Willy Caballero finally gets part to play in rolling soap opera at Chelsea | Barney Ronay


Stamford Bridge No 2 steps out for a rare appearance in a comfortable win for Maurizio Sarri’s improving team

You can’t even, you can’t even, you can’t even make a sub. It took half an hour from kick-off for the Tottenham fans to find the best joke to date about Chelsea’s latest psychodrama on the theme of authority and control.

And yet by the end that wheel had turned completely. It was instead the Chelsea fans who cheered their team and taunted the away support, after a performance of fire and purpose by a team that is constantly in the process of dying and resurrecting itself, west London’s own zombie FC.

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