Craig Burley

But instead, it's like, I don't know.

I'm trying to think of a manager that I worked under that would have actually... I think if one of the managers I'd worked under, any of them had pulled me in and said, I'm banning you for two games...

Because you said you wanted to live in Madrid.

I think I would have laughed myself under the table.

Yeah, 100%.

Would a fine have been a better punishment to still make a statement?

No, I don't think anything.

I don't even think it warrants that.

I think it just warrants a manager speaking to some players and saying, listen.

You know what the press are like.

Be careful.

Never ever has news and gossip traveled as quickly and as far.

And I understand you all talk to people and blah, blah, blah.

And you talk to journalists and you're on social media.

But let's just...

be a bit careful and be focused on finishing this season strongly.

Because don't forget, Chelsea are in the FA Cup semi-finals and they're fighting for this top five in the Premier League.

So there's a pretty sensible way of doing it.

Not sitting at a press conference trying to make out you're the headmaster at the local school.

And you're punishing all the kids in the school.