Michael Lucas

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I think this really gets to the heart of Chelsea’s problems. There’s simply a lack of connection between fans, players and then the wider club. Poch started fixing that, Maresca picked it up to an extent but it is back to square one after this season.

I don’t think people really understand the significance of hearing that it was Poch’s decision to walk away from Chelsea. In modern football, you don’t often see managers take that kind of step. The working environment must have been unbearable. Then Maresca does the same. Potter also alluded to the environment being detrimental to what he was trying to do, whether any of them were the right man for Chelsea is a separate question. What I’m trying to say is that this “revolutionary project” has been so badly thought out and executed that managers who aren’t even justifiably at Chelsea’s level have decided they would rather walk away than operate under Eghbali, Winstanley, Stewart and Shields. I find it astonishing that there are still people who believe these guys might come good. Whoever the next manager is won’t change the fact we’re owned by private equity and have sporting directors like Winstanley, Stewart and Shields running things.

The fact nobody other than Rosenior has been sacked actually makes me sick. It’s a crime.

Paul Scholes: “Other than the [Chelsea] owners, nobody else in and around football thought Liam Rosenior was the right person for Chelsea. It was just crazy for me."

🚨 Michael Jackson will be Burnley’s interim manager until the end of the season, club statement confirms. Follows Scott Parker leaving with immediate effect.

The physically battered body of Bantu Stephen Biko lay in a mortuary near East London in South Africa 🇿🇦 at the time of his post-mortem, 700 miles from the place of his incarceration by the apartheid white security police, shortly after his death on 7 September 1977. As the South African government continued to propagate lies that Steve Biko had died while on hunger strike, an undercover journalist secretly took the photo of Biko's body and sent it to Britain. The photo bearing Biko's battered face confirmed to the world that the anti-apartheid student activist had been beaten to death while in prison. It later emerged that while in police custody, Biko was stripped naked, shackled to the wall, and severely beaten on the head by his interrogators. As a result, he suffered three brain lesions that resulted in a massive brain haemorrhage. According to an autopsy, an "extensive brain injury" had caused "centralisation of the blood circulation to such an extent that there had been intravasal blood coagulation, acute kidney failure, and uremia".

God please don’t give me hope

Chelsea have now made contact with Andoni Iraola over the manager position… ✅