Terrace Talk: Lesson learned — we need to have faith in Conte

I must admit that following the United game I suffered a real crisis of confidence which left me a nervous wreck in the run-up to the cup semi-final.

Chelsea fans understand that losing anything to Spurs is simply not acceptable but the demons in my head were conjuring up visions of us gifting them the double.

So by the time Saturday morning came around I had almost convinced myself I couldn’t go to the match and would instead sit in a darkened room devoid of any means of communication with the outside world.