“I need him on Saturday, you can kill him next week if you want” | Football24 News English

Sergio Escario
Barcelona
Editor

Surely very few fans remember Ben
Sidwell, a former English footballer retired in 2018 who played for the Chelsea between 2007 and 2008 … getting to be presented with the number ‘9’!

During his short stint in the London outfit, Sidwell He was part of a great team led by José
Mourinho who fell short of four titles that season, finishing second in the Premier
League behind the Manchester
United from Cristiano
Ronaldo, Wayne
Rooney and company and losing three finals: that of the Champions
League, also against the ‘red devils’, and those of EF.L
Cup Y Community
Shield.

Sidwell wore the number ‘9’ during his season at Chelsea

In an intervention on the British television channel ‘BT
Sport‘, the English midfielder revealed the odd secret of a dressing room in which he coincided with world stars such as John
Terry, Claude
Makele, Frank
Lampard, Andriy
Shevchenko The Didier
Drogba.

“I’m going to kill him!”

About the Ivorian forward, Sidwell explained that during a training session, after a strong entrance from the Israeli Tal
Ben
Haim, Drogba He got up angrily exclaiming: “I’m going to kill him!”, to which the current coach of the Tottenham He replied: “I need him on Saturday, you can kill him next week if you want.”