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I expected to see such articles today and for the rest of this week. We all know how the media absolutely LOVE a Chelsea meltdown and downfall. Many of them have articles written in drafts ready to post whenever something goes bad for Chelsea, and many of them are hoping and praying that Chelsea are transfer banned or deducted points after spending almost £1bn on new players.
But with all that said, I am afraid that most of the stuff written about Chelsea right now is hard to argue against. I know that many of them are thriving in our demise, but you just have to admit sometimes that the criticism is fully deserved.
Barney Ronay of The Guardian has written a somewhat sarcastic article today and I cannot help but admit I was entertained by reading it. It sums up my own feelings really, the fact that all I can do is laugh right now because it’s my best form of coping mechanism!
Ronay has described Chelsea’s squad as ‘human soup’ and all I could do was laugh, because he’s right!
‘Chelsea were so poor against Arsenal they seemed at times to be indulging in a kind of protest activity, non-sport, football as an act of extended standing around waiting for it to be over,’ Ronay wrote.
‘How unusual to win a game 5-0 in the final knockings of a title race and yet somehow it is the opposition who feel like the story here. This is how bad Chelsea were. Even the teamsheet had the feeling of end-times, leftovers, football in the post-apocalypse.
‘Mudryk-Madueke-Jackson-Gallagher. This is a strange human soup, disparate parts, human talent as amortised numbers. We are the stuffed men. We are the hollow men. We are the Chelsea midfield. Imagine not beating this Chelsea team 5-0.
‘In a way it was refreshing. There is so much heavy systems football around. How liberating to see a team with no plan whatsoever. At one point Enzo Fernández carried the ball forward 30 yards, then just seemed to run out of bandwidth, stopping then starting again, visibly…
Source link : https://www.talkchelsea.net/opinions/opinion-media-right-to-go-at-human-soup-chelsea-after-horrific-display/
Author : Simon Phillips
Publish date : 2024-04-24 12:06:16
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