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Has Didier Drogba Grown Up?

To say Didier Drogba behaved like a complete ‘tosser’ the last time we faced Burnley would pretty much sum up that disastrous night in November. But then he was a bit of a disaster area all round last season anyway.

Injuries meant he’d barely played for us before that Carling Cup game and yet there he was getting himself a 3-game ban because he couldn’t accept some Burnley fan’s generosity during his goal celebrations. Not that he restricted his fuck-ups to coin tossing though because apparently, when the Ivorian is not a happy boy, the world and his wife will know all about it.

In a season where he didn’t just court controversy, he all but proposed to it, we had the usual reports of him wanting to leave, with the added bonus of secret meetings behind the club’s back, the dressing-room unrest that followed, not to mention capping the season with a car-crash scale rant at the cameras following our Champions League exit.

So far this season though, he seems to have rid himself of the bee in his bonnet/ant up his arse, or whatever else it was bothering him, and the early signs suggest he’s a lot fitter and more focused as a result.

And having been fortunate enough not to have witnessed his ‘performance’ against Burnley last time out, new Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti says “Drogba has shown great quality since I’ve been here.  I didn’t know him when he played Burnley last year. I didn’t know him before I came here.  It can happen that one player, in the match, can lose his mind, can lose his control. But, now, I think he’s very calm. It’s the past.  Didier is one of the best strikers I have worked with. We are lucky to have Didier and Anelka. They are at the same level as Rooney or Fernando Torres.  Maybe Adebayor.  He’s a very good guy, he likes to joke. But he knows very well when he can joke and when we must do the serious things.  I think Didier has had a very good career up to now but he can do better because, at 31, he is not an old player.”

Let’s hope he acts like a grown-up today then.

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