Yesss. Spurs crashed 0-2 away to Sunderland. And Flo added one goal to his excellent record against Spurs. Mackems singing "Are we Chelsea in disguise". A happy weekend indeed.

Chelsea 3-0 Birmingham City (Gudjohnsen[2], Zola)

Eidur Gudjohnsen and Gianfranco Zola destroyed sorry Birmingham, 3-0 at Stamford Bridge today, to dish out Steve Bruce's biggest Premiership humbling of the season.
The Chelsea strike pair were simply unstoppable against the west midlanders' wobbly defence, with Icelander Gudjohnsen cracking a first-half brace and Italian master Zola unleashing a stunning strike just before the break to wrap up an assured victory.
Claudio Ranieri's rampant side ripped through the visitors' backline time and time again - and a 5-0 or even 6-0 interval scoreline would not have flattered the Londoners.
As it was, they had to settle for 3-0, with both Gudjohnsen's clinical strikes after three and 31 minutes down to awful positional play by Birmingham captain and stand-in left-back Jeff Kenna.
Zola thundered home a magnificent 20-yard drive four minutes before half-time - and only Nico Vaesen heroics and a Kenna goalline clearance in the second half prevented an even more embarrassing result.
Ranieri's men are now up to third, while Bruce and his outclassed side surely face a bitter six-month battle to avoid an immediate return to the Football League.
Chelsea's teenage sensation Carlton Cole was denied his first league start of the season today. Ranieri decided Gudjohnsen was fit enough to start after recovering from the ankle injury sustained in Sunday's 0-0 draw at Tottenham.
For Birmingham, 17-year-old left-back Matt Sadler - who made his Premiership debut in last Saturday's 3-1 success against Bolton - was ruled out by the groin injury he suffered in the 2-0 midweek cup defeat against Preston.
Chelsea made a sensational start, with Gudjohnsen banishing any lingering doubts about his fitness with the opening goal in the third minute.
Zola flicked the ball out to Jody Morris, whose simple lobbed pass caught out Kenna.
Gudjohnsen raced in on goal and coolly side-footed past Vaesen into the far corner.
Slack Chelsea defending almost allowed the west midlanders a soft equaliser. Paul Devlin raced down the inside-left channel to clip a shot just past Carlo Cudicini's far post.
And Stern John thundered a searing 20-yard drive inches over the top after 15 minutes.
But Chelsea stormed into a two-goal lead through a virtual carbon-copy goal with 31 minutes on the clock.
Kenna, switched from right-back to the left side of defence to counter Sadler's absence, was again at fault.
Zola slotted a superb 30-yard pass between the out-of-position Birmingham skipper and centre-back Kenny Cunningham - and Gudjohnsen again dispatched the ball into the bottom left corner.
Ranieri's side were rampant now, with Lampard sending a 22-yard drive skidding a foot wide of the left post 60 seconds later, with Vaesen bemusingly making no attempt to save the ball.
Zola also sent an angled drive past the same upright - and forced Vaesen into a smart near-post parry as the Londoners tore Bruce's team apart.
Number three was inevitable and arrived four minutes before the break. Zola attempted to play a return pass to Le Saux, but the ball hit Cunningham and rebounded to the Italian - who smashed home a thunderbolt drive, again into the bottom left corner.
Two minutes after the break, Gudjohnsen missed a golden chance to clinch his hat-trick. Zola put the striker through on goal with a prodded pass but he toe-poked beyond the far post.
Ranieri's men almost scored two goals in the 66th minute. First, William Gallas had the ball in the net with a header from Gudjohnsen's flick but his effort was ruled out for offside.
Then Emmanuel Petit chested the ball down 20 yards out and fired in a powerful volley which Vaesen did very well to tip onto his crossbar.
Visiting midfielder Devlin denied Zola his second after 71 minutes, clearing off his own goalline when Le Saux's right-wing corner crept through to the Italian at the far post.
It was all Chelsea again now, with Vaesen making a wonder-save to palm away Celestine Babayaro's angled drive and Mario Melchiot meeting Petit's corner with his shoulder to send the ball a yard wide.

Yup. Laziness compelled me to cut-and-paste from Soccernet. They must be feeling terribly aggrieved that they couldn't find anything negative about our performance to comment upon.

A rosy Saturday all-in-all. Pool lost to Boro. Though that allows Boro to keep up with us. But I hate Pool, so I don't mind. Manure made history by losing to Man City. Woohoo. Newcastle were duly dispatched by Arse. As a result we're reinstated in third place, though Rottenham could overtake us if they beat Sunderland by at least 10 goals. ;-)

Chelsea 2-1 Gillingham (Cole[2], King)

A rather comfortable win. Two well-taken goals by Cole, who is starting to prove his many critics wrong. No one is really excited at the prospect of advancing in the Worthless Cup, but all are delighted at Cole's display of quality.

Arse, Leeds, Rottenham, Boro and Newcastle are out. No big loss for Arse, who fielded a second-string team anyway, but the WC may represent the best hope for European qualification in the case of the latter four.

Rottenham 0-0 Chelsea

One of the best premiership matches I've watched this season. End-to-end attacking play meant that I spent most of the match with my heart in my mouth. In the first half the goalscoring chances were evenly split. Redknapp had a sublime free-kick agilely saved by Cudicini, who had to change direction in the air as he had taken a step to the wrong direction at first. Keane should have scored with a clear header, but you could say the same for Lampard and De Lucas, who both squandered one-on-one chances. JFH missed the target by inches with a blistering long-range shot.

The second half was even more exciting. Almost from the start Cudicini was called upon to make several great saves as Spurs found much success attacking down the wings. But Chelsea came closest to scoring when Melchiot's glancing header hit the post and just evaded the onrushing Desailly. Spurs had by far more chances though. Cudicini is my MotM by far. And much as I hate to say it, Redknapp and Sheringscum played extremely well and orchestrated Spurs' blitz on our goal in the second half.

Slightly disappointed not to win at 3-point lane, but am not overly bothered with a draw seeing how well Spurs played. *Spit*. There's not many times you'll hear me say that.

My affinity for Bayer Leverkusen appears to be growing. The damn thing started last season, when I irrationally decided to favour them after watching them beat Barca in the 1st CL group phase. Was then pleasantly astonished to see them go all the way to the final. And the German Cup final. And nearly win the Bundesliga.

As usual it appears I have dragged myself into a depressing pursuit. They've improved slightly since the start of the season but things are still not looking good. Sod this. As if being a Chelsea fan isn't enough.

Alright, I've missed the point of this blog, which is to record what I observe and think about Chelsea. Anyway, it's the yids today. Am apprehensive, as I always am for this fixture. For losing the "12 years" record would be a great humiliation. We're without Gronk, Zenden and a few others. JFH is not in form. Guddy probably will not start. Spurs have been mediocre but so have we. Unfortunately, historical happenings (especially last season's back-to-back 4-0) have so upped my expectations from this fixture that I will be gutted even with a draw. Should start stocking up on Prozac then.

There. I've just doubled my apprehension thinking about the match. So much for keeping true to the subject of the blog.