEAST 2 GOALS A GAME!!!
WHY DO WE HAVE TO PUT A BAD PERFORMANCE AND WIN BY ONLY 1? CHELSEA HAVE ONLY PLAYED 3 OR 4 GAMES THIS SEASON WHERE THEY REALLY DESERVED TO WIN!!!
IM GETTING SICK OF OUR BAD PERFORMANCES AND I REALLY WANT US TO LOSE THE PREMIERSHIP SO THAT RIJKAARD CAN COME IN AND BE OUR MANAGER – AT LEAT HE CAN MOTIVATE PLAYERS!!!!!
grant is not able to motivate his players let steve clark motivate players grant is not all required at all sack grant just after cl final if we make it grant must go get a frank raikard who knows how cl is won and how to win leagues
grant is not able to motivate his players let steve clark motivate players grant is not all required at all sack grant just after cl final if we make it grant must go get a frank raikard who knows how cl is won and how to win leagues also players have scored 78 pts and in cl semis not grant management
did you guys see that no one celebrated the goal except essien in such a crucial match???
Well, if that interview really happened, why did Grant give a good interview on the same day to BBC? Does anybody have an idea?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/7319619.stm
Have you guys noticed that everytime Chelsea scores, almost instantly Steve, and others in the bench, jump to celebrate the goal.
But good Toad takes about 10 seconds to react, some one has mentioned that the man may suffer Alzheirmers disease i may agree.
Lets hope that RA sees sense and finds AG a position to place the cones at the training ground.
This press conference is absolutely the most comical thing I’ve read abput since I’ve been watching football!!!
Im not gonna criticise Grant…poor dude….
Anyway Im still laughing!!
LLLLLL OOOOOOOOO LLLLLLLLLL
Poor game from Everton and a not much better performance from us but we were the better side and deserved the 3 points.
Grant did himself no favours with the silly interview afterwards, he is already very unpopular and unloved by the media and this will not help his cause – his newly hired PR guru should have had a word with him beforehand.
Essien is bailing us out at the moment with his goals.
As for Jose being ridiculed by the media for his commentsTBF, I’m not sure where you’ve been for the last three years or so – obviously not listening and reading to the media who generally despite the odd spat here and there between Jose and themselves recognised Jose for what he was – one of the world’s best coaches and treated him with the respect he deserved.
Like they do Fergie, Wenger and Benitez.
One final thing, we need to play better than this to beat Man Utd and Liverpool.
This team seems drained of energy, spirit and life force – and I put that down partly to the end of the season but more due to the manager sitting sullen faced and lifeless on the bench.
This game was terrible. In a game important for both sides, both played as though they were tired, confused or thinking of something else. Anyone who says The Toad is a manager has a hidden agenda. The man isn’t old enough to have Alzheimer’s (though he looks about 72, now 52); anyone remember Christian Grosse? At the end he behaved a bit like The Toad is behaving now.
I think AG is drained , tired , at the end of his wits abt what to do next ,beseiged from all sides, met with blank faces and sullen smiles and confused banter about winning something from the players and staff, you know just holding on to the seat of the roller-coaster as best he can .
And the only reason he can hang on is because of RA’s unconditional love and support.
I can understand his reactions and behaviour as a person to the immense pressure from fans and media .
But as a football coach, he is sadly lacking.
Bella comment number 41
Everton 0-1 Chelsea Grant’s Gone Crazy
18 April 2008 11:09pm
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Poor game from Everton and a not much better performance from us but we were the better side and deserved the 3 points.
Grant did himself no favours with the silly interview afterwards, he is already very unpopular and unloved by the media and this will not help his cause – his newly hired PR guru should have had a word with him beforehand.
Essien is bailing us out at the moment with his goals.
As for Jose being ridiculed by the media for his commentsTBF, I’m not sure where you’ve been for the last three years or so – obviously not listening and reading to the media who generally despite the odd spat here and there between Jose and themselves recognised Jose for what he was – one of the world’s best coaches and treated him with the respect he deserved.
Like they do Fergie, Wenger and Benitez.
One final thing, we need to play better than this to beat Man Utd and Liverpool.
This team seems drained of energy, spirit and life force – and I put that down partly to the end of the season but more due to the manager sitting sullen faced and lifeless on the bench.
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“Poor game from Everton and a not much better performance from us but we were the better side and deserved the 3 points.”
- Only saw the last fifteen minutes so I’m not in a position to comment on the match.
“Grant did himself no favours with the silly interview afterwards, he is already very unpopular and unloved by the media and this will not help his cause – his newly hired PR guru should have had a word with him beforehand.”
- Correct.
“Essien is bailing us out at the moment with his goals.”
- Incorrect.Should’nt a £24m midfield player be scoring on a consistent basis. Please take a look at some of Michael Essien’s statistics. Have a look at what our £24m black star has been doing on the pitch, besides sleeping?
Career of Michael Essien Season Club Championship European Competitions Caps
00-01 Bastia 1 Goals, 13 Games (-)
01-02 Bastia 4 Goals, 24 Games (-) 2 Games
02-03 Bastia 6 Goals, 29 Games (-)
03-04 Lyon 3 Goals, 34 Games 8 Games (Champions League)
04-05 Lyon 4 Goals, 37 Games 5 Goals, 10 Games (Champions League)
05-06 Chelsea 2 Goals, 31 Games 6 Games (Champions League)
06-07 Chelsea 2 Goals, 33 Games 2 Goals, 10 Games (Champions League)
07-08 Chelsea 6 Goals, 24 Games 10 Games (Champions League)
- OK. So Michael Essien doesn’t socre alot of goals, so I bet he makes up for that by setting up goals for his team mates, right?
