Ex-Chelsea manager, Emma Hayes has come out to share how she made the Blues a dominant force in the Women’s Super League. She recently had her say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to her, Chelsea could not even beat Arsenal when she took over, so she had to go as far as desensitising the brains of the players till they were less scared whenever they saw an Arsenal jersey.
Hayes added that she regularly used the Gunners kit in training back then until her players summoned courage to dominate women football.
Her words, “Chelsea, when I took them over, couldn’t beat Arsenal. I’m gonna desensitise the player’s brains in and around. So I got a kit from Arsenal and I used to coach Arsenal so I managed to get hold of one. I almost used to use it every day in training. We were having a waiver game, if you were stuck in the middle, you’d get the Arsenal jersey. And by a few weeks of using it, players became less fearful of it.”
WOW.
Chelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play their home games at Stamford Bridge.
The club competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They won their first major honour, the League championship, in 1955. The club won the FA Cup for the first time in 1970, their first European honour, the Cup Winners’ Cup, in 1971, and became the third English club to win the Club World Cup in 2022.
On 7 May 2022, Chelsea confirmed that terms have been agreed for a new ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjörg Wyss, to acquire the club. The group was later known as BlueCo.
The UK government approved the £4.25bn takeover, ending Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club. Bruce Buck, who served as chairman since 2003, was replaced by Boehly, while long-serving club director and de facto sporting director Marina Granovskaia left, as did Petr Čech from the role of technical and performance advisor.
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