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| Written by Adeleke Afolayan | ||||||
| Tuesday, 20 May 2008 | ||||||
     Ever since the turn of the year, Lampard has been continually linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge this summer, a move further fuelled by his refusal to extend his current contract at the club. And with former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho assuring he will be back in coaching in “a month’s time”, it may well seem Lampard is preparing to join up with his former boss, wherever the final destination will be. Meanwhile the current Chelsea boss Avram Grant looks like he will be out of the plum job regardless of what happens Wednesday night in Moscow following reports linking Guus Hiddink to take over the reigns at the Blues. Hiddink right now is preparing the Russian national team for the summer’s European Championships holding in Austria and Switzerland. Russia is in Group D along with European champions Greece, perennial underachievers Spain and Scandinavian powerhouse Sweden. As for the Champions League final itself, Lubos Michel will be the centre referee for the encounter in Moscow. Michel was at the centre for the UEFA Cup final in 2003. Chelsea fans and Jose Mourinho especially will however remember the Slovak from the 2005 Champions League semi-final second leg at Liverpool where he awarded a highly controversial Luis Garcia goal for the Reds, a goal Mourinho till today does not acknowledge. All the news seems to be coming out of the Chelsea camp as Ivorian striker Salomon Kalou has pointed out Manchester United’s Nemanja Vidic as the Red Devils’ weakest link. Kalou put his estimations down to the Serbian’s recent spate of injuries and expects his team-mates to have a go at Vidic in the match. Finally, the turf of the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, venue of the Champions League final if you do not know yet, is a cause for concern for the match organisers. That is because the pitch, usually sporting a plastic surface, was relayed recently with synthetic grass from Slovakia. Problem now is the new surface has yet to settle to its new home so to say. The new grass brought in has not smoothened since been laid and that means the ball would not run smoothly and the grass itself is expected to pull out after a while during the match unless something drastic is done to arrest the situation which Liverpool great Stan Collimore has described as “ridiculous”.  Quote this article on your site | Views: 277 | Print | E-mail
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