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Ashley Cole: Carlo Ancelotti talked me out of joining Jose Mourinho in Madrid
By Leo Spall
Ashley Cole has admitted that only the persuasive powers of Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti stopped him walking out of Stamford Bridge to join former manager Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid last summer.
With Cole's private life under scrutiny during his high-profile divorce, the England full-back was tempted by the thought of moving.
But Cole reveals in a television interview: 'It was hard for me in my head. It wasn't just about the football, it was more my brain and it was getting too much for me.
'There were times when it was really hard. I did think about leaving but, of course, when I spoke to Ancelotti he made it clear he wanted me to stay and loved having me around, and the players didn't want me to go.
'I'm glad I stayed. A lot of people were saying "you can't leave", "he's basically giving up and he has to take the flak".
'I've stayed now and I've taken the flak and hopefully I'm coming through it.'
Cole was a big fan of Mourinho, who signed him for Chelsea, but he claims Ancelotti has brought Chelsea together in a way the managers who served between their reigns - Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Guus Hiddink - did not.
'I enjoyed them and worked really hard under them and they were good guys,' the defender told ESPN. 'But I don't know what it is with Carlo. He seems to be one of the lads. He knows when to be serious, but he joins in at training and every enjoys having him around. When you have someone like that around you it makes you want to fight and win for him. He just brings out the best in the lot of us.'
Now Cole, as he approaches his 30th birthday, says he intends to see out his career at Stamford Bridge although he does reveal that injury may be the biggest threat to playing out his final years at Chelsea.
'I would love to end my career here,' said Cole, whose Chelsea contract expires in 2013. 'I'd like to say I have four years left at the top, but I'm taking it year by year and seeing how the body is because I'm 29 but I feel like 35 or 40. It's hard getting up in the mornings.'
Cole has achieved a great deal already, with winner's medals from six FA Cups, three Premier League titles and one League Cup.
Yet he is still desperate for more and eager to add a Champions League success to his collection - if his past ankle problems do not catch up with him. In February, he broke his ankle at Everton and was out for three months.
When asked about his ambitions, Cole said: 'Being able to go to the toilet without limping. I'm like an old man every morning.
'I still think about the Champions League finals I lost (with former club Arsenal and then Chelsea). Things like that come into your head and it makes you more determined.'
Cole has long been a hate figure for some England fans and his popularity reached a low in the summer when he came under fire after the World Cup for an apparently flippant attitude to the team's failure.
That coincided with sordid revelations about his private life as he split with pop-star wife Cheryl Cole, but the Chelsea defender believes the experience has made him stronger.
Cole equalled Kenny Sansom's 86-cap record for an England full-back in last week's draw with Montenegro and the fans' cheers were a welcome change.
'I always get booed at Wembley so it was like "here we go again", and I was very surprised and very thankful with the reaction and the ovation that I got,' he said. 'I couldn't believe it. I thought they'd boo me more because of the record. There were a few boos, but that's understandable.
'If I'm really honest, the boos hurt. I just want to win things and I try to ignore it.'
THE NUMBERS GAME
9 Ashley Cole is equal ninth in England's all-time list of cap-winners with 86, level with fellow left-back Kenny Sansom.
6 His FA Cup winner's medals - beating 19th-century heroes James Forrest, Charles Wollaston and Arthur Kinnaird.
3 Cole has played for three clubs: Arsenal (1998-2006), Crystal Palace (on loan, 1999-2000) and Chelsea (2006-present).
5 The number of Premier League goals the defender has scored for both Arsenal and Chelsea.
Cole sent his shirt from the night to Sansom and has now set himself a target of winning 100 caps, revealing, too, that he had spoken to his England left-back predecessor years ago about breaking the record.
There have been times recently when Cole playing for England was no certainty, never mind reaching long-standing landmarks. But he insists he has grown from the furore that has engulfed him for months and cast doubt over his international career.
As Chelsea prepare to go to Spartak Moscow in the Champions League on Tuesday, Cole believes things are turning to such a degree that he is starting to gain respect for the way he plays.
'I never said I'm one of the best, I've got a lot to improve in my game,' he said. 'But of course it's nice that people are maybe starting to realise all the off-field stuff, it kind of happens in life.
'Maybe it's better for me - now I've dealt with it and I'm playing the best football I've ever played.'
If it was not for Chelsea manager Ancelotti, that might not have been the case
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Sticking with the Daily Fail (actially shoot me pls), something about Cheryl. And here anguish over Ashley for the 3478347932749347398th time
Cheryl Cole puts anguish of divorce on record
By Simon Cable
She's managed to keep a dignified silence over her painful divorce so far.
