Di Matteo left feeling Blue

This morning it was announced that Chelsea Football Club have sacked manager Roberto Di Matteo after only eight months in charge.

In a statement released by the club, they declared the two sides had parted ways because “The team’s recent performances and results have not been good enough”. Presently Chelsea FC are comfortably sitting third in the Barclays Premier League, just four points off the top of the table. However, it appears that the Chelsea board have had a knee jerk reaction following last night’s 3-0 trouncing away to Italian giants Juventus in the Champions League.

Some believe that after replacing previous manager Andre Villas-Boas the writing has been on the wall for Di Matteo, since Chairman Roman Abramovich reluctantly gave the Italian the top job after a string of remarkable successes which led Chelsea to Champions League and FA Cup glory.

Roberto Di Matteo sacked by Chelsea after Champions League defeat against Juventus

Chelsea have sacked Roberto Di Matteo and are set to announce his replacement shortly.

Sacked: Roberto Di Matteo has paid the price for Chelsea’s poor run of form Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The Italian has been dismissed following last night’s 3-0 defeat to Juventus in Turin. The club is now in danger of becoming the first Champions League holders to fall at the group stage.

Chelsea are now considering turning to either Avram Grant or Rafael Benítez as their temporary manager. Owner Roman Abramovich wants Pep Guardiola, the former Barcelona manager, to take up the helm at Stamford Bridge permanently, although the in-demand Spaniard is currently on a year-long sabbatical.

Van Persie is a “Bloody Traitor” …Eboue abuses former Arsenal and now Man Utd’s RVP

Following his transfer from North London club side Arsenal to bitter rivals Manchester United, Robin Van Persie had come under severe attacks from fans and threats were made to his wife and family on twitter. But one person who seems very embittered by that move and doesn’t pretend about it is former Arsenal player Emmanuel Eboue.

The Galatasaraay defender had always hurled abusive words at his former team mate at Arsenal on twitter and even after their UEFA Champions League match last week, the trend continued. He tweeted via his handle, Emmanuel Eboue @TheRealEboue: “The bloody Traitor was trying to hug me . I couldn’t look at his face pic.twitter.com/UuBeTNcA”

RDM closes in Roberto Di Matteo

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ROBERTO DI MATTEO is closing in on the permanent manager’s job at Chelsea. The Champions League-winning Italian, 41, is not prepared to continue as interim boss after taking over from Andre Villas-Boas in March. And owner Roman Abramovich is preparing to hand him a contract after failing to lure Pep Guardiola out of retirement. Di […]

DROGBA: Believe it or not, most world’s best footballer / soccer star hails from Nigeria. lmfao

ok i carried last on this gist thanks to work, but i must still let your read it.

Believe it or not, most world’s best footballer / soccer star hail from Nigeria. According to a blog post on Naijapals where d tin de cause kASALA,

Popular Chelsea Football Club Striker, Didier Drogba has been reported to have hailed from a popular Aderogba family in Ogbomosho in Oyo state, Nigeria.

Based on one of the comments read on his spectacular performance during the finals of Champions League competition on Saturday, a commentator said; “Adedeji Aderogba (Now Didier Drogba) is from the Aderogba family house in Ogbomosho.

Didier Drogba relocated to Abidjan several years ago.

It is a common knowledge that many Nigerians from Ogbomosho, in Oyo State, and Ejigbo in Osun State live in Abidjan and Togo.

One of such cases is that of Tottenham FC of London striker, Emmanuel ‘Seyi Adebayor whose real names is Emmanuel Oluseyi Adebayo but took up Togolese citizenship when he could not get a chance to play in Nigeria’s U-17 squad.

Is it a crime to forget your citizenship for fame ? Please let’s discuss

And to have a big laff, follow the link to read comments

Just like EDWIN MUOFULUNANYA from Ozubulu, Anambra state went to America and become EDDIE MURPHY.

many Nigerians claim different countries in Europe…. no be drogba be d first person

ALSO SAMUEL ETO CHUKWU OKEKE, FROM IGBO UKWU  AGUATA IN ANAMBRA STATE,BUT WE LOST HIM TO CAMEROOM,

 

Also like Kanyechuekele who traveled to America, now known  as Kanye West. You can axe google.. lol

for more comments

http://www.naijapals.com/modules/naijapals/nigeria/topic,107678.0.html

EXCLUSIVE-EVIL!!! JOHN OBI MIKEL confesses playing mind games with Robben to tip him over the EDGE.

