The Fiver | Taunt rival fans with Demba Ba’s Great Ballad of Cognitive Dissonance

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Chelsea’s relationship with Big Cup has often been fraught. They declined to take part in the very first competition, as English champions in 1955, cravenly succumbing to the narrow-minded worldview of Alan Hardaker, the Football League suit whose hardline attitude to foreigners would make current government policy sound comparatively reasonable and coherent. Then there was the final of 2008, when their captain, leader and legend, POJT, slipped on his big glory-hunting badonkadonk, a memory now so deeply suppressed that fans can happily taunt rival supporters with Demba Ba’s Great Ballad of Cognitive Dissonance without any subsequent need for years and years and years of primal-scream therapy.

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