So where do you stand on the whole Chelsea/Abramovich thing? Is it so abhorrent to have someone come in and buy the title for you? From the standpoint of Man City, a club roughly on a par with Chelsea, I know it would give me a great deal of pleasure for such a thing to happen to my club, but also a sprinkling of guilt.
Buying a title has been done by Blackburn and I'd guess Dalglish's Liverpool. What seems to distinguish Chelsea's achievement is (a) the fact that the football they play is so damned pretty at times, in contrast to Blackburn who won ugly an awful lot of the time and (b) Morinho who is such a delight in all things. Talking about the game last night between Arsenal and Spurs, he spoke about how conflicted he was by wanting his own players to 'win' the title and the fact that he liked Spurs so much. That honest (and relatively deep by footy standards) speaking is just great.
I don't think the rest of football resents Chelsea as they did Blackburn for those reasons, although of course anyone who sticks it up United is going to win our vote.
And of course we can point up the fact that we're the only team in the Premiership to beat you.
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Chelsea - Good or Bad Thing?
Date: 2005-04-26 09:02 am (UTC)Buying a title has been done by Blackburn and I'd guess Dalglish's Liverpool. What seems to distinguish Chelsea's achievement is (a) the fact that the football they play is so damned pretty at times, in contrast to Blackburn who won ugly an awful lot of the time and (b) Morinho who is such a delight in all things. Talking about the game last night between Arsenal and Spurs, he spoke about how conflicted he was by wanting his own players to 'win' the title and the fact that he liked Spurs so much. That honest (and relatively deep by footy standards) speaking is just great.
I don't think the rest of football resents Chelsea as they did Blackburn for those reasons, although of course anyone who sticks it up United is going to win our vote.
And of course we can point up the fact that we're the only team in the Premiership to beat you.
Geoff C