If you follow English soccer, this might be the funniest article ever written.  When I first saw it, I couldn’t believe my eyes: Peter Kenyon expects a player to honor his contract?!? That’s like George Steinbrenner demanding a salary cap or Barack Obama backtracking on telecom immunity (oh, right). Read the headline of that article again, savor it, embrace it. “Peter Keynon expects Lampard to honour Chel$ea Contract.” Delicious.

If you don’t know, Peter Kenyon is the man responsible for this. It’s a good summary, but it doesn’t quite do the situation justice. The chief executive of Chelski called Ashley Cole’s cellphone out of the blue and set up a meeting to offer him a contract. A week before a Champions League knockout match. In the middle of the season. While the player had two+ years left on his Arsenal contract.  Then demanded that Arsenal lower their asking price. So, you understand why I find the current situation rather risible, and proof that there is a God.

Chelsea, of all clubs, complaining about honoring contracts is, pardon my French, absolute fucking bullshit. The same Chelsea that does their best to tap-up any players they might be interested in, the same Chelsea that buys the best players from mid-table sides, to ensure that they put up less of a fight in league games, the same Chelsea that announces hiring a coach while that coach is in the knockout stages of a major tournament, that Chelsea is complaining that Inter Milan is tampering with their players. I’m the last person who would say that a club with no history shouldn’t be allowed success, but there’s something to be said for a tradition of winning, and the classy attitude that results. Arsenal, Man U, (until recently) Liverpool, even Celtic and Rangers have a certain amount of class about them. Chelsea has about as much class as Russell Crowe at a  NASCAR race.

This is one of those Hosea 8:7 moments: Chelsea certainly did “sow the wind,” so “reap the whirlwind” and stop complaining.

-Ryan