Unhappy Drogba
eyes move
Friday May 19 2006
Didier Drogba wants to quit Chelsea and leave the Premiership
behind because he is sick of being labelled a cheat.
The Ivory Coast striker, who is going to the World Cup this summer,
has been involved in a number of incidents in the last couple of
seasons which has led to him being labelled a diver.
Now the 28-year-old, a £24million signing from Marseille two
seasons ago, has had enough. "It's not a joke. I want to move on
and avoid all the pressure and scandals here," he told The
Sun.
Drogba added: "Those things hurt my feelings. I want a place I can
play freely without any drawbacks.
"You should know what a player goes through with so much
pressure."
Drogba said he will only move to a club in the Champions League and
is eyeing up a move to Italy.
"I admire AC Milan. But anywhere I go, the Champions League will be
there waiting for me," said Drogba.
(source: Football365)
and various views from readers of Football365...
Chasing Them Out Of Town...
What fantastic news! Didier Drogba is jumping ship from the
Wes'Laaaaandan Chavs. This sends out ALL the right messages for the
rest of the Premiership. By that, I mean, now all we need to do is
vociferously barrack the other cheats like Essien, Carvalho and
Robben (etc, etc choose any Chelsea player you wish) and fingers
crossed we'll hound them out of the English game also.
Before any of the Wes' Laaaaandan tradesmen and market-stall types
start spouting that it's anti-Chelsea or/and anti-foreign players,
I'll openly admit it isn't (God knows Joe Cole can feign the with
the best of them). That said, Chelsea are a cancer and the more we
can do to cut them out of our beautiful game the better.
Remember Chelsea fans, if I buy two apples at 25p each and two
bananas at 25p also, it shouldn't take you ten minutes and a
conversation with Trev' to work out it costs £1!
Greg Whitehead
...With Drogba?s admission that he wants to leave Chelsea because
of fans (even his own) getting on his case over his constant and
persistent cheating, diving and overreacting, can I just take this
opportunity to thank and congratulate every last fan who took the
trouble to boo him. The Premiership will be no worse off without
players like him.
Pundits and the like generally overlook diving and cheating (see
the scant publicity over Eboue's blatant dive in the CL final) and
brush it off as part of the game. Well it shouldn't be a part of
the game and it doesn't have to be.
In this instance, assuming Drogba goes through with his threat to
leave, fans have shown that they can do something about these
idiots. No fan wants to see players, even their own players, diving
to win games. It makes the players and club look foolish.
Take Porto beating Celtic in the UEFA Cup. The stand-out memory
from that game is not a goal or an outrageous piece of skill, it's
the bitter taste left by the time-wasting and diving of the Porto
players. I for one wouldn't want a trophy won by my team tainted by
accusations that it was won by cheating. I know Ruud and Ronaldo
have reputations for diving. Ronaldo in fairness is not nearly as
bad as he was at first. He shouldn't be at it at all and I won't be
happy until he stops it completely.
Fans have now shown with Drogba that they can do their bit to get
the cheats out of the game. Don't let up on them come the new
season.
Gav Kirwan, MUFC
...You've got to love Didier Drogba wanting to go to Italy. He
admitted he was a cheat on national TV, but is now hurt that people
call him a cheat and wants to go somewhere where they all cheat as
much as possible. Then he'll be able to dive, kick, spit, flounce
around like a big girl all he wants and they'll think he's
great.
Has anyone seen that clip where Paul Ince got sent off for Inter
Milan? I forget who they were playing but they were waiting for a
corner and one of the other team, who was about five foot away,
went down in a heap clutching his face. The ref charged in and sent
Ince off! I bet Drogba could reproduce that, and if he could it'd
be great because it was bloody hilarious!
Andy Lahan
Dear Mr Drogba...
So you don't wish to be labelled a cheat then...??
Well I have some suggestions that might or might not prove useful
to you...
a) Don't cheat
b) Don't cheat
c) Don't cheat
d) If you can't manage to stick to any of the above - at least
don't come out on TV afterwards and admit you cheated!
What a donkey!!
Richard Casey, Manchester
More Sympathy For Footballers...
You have to wonder how the average Premiership footballer manages
to avoid buckling phsycologically under the sheer strain of it all.
Take poor Didier Drogba, for example. As if having to put up with
four half-days and one full day's work for around 30,000 quid a
week (neo-slavery, as Ashley Cole's lawyer would call it) isn't bad
enough, he has to endure the fact that people call him a cheat.
When he cheats.
Outrageous, I call it, and probably an anti Chelsea/fox
hunting/animal testing/Iranian nuclearweapons neo-Consevative Bush
conspiracy, if you ask me.
Still, the man has a dream. He wants to play in a wonderful world
where his feelings aren't hurt, and he can play more freely without
any drawbacks.
Non-football translation? "I want to live in a world where no-one
criticises me, whatever I do, and I can act as I please without any
consequences."
Sounds lovely, doesn't it? After all, I can't think of a more
deserving person to acheive that utopia.
Andy Woolnough
