After yet another pretty dire result for us yesterday, Chelsea’s assistant coach Ray Wilkins was forced to play peacekeeper in the post-match with chants of “you don’t know what you’re doing” aimed at Scolari before his team were booed off the pitch.
An indignant Wilkins stated “I think it is a minority that would be chanting it. That would kick it off and then people would get on the back of that. That is their prerogative because they pay their money. People do pay a lot of money to watch football and if they want to boo then by all means come and boo. But to say someone does not know what he is doing when he has achieved what he has in the game, is a tad out of order. It is never very pleasant whatever ground you are at. He clearly does know what he is doing. He has been in the game a hell of a long time and won a lot of trophies as well. So, from that aspect it is quite disappointing. The substitutions are always to try and improve things on the pitch, so that is why we did it.”
Wilkins even tried to kid the press that the chanting would have gone straight over the Chelsea boss’ head anyway, suggesting “When crowds are chanting I don’t think managers from foreign countries understand what is being said. He would not have understood that. I certainly won’t tell him because it is unnecessary. I don’t think it should be heard around our stadium.”
And whilst the rest of us are realistic enough to know it’s all over, Wilkins claims “Every game is vitally important for us now. Hopefully we will turn the corner”, – and collide head on with the uefa cup maybe? Not according to Ray no, because he insists “You cannot give up on the title when you see the talent that we’ve got within the club. We will keep plugging away until it is mathematically impossible to catch anybody. It is going to be difficult to catch Manchester United but we will try. They have a game in hand on us and are still a good few points in front, so it is going to be tough for everybody to catch them. But we are going to give it a damn good go. Second at any time is not good enough for Chelsea. We strive to be number one but second is never good enough for a club as big as ours.”
So if second isn’t good enough, what about fourth? Because that is, after all, where we now sit after yesterday’s game.
Well, apparently fourth must be ok, because he assures us “There is no real emergency. We are naturally disappointed we have not picked up three points. We’ve huffed and puffed and created a lot of chances but not been able to put the ball into the back of the net.”
Which brings us back to our position in the League. You were saying Ray…..?
Blue is the colour
