Hull City vs Chelsea.

I have decided to support Hull City in their upcoming match against Chelsea in the Third Round of the Carling Cup (formerly and better known as League Cup) and the match will be played in the Kingston Communications Stadium, or KC Stadium in short, which is the home ground of Hull City.

I have decided to root for the extreme underdogs mainly because of the Special One’s departure. In case you are wondering who the Special One is, the answer is Jose Mourinho (no prizes for guessing it correctly, even if you are an old lady who has limited knowledge on football). Chelsea’s current situation is just like one of the Malay proverbs “Patah Kemudi Perahu Hanyut”. If this is translated to English, it literally means when the ship’s steer is broken, the ship will be lost in oblivion. Chelsea has just lost a guiding light, a great leader. Another proverb that could be used to describe Chelsea is they are just like “chickens that have just lost their hen”. This situation is appalling. To add to all these, the current replacement of Jose Mourinho is someone who does not even have a proper UEFA coaching license. Yes, perhaps his license is pretty good or even very good in his native Israel. However, we are talking about managing a top club in one of the best leagues in the world.

Actually, the root of all these problems that have been hitting Chelsea is none other than Roman Abramovich. The Russian is reminiscence to Florentino Perez, the former Real Madrid chairman who infamously sacked Vicente del Bosque and Fernando Hierro for not agreeing in his decision to purchase Beckham. At the first place, it is already very wrong for a chairman to meddle in the first team affairs of a football team, let alone purchasing players and demanding the poor manager to play the player in the first team week in week out. Think about it, put yourself in Jose Mourinho’s shoes. You have successfully assembled a cohesive teams in which the players are all put in place properly and you are ready to dominate the world of football just to realize a little while ago that your chairman has just bought a certain Andrei Shevchenko and Michael Ballack who are clearly not suited to be in the team and they are also not suited with the style of English Premier League. I am sure anyone would be fed up with that kind of board of management.

Back to the Third Round match of Hull City against Chelsea. I just hope that Hull City could pull a big upset against Chelsea and knock them out of the League Cup. This will be the battle of a tiger against a lion. (Hull City’s nickname is “The tigers” while Chelsea has a lion on their logo).

I believe an upset is in store for all of us because firstly, Hull will be playing on front of their own fans in their own full house stadium and secondly, their attack will be led by Henrik Pedersen and Augustine “Jay-Jay” Okocha. They may not be the greatest due to their age nowadays. However, I have a feeling that both of them will be the ones who deliver the sucker punch to Chelsea.

Go TIGERS GO!