Football Daily | ‘Cole Palmer FC’ has a uniquely abject selling point in the marketplace
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After four minutes, and a Leandro Trossard opener set up by Declan Rice gliding unhindered, Liverpool and Manchester City fans were already flicking to the Championship battle between Leicester and Southampton in disappointment. Could Arsenal’s utter dominance fade and Mikel Arteta’s touchline anxiety take hold of his players? No chance. Once Arsenal realised that Chelsea really are “Cole Palmer FC” and Wythenshawe’s finest was resting up with a bug, the match turned into a rout, Chelsea offering less than zero resistance. Placing any hopes in this iteration of Chelsea has been a lost cause for two years. Still, the rebrand has its unique selling point in the marketplace of ideas. Question: what’s Chelsea best known for? Answer: the billion-pound team that lets down fans each week.
Congratulations are in order to Chelsea for finding a way to embody an entertaining inversion of the Harlem Globetrotters – expensively assembled and individually skilful performers turning up to play a series of opponents, but with the unique twist of being absolutely and hilariously awful” – Charles Antaki.
Re: ‘Més Que Un Desesperado Club’ (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition) and your continued obsession with ‘Nottingham Forest’s paranoid take on the selection of VAR officials’. Please read this article and you might understand why we are paranoid. Yours paranoiacally” – Charlie Harvey.
Such a biased article about David Moyes and West Ham (yesterday’s Football Daily). Shame on you. ‘Soulless’ is a completely wrong description of the London Stadium and should be corrected or the writer sacked” – Tom Smith.
Thanks for pointing me to Rúben Amorim’s Wikipedia page (yesterday’s Football Daily). So much interesting stuff. His wife has a degree in telecommunications engineering. He has 14 caps for Portugal. He shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Oh wait – that’s Johnny Cash’s page. Sorry” – Mike Wilner.
Send letters to the.boss@theguardian.com. Today’s winner of our prizeless letter o’ the day is … Charles Antaki.
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