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Entire Chelsea crowd was reading
sporting autobiographies
england
SATURDAY’S Chelsea-QPR game was
silent because fans were immersed in this
year’s sporting memoirs, it has emerged.
Occasional bursts of applause or booing
were caused by particularly thrilling
passages in books by Roy Keane, Kevin
Pietersen and Dennis Bergkamp.
Jose Mourinho said: “I looked at the crowd
and saw a sea of serious, determined
faces.
“Not their faces – the faces of Alex
Ferguson and Luis Suarez on the covers
of their mass-market hardbacks.
“No sound could be heard, even though
their lips were all moving because they
are not strong readers.
“It is no wonder that we conceded a goal
Above:Harry Redknapp thinks he may have
read one, or possibly two, books.
because the team lost focus, and also
because Thibaut Courtois was on chapter
six of Andrea Pirlo’s I Think Therefore I
Play.”
Visiting manager Harry Redknapp spent
the entire time reading his own new
book in the hope of picking up some
management tips.
Fan Julian Cook said: “I can only allot
so many hours per week to sport, so the
game seemed an ideal opportunity to
multi-task.
“Decent game, was it? I can’t wait
to read all about it in Eden Hazard’s
autobiography Caution! Hazard, out
October 2015 from Hachette.”
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