Drogba "Everybody knows I was ill"

[BlueLion. 21,491]

I think the malaria is a legitimate excuse. It is a horrible disease by all accounts and saps the life out of the person. Now imagine being a professional athlete, renowned for strength and athleticism, still being asked to perform at your best level? It's almost impossible. In fact Drogba deserves so much respect for even playing through the illness, I guarantee you almost 99% of players would have taken months off.

Didier :worship:

Great post.

He shouldn't of played Drogs at all in that period but its that thing again with the profile of the player and being worried about us losing if Drogs doesn't play and being blamed. It's easy just to pick the best players and make excuses but a real world class manager woulda had the bollocks to make changes. It's what they get paid for. That's my main criticism of Carlo, making changes to his team.

We blew the title in that period and Drogs was made a bit of a scapegoat.

Exactly. There was a lot of criticism during this part of the season (myself included, though that was before I knew he had malaria...)

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The problem is how he got malaria?