Chelsea’s unbeaten home record was phenomenal and despite the fact it was ended in pretty unspectacular style, predictably against the worst possible side it could be, it had to come to an end sooner or later.

Like a fair few supporters, I’d come to see the home record as a bit of millstone in the end anyway. As good a record as it was, the fact is we were just drawing too many games at home and the points we dropped as a result ultimately cost us. Mind you, if I’m honest, although I started to expect the record to go just about every home game, once it had gone, I didn’t expect quite the turn around in results we’ve had at the Bridge.

Still, we’re only a point off the top and we’re getting the results away from home, a pretty good run of them actually. Yet those poor results at home this season aren’t going away and of course, neither will the press. And so having spent the earlier part of this season building the new Chelsea boss up while he was flavour of the month they’re already flexing their literary muscles in preparation to knock him back down.

So, despite the fact we’ve just had another decent win away from home, the press seem to have dug up ‘claims’ about Chelsea players being unhappy with Scolari’s laid-back approach to training and the predictability of their game. Although when it was put to Ray Wilkins that there could be some unrest creeping into the dressing room, he insisted “None whatsoever. If you are looking for an angle then that team might have fallen apart, but the spirit and application in the camp is absolutely different class.  You cannot perform like that if there is dissension about. They have performed to a very high standard. Our away results have been absolutely first class. We’ve a superb away record.  Overall we are delighted with where we are at the moment, just a point behind Liverpool, so as far as we are concerned we’re in a fantastic position.”

So, I guess it looks as if the press will just have to try a bit harder.

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