BDS
09-21-2007, 05:52 PM
Jose Mourinho has quit Chelsea on the eve of their Premiership battle against Man. U.
Chelsea (for those who aren't sports fans) is the richest club in the world, these days, spending Roman Abramovich's Billions to buy player, after player, after player. Mourinho was their photogenic, provacative, Portuguese coach -- egomaniacal, but witty and funny. Traditionally, Chelsea is also the club favored by thugs, anti-semites, and hooligans. Their London rival, Tottenham, has a tradition of being a "Jewish" club, and when they signed blond German superstar Jurgen Klinsman, Tottenham supporters sang, "Chim chim chiree, Chim chim chiree, Chim chim chiroo, Jurgen was a German, But now he is a Jew." As a result of Tottenham's self-identification with Jews (the sole reason being that some Hassidic Jews live in the neighborhood), the Chelsea hooligans became virulently anti-semitic.
Now that Chelsea has become gentrified as both a neighborhood and a football club, this may be changing. In any event, as much as I've always hated Chelsea and Mourinho, I'll miss him (until he shows up managing some giant club in Italy or Spain, or, as is now rumored, the struggling Portuguese National Team).
Chelsea (for those who aren't sports fans) is the richest club in the world, these days, spending Roman Abramovich's Billions to buy player, after player, after player. Mourinho was their photogenic, provacative, Portuguese coach -- egomaniacal, but witty and funny. Traditionally, Chelsea is also the club favored by thugs, anti-semites, and hooligans. Their London rival, Tottenham, has a tradition of being a "Jewish" club, and when they signed blond German superstar Jurgen Klinsman, Tottenham supporters sang, "Chim chim chiree, Chim chim chiree, Chim chim chiroo, Jurgen was a German, But now he is a Jew." As a result of Tottenham's self-identification with Jews (the sole reason being that some Hassidic Jews live in the neighborhood), the Chelsea hooligans became virulently anti-semitic.
Now that Chelsea has become gentrified as both a neighborhood and a football club, this may be changing. In any event, as much as I've always hated Chelsea and Mourinho, I'll miss him (until he shows up managing some giant club in Italy or Spain, or, as is now rumored, the struggling Portuguese National Team).