TERRACE TALK: Chelsea - Fight and flight from players in mixed week

In the past seven days we have seen the very best and the very worst that this team has to offer. 

TERRACE TALK: Chelsea - Fight and flight from players in mixed week

The Tottenham game was one of those that made us football addicts fall in love with the game in the first place. Notice I didn’t call it the beautiful game there – because beautiful it most certainly wasn’t — but that second half was hard fought, a passionate, filthy rivalry at it’s very best and very worst.

The Tottenham players were literally fighting for the biggest prize of their careers, the Chelsea players fighting for their pride. Despite our woeful season, we not only denied them, we also forced them into revealing their inexperience and brutish need for all to see.

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