Refusal of keeper to be substituted near end of extra time undermined manager’s good work in League Cup final
At times during his winter dissolve on the Chelsea touchline Maurizio Sarri has had something of the tracksuit-clad King Lear about him, striding his chalk square, whipped by the to-and-fro conflicting winds, raging at ingratitude and insubordination. By the end of this Carabao Cup final he had been transformed into something else, something more terminal; had become instead the fool.
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'Poor Sarri. This really was the final, and very public, indignity'
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