Clearly you haven't seen him play for Chelsea much. His reading of the game is immense, his distribution while not expansive is very tidy, his leadership skills are fantastic and his attitude (on the pitch) towards defending for his team are unquestionable.
My particular favourite was his refusal to listen to me relaying what my father had said about a game because I had not been at the game so had no right to comment on it. A couple of weeks later he said my analysis of a game was wrong but when I pushed him it turned out he hadn't even been there...