Chelsea bashing alive and kicking in Spain

HOLA from Spain! I thought I would take advantage of the international week to get away from the torrential rain and constant Chelsea-bashing for a few days.

But it’s as bad here as it is at home, what with Barcelona claiming that we are sabotaging the pitch and Real Madrid saying that Chelsea’s spending power is over-inflating prices in the transfer market.

Why would we sabotage our own pitch when our players are worth millions of pounds? Do they have special magic boots so that water-logged pitches don’t affect them? Real Madrid´s president Calderon pushed the credibility gap to the limit last week when he claimed that Chelsea had “distorted” the transfer market. This from the club that paid £45m for Luis Figo and who have been a byword for extravagance for two decades. What’s the Spanish for “spend, spend, spend?”