Firstly, it's not a cop out. I know people who were there. They go to many games as they're season ticket holders. They both said it was the most hostile, poisonous atmosphere they'd experienced in a long time. Bullshit! Heavy tackles were flying in from the off - by both sides. If Clattenburg has clamped down earlier it's unlikely to have kicked off the way it did. Chelsea did **** all but celebrate like they'd won the CL because they'd held Spurs to a 2-2 draw at home. And yes, they prevented any minuscule chance we had of overtaking you.
The atmosphere was poisonous, yes. But i still maintain that Clattenburg let things go too far and should have clamped down on what was going on far earlier,
Your mates go to Spurs/Chelsea Monday night title deciders often then? Heavy tackles are met with punishment. Yellow cards. It's why you received 9 of them. Chelsea prevented their biggest rivals from having a chance of winning the league on their own patch. Of course they celebrated
They go to most games both home and away. And it wasn't a title decider - not even close! I'd have thought they'd see Arsenal as their nearest rivals at that time? But yes, there's no love lost between us. However the celebrations at getting a 2-2 draw at home were special!...
Depends if you take title decider in its literal sense as it did decide the title The celebrations were a wind up to Spurs as oppose to anything meaningful to Chelsea themselves. I guess I'd find it quite funny if we played someone like Forest and put paid to any chances of them winning. There was also the Raneiri factor, lots of them wanted to help him.
There is no difference between this kind of revelling in what happened 2 seasons ago amongst Chavs and Foxes and the kind of thing Hiag gets vilified for and gets labelled 'bitter'...same spectrum...opposite end...no difference whatsoever...get over it lads
The game *literally* (@Spurlock) decided the title. If Leicester drew with Forest at home and it ensured they couldn't win the title I would go ****ing ape It would be magnificent
Fact is, all you needed was 2 points from 2 games. And that was assuming we won all our remaining games. The form you were in, its extremely unlikely that you wouldn't have still won it, no matter what our result against the Chavs.
I agree it was all in our hands and would have taken an almighty **** up to lose it. Stranger things have happened in football though and the long it went especially if you were closing the gap it would have heaped pressure and could have changed everything. As it turned out we'd have finished above if you'd won all the games but if it wasn't won we may not have got 4 points from Chelsea and Everton. Harry Kane thought you were going to catch us anyway
Nothing wrong with that...he's a sportsman. Sometimes I get the feeling that Lesta fans(egged on by Chavs)saw it as a slur that all bar Spurs gave up on the title.
Dirtiest display and biggest meltdown I have ever seen at the Bridge by opposition. Still don't know how Dier & co stayed on field. That tackle on Fabregas by Dier before Davies hacked down Haza and ref finally blew up was the roughest passage of play I have ever seen live. Brilliant stiff though, cracking game.
funny that in all the youtube videos of the battle at the bridge most of the dirty, especially the really really dirty fouls come from your team... that alongside your 9 yellows (and were lucky it was only that) would suggest your team with pure filth (on that evening, not generally though). Of course we're going to celebrate, we ended any chance there was of you catching leicester. hostile/poisonous atmosphere, its what you face in such a big match, last year at white hart lane your fans were going mental but it didn't mean the match descended into a farce
It was a fantastic night at the end of an average season. Personally, I loved every second of it. You realised a DVD of a draw in March against us that you claim cost us the title in 2008; and also celebrated a remontada v Arsenal in 2004, coming from two goals behind to draw 2-2. But Arsenal won league on your patch again!!!
