I've been trying to work out why we lost to Leeds - having seen the match live on Sky, I'm still at a loss to explain it. The only thing I can think of is that the crowd won it for them..

Leeds were more physical and seemed to successfully stop Chelsea playing the passing game, but that shouldn't have made that much difference - there are plenty of relatively hard players at Chelsea, and most of them (Hughes, Leboeuf, Duberry, even Clarkey) were playing.

I don't think Chelsea were ready for the onslaught at the beginning, (perhaps an understatement in view of the fact that we were 2-0 down inside 9 minutes!) but after that there didn't appear to be much difference between the teams.

Inevitably, Leeds packed their defence in the second half, we had no chance. George Graham's influence was there for all to see. The brightest part of the whole proceedings for me was when Frankie came on - nobody picked him up and he had the run of the place until that thundering header nearly snapped the crossbar. He was man of the match in my book - people who slag him don't take account of his enthusiasm and obvious love of playing in a Chelsea shirt, he put some of the others to shame in that regard.

Worst moment: seeing the sock sticking to the studs on Deane's boot when he pulled it out of Hughesie's leg - not even a booking. That was one of the worst unpunished tackles I've seen, talk about high, I reckon he was lucky to keep his head on.

George Graham's comment: "Brian has some nasty scratch-marks down his shins. That is part and parcel of the game. You don't want to take away the sport's physical nature."

Har de har har. 'Nuff said.