It’s frustrating to love Chelsea.
Not because they do things wrong or play unfairly. In fact, when the whole squad is up and running, they are a beautiful team to watch in action.
It’s getting the whole squad (or even a majority of them) healthy that becomes so frustrating. Injuries happen. Of course they do. You can’t love football without a very real knowledge of that. But sometimes it seems like they happen more often to Chelsea, doesn’t it?
As unexciting as the Newcastle game may have been on Saturday, I was just happy we won.
Given that Lampard and JT are injured, Cech pulled himself out of the Blackburn game (always a frightening thing to witness, as the man does not go down easily), Cudicini is injured and Drogba is playing for his country right now…it feels like we lost the heart of the team with these players being out.
On an upbeat note (I’m trying here), it was nice to see Sean Wright-Phillips out there doing a good job. And Joe Cole is still out there giving it his best. All is not lost. We are in third. Drawing against Aston Villa was abyssmal. But we are still in third.
An we will play on. We will persevere.
Because this is what it is sometimes to love the Blues.
