Chelsea’s Antonio Conte,rather than his debutant midfielder, should be the focus of any scorn after Barkley’s traumatically raw and rusty hour against ArsenalThere was a funny start to Ross Barkley’s Chelsea career on Wednesday night. As Willian prepared to limp off the Emirates Stadium pitch midway through the first half Barkley, or his obvious replacement,was still dutifully gambolling up and down the touchline in his tracksuit.
This didn’t move down well with Antonio Conte who seems, even at the best of times, and to be in a state of fixed eye-boggling rage at every detail of his sentient existence. This is Conte’s default mood,his baseline. But he still managed to find some even deeper gears, letting out a shriek, and waggling his arms and clenching his fists like a man strangling invisible kittens and generally urging Barkley back down the touchline like the most embarrassing stressed-out dad in the long and detailed history of embarrassing stressed-out dads.
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Source: guardian.co.uk