Chelsea: If Everton was the end, it was a worthy farewell for senior Blues

Chelsea went in to the unplanned spring break on a high note. Whether that was the end or the middle, what a way to go.

They say you’re only as good as your last game. That’s certainly true for Chelsea FC as we wait and wonder when the next game will be. The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 around the world has struck football fixtures from the calendar. What we know for sure is the 4-0 win over Everton saw Chelsea play some of their best football since Frank Lampard’s tenure as manager began.

There were a lot of positives to be taken from the win at Stamford Bridge. Despite having a squad depleted through injury, Frank Lampard used the strength in depth that he surprisingly ignored through the first half of the campaign.

Taking the club back a couple of years it was the old-guard showing the kids how to score with Willian, Pedro and Olivier Grioud all bagging goals. Of course, that young whipper-snapper Mason Mount snuck one in for the “yoof,” just for good measure, but the win was all about the senior players.

With some of those players out of contract and rumoured to leave this summer, doubts must be cast on whether that last game, in which some of them excelled, was, in fact, their last game. All three of those so-called #teamold players have been mooted to be on their way at some point through the season. Should football just be cancelled from here-on-in, then maybe it’ll be “thanks, lads, see ya.”

The Premier League, FA and football authorities across the world have yet to make decisions regarding the domestic leagues, but with Euro 2020 having been moved to 2021 space has been made to allow for their resumption.

Many football fans in England would happily see the Premier League simply voided so as to prevent Liverpool FC from claiming their first ever victory in the competition that began in 1992. However, like many things at the moment, we just don’t know what’s going to happen.

In the grand scheme of things, we all sit and wait to see where the next few weeks take us. Nobody knows – such is the unprecedented nature of the current crisis. Whilst we must all look out for ourselves and each other, football, normally at the forefront of a lot of people’s minds, becomes, to be politically correct, much less important. But of course it does matter, as do many other things. However, in the surreal world we currently live, we must wait patiently for their return.

Willian, Pedro and Olivier Giroud are all out of contract on 30 June. Their time in SW6 may be about to end in the most anti-climatic of ways, without ever kicking a ball in anger for Chelsea again.

If that is to be the case, then they can at least say they went out on high.