WELL WRITTEN, FOR A SCOUSER

You can't help but let the blood drain from your heart when Jose Mourinho outlines the dud hand God has dealt him.

The Special One KNOWS he is destined to win everything in life, which leads to frustration when he comes up against lesser beings who just don't understand how fate decreed he should be allowed his own way at all costs (stomp, stomp).

Take his latest whinge. Oh the indignity and pain, he yelled, that Chelsea should not be among the top seeds in the Champions League draw.

Naturally Mourinho didn't bother to learn why. Because the thought of him lowering himself to understand UEFA's thinking is too humiliating to ponder. All he knows is he and Chelsea are Special and it's an insult not to be treated that way.

So let's remind him of Chelsea's glorious past. Prior to them making the last two Champions League semi-finals, their record in the UEFA Cup in the previous three years was down there with Total Network Solutions: They were knocked out in the first round twice, (against St Gallen and Viking Stavanger) and reached the dizzy heights of round two once, before being shown the door by the mighty Hapoel Tel-Aviv.

You see Jose, a team's greatness isn't automatically judged on what it did last season or its current bank balance, but its history. A notion that, understandably, Chelsea don't dwell on.

Not when you can buy who, or what, you want. Rules? For mugs. Money rules now. And they're the masters. What they want, happens. Comprendi?

Meanwhile, also in the Mirror:

John Terry last night delivered a massive injury blow to England and Chelsea after being ruled out for up to TEN games.

A bitterly disappointed Terry said: "I'm gutted to be missing out on such important World Cup qualifying matches.

"I have been playing through a bit of pain for the last 10 days and when they assessed me this morning they said I needed to rest the knee - but I'm determined to be back as soon as possible."

Terry is now likely to miss Chelsea's first two Champions League games against Liverpool and Anderlecht and the remainder of England's World Cup qualifying campaign.

The Chelsea captain first suffered the knee ligament injury during England's friendly with Denmark and it flared up again at the weekend against Tottenham.