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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 09:04 PM Feb 2019

I've never seen anything like this before: substituted goalkeeper refuses to come off.

Near the end of yesterday's league cup final between Chelsea and Manchester City, with the score at 0-0 and inevitably headed for penalties, the Chelsea manager wants to substitute his keeper and replace him with a presumably better shot stopper, but his keeper absolutely refuses to come off. He stays on, and promptly loses the penalty shootout.

What an outrageous act of insubordination! I've seen players refuse to come on, but never one refusing to come off. How's this even legal?

If I were the Chelsea manager, this keeper would never play for me again, but there are complications: The keeper cost $70 million pounds and the manager is almost certainly on the way out anyway. If the manager resigns instead of being fired, he'd be out the rest of his contract. Still, you can't let this sort of thing go on, can you?

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I've never seen anything like this before: substituted goalkeeper refuses to come off. (Original Post) Ron Obvious Feb 2019 OP
Wow. Just, just, wow. shenmue Feb 2019 #1
A good team captain represents the coach on the field and should have forced him off Ponietz Feb 2019 #2
Agreed. It looked like a complete mutiny. Ron Obvious Feb 2019 #3
Incredible! peacebuzzard Feb 2019 #4
I felt sorry for him too Ron Obvious Feb 2019 #5
That explains it. peacebuzzard Feb 2019 #6
That was nuts ornotna Feb 2019 #7

Ponietz

(2,893 posts)
2. A good team captain represents the coach on the field and should have forced him off
Mon Feb 25, 2019, 11:10 PM
Feb 2019

This is why I believe the revolt is even more serious than it already looks.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
3. Agreed. It looked like a complete mutiny.
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 12:34 AM
Feb 2019

It's well-known that Sarri's time is up, but nobody on the team is emerging from this with any credit. Luiz, with his half-hearted talk to Kepa, Azpilicueta, the captain, should have been the manager's spokesman but wasn't. I didn't get any vibe that the rest of the team disapproved of Kepa's actions prior to the shootout by the way they treated him.

Sarri has to strip Azpilicueta of the captaincy and make Kepa train with the reserves for a month if he's to come out of this with any credibility at all.

peacebuzzard

(5,109 posts)
4. Incredible!
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 04:10 AM
Feb 2019

Enjoyed your post, Ron. Great clip but that scene really was heavy duty. I don’t suppose the manager and goalie will ever get along after tonight’s mess. I feel sorry for the manager.

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
5. I felt sorry for him too
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 02:13 PM
Feb 2019

The players are "worth" so much more money than the manager these days and have such hyperinflated egos because of it, it must be really difficult to manage them. They're really in charge these days. At clubs like Chelsea in particular, but even at Leicester, who sacked Claude Puell the other day because he'd lost the dressing room.

ornotna

(10,742 posts)
7. That was nuts
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 12:13 AM
Feb 2019

That was a stupid move by Kepa. Now he's also a weeks wages poorer and who knows what else is going to happen.

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