This is a story of Chelsea’s season of playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
They say we only remember the good things in retrospect. The rose-tinted glasses effect. Try telling that to an Arsenal fan. Or any football fan really. We nurse our wounds knowing that they will never scab over, never heal, always fester; we jealously guard those hurts and heartbreaks, making place for the new ones that neatly line up, awaiting their turn.
All Gooners remember (even if they wish they didn’t) what happened on Arsene Wenger’s last Arsenal landmark – his 1000th game in charge of the club. After having won 7 trophies in his first 500 games in charge, Wenger had nothing to show for the next 500. They would have to wait for a few more months to break that trophy drought. That day, Mourinho’s men ran riot at Stamford Bridge, the wrong man was sent off for Arsenal by referee Andre Marriner, and they lost a whopping 6-0 in the end, causing a still-embittered “Special One” to label him a “specialist in failure”.
