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What’s happening at Chelsea FC just now is absolutely fascinating (unless you are a Chelsea fan, in which case its probably pretty depressing). From the heights of having been last season’s Premier League champions, they have since experienced a dramatic drop in form, with them currently experiencing their worst ever start to a Premier League season. They have already lost five games, which is two more than they did the whole of last season. It is the worst series of results

I have to confess to feeling a little sorry for the England football team. In the final analysis, they have already fallen well short of the standard required by a team to progress deep into a major tournament like the World Cup. The players, manager, and wider English game is now, and will continue to be, subject to a long and drawn out period of scrutiny, brow beating, over analysis, and general level of negativity. I guess, with the amount of money they all earn, this c