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JOHN OBI MIKEL has confessed to being the man behind the mind games which tipped former Chelsea team-mate Arjen Robben over the edge. Robben had a glorious opportunity to win Saturday’s Champions League final when Bayern Munich were awarded an extra-time penalty in the Allianz Arena. But the flaky Dutchman saw his spot-kick brilliantly saved […]

CHELSEA: THE BLUE BOYS FROM STANFORD BRIDGE & THE ISAIAH EFFECT

‘The best’ backed by powers that be Vs
The mere men trying to find their feet

For three years in a row, Barca have dominated footballing, both home & away, putting conditions in place for a great domination of world football, bringing them to a height where decline was well within the realm of impossibility. Though acclaimed the best team in the world, we deny not the fact that ‘powers that be’ stand verily behind them like rocks of gibraltar.
And for a team so good, it was considered great injustice to still have such powers influencing their football matches (as widely assumed) day after day. This is what the teeming millions thought.

None had ever outplayed their ‘tiki-takaka’ kind of play, except for some little teams whom they overtly underrate by getting complacent, and end up paying the price before realizing their mistakes. But not big teams like Manchester united, Ac Milan etc, and their wife Real Madrid.

For the special one & his gang, it has been a horror movie up until they won their last ‘El Classico’, one win among many loses in the past. But this was solely made to come forth by the strategies of the Italian Mafia, Ac Milan who almost outsmarted the Barca boys in their last Champions league clash by playing an all out ‘defending-patience-long ball-defending’ game, & over & over again, if not for the help of the powers that be.

Everyone prayed after that match that the ‘special one’ will greatly imbibe that strategy & by heavens pray & hope the rest of the way & it worked for them.
They won.

Then it was the turn of a team that have been viewed as less a factor in the Champions league matters even though they went ahead to qualify for the last 16 over their English colleagues & have been on point ever since.

Thus, For Di Matteo’s men, meeting the so called ‘gods of football’ (Barca), it was a do or die, they had to prove the world wrong.

Though many scoffed at the possibility of Chelsea out smarting Barca, but it did happen for they took that method used by Ac Milan & Madrid and modified it while claiming a home & away win against the defending champions of the EPL with a very surrealistic match stat of;

[Shots on goal : 4, Goals scored : 3]
As against Barca’s
[Over 50 Shots on goal, Goals scored 2]  with one man down.

Thus far, they are taking on new and unexpected roles in the unfolding drama that is reshaping our football & putting an end to the belief that ‘Barca is infallible’ & also to their monopoly of wins & trophies. Now the trophy must go round.

But regardless, their success wasn’t without help, oh yes, the Bridge boys had help, not from some juju or voodoo something, but the help of the teeming millions
Who cried out due to Barca’s injustice & believed they have to be stopped, to our God Almighty whom up until that very day I didn’t was a football fan, for in truth life is all about ‘you eat, I eat’ & not ‘you eat & eat & keep eating’.

That help is what I called the ‘Isaiah effect’, all other team fans went against Bar ca, they all rooted for the blue boys to peter out Barca, with a strong mind, a mind of one, with hope, prayer that the ‘bagas’ be brought down & it worked.

Recent studies into this ‘Isaiah effect’ & the effect of prayer offer new credibility to ancient propositions suggesting that we may “do something” about the horrors of our world today , both present and future. These studies add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that focused prayers, especially those offered on a large scale, have a predictable and measurable effect on the quality of life during the time of the prayer.

So take a lead from this win from Chelsea FC over FC Barcelona, study, hope, pray, learn, endure, & be patient. Strike hard & true when given your slimmest chance. Never give up even when all seems lost, you never know, your ‘Ramirez’ may just be around the corner.

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