I'd say that Robben needs to overcome his fear of injury before it develops into a phobia.
Here's an article from the Guardian UK's website. Hmmmmm, I wonder what team this lad dislikes.
"Hubris hampers Chelsea on their way to world domination
Richard Williams
Thursday November 3, 2005
The Guardian
The day after Peter Kenyon announced Chelsea's plans to "own London" on their way to world domination, his team were defeated by a side who had just lost four games in a row. Now they may have to win their last two remaining Group G matches to ensure their progress to the next stage of the Champions League. Somebody should give Kenyon a lesson in Greek philosophy, with particular reference to the concept of hubris.
Chelsea's chief executive is the man who started using the word "customers" when referring to those people known to the rest of us as spectators, supporters or fans. The interview in which he announced the plan to seduce all London's football fans into joining his club's customer base also contained references to his intention to build "a sustainable income stream" and to develop "a real connect programme" with their potential supporters around the world.
Not many people would want to renounce their existing allegiances in order to "connect" with the sort of thing Chelsea produced against Real Betis on Tuesday. Jose Mourinho suggested that it put "a question mark" against his side, while the players expressed puzzlement. Only John Terry, who ended the match alongside Didier Drogba as a second centre-forward, showed the kind of spirit required to counteract the impressive endeavour of the Spanish side. "It was our first defeat in 90 minutes this season and it was a bad way to lose," the Chelsea captain said. "We didn't perform well and we didn't fight for the shirt."
Mourinho will want answers to the questions raised by his players' unfamiliar lack of spirit and basic competence. He might even ask for a dossier to be compiled on the subject. He is big on dossiers. One of his assistants prepares written analyses of their forthcoming opponents; during the preparation for every match each of the players receives a comprehensive file describing the strengths and weaknesses of the man he is due to face.
Don Revie used to do a similar sort of thing when he managed England, and was criticised for confusing his players. But on Tuesday, asked about the latest twist in his war of words with Arsène Wenger, Mourinho chose to reveal that Chelsea have compiled a 120-page dossier on his opposite number at Highbury. Now there's an innovation that few would want to see catch on.
According to taste, Mourinho's feud with Wenger is either good for a laugh or further depressing evidence that millionaires engaged in nothing more consequential than a ball game cannot be relied upon to behave any better than the rest of us. Even those who find Mourinho's arrogance distasteful are still hard pressed not to admire a man whose finesse extended, when he called Wenger a "voyeur", to fashioning an insult that employed his victim's own native tongue.
It was, of course, a particularly unpleasant insult, and many non-aligned bystanders would like to tell them both to shut up and get on with what they are paid to do, which is to run a couple of football teams in trust for their respective sets of supporters.
Defeat in the Champions League on Tuesday could hardly have been expected to bring out the best in Mourinho. Perhaps he chose the occasion to unveil the existence of the Wenger dossier in order to divert attention from Chelsea's lamentable performance. To his credit, however, he did not try to hide from criticism of the team's display.
Nevertheless it seemed typical of his policy of non-stop aggression that he also deemed it necessary to use the referee's nationality as a partial excuse for the 1-0 reverse. "The referee came from a country where they don't have football," he said, " and that's why he blew for so many fouls and gave out so many yellow cards. I don't like to talk about the referee when my team have achieved nothing, but I believe that in this respect he did have some influence."
So now we know that Mourinho's Chelsea are too grand to accept the decisions of a man from insignificant little Luxembourg, whatever his qualifications and however much experience he might have compiled. At the end of a heated and occasionally fractious but never violent match the statistics said that Alain Hamer handed 10 yellow cards with perfect even-handedness: five to each side. And it was, after all, the home side who lost two players to injuries within the opening half-hour.
With Sunday's visit to Old Trafford promising to provide one of the most compelling contests of the season, Mourinho promised that Tuesday's defeat would be the subject of an unusually thorough inquest. In normal circumstances he delivers the analysis of what went right and wrong. But this defeat, he said, was the sort of performance that could be understood only by getting the players themselves to talk.
"I want to listen more than speak," he said. "I want them to understand why it happened. The performance was unacceptable and the attitude was very bad. The result was not the drama. The drama was the way we played."
