A graceless, unhappy place where sneers outnumber smiles

IF PETER KENYON is to be believed, and Chelsea really are desperate for a little loving, then they have a funny way of showing it.

A graceless, unhappy place where sneers outnumber smiles

The Premiership champions have lurched from spat to spat in recent weeks, but they plumbed a new moral depth on Saturday when their striker Didier Drogba appeared to admit that he is a diver.

It was an appropriately sour end to another fraught week at Stamford Bridge, which also saw winger Shaun Wright-Phillips accused of playacting and the club charged by the FA for the second time in a fortnight for failing to control their players.

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