View from the opposition – Chelsea
A bit about you:
Name: JJ Reid
Current home town: Camberwell, south London
Birthplace: Crawley
How long have you supported your team? First game in 1999 (not a glory hunter, just young)
Overview of your club:
Favourite thing about your home ground: Location. When so many teams are moving to often soulless out-of-town concrete bowls, to still have our ground slap bang on the Fulham Road is fantastic. We’re the only London club to have never moved ground, too.
Favourite match played by your team & why: I all seriousness, I can’t say anything except the 19th of May 2012 in Munich. Ending Spurs’ title hopes last season was fun, though.
Favourite player of all time who played for your club: Super Frankie Lampard
About our forthcoming match against you:
Your favourite current player in your squad and why? Diego Costa. He’s just misunderstood.
Player in your squad we should most fear and why? While Leicester seem to have done a good job of shackling him in recent meetings, I would still say Eden Hazard. On his day he’s mind-blowing. It’s just the regularity of his days that we worry about.
Player in our squad you most fear and why? Riyad Mahrez. He’s a player who, forgive the cliché, can turn a game on its head. The goal he scored against us at yours last season was different class.
Up and coming prospect in your squad? Nathaniel Chalobah. Always impresses for England U21s and got his first team debut at yours in the League Cup. It’s actually looking like he might be given a proper chance this year, rather than ending up on an internet slideshow of failed Chelsea starlets like so many others.
How do you think you'll do against us? I like to think we’ll get a narrow win but not deserve it.
General Questions:
Where do you think you'll finish this season? Fingers crossed for top 4.
What did you think to your pre-season transfer activity? While it’s reassuring to see your side splash large amounts of cash, it doesn’t always make for a coherent team. Some additions obviously aren’t Conte’s first choices, but we’ve definitely done well as a whole. I shouldn’t have to tell Leicester supporters that £30million for Kante could be deal of the century.
Which three teams do you think will be relegated? Burnley, Hull, and hopefully West Ham.
Who do you think will win the league? Citeh (Subsequently clarified as Man City!!!)