Thu 17 Feb, 7:55 PM
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LONDON (AFP) - Chelsea are set to break with tradition after the Blues' manager Jose Mourinho reportedly decreed players will not wear specially-made suits for next week's League Cup final against Liverpool.
According to the London Evening Standard, Mourinho, whose side are chasing an unprecedented four major trophies in one season, wants the London club to treat the February 27 Millennium Stadium clash like any other match.
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It is certainly not a question of money with Chelsea's Russian oil billionaire owner Roman Abramovich having catapulted the Londoners into 10th place in a 'rich list' of the world's biggest football clubs released Thursday by accountants Deloitte and Touche.
But Mourinho doesn't want his players to be distracted from their pursuit of the Champions League, Premiership and FA Cup crowns. So he has ordered his players and staff to make sure the build-up to the match is low key.
Usually, clubs make a show of participating in a major final by fitting out their stars in identical designer outfits
When Chelsea last reached a final, their 2-0 defeat by Arsenal in the FA Cup three years ago, they turned-up before kick-off in blue pinstriped suits designed by Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani.
But this time the players will use the normal Hugo Boss club suits the Chelsea squad wear to away matches.
Mourinho too is unlikely to change his match-day attire either. This season he has taken to wearing a grey trench coat his wife bought him to games since the winter weather began because he believes it brings him luck.
Now just re-read that last paragraph, now all we have to do is to find a way to steal the mans trench coat, and with them already hit by an injury crisis, it'd be like playing monkeys.
) so take heart and believe that on the day we can win any game.
