In an article (you have to login to read it, really annoying I know) today in the NY Times, George Vecsey compares Drogba to Zidane. He opens one of the lead-in sentences with:
With one master imitating another,….
Well, I will give him that there were similarities in them both getting red-carded in a major final. But that’s where the similarities end. Drogba is hugely overrated and Zidane is a soccer legend (his stupidity in the last world cup final notwithstanding). Drogba is backed up by the most expensive and talented set of teammates that Roman Abramovich could buy. Any decent forward would do well in that setting with Chelsea and they have not exactly poured in the goals this year even with their new “crowd-pleasing” style of play. Drogba remains a petulent, diving cry-baby who is a decent forward but please don’t compare him to Zidane. He only scored 8 goals in the EPL this year (one more than Kalou who probably played about 10% of Drogba’s minutes) and 15 for the season. He is not even in the top 10 scorers in the EPL. Anyway he is a decent striker but seems seriously flawed as a person. Read about his autobiography here. You could not make this stuff up.
In general, Chelsea as a team are the biggest protesters. Whenever there is a possible call in their favor Lampard, Cole and Terry pester the ref endlessly and with such righteous indignation. It’s pathetic really. Just to be clear, I am not a ManU fan either.
