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Don't be a cheeky prick.

 

well its like when people were moaning about pardew talking about the possibility of our players leaving all the time, forgetting that he was just answering the questions he was being asked in his regular press conferences

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He (AVB) doesn't have to have a rant about everything though, does he?

 

if he wants to why not?

 

anyway looking at that first page we've got a story with no quotes from him

 

a story of him defending one of his young players who is struggling

 

and then again commenting, quite fairly from his own PoV, on a controversial incident from his last match which he was asked about

 

hes hardly sat there pissing and moaning all the time, in fact after his recent "rant" about the press liking chelsea failing he actually had a laugh at the end with all the journos

 

the criticism of the guy is bollocks imo, hes got an oldish squad that hes trying to change the emphasis of, theyre still 4th in the league and, unlike the three sides above them, are through to the next round of the CL

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hardly having a go at him

 

:lol:

 

Yes he is. I'm hardly accusing him of abuse now am I? I only put that up as it was yet another Villas-Boas article I notived whilst trawling Skysports.com.

 

Whether he was offside or not doesn't really matter. It's a different issue. If he was, it was tight and no-one else seems to have picked up on it.

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Apologies for the source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2076785/Andre-Villas-Boas-Tommy-Langley-removed-Chelsea-TV.html

 

AVB kicks long serving pundit Langley out of Chelsea TV

 

 

Chelsea's super-sensitive manager Andre Villas-Boas has had lead pundit Tommy Langley removed from his own club’s TV channel for criticising the Portuguese’s hardline treatment of disenchanted players.

 

Former club favourite Langley was told he was no longer required at Chelsea TV after he described AVB as ‘vindictive’ for allegedly not allowing Nicolas Anelka and Alex to park their vehicles in the first-team car park after they had been banished from the squad for handing in transfer requests.

 

 

Langley, who was the club’s player of the year in 1979, has been an admired analyst on Chelsea TV for a decade and does co-commentary as well as co-hosting discussions before and after matches. Friends of Langley say he is extremely upset but does not want to say anything that would jeopardise a return to his TV role if AVB has a change of mind.

 

The Chelsea boss has proved to be remarkably thin-skinned when it comes to negative media comment, and notably labelled Gary Neville’s description of David Luiz playing like he was controlled by a 10-year-old on PlayStation as ‘ridiculous’.

 

Villas-Boas believes Neville and other pundits such as Alan Hansen have a ‘likely biased position in their opinion-making because of a direct past related to a single club, which is their favourite’.

 

Yet his dumping of committed Chelsea supporter Langley points to him not accepting strong adverse comments on the home front, either.

 

A Chelsea spokesman said: ‘For a number of reasons we are reviewing the structure and output of Chelsea TV.

 

'We are waiting for these reviews to be completed before we make a final decision regarding staffing and content.’

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