Today’s fluff is enjoying the general emptiness of the officeDid we ever contemplate we’d see the day? With Monday’s sports pages normally the preserve of match reports,comment pieces, tactical analysis and neatly packaged quintets of Things We Learned, and there’s normally room for little more than a couple of column inches on speculation linking Paul Pogba with Dagenham & Redbridge or Keisuke Honda with Cambridge United.
This particular Monday is different,however, with the majority of newspapers suggesting José Mourinho is “on the brink” at Chelsea, and with many of the much and expedient of the football writing world declaring that Roman Abramovich has lost patience with his Portuguese minion in the wake of Saturday’s disciplinary meltdown at Upton Park,during yet another defeat that left the champions in 15th site in the Premier League and their manager looking as authoritative and in control as a man trying to mind several dozen mice at a crossroads.
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Source: theguardian.com