Benitez happy to fly the Blue flag
And after two long hours spent briefing journalists yesterday — primarily about Chelsea’s Russian owner and his pet striker, Fernando Torres — three further hours liaising with his players and three more spent over dinner with Roman Abramovich himself, the Spaniard goes into tomorrow’s Premier League match against Manchester City with a sore throat but also a pretty good idea of the problems he will face as the club’s latest interim manager.
Benitez was in buoyant mood as he met representatives of the English and international press at Chelsea’s Cobham training ground; he even spent a good 10 minutes explaining zonal marking using two glasses and a bottle of water, leaving most of the assembled reporters bemused and bamboozled.