Anyway, as opening home games come, they don’t get much tougher. Although much has been made of the incoming Big Phil Scolari and his remit of turning Chelsea into an entertaining team, the notion of Keegan-esque 5-3 victories every week certainly wasn’t borne out last week in their opening weekend 4-0 drubbing of Pompey. We simply can’t win this game because even if we do and Palacios knocks eight in with his backside to scrape an 8-7 win, they’ll just go and friggin’ buy him and add him to the other 83 Palacioses that constitute their first team squad, in addition to the 14 Palacioses they have currently got on loan at Championship clubs. So we win and we lose, and that’s football Big Four, Sky Sports style. 

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