Chelsea legend Pat Nevin has urged the Blues faithful to support their team during the tough time that they are going through.
Jose Mourinho’s men comfortably won the league title last season – their first in five years – and also collected the League Cup by beating fellow Londoners Tottenham Hotspur in the final at Wembley in March, to end the season with a domestic double.
However, they have endured a difficult start to the 2015/16 Premier League campaign and after the conclusion of the first eight rounds of the league, they are lying 16th in the standings with two wins, as many draws and four defeats.
They also lost last their Champions League group game to Mourinho’s former side FC Porto 2-1.
Nevin, who played for the Pensioners from 1983 until 1988, has urged the club’s supporters to keep faith with their team.
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"More often than not the tough times are followed eventually by good times again”, he wrote in his column for the Chelsea website.
“The success is not a god-given right and there is also the thought that anyone who fancies giving up on a football club, any football club, after a few bad results probably isn’t a real fan anyway.
“For the rest of us, we soldier on and get behind the team once more on Saturday against Aston Villa and for some, all the way to Kiev next week.
“That is what supporting a team is all about, up and down, good and bad, over land and sea”, he concluded.
