Tantrums
So Chelsea are refusing to do any interviews with Sky tomorrow as they say they are being forced to play too many games in too few days. Apparently its too much to play a game three days after playing Wigan. What a load of shit. We are talking about top world class athletes here, not a bunch of chubby Sunday leaguers (Fat frank aside) who train once a week with a curry or five. They also were quite happy to play a Spurs side who had played a UEFA cup game some 36 hours before.
The official squad has 26 players. So if you field 11 per game, plus make 3 substitutions you only have 2 players who would have to be in the first team on consecutive games. Ok so they have a few injuries, but even if Lampard isn’t available now, are you trying to tell me they can’t cover for this with their squad? Putting Shevchenko on after 90 minutes hardly seems a good way to rest your more favored, or rather better players. Steve Sidwell aside, who to be fair is something of an anomaly compared to the other players, they should have the players who can, or at least should, physically cope, not to mention that Chelsea’s second string first team should have comfortably done a number on Wigan!
Really Sky should make a stand about this. They pay £50 million for the rights, plus a million or more for a box at Stamford bridge. While financially Chelsea can deal with anything thrown at them there should be some sort of punitive measure, unfortunately points deduction would be a sanction too far for the PL officials, but is the only one that could hurt.
Frankly it smells of panic, something onto which they can blame any failure from a club which doesn’t trust its manager to get them the required results. Not doing interviews is quite frankly a bonus for us watching, as 99% of player and manager interviews are a total waste of time, but this action by the club is rubbish.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Yeah, i didn’t hear them moaning when spurs played them Saturday lunchtime after a uefa cup match in Sevilla the previous Thursday. funny that.
Fixture congestion has always been a part of the game. In fact it’s much better now cos you rarely get postponements due to bad weather.
poor little kittens.
When I were a lad we used to play double headers. Two matches against the same team on the same afternoon! Now that sorted the men from the boys!