Terrace Talk: Chelsea: Boring? Forgetful Arsenal need a history lesson

As the final few seconds ticked by at the Emirates the Arsenal fans sang “boring, boring Chelsea” — oh the irony. 

Terrace Talk: Chelsea: Boring? Forgetful Arsenal need a history lesson

A club whose history was built on 1-0 arm-in-the-air offside trap football. Short memories.

I’m not really sure what they expected anyway. Everyone who has even a modicum of footballing knowledge would have called that before the game. Jose was never going to do anything risky when we are this close. And the team are well drilled in “you shall not pass”. But let’s face it, if Michael Oliver had had his specs on, or his magic shirt of impartiality, we could have won that by one, two even possibly three penalties. But then most Chelsea fans don’t expect to get penalties anymore — I think they have been outlawed by the FA where we are concerned.

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