Gallas swap is a bad bit of business for us

“You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you; I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around, turned you into someone new”

NO I haven’t lost the plot — this Human League classic has been going round in my head ever since the Cole/Gallas deal finally went through.

Gallas, inset, below, was a nobody when we bought him to Chelsea; we put him on the world stage; we made him (and yes my voice has gone an octave higher).