Well, it looks like Jose Mourinho does not have a striker. So, if Chelsea goes ahead and wins the English Premier League then it surely must be all down to Jose Mourinho himself – Jose is Chelsea and Chelsea is Jose. The Special One is the Only One.
Fernando Torres, Demba Ba and Samuel Eto'o are all idiots. Period. And if indeed Chelsea does win the Premier League title, one can just see Jose smirking into the cameras, "we win with my little horse".
And he will be doing this, while his "good team always wins in the end" line is being lapped up by journalists who obviously had troubled childhoods.
The Blues will be welcoming Stoke City to Stamford Bridge tonight, at half past midnight, and short of a disaster, a goal has to come from the home side but will it be from any of the three frontmen of Ba, Eto'o or Torres, . . . nah, I wouldn't BET on it (pun intended).
In the year 1996, a young strapping centre half who carried the ball out of defence was hailed as the next Bobby Moore. Rio Ferdinand made his fair share of mistakes but was put on a pedestal. Wow! What a player, was uttered in every corner of the British Isles.
Fast forward to 2011 and a similar kind of player, purchased by Chelsea from Benfica for only €30 million (RM135 million), is vilified from pillar to post! Is it because David Luiz is Brazilian?
Anyway, we more often than not see central midfielders play in defence but very rarely do we hear of a man at centre-back who can also seamlessly fit into central midfield.
Javier Mascherano and Javier Martinez have both put in sterling performances for Barcelona and Bayern Munich, respectively. Michael Carrick does it without a flap for Manchester United.
But going the other way, Gareth Southgate tried it once. We shall not recall the outcome.
But Luiz is an exception and a very good one at that. His manager, Mourinho, seems to play him, especially when the stakes are high. Is Jose looking for an excuse or does he acknowledge the qualities that Luiz brings to the team? We may never know.
Moving on, rumour has it that Sir Alex Ferguson is actually going to teach at the prestigious Harvard University in the United States. Dear, oh dear, what will he have to share with the brightest of the bright.
Well, I heard the lecture is on how to ensure that one's legacy is preserved in eternity - simply handpick your successor, watch him fail and thereafter you shall remain immortal.
Finally, the tasteless way some UK papers wrote about Bayern Munich's Bastien Schweinsteiger and the rather weak sending off on Tuesday night, when the German champions drew 1-1 at Old Trafford, compounds my opinion that you can tell a journalist with a troubled childhood from a mile away.
And as the English Premier League draws to an exciting and unpredictable finish, there are still plenty of pantomimes on the telly. Especially, the one about a little horse that could. – April 5, 2014.
* This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of The Malaysian Insider.
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