As Nicolas Jackson’s lunging complete looped practically impossibly in excess of the crossbar in the 83rd minute, the raucous Nottingham Forest supporters in Stamford Bridge’s Shed Stop burnished their gleeful jeer with the chant that had develop into the soundtrack to a deeply frustrating afternoon for Chelsea.
“What a squander of income.”
The boos that rippled around the residence assist at the last whistle when Forest’s 1- victory was confirmed have been an comprehensible reaction to a general performance that echoed Chelsea’s worst travails at dwelling past season: gradual possession stifled by a deep-lying opponent pursuing a clever but uncomplicated