Quote of the day 19th October 2014

"When I first supported Chelsea, back in 1973 ...  They were thrilling until, loaned to their national sides, they played other countries and you found that they weren't, really. It didn't seem to matter.
 
"Now Chelsea is owned by a billionaire from Russia and made up of several millionaires from Spain and West Africa, with a couple of Englishmen left over to cower on the sidelines ... This strikes me as a completely positive change, making them much more exciting to watch - but some of the local flavour is gone, including the peculiar local flavour of not being very good."

(Adam Gopnic writing about the changes in his local football team, in an article on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29657506 about the fact that the things people are obsessed with are often not the things they are good at. See next post for comments on this article. He's just as rude about the Americans and French performance on the things they think they're good at ..)

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