{"id":423,"date":"2011-05-09T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2011-05-09T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T10:49:00","slug":"well-that-was-woeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Well that was woeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One the one hand, it&#8217;s great that Chelsea have climbed back as far as they have &#8211; on the other, that was a scarily poor performance. Chelsea didn&#8217;t lose the title yesterday, they lost it back in the autumn. We are very much in transition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I hope Ancelotti stays, even though I think he is culpable for some of what has gone wrong. I just don&#8217;t see yet more upheaval as being beneficial in the long run.<br \/>&#8211; We need to sell Drogba, not because of any inherent fault or weakness in him, but because we now have Torres and lots of other players who can play in a similar fashion (eg Sturridge, even Anelka) &#8211; in other words, we can make the team independent of any single player, however good they are. That seems to be ManU&#8217;s distinctive strength &#8211; and certainly what has enabled them to claim the title this year.<br \/>&#8211; We need someone to generate spark in the final third (doesn&#8217;t every team?). So as my final thought, why don&#8217;t we ring up our old boss and say &#8216;would you accept Drogba plus a large wodge of cash for Kaka?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One the one hand, it&#8217;s great that Chelsea have climbed back as far as they have &#8211; on the other, that was a scarily poor performance. Chelsea didn&#8217;t lose the title yesterday, they lost it back in the autumn. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-6P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}