Ince Throws His Toys Out After Defeat

Paul Ince was certainly complimentary about Chelsea in the run up to yesterday’s game , although he didn’t feel quite the same once the final whistle had blown. Incensed by comments Chelsea first team assistant coach, Ray Wilkins had made prior to our game, the Blackburn boss let rip.

 

Wilkins had apparently dared to suggest the game would be “one of aggression” with the suggestion that Blackburn’s game tends to reflect the image of their manager. However whilst Ince seemed happy enough to sit on the comments for 90 minutes, once he’d watched his Blackburn side beaten 2-0, he apparently found it a little harder to bite his lip.

 

In his defence, the Blackburn manager said “Of course I was a physical character as a player but you don’t play for the teams I did if you are just that. All the teams I have managed have played football.”

 

Whilst on Ray Wilkins, Ince raged “For him to come out with that garbage, that we are over-physical - well we weren’t like that, we played some decent football.  I just said to him next time you are going to say something make sure you get your facts right.  I told him that in no uncertain terms.”

 

Personally, I think the reason he found it so hard to hold his tongue had more to do with the way he viewed the game itself, particularly after he said, “There was an element of luck to both their goals and in the second half we really took the game to them and were by far the better team.”

 

Boo hoo.