Up in the posh seats, Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali could have been forgiven for thinking that everything is going to be just fine. This was not the moment for Chelsea’s co-owners to worry about their spending coming back to bite them in the form of punishment for breaches of the Premier League’s Profit & Sustainability regulations.
The accountancy can wait. There is nothing to gain from thinking about number-crunching when Cole Palmer plays this well. Sometimes the best course of action is simply to sit back and ponder the potential of Chelsea’s chaos generator, Nicolas Jackson, who brought this pulsating 3-2 triumph over Newcastle to life with his 12th goal of the season.