Season Appearances Games started Used as sub. Assists Assists/game
06/07 3 33 0 3 0.09
- Just three assists in the Premiership 2006-2007 season in thirty-three matches?
- No.
Chelseafc.com
CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB OFFICIAL SITE
“The 24-year old added to a memorable and varied second season at the club by collecting both of the honours voted on by supporters.”
- The Chelsea supporters are basically …
- The Chelsea supporters are basically …
- The Chelsea supporters are basically …
“As for Jose being ridiculed by the media for his commentsTBF, I’m not sure where you’ve been for the last three years or so – obviously not listening and reading to the media who generally despite the odd spat here and there between Jose and themselves recognised Jose for what he was – one of the world’s best coaches and treated him with the respect he deserved.”
- Jose won honours for the club, this is undisputed. But as far as “…treated him with the respect he deserved.”
- What repsect does Jose deserve, for being an arrogant man. Let me put it this way so that you may understand.
- What kind of adult male walks around telling everyone he meets that he is the “special one”?
“Like they do Fergie, Wenger and Benitez.”
- Basically the media …
- Basically the media …
- Basically the media …
“One final thing, we need to play better than this to beat Man Utd and Liverpool.”
- Correct.
“This team seems drained of energy, spirit and life force – and I put that down partly to the end of the season but more due to the manager sitting sullen faced and lifeless on the bench.”
- The goalkeeper, defenders, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba should be drained of energy, spirit and life force.
Finally, what has the rest of the team done?
People
Sorry guys about the statistics, while I’ll typed it out it looked perfect and sent shivers down my spine. But when I the submit button it basically came out rubbish?
But the statistics are shocking!
Instead I’ll spell it out for you, so that you may understand.
Thirty-three appearances and basically only two goals and only three assits.
I know that some of the games he played as a defender.
Hey, Michael Essien deserves to be the 2007 Player of the Year?
People
I can’t even spell the word assist.
Embarassing?
But as embarassing as the employees (idiots) who buy these players at ridiculous amounts of money?
OK.
Next time I’ll read what I’ve written first before I push that submit button to avoid spelling and grammer mistakes.
@45. Pensioner
You and your statistcs so ooved by someone else… byt the name of israeli.
Well well pensioner, Bella’s cooment was sopt on, I will only comment on one thing.
—-” What repsect does Jose deserve, for being an arrogant man. Let me put it this way so that you may understand.
- What kind of adult male walks around telling everyone he meets that he is the “special one”?—-
Who are you to say that every adult JM met, he said he was the “special one”???
He may sound arrogant dealing with the press,in order to stop the press from paying attention to the p[layers, so they could train and perform without pressure. However JM was one of the most polite,and cordial persons I have ever seen and met , and I tell you WHY, because when he used to leave in London near Grosvenor Sq., he used to go to a Portuguese Restaurant called ” O Fado” in Beauchamp Place, London, a 10 minutes walk from his house, usually he used to go there on Mondays and his schedule permitting, and it is a restaurant i frequent for many years for the simple reason i like their fish dishes, because I can speak his language and he found it strange that foreigners could speak Portuguese so fluent, from time to time he gave me his time, for me was good because I could practice.
Sometimes he used to go with his wife, but most of the times used to go with his own coaching team, and used to take the big table near the bar and the TV set so he could listen to the portuguese sports channel (Sport TV).
The times I saw him there never ever I heard him being arrogant, or undermining his other colleagues in fact and I can vow for that, he only spoke good of all the other big 3 managers, so arrogance may have been shown when interviewed, but never in private.
This also goes for the players that go there almost every week when they are off, particularly Paulo that even celebrates his birthday in ther 2 years running.
As you must understand when football players frequent a place, people talk and only talk about football, so to speak you hear it from the horse’s mouth.
The only time I have seen arrongance being displayed by a Chelsea manager, was in the last chelsea v Wigan, where an extremelly mediocre manager,AG, fielded a weak team, underestimating Wigan team and his manager,Bruce.
That I call arrogance, pensioner, at this stage of the season to try to denigrate the opposition,by fielding a weaker team, particularly when the opposition is fighting relegation, is not ONLY arrogance but also a LACK of IQ at least in football terms.
Although I respect your opinion, I believe you are complete wrong, in this matter.
Regarding the press conference after the Everton game, if you can call that a conference, AG just showed is inability to deal with the press, lets face it journalists make you and break you, first they lay the red carpet and then they pull it out, what a chance AG had to shut them up, after all they were doing their job as AG tells us that he does his.
You want to talk about arrogancy?? the poor AG doesnt have the intelligence to be arrogant, you know why pensioner?? because he knows he is not FIT for the job it was GIVEN to him, he knows that only thru frienship, and undermining and backstabbing JM he got promoted, yes this is arrongancy at the lawest level.
I suggest you read a blog by Anthony in the chelseablog, someone knows what happens in SB.
To finish this “palaver” JM would have cherish an opportunity like AG had with the journalist, but as we all know the AG is very short on any comparison with JM.
Well done Bella a good opinion.
ooved=loved
sorry for the typos
leave should read live