Flying high but still not sure if it’s for real

IT is always considered amongst matchgoing fans to be in extremely poor taste to revel openly in serious injuries to opposition players.

So I tutted slightly when one colleague opined this weekend that he didn’t know which goalkeeper calamity was funnier — England’s Croatian cock-up or Chelsea’s guardians dropping like flies on Saturday.

But the latter incident does remind us all that even a mighty, seemingly infallible strategic operation such as Chelsea’s can be waylaid, if only temporarily, by fate’s caprices.