Premier League - Villas-Boas demands to be part of celebrations

Sat, 10 Dec 10:42:00 2011

Andre Villas-Boas has ordered Chelsea's players to include him in their goal celebrations, according to a report in Saturday's papers.

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A Chelsea spokesman confirmed to The Sun that the Blues boss cooked up the scheme to make it look as if everything is rosy between Chelsea's players and staff at Stamford Bridge.

"The manager has asked the players to look across and recognise him and his staff on the bench after a goal," the spokesman told the paper.

"He believes that by celebrating together it shows we are all in it together.

That's the players, the manager, the subs, the staff, the medical people -- everyone working and celebrating together."

It's a busy day for Andre Villas-Boas in Saturday's newspaper, with the Portuguese boss also hitting the headlines after blowing a gasket in the latest round of his ongoing war of words with Sky pundit Gary Neville.

The former Manchester United defender accused Villas-Boas of letting defender David Luiz run around as if he was being controlled by a 10-year-old on his Playstation.

"You cannot approach a top Brazil central defender saying he's commanded by a kid with a PlayStation. That's ridiculous," said the Chelsea boss.

"He plays for the team with most (world) titles, so be careful with what you're saying."

Neville also drew Villas-Boas's ire for saying that he wouldn't like to be in Chelsea's dressing room ahead of their Tuesday night Champions League match.

" What does he know about the Chelsea dressing room? What does Gary Neville know about our dressing room?" Villas-Boas said.

"How can you imagine what is going on in the Chelsea dressing room? How can you know?

"Have you been here? Do you know where Cobham is? You don't even know how to get here!

"You can't speculate and invent on things that are going on, based on assumptions or informants or speculation. Some people can have more or less an idea. But not him. He cannot know.

"I'm normally indifferent, not watching on the telly to see what these people say.

"But I was watching the television at that moment, and I was gobsmacked."

Reuters

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  1. it's a @#$% funny ol game, neville stirring it up a­ bit like he's done for years, it would be boring­ otherwise, just a bit of anti utd bannter going on eh,

    From paranoid android, on Sun 11 Dec 19:15

  2. Whats boas gonna do versus man city EXPECT HIS PLAYERS­ TO CELEBRATE HIS SACKING ?

    From mcpluker, on Sun 11 Dec 16:20

  3. I ve heard Gary Neville commentating a few times &­ must say that 1) He doesn't have a good control of­ the language 2) Clearly biased in his analysis which in­ any case are not brilliant & 3) Might have been a­ good game but does not realy know the game.

    From patrick, on Sun 11 Dec 15:44

  4. this is the sound of man united on the run .
    gary who­ playground stuff again from united

    From Jeff, on Sun 11 Dec 15:14

  5. chelsea were bad? Oh never knew winning 3-0 was bad and­ that losing 2-1 was good. Remember when Arsenal lost­ 8-2 and Tottenham lost and the headlines were­ Manchester- 2 London- 0. Didn' see that on­ Thursday. CFC will win and not lose 6-1 like Manure!

    From abhiv19, on Sun 11 Dec 10:28

  6. Listen to Neville is like listen to a soap opera­ (Coronation Street) what a waste of space.

    From Lac, on Sun 11 Dec 7:53

  7. Pathetic!

    From Ryan, on Sun 11 Dec 7:15

  8. gay!

    From harry axe wound, on Sun 11 Dec 6:04

  9. Only at chelsea this could happen. It's not­ surprising at all, they hand out platic flags to the­ fans to enourage support, I'm surprised they­ don't also give out the words to their songs like­ hymn sheets. The fans copy another teams banner leaving­ part of their rival clubs badge on it, I mean, they­ are the most amusing team in the country. And I love em­ for that.

    From Peter, on Sun 11 Dec 5:54

  10. AVB,dont rise to him,he's a w4nk3r,granted he has­ been there and back with trophys to show for it but­ he's a gobby tw4t who needs a slap.

    From leigh, on Sun 11 Dec 5:51

  11. I think it's a good idea. Players should be made to­ understand how everyone in the club pulls together to­ get them to the position they are in.
    Perhaps not the­ greatest example, but listen to F1 drivers on their­ radio after a win, and they invariably thank the whole­ team for making their win possible.
    It brings their own­ skills down to earth a bit

    From ged, on Sun 11 Dec 5:18
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    This wont happen... CHELSKI DONT SCORE L0L!!!!!

    From Play Ball, on Sun 11 Dec 4:15
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    he forgot to mention that john terry told him he­ dosen't want to include black's

    From Noel, on Sun 11 Dec 3:47

  14. I will also be celebrating chelsea goals on Monday­ .......mufc fan ......come on chelsea

    From Scott of the Anglo-Saxon, on Sun 11 Dec 2:57
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    fk em all fk em unt west ham liverpool

    From KT, on Sun 11 Dec 1:30

  16. i' ll run on the pich after every P.Cech goal.; I­ don't care/

    From Tom, on Sun 11 Dec 1:15
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    Good boy Gary - you've learnt a lot from SAF in how­ to wind-up managers! Keep it up

    From rexiom, on Sun 11 Dec 1:03

  18. He's only following his Doctor's orders. His­ Doctor told him to take it easy. Don't get excited.­ Shouldn't be too difficult to do!

    From worked f'r me!, on Sun 11 Dec 0:57

  19. Neville is about as stupid as they come lol.

    From Marco, on Sun 11 Dec 0:36

  20. nevile should be looking to criticise closer to home­ after the abismall manure CL game midweek i cant­ remember seeing manure play so s**t for god knows how­ long. they got one world class player an thats nani,the­ rest are nobodys div1 players on a good day

    From Charles Chaps, on Sat 10 Dec 23:59
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