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The Times reports (in a story that we are very surprised that the Daily Mail hasn’t picked up and ran with) that John Obi Mikel reckons that he could have been blinded in a collision with Ghana’s Anthony Annan at the Africa Cup of Nations. Mikel said that after Annan poked him in the eye:
“I couldn’t see when I went back on the pitch and I had to go off.”
“When the ball was coming, I couldn’t see it properly. I didn’t swap shirts with Michael Essien [his Chelsea teammate] after the game because of the eye injury.
“It was hurting too much to worry about swapping shirts. It’s a bit better but it is still a bit painful. At the time it really hurt. I thought I’d lost my eyesight when I was lying on the floor but thankfully everything is fine.”
Real injury or swiftly made up excuse for not swapping his shirt with his Chelsea team mate Essien?
Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel might be a talented young player but he cannot boast of a great disciplinary record. Mikel himself knows that and that is why he pledges to set the records straight.
Mikel says:
I think it is going to stop. We will have to see but I don’t like that, it is not good for the team to be down to ten men and I am trying all my best to make sure I don’t get red cards.
Mikel has already been sent off twice this season for Chelsea and he is gradually turning out to be like Patrick Vieira. Of course, Chelsea boss Avram Grant wouldn’t complain should the Nigerian star turns out to be half as good as the former Arsenal midfielder was.
chop, chop, he wants you to call him LOL
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