Jose Mourinho and the sycophants.

Jose Mourinho is the person to blame for Chelsea's problems this season, it's clear. He has obviously lost some of the players - I suspect, at least in part, because of the Eva Carneiro incident. He has also spectacularly failed to improve the squad from last season - Pedro and Falcao have been totally useless signings. Lastly, he has been getting his tactics badly wrong as Frank Lampard and Jamie Carragher explain here http://youtu.be/_iBAAww3KwI

What's more he has, quite frankly been behaving like a cunt, complaining about referees far too often and always trying to pass the blame on to someone else for his own failures. He deserves to get sacked.

Like many people I am thoroughly enjoying watching Chelsea and Mourinho twisting in the wind this season. But what I find most interesting is the slavish way in which the mainstream media and Chelsea fans are making excuses for him. We keep getting told that it's the players fault, and that most of them have lost form at the same time. We have also been told that Mourinho needs time to turn it around. 

Regarding Chelsea fans, I can understand why they love Mourinho, but fans CAN get things wrong sometimes. I'm sure most Liverpool fans would recognize that turning on Benitez in 2007 was a huge mistake. Similarly, West Ham fans would admit that Alan Pardew was very harshly treated. And some Manchester United fans would be embarrassed now to admit that they wanted Ferguson gone when Manchester United failed to qualify for the Champions League knock-out stages back in 2005. My point is that I think Chelsea fans are badly misguided in being so loyal and sycophantic to Mourinho now.

But the behavior of some of the mainstream media has been far more disingenuous (or to put it another way, has been a complete and utter fucking disgrace). Why do the worship at the feet of this man? Why do some of them refuse to criticize him while going way overboard in their criticism of other managers? The only possible reason I can think of is that a lot of journalists believe in the narrative that Mourinho is some sort of 'evil genius' who is superior to other managers and can win matches almost through sheer force of personality. Chelsea's results this season clearly go against that and many pundits just don't know how to take it. It's pathetic!

While Chelsea are 16th in the league Liverpool were 8th when Rodgers got sacked by Liverpool. And many pundits think Monk at Swansea should be sacked despite them being two places above Chelsea in the table. If all managers were treated equally then Mourinho would have been canned a long time ago.