Jorginho: From Sarri-ball scapegoat to Chelsea’s ‘driver’

Reported today in Football365. The transformation in Jorginho’s reputation and standing at Chelsea from last season to this has been exceptional. From figure of ridicule and target of misplaced derision, to the wise leader in Frank Lampard’s youthful revolution. But what has actually changed? Is he now a better player? Or has he just been wiped clean of the Sarri-ball tar that brushed both him and his previous manager (presumably from the cigarette end that dangled from his mouth)? Last season, Jorginho was the sideways-passing defensively liability, the perfect on-pitch representation of a style of football that Chelsea fans grew to hate. If the manager was the composer of Sarri-ball, Jorginho was the conductor, doing his best with what he was given, but unable to extract the right tune from his fellow performers in a way that would prevent a barrage of abuse from the watching ‘aficionados’. The chants of “f**k Sarri-ball” that marre