Collapse at Arsenal sums up Chelsea’s pointless celebrity product

Everyone knows Chelsea are bad. Defeat here made it six on the reel for Frank Lampard, the head coach with more Ls than Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

TOO EASY: Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka (right) shoots towards goal during the Premier League match against Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium. Pic: Adam Davy/PA Wire

It lives. It breathes. Those drooping limbs have bloomed with new life. There will be time, also, for the most startling aspect of this late season knockabout at the Emirates, the strange, zombified spectacle currently operating as Chelsea Football Club.

Before that the headlines will rightly be about Arsenal, on a night when their own apparently doomed title push thrust a fist up through the turf and dragged itself back up on to its feet. A 3-1 win means that Arsenal are now two points clear at the top of the league, albeit having played two matches more than a Manchester City team that seems to win games these days simply by turning up and pointing itself vaguely in the right direction. Arsenal were peppy and busy and full of clever angles for as long as it was necessary to be any of those things, which wasn’t very long at all.