Ok, enough doom and gloom. I’ve wallowed in it enough over the past couple of months, only helped to go under even more with every column inch of woe I’ve read about us. Done with all that now though. In fact I’m sick to death of reading all the dross about us now – time to fight back!
I mean, fair enough, our form has been poor and we’ve slipped down the table a bit – 4th and ten points behind United right now to be precise but we’re hardly in Liverpool territory are we? And yet, here we are in January virtually being written off to even qualify for the Champions League this season. Surely it’s not as bad as all that yet? I mean, it’s not ideal right now but it’s not exactly catastrophic either.
Granted, any hopes we had of challenging for the title disappeared at the end of last year but from the position we’re in now, a Champions League spot isn’t beyond us – and shouldn’t be beyond us – as long as we dig out the results from here on in.
We’ve got most of our players back, so there’s no excuses there. The club undoubtedly made a mistake letting Wilkins go but it’s time to get over that, and as for all the rubbish being written about Abramovich pulling out, the players have heard that from the minute he arrived and should know by now, the only way to get the vultures off our case is not to give them the bones to chew over in the first place.
Irrespective of what’s written about us, we know we were qualifying for the Champions League before ‘Abramovich’s billions placed us on a pedestal’, and we were doing it even without some of the quality players we have now, so as long as those players start turning up again, there’s no reason we shouldn’t be qualifying again this campaign. Maybe a plea for the real Michael Essien to be returned to us would work? An invite for Malouda to turn up? A word with Drogba’s GP to stop prescribing them sedatives? An alarm clock for the defence? Or better still a wake-up call from Ancelotti for the lot of them?
And if a swift kick up the arse from Carlo isn’t enough, maybe our players should have a look at some of the shit that’s being written about us in the rags – and get their bloody heads back up again!
Blue is the colour
