HUMBLE PIE FROM THE MIRROR TO SHEVCHENKO

By dixon9
March 14 2007

You all remember the pathetic attempt from the press at undermining our club and José Mourinho by saying that Shevchenko was a snitch about the players and the manager to Roman Abramovich and that the squad had put the Ukrainian at arms length as they felt they couldn’t trust him?

Further, the Mirror also claimed that Sheva had requested that Ancelotti should replace Mourinho!!!

Well, the Mirror has printed the following apology:

On January 16 we published an article entitled "Shev's a 'Snitch' " that said Andriy Shevchenko's team-mates regarded him as a snitch who was passing details of his dealings with Jose Mourinho back to Roman Abramovich (an allegation we repeated on January 19).

We also reported that the players blamed Shevchenko for the row between Abramovich and Mourinho. As a consequence we said his team-mates could not trust him and this was affecting team morale.

We also claimed on January 17 that Shevchenko had exacerbated his rift with Mourinho by asking Abramovich to replace Mourinho with AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti.

We now accept that these allegations are untrue and we apologise to Andriy Shevchenko for any distress caused by their publication.