Former Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior has said he suffered from a snowball effect in the English media that led to him being branded a joke.
Rosenior was sacked by Chelsea after only 106 days in charge last season, following a tough period at Stamford Bridge. He had been appointed from sister-club Strasbourg to replace Enzo Maresca but managed just 11 wins in 23 matches across all competitions. Rosenior was fired after five consecutive defeats without scoring.
During his time at Stamford Bridge, Rosenior was a regular target for criticism from both pundits and on social media.
He has now opened up on the impact of the scrutiny, insisting he enjoyed his time at Chelsea, despite the off-field distractions. In an interview with Sport Witness, Rosenior hit out at the English media for attempting to turn him into a ‘joke’.
“It was the best experience of my life, and the hardest too,” Rosenior, now head coach of Paris FC, said.
“It was fantastic, even though it only lasted four months. I don’t want to go into details now; I’ll talk about it one day, when the time is right. But in a country where tolerance is an important value, what happened there has nothing to do with football.”
“The moment that worried me the most was at the beginning, when we went through that five-game winning streak. Any club would have been happy with such a run, but not Chelsea.
“You get good results and you’re in the spotlight. Then, there was a kind of snowball effect in the media.
“They made fun of those instructions I gave [Alejandro] Garnacho on a scrap of paper when we were down to 10 men against PSG. The clothes I wore became a joke, the way I spoke too. I’m not a joke.
“You’re the first people I’m talking to about this, and probably the last for a long time, but one day, I’ll tell you what really happened.”
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