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Where's the Juventus option?

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It's too long when Chelsea are playing, that's for sure./

"it's" = It is, it has "its" = possessive pronoun hope this helps.

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I see what you mean, and maybe I agree to an extent, but the idea behind taking the pressure off the players is more general than just applying to Chelsea and their team of reprobates. It has some merit but I just think it's been overplayed - particularly the idea that the best managers do it, and it works. All it does is takes a bit of media attention away from players who are pretty much cocooned with each other for a few days before a very big game, and therefore aren't particularly thinking about anything other than the match. I don't think there's any way Mourinho could diminish for the Chelsea squad the idea that they've got a complete mountain to climb in the second leg and the pressure's all on them. Some managers have bigger egos than others and enjoy the attention. Clough and Revie are classic examples, but I don't really think their teams' results were hampered or improved by the posturing of the boss. Mourinho simply can't help himself, he wants the focus on how brilliantly he does his job.

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Perhaps, but why this sudden insistence that taking the pressure as a manager is somehow the way to ensure your team is more likely to win? I don't recall either Benitez or Ancelotti making any such efforts before last season's final and can hardly have made any difference to the result. It's all pretty overplayed this trick IMO.

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Expectations have been raised and people are now annoyed that we're not achieving all we could on the pitch due to some very specific deficiencies in one position. And the fact that it's the key factor in winning games is important. We're taking the pitch and not knowing if we can get goals. People are getting a touch too antsy about it, but there you go.

last season I listened to Revolver before each European game from Olympiakos on. I also listened to it before the Benfica away leg. It's a 2004/05 thing, obviously.

Glad to hear it.

Thankfully your days as the arbiter of what's right are long, long gone. Long. Gone.

the European Cup?

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erudite as ever.

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