{"id":285738,"date":"2026-02-07T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:37:12","slug":"i-love-this-job-i-am-serious-liam-rosenior-responds-to-viral-media-clip-from-chelseas-defeat-at-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285738\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I love this job. I am serious\u2019 \u2013 Liam Rosenior responds to viral media clip from Chelsea\u2019s defeat at Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Rosenior\u2019s failure to trap a ball on the touchline spark an online frenzy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liam Rosenior\u2019s side came up short in the semi-final (John Walton\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/85e88b33-f1af-4166-a5fb-c9fdcc904d59.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Liam Rosenior\u2019s side came up short in the semi-final (John Walton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior shrugged off the mockery he receives online and admitted even members of his own squad are in on the joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The former Strasbourg boss has been the target of jibes on social media after failing to control a high ball as it dropped to him on the touchline during Tuesday\u2019s 1-0 defeat to Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The moment came late in the second half as Chelsea chased the goal that would have sent the semi-final second leg to extra time, and drew jeers from home supporters inside the ground which have been amplified online \u2013 and, it seems, around the training ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cA few of the lads have played it back to me,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had a laugh about it. Estevao said he can\u2019t believe I was a professional footballer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThis is a great job. I love this job. I am serious, I\u2019m serious in many aspects. I\u2019m demanding, but life is too short. You have to enjoy life, you have to be able to laugh at yourself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cAt the moment a lot of people in this country have been laughing at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Chelsea suffered a setback on transfer deadline day when they lost out to Liverpool in the race to sign Rennes defender Jeremy Jacquet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There was however better news for Rosenior with the return from loan of his captain at Strasbourg, Mamadou Sarr, a versatile defender who in January helped Senegal win the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cEverybody knows what I think about Mamadou,\u201d said Rosenior. \u201cI think he\u2019s got the potential to be a world-class centre-back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI thank the sporting directors and the ownership for supporting what I thought was right for us and for his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI see a growth in Mamadou. I see a growth in his performance in the AFCON final, I see a growth in his physicality and in his tactical understanding. Also it was an area of the pitch where I felt we could strengthen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThey\u2019re all the things I took into account. He will get his opportunity but he knows he will have to fight for it because we\u2019ve got many outstanding centre-backs in our group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosenior\u2019s failure to trap a ball on the touchline spark an online frenzy Liam Rosenior\u2019s side came up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-285738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}