Before the game against Apoel Nicosia, John Terry had said in his programme notes “Going up to Manchester City and losing, our second defeat of the week, not only hurt, it’s not what this Chelsea’s about. It’s got to be a real wake-up call. We’re still top by two points and this emphasises that the Premier League’s not a walk, it’s a big, big battle. I’ve been going on about getting a winning run together and that’s what we did before our last two games. We’ve got three home games in the next eight days (including Apoel) to start another one. And it’s got to be just the start. The first target is to win all three games. Nothing less will do.” Little wonder he stormed off after the game then!
But is he right to do that? I mean, he makes no secret of the fact he’s a bad loser and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, I know I’d rather see players completely pissed off at losing than see some nonchalant shrug of the shoulders, but as TheChelseaBlog pointed out after the Wigan game, it doesn’t exactly demonstrate the ‘togetherness’ we’re supposed to be all about.
TheChelseaBlog also suggested in the wake of the Citeh game that our players need to drop the ‘victim’ attitude if they’re to get what they deserve and I guess that’s the point here. We were overconfident before the Wigan game, before the Citeh game and we were most certainly overconfident against Apoel and John Terry isn’t going to address that by sulking.
As disappointed as he was, the fact is, he was part of the defence that conceded not just one (yes, I mean you Obi Mikel), but two sloppy goals midweek and as such, he’s no less blameless than the rest of his players. So rather than walking out on his side with the right raving hump, maybe he should have been there reminding his players exactly what this Chelsea is all about?
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