After an easy win, Jose Mourinho could have given an easy answer to the only real contentious question of the day. Chelsea had just beaten Aston Villa 2-0 to end what the Portuguese had described as the worst period of his career, but he had done so without his best player. Eden Hazard had been left on the bench.
When inevitably asked about this, Mourinho could have rather simply said that the Belgian was rested or that it was just a temporary reshuffle. Instead, having seemed to close a problematic run of form, Mourinho opened up some even more problematic public discussions.