The wait has ended as mourinho lift his first trophy after making a return to chelsea, gaps were appearing in the white half of Wembley Stadium. They had seen this show before. So had we all.
The last time he was here Jose Mourinho served notice, winning the League Cup as the preamble to something greater. Here we go again. Rivals in the Premier League can count themselves officially told.
Chelsea deserved this for a display that advertised their finest qualities: a defensive cussedness, good organisation, bold decision making on the part of the manager and the certainty in front of goal that wins cups. 
John Terry collected an individual prize, too, the Alan Hardaker Trophy as man of the match. Rightly so. He scored
Chelsea's first goal, was a rock at the back, as ever, and put in a blocking tackle late in the game that is now his trademark. Nobody throws himself towards the danger quite like Terry. It is as if he is taking a bullet for the team, or smothering a grenade. 
Chelsea attacked, and scored when it mattered, either side of half-time to knock the stuffing out of Tottenham, but it was their resilience that impressed. The transformation since New Year's Day is the mark of an intelligent group.
'Finals are not for playing,' Mourinho said, 'they are for winning. We did not have a problem today.' He did not mean it as brutally as it sounded. He said Pochettino was building a very good team at Tottenham, and he is right. There is great potential, but on Sunday that was all Tottenham showed. Chelsea looked like the winners; Chelsea looked like champions.
culled from daily mail
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