Chelsea’s couture curse?

By: Jack | December 9th, 2009

The fine folks over at Footy Factor beat me to it this bit of well-clothed information — well done, good sirs – but this tiny footnote had actually struck me right after the League Cup tie with Blackburn.

So the Blues have lost three matches this season (@ Wigan, Aston Villa, Manchester City). They’ve also been eliminated from the Carling Cup on penalties by Blackburn. You know all this. But do you know the one constant over all four defeats?

Why the kit, of course. That dreaded neon-navy concoction to be more precise.

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Drogba, either staring at his junk or lamenting how awful this kit is.

Yes, Chelsea has played four matches this term in what has been designated our away kit for 2009-10. Aaaaaand the Blues have lost all four. More over, three players — Salomon Kalou, England’s Brave John Terry and Ashley Cole — have suffered injuries wearing that ghastly ringer.

The breakdown:
Played 24 – 19 Wins,1 Draw, 4 losses
Home Kit: (blue) played 18 – won 17, drawn 1.
Away Kit (navy/neon): played 4 – lost 4.
Third Kit (white): played 2 – won 2.

Superstitious or no — I’m not, usually – to hell with this kit. Blue and white for the rest of the season, I say.

What do you think? Hogwash? Burn it?

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  • sumedh |  December 9th, 2009 at 8:54 pm

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    even i thought this kit is unlucky after our elimination from the c.cup…and d manc defeat made my belief firm…this kit should be burnt..

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  • rotimi |  December 10th, 2009 at 6:37 am

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    Observed this myself hence I don’t wear mine when we are playing away. The best thing to break the jinx is to mix things up un-usually, like having say Ashley Cole take the penalty kick and not Lampard, play Ashley Cole and Zirkov on the left with Ashley doing most of the attack, just be as un-predictable as can be, its either the jinx is broken or we abandon the kit, its not too much of a price to pay.

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