Goodbye Gallas and don’t forget your dirty linen

NEVER a dull moment is there? Last Monday I had filed my copy only a couple of hours before all hell broke loose when Chelsea released their explosive statement that Gallas had threatened to score an own goal, get sent off, or play badly to try and force the club’s hand over his contractual bickering.

This certainly does explain a lot. What Gallas threatened to do was not only an act of betrayal to the club, but it showed a complete lack of respect for the game and all the fans that have ever chanted his name.

The airways this week have been jammed with supporters of other clubs (unsurprisingly, mainly Arsenal) claiming that the Chelsea statement is a spiteful pack of lies. But just stop and think for one moment. Does anyone actually believe that the club would make such outrageous allegations up? Knowing full well that it would leave them open for the mother of all law suits?