Yesterday should be about Leicester City and what they have managed to accomplish but for me, as a Tottenham supporter, it was not. Instead, we’re left to talk about what handed Leicester the title: a street brawl disguised as a soccer match.

Chelsea and Spurs are big rivals, no doubt, but before yesterday’s match, no Spurs supporter would have said they hated Chelsea more than Arsenal, or even West Ham. That may well have changed after last night. This game should have never devolved into what it became, because all of that was easily preventable.

In about the 13th minute, Danny Rose and Willian were involved in an off-the-ball incident in which referee Mark Clattenburg decided to give Rose a stern talking to instead of a yellow card. At the time, this seemed like a sensible decision, and NBCSN’s announcing duo of Arlo White and Graeme Le Saux were praising Clattenburg for showing restraint and making it obvious what he was setting as the standard for the match. Unfortunately in hindsight, that decision led to a domino effect, which by the end of the game saw nine Spurs players booked, and a few who might be looking at more action coming from the FA.

Chelsea knew they were second best on the pitch in terms of quality, and needed to play dirty in order to get something out of the match. Sadly, Spurs, in the heat of the moment, took the bait, and all hell broke loose. Clattenburg had multiple chances to put an end to the chaos by either booking other players earlier or even sending someone off such as Mousa Dembele for what looked like an eye gouge or even sending Mauricio Pochettino to the stands during that end of first half melee, or even booking Branislav Ivanovic for a terrible tackle of his own earlier in the first half. Clattenburg was afraid to make a decision that would change the game either way, and in doing so he unwittingly allowed a street brawl to break out. Multiple flying elbows from Chelsea players went shamefully unnoticed, and multiple Spurs players could have and should have been sent off, particularly Eric Dier towards the end of the match, but by that point it wouldn’t have mattered in the slightest.

No match at any level of soccer anywhere on the planet should descend into chaos like this one did. That this match ultimately decided the title doesn’t make anyone come out any cleaner, either. A team with as much of a pedigree as Chelsea has should not be cheapening themselves by engaging in Broad Street Bullies soccer, and a team that has won as many admirers this season as Spurs have should not be taking the bait, even though they’ve been goaded into taking the bait knowing that the punishments deterring them from doing so are just not there. Derbies are supposed to bring about passions from both sides, but that wasn’t a derby on a soccer pitch. That was a street fight.

Lost in all of that chaos amidst the Leicester (and Chelsea) celebrations is that Spurs officially qualified for next year’s Champions League on the back of that point, which is a remarkable achievement in itself. They are a point away from ensuring they enter the competition in the group stage without having to qualify for it. There will be time to analyze Leicester’s season in greater detail, as well as both Spurs’ and Chelsea’s, but Monday night was about the farce of game that ensured those results.

Chelsea, Tottenham, the Premier League and fans of the English game should be embarrassed having sat through that tire fire of a game that ended up deciding a title. Blame is equally shared among everyone, but there is no reason that any game, even a derby, should descend into farce as that game did.

English soccer can be magical, and is magical. The dark underbelly of that magic is what went down at Stamford Bridge, and the true shame is it was all preventable.

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