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Monday, July 28, 2008

The Traditions of Football

Chelsea has a traditional initiation ceremony of making new players stand in front of their new team-mates to sing a song of his choice during the pre-season.

Recently, Deco and Jose Bosingwa were subjected to the Chelsea tradition in Macau. Each new player did so by standing in front of their new teammates.

Even chief executive, Peter Kenyon, has agreed to sing sometime on the Asia pre-season roadshow and yes even World Cup winner Scolari's will make a much anticipated performance in the future

John Terry said "It might sound silly, but it's been a tradition at the club for years and it maybe helps people settle in, when the lads first arrive and hear what they have to do, they're shitting themselves. They can go out there and play in front of 80,000 people and yet they're frightened to get up in front of 24 of their mates. So it's a great test of character for them."

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