charlalottie wrote:What a thing to wake up to. I am absolutely gutted, obviously from a Chelsea point of view, its been lovely to have season where we can go into matches against Man Utd and Arsenal and think well we can beat them not maybe beat them and despite the many comments people have made about the only reason he's been as successful as he has was because of the money he had available, I still believe there is no denying that he was the Special One and he will be sorely missed. The premiership is going to be a lot duller without him.
I'm sorry but "special one" my hairy arse. Tactically he wasn't anything much - when behind he often relied on moving a big defender up front and hoofing the ball at them (the various semis against Liverpool are good examples of that). The two championships were just as much to do with Utd and Arsenal dropping the ball than some managerial genius on his part. And Yudster's got it spot on about the "less interesting" cobblers that's being churned out by the media.
As for his replacement, it reeks of Abramovich appointing yes men. This is all going to end up like Moratti at Inter. A series of short term managers forced to play the owner's favourites and bend the team to accommodate players foisted upon him, then sacked after a couple of months when things inevitably go tits up.
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