Liam Rosenior has broken his silence on his Chelsea exit, saying the sacking had nothing to do with football. He also said media treatment, expectations and tolerance in England played a part in what happened at Chelsea, where his tenure lasted 107 days.
Rosenior's case against the Chelsea exit
"In a country where tolerance is an important value, what happened there has nothing to do with football," Rosenior said to dailymail.com. He also described the spell as "the best experience of my life, and the hardest too", even though it lasted only four months.
His stint began in January and ended in April. Chelsea lost five consecutive league games without scoring for the first time since 1912, the run that framed the end of his time at Stamford.
The scrutiny around Stamford Bridge
Rosenior's point is not hard to understand when he talks about the reaction around the club. Speaking to the Standard, he said: "You get good results and you’re in the spotlight. Then, there was a kind of snowball effect in the media."
He added: "The clothes I wore became a joke, the way I spoke too. I’m not a joke." He also said people mocked the instructions he gave Alejandro Garnacho on a scrap of paper when Chelsea were down to 10 men against PSG.
Chelsea are fourth in the Premier League with 16 points from 9 games, and have scored 19 league goals. Rosenior's argument is that the atmosphere around his spell became bigger than the results alone, although the club's own recent form has still been uneven.
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