On Eggs and Champions League

It’s a Champions League week, which means we will be treated to ridiculous pictures of teams training and ridiculous quotes from players and managers. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho provides us with both today. In addition to showing off his skills while looking like the recipient of a facelift operation gone bad, he pontificates on the nature of omelettes.

Explaining what it is like to be a manager whose team has been struck hard by injuries, Mourinho likens it to being a cook working with bad eggs.

However, in a typically bizarre analogy, Mourinho admits that without his best players, it is like trying to make an omelette without the best eggs money can buy.

Mourinho declared: ‘The style of how we play is very important. But it is omelettes and eggs. No eggs – no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs.

‘In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes.

‘So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.’

You can see Mourinho’s men, ahem, scrambling against Rosenborg on Tuesday as they try to avoid, ahem, getting eggs on their faces.

You can also cast your vote for who you think will lift the big trophy in Russia in May and join an Offside Champions League fantasy league that has been created by our Real Madrid blogger Corey. The league code is 81252-15751.

The Matchday 1 fixtures:

18 September 2007
Marseille – BeÅŸiktaÅŸ JK
Porto – Liverpool
Chelsea – Rosenborg
Schalke - Valencia
Real Madrid – Bremen
Olympiacos – Lazio
Milan - Benfica
Shakhtar – Celtic

19 September 2007
Rangers – Stuttgart
Barcelona – Lyon
Roma - Dynamo Kyiv
Sporting – Man. United
PSV – CSKA Moskva
Fenerbah̤e РInternazionale
Arsenal – Sevilla
Slavia – Steaua

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