Anelka demands to play upfront. {true story of CL final included}

[persian boy]

CL Incident is bolded.

Anelka was also critical of the decision by Chelsea staff to throw him on for the final few minutes of the Champions League final even though he had hardly warmed up.

"At no point did I think I was going to come on," he added. "I was on the bench for 110 minutes and suddenly I am asked to play, not even a minute after I was sent out to warm up.

"I don't know if that has ever happened in a Champions League final, in a match of that intensity, that a player has gone on to the pitch without having warmed up. When you go on, you have to be ready to run!"

The former Manchester City striker was Chelsea's fall-guy, taking the seventh and what proved to be the final penalty for the Londoners that was palmed aside by van der Sar.

Anelka admitted he had refused to be one of the Blues' original penalty-takers.

"I was asked to take one of the first five kicks," he said. "But I said: 'That is out of the question, I have come on basically as a right-back and you want me to take a penalty.'

"So I had to go in seventh but van der Sar pushed away my shot. All the better for him, that is the game."

[Lazio]

And people still blame him? I said it from the start, the blame should be on Grant and Drogba.

[persian boy]

I blame:

Grant (not making smart subs, hes not cut out for big games)
Terry ( i mean come on, the trophy was in the grasp and he screwed it up)
Ref (made some very dodgy calls, more so against Chelsea)
Drogba (even though he is my hero, he let the team down in that game)
Anelka (hes an experienced, professional player. he missed a big penalty)

[Lazio]

I'll say it again, penalties are a lottery and none of the PK takers should really be blamed so I won't be blaming Anelka or Terry for their misses. But Avram Grant's mistake for not taking Drogba off for Shevchenko (Even if he wanted him for penalties, I'm sure Sheva can take a penalty just as well with his experience) and Drogba's silly red card are things that were in their hands and they screwed it up.
What's done is done though, hopefully next year would be better for us.

[Ali]

sounds like a loser making excuses...

[the-ali]

I have said it from day 1. Drogba is more a liability then an asset. He has one of the worst attitudes I have seen in football.

[Ting_a_ling]

how can you blame grant??? it went to penalties!!!!

if chelsea won dya think the man u fans would blame fergie?

[Suprah]

How many times has Anelka joined a club and pissed off the manager and being dumped as a result after a short gap ?

[Ting_a_ling]

How many times has Anelka joined a club and pissed off the manager and being dumped as a result after a short gap ?

lets hope he goes to "ManYou"

[Suprah]

lets hope he goes to "ManYou"

NO.

That mercenary can sod off back to France for all I care. The most shittest attitude in world football, although people said that he had 'mellowed down' and 'made peace with himself' after he became Muslim, but old habits die hard.

[Lazio]

I disagree. There is an art to penalty taking and there is also an art to stopping penalties.

That's true, but no matter how good the penalty is, the keeper can still guess the right way and save it. There is a huge element of luck involved.

how can you blame grant??? it went to penalties!!!!
if chelsea won dya think the man u fans would blame fergie?

LOL What? Fergie has the experience and the trophies to back whatever he does but grant has nothing. No experience, no qualifications that I know of and he wasn't even a football player. He's just a friend of Abrahamovic. Chelsea got to where they were this season because of players like Terry and Lampard. He has to go.

[Mr Pouya]

That's true, but no matter how good the penalty is, the keeper can still guess the right way and save it. There is a huge element of luck involved.
LOL What? Fergie has the experience and the trophies to back whatever he does but grant has nothing. No experience, no qualifications that I know of and he wasn't even a football player. He's just a friend of Abrahamovic. Chelsea got to where they were this season because of players like Terry and Lampard. He has to go.

he won the league in isreal

[Shamim]

How many times has Anelka joined a club and pissed off the manager and being dumped as a result after a short gap ?

NO.
Thrue, Anelka has the worst attitude, in every team he went to play he created trouble.


That mercenary can sod off back to France for all I care. The most shittest attitude in world football, although people said that he had 'mellowed down' and 'made peace with himself' after he became Muslim, but old habits die hard.

loool

[Suprah]

loool

eggzackly

[persian boy]

how can you blame grant??? it went to penalties!!!!
if chelsea won dya think the man u fans would blame fergie?

Because he could have made smarter substitutions and started better players.

and No, the Manu fans would have blamed ronaldo