Blues postpone resurfacing

CHELSEA will wait to see how their battered Stamford Bridge pitch stands up to three home games in a week before deciding whether to re-lay it.

The Blues play Colchester in the FA Cup this Sunday, Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday and Portsmouth in the Premiership three days later.

Barcelona, who completed the re-laying of their own pitch at the Nou Camp last week, seem to be convinced Chelsea head coach Jose Mourinho is content to let the Stamford Bridge surface become even worse their showdown in order to unsettle the Spanish league leaders’ artistic stars.

But Chelsea spokesman Simon Greenberg explained: “The big problem is that relaying a pitch at this time of year makes it much more difficult to lay a new one in the summer.”