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Malouda attacks 'brainless' English game
'Things are not as simple over here as they are in France'
Tom Lutz
Tuesday December 4, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Florent Malouda
Malouda is currently on the sidelines with a knee injury. Photograph: AP
The Chelsea winger Florent Malouda, who criticised his club last week for failing to fly him home from a Euro 2008 qualifier in a private jet, has expanded his horizons to attack London, English football and the nation's shopkeepers.
"During the actual games [in England] it is as though everybody's brains are switched off," said Malouda. "People play by instinct, spontaneously, in the way they did when they first discovered football. Training sessions here are terrifying. They are just like matches, and you go flat out."
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Malouda, who has been on the sidelines for a month with a knee injury, added that he was shocked by his team-mates' diets. "The people at Chelsea don't control what the players eat," he added. "You can help yourself to whatever you like, drink Coke or anything. It is a good job I have come over here at the age of 27 and so haven't been following the same diet as the rest of the club's players."
But Malouda did not solely reserve his ire for life on the pitch. "I have only just had a phone line put in," he admitted. "Things are not as simple over here as they are in France. You can't just go into a shop and 'bingo' they come round the next day to install your equipment. In a way, I've enjoyed getting myself out of the shit by myself as I have often had to do in my life.
"The traffic in London goes at a snail's pace at times, so sometimes I end up taking the Tube."
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Malouda's apparently unsettled. Would you like to see him in Juve or not?