Terrace Talk: Chelsea - Jose right to replace carrot with the stick

So it wasn’t the most convincing win we’d ever seen, and Villa gifted us the two goals, but this was one of those occasions where all that mattered was the result.

The apprehension was palpable in the stadium. A fortnight’s worth of journalists talking about the losing manager being sacked had got all involved rattled. The Chelsea crowd certainly nailed their colours to the mast early on by chanting Mourinho’s name loudly. Not that it would have influenced the owner one iota.

There were a couple of occasions before we scored where we could have quite easily gone a goal behind, which would have been disastrous given the fragile state of confidence both in terms of the players and crowd.