Stottie

Worldie

Howay man Clark, don't gift it to them.

Oh and I think Sterling doesn't score that type of goal for England because England doesn't play him as a wide forward.

Just seen the highlights, but not a lot to show for their possession and ours was a well-worked goal. Not hopeful for today, but we're playing with spirit and that bodes well for the longer season ahead.

HT. Well in lads. Well played.

That's not a foul either

That's a corner ref. After Ki couldn't quite hit the hoarding as well.

Fans in fine voice.

Didn't see any contact there.

Lulled them into a false sense of security

YESSSSS

Our pass success rate is currently 55%. 45% are going astray.

This "pass it to the hoarding" tactic doesn't seem to be working.

What a goal

He's been playing really well but to handle there under zero pressure and then moan his way into a booking suggest he still doesn't think the rules apply to him.

Bellamy reckons Cardiff deserved to win?! I had to stop watching there in disbelief.

Comedy gerld. Brighton equalize.

It would be given as a push on Dunk if he was playing for us.

England's Lewis Dunk with his best Cacapa impression.

It's not even on live in Japan. They've been showing the J League, so the broadcast is about to start now one hour behind.

Not bad. If the ultimate plan is Rondon off Perez, I'd start with that and bring on Muto in either forward position depending on what happens. We competed with Spurs, should have beaten Cardiff and weren't far off getting something against Chelsea, so I hope confidence has not been shaken by the results and our current league position.

That was also after he'd clearly been more interested in playing for England, however fit, than he was in playing for us. He topped it all by bringing out that effing brochure and telling the world he had no fitness issues. I'm sorry but there is far too much water under the bridge for him to get any sympathy for sob stories. He never gave a monkey's at the time.

Just saying but the dodgy penalty came during one of Chelsea's few counter attacks of the game. They were far less effective when camped out in our half.

I would bet that "0.8 expected goals (+ 1 penalty)" is the least any team with 70%+ possession has ever created in a game where the score was level for so long. It is the same as we managed against Cardiff, thirty minutes of which was with 10 men. People are heaping praise on Jorginho, but all he did was recycle the ball. Hazard floated about impressively but Chelsea had no penetration. For this approach to work against Man City, we will need them to miss multiple good chances, something Chelsea did not do because they didn't create any.

I'm tempted to notch it up one after more off-field misery, but the new CHs looked fine and there was the spirit to battle well, so I'll stick at 3. It's going to be just as grim as last season though, so I should really stop watching and do something more productive.