Ancelotti – Chelsea would have won nothing without Ray Wilkins

The Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti says that he would have had zero success last season if he hadn’t had Ray Wilkins around to act as his interpreter.

Ancelotti said: “One of the reasons I fit into the locker room was thanks to the fundamental role played by Ray Wilkins, my number two and my friend. It’s one thing to translate words – plenty of people can do that – but translating feelings is the gift of only a select few.

“Ray is one of those select few, always present, noble in spirit, a real blue-blood, Chelsea flows in his veins.

“His heart beats in two languages, and that helped me.

“Without him, we couldn’t have won a thing, and in particular we would not have started the year at supersonic speed.”

Good old Uncle Fester!