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Chelsea, Mourinho like Tiger Woods, says Gullit

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Dutch legend Ruud Gullit has likened Chelsea’s catastrophic Premier League campaign to Tiger Woods’s fall from the top of the world of golf.

Gullit believes that the Blues are now in the same sort of position as Woods, golf’s former world number one and 14-times major championship winner, who has slumped to 362nd in the world after going more than two years without a victory.

“It’s like Tiger Woods,” Gullit told Sky Sports. “In the beginning everybody who was standing with Tiger Woods knew already that they had lost the game. Now people see him and Chelsea and think: ‘We can beat them.’

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“They lost that aura of invincibility. They lost it. You can feel it. You can sense it. The players sense it also that the opposition is not afraid of you anymore. To get that back you get it only by results.”

Unlike many, however, Gullit believes that Mourinho remains the man to turn things around at Stamford Bridge – but he must first face up to his own failings and mistakes, and stop blaming his players.

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