But Cheryl Cole appears to use the lyrics of a song from her new album to deliver a heartfelt attack on Ashley Cole, following claims that the England footballer cheated on her with a string of women during their three-year marriage.
Happy Tears includes the lines: ‘I cried when I heard you were cheatin’, I cried when I said I was leaving, I cried when my heart stopped believin’, But I’m all out of tears.’
The 27-year-old singer did not write the lyrics, but is said to have approved them after they were penned.
During the song the X Factor judge also sings lines about slashing a cheating lover’s tyres, burning his suits, refusing to accept his apologies and telephone calls and selling her jewellery.
The track is included on her second album, Messy Little Raindrops, which is set for release on November 1 and is set for huge chart success after her debut solo album 3 Words sold almost a million copies.
Last night, the X Factor judge was filming an interview with Piers Morgan, in which she was expected to ‘reveal everything’ about the couple’s turbulent marriage.
Miss Cole has so far refused to discuss her split from the Chelsea defender, 29, who moved out of the couple’s Surrey mansion earlier this year.
She was left devastated after a number of women came forward claiming they had slept with her husband.
She said she had been left heartbroken by Cole’s alleged infidelity with blonde hairdresser Aimee Walton in 2007, which was made public in 2008.
But she later went on to insist her marriage was fine and described her husband as ‘a genuinely nice person’.
But in April this year it was reported that he had sent explicit pictures of himself to glamour model Sonia Wild.
Shortly after, allegations emerged that he had slept with Vicki Gough, 30, a Liverpool FC secretary.
A fourth woman then came forward, U.S. political aide Ann Corbitt, who claimed she had slept with the star twice in Seattle during Chelsea’s pre-season tour in July 2009.
A fifth woman came forward to say she had sex with Cole on the very night he and his future wife went public with their relationship in 2004.
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Thoughts, y'all?? OK, not gonna lie, I greatly favour the first article to the second. (Well, I would.) I LOVE how good Ashley Cole is at football, k, he's like bloody amazing and I am so proud to have him on my team, it's not even real. His book "My Defence" bought the exasperated lulz but his actual defending is immense, as is his going forward; he links up with our wingers like a BOSS. I defend him endlessly, it's actually damn annoying, when someone disses him I whip out all these facts and yeah, I should probably get a life. But the point is, since he joined Chelsea, I've really, really, really grown to love him??? Like, on Boxing Day 2007 when he handballed in like the last second leading us to concede a penalty I weren't 'appy but looking back at that now, I realise it was pretty much all he could have done, rather than letting the ball go in, and yeah, I just BLOODY LOVE HIM, ok??? I mean, I don't even mind that he's a bit of a bell in "RL", because, well, so am I, so I'm hardly one to judge. Plus he's one of those players who, getting booed just makes him play even better so as far as I'm concerned, keep it coming. Also, I love how presh-ush he is when he's always one of the first to hug Lamps or Didi or whomever when they score. Team of "mercenaries" or not, our team spirit is pretty much priceless =))))))))))))))))) Also GO HIM for equaling Kenny Samson's record =))))))))
As for the Chezza article, well. I say this with love and affection, srsly (she's genuinely one of my top 5 girlcrushes and my fave GA member [and I LOVE GA] and I would probably suck her toes if she asked me to), but really Chezza, stop milking it naow please? What Ashley did was unacceptable and terrible, but you are and will not be the first woman to have been duped by a guy, and, lez be honest; you've not done badly out of it -- record deal, X-Factor, etc, all on the whole ~~nation's scorned woman~~ thing. I think the reason her claim's that her song lyrics are based on her heartbreak don't really hold water with me is that, well, as it says in the article, she didn't actually write the damned things. When I get rejected by a boy (it's far too much of a common occurence for my liking, but yeah), I tend to vent my bitterness/frustration into a shitty slashfic usually making myself Peter Crouch or Philipp Lahm and him Luka Modric or Michael Ballack or w/e and then lock it on my laptop to come back to and read when I'm feeling stronger. It's generally quite standard for artists to draw on their life experiences in their work. Thus, I don't really get why a big thing is being made about Cheryl supposedly drawing on her Ashley Cole experiences for her songs; everyone uses experiences for their work. It just seems to me that this article is yet another attempt to generate hate for the Ashley Cole hate brigade, and the man already has enough haters, please and thank you. And, all that being said, I still GREATLY look forward to her album-- I loved Happy Hour and Fight4disLove!!!!111~~~
BUT THAT'S JUST ME. What do you all think girlies????? :))))))) Oh yes, and I compiled this entry with a huuuuge hangover, hence why it's a bit shit and the spelling and grammar aren't totally there *clown music*
Ashley Cole: Carlo Ancelotti talked me out of joining Jose Mourinho in Madrid
By Leo Spall
Ashley Cole has admitted that only the persuasive powers of Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti stopped him walking out of Stamford Bridge to join former manager Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid last summer.
