“It was like having three levels of security,” former Chelsea captain John Terry explains to The Athletic with a contented smile.
“If you were building a house, it was like having Claude Makelele at the front gate, Ricardo Carvalho and myself in the garden and Petr Cech at the door. You’re not going to get in, are you?”
Terry is taking great delight in reflecting on the 2004-05 season, when Chelsea set a Premier League record that is arguably tougher to beat than any other, conceding just 15 goals in 38 league games as they convincingly won the title.
Only the Preston North End team of 1888-89 have matched them in the history of England’s top division — but their 15 goals conceded came in a season consisting of only 22 fixtures.
Since Chelsea set the target, nobody has come close to matching it.
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