Damien has Turnedout to Be Duff Signing, Say Upset Critics

Evening Standard - London › November 07, 2006

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Chief Sports Correspondent The former Chelsea winger, who wanted regular football, has been pilloried on fans' forums as being "beyond a joke" SPORT: CARLING CUP 61 DAMIEN DUFF cried his eyes out on the day he left Chelsea. It had once been such a beautiful affair you could almost have believed that spoof Jose Mourinho song which had the Special One crooning: "Duffer, believe me, believe me/For me there is no other winger than you/Please love me too/'Cause I'm in love with you" . . . and had the Irishman responding vacantly "Okay".

Parting had never sounded such sweet sorrow when, in the close season, the real Mourinho declared how difficult it would be to lose someone he loved "as a player and a person" and Duff later let on how he had adored every minute of his time at Chelsea and had been told by the manager he was still wanted.

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Damien has Turnedout to Be Duff Signing, Say Upset Critics

Yet Duff decided: "I had to follow my heart." The heart told him, if he wanted regular first-team football in his prime at 27, he had to leave for pastures new - but must not go grazing at nearby White Hart Lane because ...

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