LONDON — Those who dislike the way Chelsea has bought its way to success celebrated its League Cup final defeat by Tottenham. It wasn't that so many neutrals wanted Spurs to win, they just wanted Chelsea to lose.
The honeymoon period for Avram Grant, Jose Mourinho's successor, is over. The media boot has well and truly been put in with suggestions of a "divorce" for Grant this summer, while stories coming out of Stamford Bridge suggest Chelsea is more a family at war than a collective unit all pulling together.
Captain John Terry and assistant Henk Ten Cate apparently went head-to-head the day before the final in a row over training.