What a poor performance!

Spurs 0 Chelsea 2

What a crap game. I thought our performance was worse than our United game, In fact, I would say one of the worst of the season. On top of that, individual Spurs supporters disgraced themselves and the club with their racist chants.

But before all that, let us look at something positive (sadly, not on the field). I arrived my usual time (three hours before kick-off) and met Shannyn to give her and others presents for Christmas. Got through security and got my programmes. Then went upstairs to wait for the others. Once Terry, Stefania,  Ollie and Beverely arrived, we made our way to the Chef’s restaurant on the second floor where we had a reservation.

And what a great Christmas dinner/three-course meal we had there (buffet). Even crackers to pull! Shannyn joined us and we got some photos and what an enjoyable time with friends. We all thought it was things to come (how little we knew! Sadly, the wrong things). Once the wine had stopped flowing, we made our way to our seats and settled down for a Chelsea thrashing. I predicted 3-1. Only Terry thought it would end in a draw (and we would have taken that!). But all that was overshadowed by unacceptable behaviour.

Chelsea manager Frank Lampard out-manoeuvred his one-time mentor Jose Mourinho - but a comfortable win for them was overshadowed by racist behaviour aimed at visiting defender Antonio Rudiger. Ironically, Rudiger was also involved in a second-half incident that saw Son get sent off.

Son was dismissed, following a video assistant referee review, for raising his boot in a clash with the German centre-back near the touchline. Shortly afterwards, Rudiger, 26, appeared to motion that he had received racist abuse from Spurs fans.

Chelsea’s captain drew the incident to the attention of referee Anthony Taylor and three subsequent announcements were made over the public address system warning that racist behaviour among spectators was interfering with the game (three! One should have been enough before action was taken). On top of that objects were thrown towards Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, capping a miserable afternoon for us, Mourinho and our club. But it wasn’t just Tottenham fans, a Chelsea supporter got ejected from the stadium for racially abusing Son.

As for the match; it was won by Chelsea within the first 45 minutes courtesy of Willian's curling finish and a penalty from the Brazilian awarded by VAR after Spurs keeper Paulo Gazzaniga had flattened Marcos Alonso.

Beverley was surrounded by Chelsea supporters – in the Spurs end – giving it all that so she left early and went to the lounge. When the ninety minutes were up, I wasn’t going to wait the extra eight minutes to continue watching our humiliation, so I made my way to the lounge and sat with Beverley. The others soon joined us, all pissed off with the result and racial abuse against Chelsea players. For Christ sake, we’ve also got black players playing for us… don’t those abusers have two brain cells to rub together?

As for warnings! What about floggings for those that abuse others (whatever club they are from)? Finally, the stadium started to close down and we were kicked out, so we made our way to our destinations and what awaits us (i.e. Christmas, festivity and alcoholic joys!).

The next day we got all the headlines, but for all the wrong reasons.

Now we must pick yourself up against Brighton (home), Norwich (away), Southampton (away) and Middlesbrough away in the FA Cup. Hopefully, others will slip up.

Enjoy your Christmas (have a merry one) and see you after that festive spirit day. I think I might have a few sherberts to drown out that poor Spurs display, but not drown out that excellent meal we had at the restaurant. I believe that is called selective memory and for good reasons...

Enjoy and have a great one!

By Glenn Renshaw