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FanView: Why the Chelsea Board's Farcical Pursuit of Andy Carroll Demonstrates a Slide in Stature

It's a pretty painful week to be a Chelsea fan. Having sat through 270 minutes of goalless football in our last three outings, waking up to the news that we're being linked with West Ham's Andy Carroll - a player so used to spending time on the treatment table he should really have picked up a medical degree by now - really is the lurid icing on a particularly bitter tasting cake.

There we sit, scrolling through Twitter as the names of dazzling footballers whizz by: an Aubameyang here, a Malcom there - going positively anywhere but Chelsea.