Coverage? José has even been in Viz magazine

I LOOK fondly upon those days where I used to scour the papers for a mere mention of my beloved Chelsea. Most of the time I wouldn’t find anything of course; we were nobodies — not newsworthy in any way.

How times have changed; every publication it seems from The Times to Cake Maker’s Weekly has to have a Chelsea reference, or dig, somewhere in every edition. José even got a mention by Sid the Sexist in lads’ comic Viz this week — real fame at last, eh? The interesting thing is how much of the Press is u-turning to support José. Have they suddenly remembered what the Premiership was like prior TSO? It seems that I owe Peter Kenyon an apology; at the moment it seems that truth is stranger than fiction. And the truth certainly is that he is Mourinho’s chief protector . . . against the increasingly curious and shadowy figure of Frank Arnesen.

I have to say that the pursuit and eventual victory in getting the Dane to Stamford Bridge puzzled many of us at the time. Why were Chelsea so keen to get him? Who exactly was desperate to bring him on board? Why did we need him on top of the established scouts, Mourinho’s scouts and even Abramovich’s private scouts? Was he worth the reputed €8m compensation to Tottenham? We don’t know because we never hear from him. He doesn’t give interviews.