Those stats! How can they all be that bad?
Even by the law of averages, you would think that one of them would be vaguely OK, but they're all absolutely shit.
At half time I saw Petr Cech criticising Petrovic's positioning for the Palace goal.
What's happened to Sanchez? Is he injured or just out of favour?
Edit: injured - in partial team training for reconditioning phase.
Chelsea are knocking it about nicely at the back, but on the odd occasion the ball does make it into the final third, there's no invention or incision. Is that Roy's tactics, or is it the ghost of Potter?
It's not going to be at all easy to get this adopted into the laws of the game.
I think the best chance would be for the winning club to forfeit points after a totting up of things like, number of caravans dumped within a certain distance from the ground, the number of 'ultras' dressed in...
Ideally I would like them both to lose tonight, but I don't think the laws of the game permit that.
Failing that, all possible results tonight are a win-win for us.
A Palace relegation fight would be great, but then, a decent Astrid meltdown is good, solid entertainment.