Pochettino keeps a bowl of lemons in his office to absorb negative energy. He was asked when Chelsea will start to feel the benefits.
“They started to work after two years at Tottenham,” Pochettino said. “Give time to the lemons. It is a thing that we all believe. If you want to have good energy you need to implement all the things that you believe.
“I believe in the lemons but at Tottenham they started to work after one and a half, two years. They need a long time, they are not magic, but more than ever I still believe in them.
“Today in my office I have yellow ones, green ones, different types. From Spain, from Italy. I don’t want to lie, there is a big box of lemons. I always thought the yellow lemons worked much better than the green but now I believe in any colour – any colour can help. If I could get a blue lemon it would be even better.”
A debate broke out over whether a green lemon is actually a lime. Pochettino said: “A lime is not a lemon. It is a brother, maybe with a different mother or different father.”
So much to enjoy but Poch is a clear nominee for the Talks Like An Afterword T-Shirt award.
‘Give time to the lemons’
Also the word ‘we’ doing a lot of work here.
They couldn’t be the same lemons after two years though could they? This opens up the question of the Philosopher’s Axe (or Trigger’s Broom). I spy a flaw.
Lemons will dry out and if not peeled will form a hard ball although they will not retain the bright yellow when bought. I left one on the radiator once, I forget why.
Tigger’s broom sounds more AW. Used to clean Schrödinger’s flat.
Frankly, he’s bringing the lemon into disrepute
When it comes to sport you can’t go wrong with an orange
Alf Ramsey to Rodney Marsh on his England debut:
“Rodney, if you’re not playing well I’ll pull you off at half-time”
“Thanks Alf – all we get at Manchester City is half an orange”
… which is why he played just nine times for England, at a time when the 1966 team was breaking up and everything was up for grabs, and pissed his career up a wall.
In fairness, D, he’d never have played very many games with Revie either
I bought some limes just this afternoon. An essential ingredient in Coconut Chickpea curry. Essential. The star ingredient, according to Jessica.
It’s delicious.
https://jessicainthekitchen.com/coconut-chickpea-curry-recipe/
That looks rather good, Gary – I’ll try that one!
Lemons for your face
Sitting on the sideboard
It’s great to see Chelsea struggling, and who knew that Pocchetino was a complete lunatic? Until he arrived at the talent-sucking black hole that is Chelsea, he was always thought of as one of the very elite managers, almost on a par with Pep and Klopp, but it turns out he’s as mad as Mad Jock McMad. If it were that simple, the Crewe Alexandra manager would long ago have nipped out to Tesco at half-time for a load of lemons, plonked them on his desk and sat back to wait for the Railwaymen to be crowned League Champions. Spoiler alert – they’re not!
Poch is dis-proving the one thing levelled at big clubs in the past – you can’t buy your way to success
(no matter how much he defends it as a “long term project” – with the amount spent, one would expect some signs of being able to defend, pass, and score)
Crewe (ASDA) lemons are not the same as Chelsea (Waitrose) lemons. As any fule kno.
So this thread is about fitba’ – and not really about lemons?
Who knows? could be about limes, or indeed any variety of citric fruit (which reminds me, I haven’t had a grapefruit for quite some time).
Not about bananas though as they are a herb (could include cucumubers, as botanically they are a fruit
Bananas are a herb?
It’s happening again…
The banana tree stem is a herb, the banana itself is a fruit.
Arguably, the white bit is a Berry. The yellow skin is the fruit because it contains the seed
They should send some to Bramall lane lickety splick.
I discovered recently that a lemon is a hybrid between a bitter orange and a citron, first grown in Assam. Is that where lemon ice tea came from, do you think?
Introduced to us by the ancient Romans. See also: what have they ever done for us, etc?
He’s taking the pith.
Chelsea appear to have lost all zest at the moment.
But are they bitter?