With reference to your unusually incisive comment vis a vis the past season
of association football in general and Chelsea Football Club in particular, I
would like to state the following: A season which started so gloriously at Wembley against the northern pub
team, especially as that cunt Keane got sent off, collapsed faster than
petfood.com to propel us to 17th, before the great Luca had to go.... There
may be many arguments, but it is undoubtedly true that he missed the boat as
far as refreshing the team was concerned. If you look at the line up which won us
the Cup you will find two players under 30 - Baba and Melchiot. If you look at
the last game you will find four over 30 - Wise... Zola... Dessaily and Le
Saux. What was so appalling was the timing of the sacking... I thought
Luca lost it at Barca away last year and he should have gone in the summer.
To replace him after 5 games with somebody who didn't speak English and didn't
know our league without his own support staff was plainly incompetent. I can only assume that the season was written off there and then.... In the
mean time Pope Claudio the first has done remarkably well... We lost 4 out
of the last 19 and won 5 out of the last 6 on the road. Players like John
Terry, Sam Dalla Bona, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Mario Melchiot are all regulars
and finished as well as could have been expected considering the inept
management at the very top. if anybody has to go it has to be the managing
director....presumably he takes decisions... Bravo, K.
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Priesty's Chelsea FC Refuge.
Sir,
