League Cup semi-finals 1st leg BLUES ARE MY KOP OF
SOUTHAMPTON decided to head for the frozen North East for last night’s game with Newcastle at St James’ Park immediately after their FA Cup tie at Ipswich lastWednesday.
But where would Ronald Koeman find to train his injury-hit squad? Well, where else but the Academy of Light – owned by Sunderland, the bitter rivals of yesterday’s opponents. SALOMON KALOU is backing his former side Chelsea to do the business against their bitter rivals Liverpool in the semi-finals of the Capital One Cup.
And he tips Diego Costa – who hit another double yesterday in the 5-0 rout of Swansea– and Didier Drogba to be the men who bag the first-leg goals on Tuesday to give the Blues one foot in next month’s Wembley final.
Ivory Coast star Kalou didn’t arrive at Stamford Bridge from Feyenoord until 2006, a year after Luis Garcia scored the famous ‘ghost goal’ for the Reds that knocked Chelsea out of the Champions League semis.
But he faced Liverpool in the last four of the same competition in 2007 and on numerous other occasions, when the rivalry was the stadium, the atmospher The fans singing my name ... th was the best song ever Chelsea.”
The song, to the tune of Th Animals Came In Two By Tw goes, ‘He comes from the Ivo Coast, Kalou, Kalou.
‘ He doesn’t do **** lik Adrian Mutu, Mutu, he crosse the ball from the left, it lande right on Riise’s head, that’s w we love Salomon Kalou’.
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“That was a good song,” h added. “And I miss my frien John Obi Mikel. He’s a good ki like my younger brother.
“He was always having a ha time with me because I made fu of him. The best time was whe I gave him the nickname Tra Chapman. Everyone starte calling him it – he was very ups about that.”
Kalou has spent the past we preparing for the Africa Cup O Nations with Manchester Cit bound Wilfried Bony and h