Cole substitution prompts plebs revolt

THE weekend saw a turning point for the Chelsea support. They finally made public their views on Grant.

It seems that you can be complicit in the departure of the club’s most successful manager, you can continue to play dull and naive football, you can be the owner’s patsy without too much public castigation — but woe betide you if you decide to substitute crowd favourite Joe Cole — even if he is having another stinker. The only shame was that Abramovich wasn’t there to watch us plebs revolting.

I wasn’t one of those shouting “you don’t know what you’re doing.” Although I don’t think he does, it seemed ridiculous to chant it at a time when he had actually got something right. I also did not join in the songs for Mourinho as this is simply pointless. If the chant had been “we want a qualified manager”, I’d have participated wholeheartedly.