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What’s happened at Chelsea?

Where to start.

Seriously, we were at home to Spurs and we were a goal up. Not just that but we were the best side for the first 44 minutes – and yet we threw it away. In fact, we didn’t just throw it away, we put a ribbon round it, stuck a bow on it and gifted it to a team we’d refused to lose to in the previous 28 years. If that doesn’t tell you something is seriously wrong at Chelsea, nothing will.

Right now, we’re a disaster.

Last season, Conte was the saviour, yet yesterday everyone to a man was calling for his head (me included) as plan A failed and plan B failed to show itself. Tell me how you explain to your son that despite us being at home to Spurs there isn’t, in fact, some law that says we can’t lose to them, when for his 21 years on the planet, that’s how it’s always been.  I was as lost for a response as our players and manager looked in that second half.

So who is at fault? Conte? A manager who took us from 10th to the title last season? The players? Who beat Spurs at Wembley at the start of the season? Or those who took the decisions that mean the players we had then are not the same players we have now? The answer is likely to be somewhere in the middle. We’ve bought and sold players we probably didn’t need to – and failed to do deals we should have done. The players have failed to perform when they should have – and yet the manager has to take responsibility in defeat as much as in success. Likewise, whilst we know all too well our debt to Abramovich, that shouldn’t absolve him from our ongoing failure to genuinely invest in our future success as a club.

We bring in managers who win us titles, then refuse to back them amid the annual speculation of their sacking. Transfer windows come and go, and the club seemingly ignores whatever requests are made for reinforcements. As for strikers, we seem to break them at will – give us Lionel Messi and I’ve no doubt at all we could turn him into Chris Sutton within the blink of an eye. And whilst we strive to self-combust, even those around us who might previously have been regarded as also-rans, have quietly built for the future. A future we’re in serious danger of being left behind in unless we take an honest look at ourselves from within.

Chelsea is a club in danger of losing its way. A club that needs to remember its leadership on the pitch needs as much investment as the egos off it, if the odd defeat to Spurs in 28 years is to remain a blip in our records rather than the norm.

Am I wrong?

 

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