Next year is our fecking year mate
There's family on my Mum's side. She has 5 siblings, all of whom have several kids, of which most have kids of their own. Chelsea mad, the lot of them. If you go down there, they'll be wearing Chelsea shirts (the younger generation) and it's all they talk about. Any time i've gone down there for parties, it's all Chelsea themed, even funerals. Weirdest thing is, my Grandad (the reason they all exist) was an avid Arsenal fan!
Most of them have been mascots at Chelsea, quite friendly with a lot of the ex-players etc. Especially Zola. Frank Lampard recognises a good number of them and knows the family, they've met him so often over the years. Apparently when he's seen them he's basically just picked up conversation from where they last left off. Nice genuine guy, apparently.
Reasonable bunch though, they know my Dads side are reds and they'll just talk normal about it. "you've had a better season, that Greenwood looks good." etc.
So i've grown up with it, I can see how passionate people are about Chelsea. And I respect the club much more than others out there.
Wouldn't be able to pull myself to support Alonso though. But they don't like him either.