With Cole's private life under scrutiny during his high-profile divorce, the England full-back was tempted by the thought of moving.
But Cole reveals in a television interview: 'It was hard for me in my head. It wasn't just about the football, it was more my brain and it was getting too much for me.
'There were times when it was really hard. I did think about leaving but, of course, when I spoke to Ancelotti he made it clear he wanted me to stay and loved having me around, and the players didn't want me to go.
'I'm glad I stayed. A lot of people were saying "you can't leave", "he's basically giving up and he has to take the flak".
'I've stayed now and I've taken the flak and hopefully I'm coming through it.'
Cole was a big fan of Mourinho, who signed him for Chelsea, but he claims Ancelotti has brought Chelsea together in a way the managers who served between their reigns - Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Guus Hiddink - did not.
'I enjoyed them and worked really hard under them and they were good guys,' the defender told ESPN. 'But I don't know what it is with Carlo. He seems to be one of the lads. He knows when to be serious, but he joins in at training and every enjoys having him around. When you have someone like that around you it makes you want to fight and win for him. He just brings out the best in the lot of us.'
Now Cole, as he approaches his 30th birthday, says he intends to see out his career at Stamford Bridge although he does reveal that injury may be the biggest threat to playing out his final years at Chelsea.
'I would love to end my career here,' said Cole, whose Chelsea contract expires in 2013. 'I'd like to say I have four years left at the top, but I'm taking it year by year and seeing how the body is because I'm 29 but I feel like 35 or 40. It's hard getting up in the mornings.'
Cole has achieved a great deal already, with winner's medals from six FA Cups, three Premier League titles and one League Cup.
Yet he is still desperate for more and eager to add a Champions League success to his collection - if his past ankle problems do not catch up with him. In February, he broke his ankle at Everton and was out for three months.
When asked about his ambitions, Cole said: 'Being able to go to the toilet without limping. I'm like an old man every morning.
'I still think about the Champions League finals I lost (with former club Arsenal and then Chelsea). Things like that come into your head and it makes you more determined.'
Cole has long been a hate figure for some England fans and his popularity reached a low in the summer when he came under fire after the World Cup for an apparently flippant attitude to the team's failure.
That coincided with sordid revelations about his private life as he split with pop-star wife Cheryl Cole, but the Chelsea defender believes the experience has made him stronger.
Cole equalled Kenny Sansom's 86-cap record for an England full-back in last week's draw with Montenegro and the fans' cheers were a welcome change.
'I always get booed at Wembley so it was like "here we go again", and I was very surprised and very thankful with the reaction and the ovation that I got,' he said. 'I couldn't believe it. I thought they'd boo me more because of the record. There were a few boos, but that's understandable.
'If I'm really honest, the boos hurt. I just want to win things and I try to ignore it.'
THE NUMBERS GAME
9 Ashley Cole is equal ninth in England's all-time list of cap-winners with 86, level with fellow left-back Kenny Sansom.
6 His FA Cup winner's medals - beating 19th-century heroes James Forrest, Charles Wollaston and Arthur Kinnaird.
3 Cole has played for three clubs: Arsenal (1998-2006), Crystal Palace (on loan, 1999-2000) and Chelsea (2006-present).
5 The number of Premier League goals the defender has scored for both Arsenal and Chelsea.
Cole sent his shirt from the night to Sansom and has now set himself a target of winning 100 caps, revealing, too, that he had spoken to his England left-back predecessor years ago about breaking the record.
There have been times recently when Cole playing for England was no certainty, never mind reaching long-standing landmarks. But he insists he has grown from the furore that has engulfed him for months and cast doubt over his international career.
As Chelsea prepare to go to Spartak Moscow in the Champions League on Tuesday, Cole believes things are turning to such a degree that he is starting to gain respect for the way he plays.
'I never said I'm one of the best, I've got a lot to improve in my game,' he said. 'But of course it's nice that people are maybe starting to realise all the off-field stuff, it kind of happens in life.
'Maybe it's better for me - now I've dealt with it and I'm playing the best football I've ever played.'
If it was not for Chelsea manager Ancelotti, that might not have been the case
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Sticking with the Daily Fail (actially shoot me pls), something about Cheryl. And here anguish over Ashley for the 3478347932749347398th time
Cheryl Cole puts anguish of divorce on record
By Simon Cable
She's managed to keep a dignified silence over her painful divorce so far.
