Chelsea players back QPR to stay in Premier League 14:41, 20 April 2015 By Paul Warburton Clint Hill reckons Blues are right behind Hoops Clint Hill has revealed Chelsea players believe QPR can escape the drop. The Rs left-back might have raised an eyebrow when told this shortly after the 1-0 home defeat a week back, but they were convincing enough, and the 36-year-old veteran has been around long enough to know when he is being fed a line. “A few of the Chelsea players said to us if we carry on like that we’ll be fine. I don’t want to name names, but if we keep fighting we’ll stay up is what they said. “In a roundabout way it’s a kind of a comfort. You try and take the positives out of it,” he added. Hill reckons relegation is down to three from the current last five that includes Hoops, Hull, Sunderland, Burnley and Leicester, with Rs hoping for one of three wins starting at home to West Ham on Saturday. please log in to view this image Chelsea sandwich: Didier Drogba gets caught between Rs' Clint Hill (L) and Steven Caulker “Points wise you would think it was the last five,” he said. “But we’re in a different position now, physically and mentally from where we were when beaten by West Ham earlier in the season, and the fans appreciate what we put in against Chelsea. “Look at the bench they’ve got. It’s full of million pound players, and we had three young kids. There’s a massive gulf. They had one chance and took it. But we’re at the stage where you have to think you can do it.” Against Chelsea, Rs fans sang ‘It’s just like watching Clint Hill’ to the tune of ‘it’s just like watching Brazil.’ Ever the modest, Hill gratefully downplayed the adulation. “There’s a bit of irony in that: I don’t think I would like to watch myself,” he joked. “But I’ve said how much the club means to me. My boy walks round with his QPR top on. “And whether you stay or go, you want to leave the club in a better place than you found it
Nice to hear. We need the 12th man to be as loud as we were against Chelsea (but perhaps not quite so vitriolic).
I find it a bit patronising when players from others clubs praise us and say these type of things. We have to prove to ourselves and everybody else that we are good enough to stay in this league. The only way we can do that is by getting the points required.
I think it makes no difference as points make prizes however Chelsea are full of the worlds top players and are a great team currently so its nice in a way We have got some kudos back after Redknapp that is for sure
