Craig Burley
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And because they don't know what they're doing, they've actually done more harm to themselves than anybody else.
Because he's not going to play against Man City and it's going to affect the chances of getting in the Champions League.
Again, they don't know what they're doing.
He was told to go to, as Lewis said, he was told what was happening.
And he was told to go to the press conference and he was told to swallow it.
Now, if I'm in that dressing room, and we've all played at the high level, there's not a player alive going into big games who doesn't want their best team on the field.
I'm in that dressing room, I'm pulling Rossini to the side and saying, what the hell's going on?
I want to go to Man City with my best 11.
So you're alienating everybody.
You're alienating the players that you've talked to, whether you deem them the right or wrong.
And you're alienating the rest of the experience in the dressing room because they're going to be annoyed because they're going into one of the toughest games of the season.
When this broke, I honestly thought they were playing Port Vale and Wolves.
I thought, oh, they must be two doubles of a game.
And then I realised one of the games was Man City.
I was like, this is just utter madness.
Which I suppose is a good way to sum up the way this current ownership have ran Chelsea since day one.