But Cheryl Cole appears to use the lyrics of a song from her new album to deliver a heartfelt attack on Ashley Cole, following claims that the England footballer cheated on her with a string of women during their three-year marriage.
Happy Tears includes the lines: ‘I cried when I heard you were cheatin’, I cried when I said I was leaving, I cried when my heart stopped believin’, But I’m all out of tears.’
The 27-year-old singer did not write the lyrics, but is said to have approved them after they were penned.
During the song the X Factor judge also sings lines about slashing a cheating lover’s tyres, burning his suits, refusing to accept his apologies and telephone calls and selling her jewellery.
The track is included on her second album, Messy Little Raindrops, which is set for release on November 1 and is set for huge chart success after her debut solo album 3 Words sold almost a million copies.
Last night, the X Factor judge was filming an interview with Piers Morgan, in which she was expected to ‘reveal everything’ about the couple’s turbulent marriage.
Miss Cole has so far refused to discuss her split from the Chelsea defender, 29, who moved out of the couple’s Surrey mansion earlier this year.
She was left devastated after a number of women came forward claiming they had slept with her husband.
She said she had been left heartbroken by Cole’s alleged infidelity with blonde hairdresser Aimee Walton in 2007, which was made public in 2008.
But she later went on to insist her marriage was fine and described her husband as ‘a genuinely nice person’.
But in April this year it was reported that he had sent explicit pictures of himself to glamour model Sonia Wild.
Shortly after, allegations emerged that he had slept with Vicki Gough, 30, a Liverpool FC secretary.
A fourth woman then came forward, U.S. political aide Ann Corbitt, who claimed she had slept with the star twice in Seattle during Chelsea’s pre-season tour in July 2009.
A fifth woman came forward to say she had sex with Cole on the very night he and his future wife went public with their relationship in 2004.
sauce
Thoughts, y'all?? OK, not gonna lie, I greatly favour the first article to the second. (Well, I would.) I LOVE how good Ashley Cole is at football, k, he's like bloody amazing and I am so proud to have him on my team, it's not even real. His book "My Defence" bought the exasperated lulz but his actual defending is immense, as is his going forward; he links up with our wingers like a BOSS. I defend him endlessly, it's actually damn annoying, when someone disses him I whip out all these facts and yeah, I should probably get a life. But the point is, since he joined Chelsea, I've really, really, really grown to love him??? Like, on Boxing Day 2007 when he handballed in like the last second leading us to concede a penalty I weren't 'appy but looking back at that now, I realise it was pretty much all he could have done, rather than letting the ball go in, and yeah, I just BLOODY LOVE HIM, ok??? I mean, I don't even mind that he's a bit of a bell in "RL", because, well, so am I, so I'm hardly one to judge. Plus he's one of those players who, getting booed just makes him play even better so as far as I'm concerned, keep it coming. Also, I love how presh-ush he is when he's always one of the first to hug Lamps or Didi or whomever when they score. Team of "mercenaries" or not, our team spirit is pretty much priceless =))))))))))))))))) Also GO HIM for equaling Kenny Samson's record =))))))))
As for the Chezza article, well. I say this with love and affection, srsly (she's genuinely one of my top 5 girlcrushes and my fave GA member [and I LOVE GA] and I would probably suck her toes if she asked me to), but really Chezza, stop milking it naow please? What Ashley did was unacceptable and terrible, but you are and will not be the first woman to have been duped by a guy, and, lez be honest; you've not done badly out of it -- record deal, X-Factor, etc, all on the whole ~~nation's scorned woman~~ thing. I think the reason her claim's that her song lyrics are based on her heartbreak don't really hold water with me is that, well, as it says in the article, she didn't actually write the damned things. When I get rejected by a boy (it's far too much of a common occurence for my liking, but yeah), I tend to vent my bitterness/frustration into a shitty slashfic usually making myself Peter Crouch or Philipp Lahm and him Luka Modric or Michael Ballack or w/e and then lock it on my laptop to come back to and read when I'm feeling stronger. It's generally quite standard for artists to draw on their life experiences in their work. Thus, I don't really get why a big thing is being made about Cheryl supposedly drawing on her Ashley Cole experiences for her songs; everyone uses experiences for their work. It just seems to me that this article is yet another attempt to generate hate for the Ashley Cole hate brigade, and the man already has enough haters, please and thank you. And, all that being said, I still GREATLY look forward to her album-- I loved Happy Hour and Fight4disLove!!!!111~~~
BUT THAT'S JUST ME. What do you all think girlies????? :))))))) Oh yes, and I compiled this entry with a huuuuge hangover, hence why it's a bit shit and the spelling and grammar aren't totally there *clown music*