Ray Wilkins was man from the Chelsea dressing room who reflected on a Saturday afternoon when frustration was felt all around Stamford Bridge.

Frustration in the stands as the game remained goalless turned into audible comment when debutant Ricardo Quaresma was taken off just after the hour.




'Quaresma is short of match fitness and you could see that he was waning after an hour,' explained Wilkins. 'So that change had to be made, that was enforced upon us.

'He will get better, he will get fitter. He showed especially in the first 20 minutes that he has quality.

'It is unnecessary and I don't think it should be heard around the stadium,' he said on the chanting that followed the substitution.

'I think it would have been a minority chanting it, kicking it off, and then people get on the back of that and that is their prerogative because they pay their money.

'They pay a lot of money to watch football and if they want to boo, by all means come and boo, but to say someone doesn't know what they are doing when he [Luiz Felipe Scolari] has achieved all he has achieved in the game, is a tad out of order.