Anyone who will rate Chelsea as an average or small club probably just started watching football games recently because how will you rate Chelsea as a small club. Chelsea as a football club is 120 years old and in these years they have achieved so much to be rated as an elite club and their reputation speaks volume.
Some people don’t just know about football history, they always start talking from their experiences of two or three seasons, which is rubbish. If not, why on earth would you say that Chelsea is a small team? Based on my knowledge of history, I don’t think there is still a trophy remaining for Chelsea to achieve in Europe. So why would you judge them based on a few seasons and call them a small team just like that? This is the reason why most people who talk about football need to know history, to avoid making such disrespectful comments about bigger teams with reputations.