Chelsea’s rising star on his ice-cool penalty against Manchester City and the soul-searching before leaving his boyhood club
“I am a player who always wants the ball … anywhere,” Cole Palmer says, and he certainly wanted it on Sunday; 92 minutes on the clock, his new club, Chelsea, 4-3 down against his old one, Manchester City, but now with a penalty for an improbable draw at Stamford Bridge. “When I saw the ref give it, I thought: ‘It’s my time,’” he says.
Palmer had a word with his teammate Raheem Sterling, another former City player, and told him that, yes, he wanted it. “Raz was like: ‘Fine,’” Palmer says, and it was easy to see a parallel to Chelsea’s game at Burnley in early October when Sterling won a penalty at 1-1 and the ball just seemed to find Palmer.
Written by David Hytner
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/nov/15/its-my-time-cole-palmers-belief-shines-through-before-england-debut under the title “‘It’s my time’: Cole Palmer’s belief shines through before England debut”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
