Chelsea Fail Again

He claims to be ‘special’, but he betrays his deepest insecurities by constantly seeking to undermine and destabilise the opposition in order to deflect attention from his own deficiencies. He arrogantly dismisses arguably the most successful club in British football, a club with a distinguished history and rich traditions, as ‘little’ and mocks the achievements of their manager (which include a recent Champions League triumph) claiming that he would have been sacked for such a record. He prances and pontificates theatrically in the technical area. He has the most expensive squad ever assembled in football, yet blames every failure on injuries and injustice. He gets his strategy massively wrong in a major Champions League semi-final, depriving his midfield of its most successful and formidable player, Michael Essien, and deploying him as a centre back whose duties include marking a 6 feet 7 inch striker. And when it all goes horribly wrong and his side are eliminated in a dramatic penalty shoot-out, he insists in defiance of all the evidence that they were the better side and deserved to win.

Jose Mourinho has become an embarrassment. Despite the monumental investment of Roman Abramovic, Chelsea will not win the Champions League, they are extremely unlikely to retain their Premiership title (and they certainly don’t deserve to, since Manchester United have played by far the better football) and they may yet fail to win the F.A. Cup in the first final at the new Wembley. All of which means that, far from attaining the much trumpeted quadruple, they could be left with only the Carling Cup – and most people believe that it was Arsene Wenger’s young stars who deserved that.

So what do you do with a manager who underachieves on such a massive scale? The fact is that the Portuguese Man of Waffle has already provided the answer to that one. It is enshrined in his premature verdict upon the manager of Liverpool and by his own admission he leaves Roman Abramovic with no choice.