"You jammy bastards" - by Priesty.

Another storming performance at Old Trashford from the boys. I'm afraid I had to watch on Match of The Day like everyone except a few tourists, er, sorry, I mean diehard Man U fans, but I have a large TV with surround sound (you can hear chanted swearing out of 5 speakers, an interesting experience), crank it up and it's like being there, albeit in a hospitality box.

It was nice to have twelve players against ten for a change (Andy "King Awful" Cole was on the pitch, smirk).

From the highlights, it appeared that the game was played almost completely in the Moan U part of the field in the first half, with some breathtaking attacking play from the boys that even drew gasps of appreciation from the moronic commentator. The first goal was inevitable, and it came courtesy of a low drive from Graeme Le Saux that Schmeichel blocked (he should have held it), the unfortunate Berg could not avoid the rebound, which looped over the flapping Schmeichel. How we laughed.

Predictably, Moan U scored an offside goal against the run of play to equalise - the ref didn't dare disallow it. He should have, though. Even if you gave Cole the benefit of the doubt, the Polish geezer whose name I forget was clearly offside, and he knew it, you could see him trying to get back onside as the ball was played. Some may say he was not interfering with play, but the Chelsea defence must have been distracted by him being there. Even if you gave HIM the benefit of the doubt as well, try telling me that Scholes wasn't offside when Cole passed to him. No point whinging about it, though, it's done, and we'll probably get a few dodgy decisions our way this season. Not at Old Trashford, though.

Graeme Le Saux didn't see it that way, though, and neither did the rest of the Chelsea players, who promptly surrounded the ref and linesman demanding to know just what constituted offside, then ? (or words to that effect). Even Ruud joined in, and had to be politely asked by the ref to go back to the dugout, which he politely did.

The incident acted as a catalyst for some of the worst violence from the Butcher Keane that I've seen, and I've seen plenty from him. How he wasn't sent off I'll never know. Supreme among the acts of brutality he committed was a clear punch to Andy Myers' head that the ref and linesman managed to avoid seeing, due to the fact that they were deliberately not looking. The rest of the first half was populated with skirmishes all over the pitch, as usual Den got booked, which means 5 bookings so far, which means that he misses 3 matches straight off.

Impossibly, nobody got their marching orders; even Keane managed to stay on, in spite of his ever-increasing outrages. It was a relief when the ref blew for half time.

Highlight of the first half was a three-man move starting with Poyet threading the ball to Hughes, who laid it off first time to Zola, then spun on his heel and ran 50 yards to get on the end of the return, a superb cross on the run that looped round the back of the Moan U defence, Hughes skillfully shot without controlling the ball, Schmeichel did well to save what would have been a candidate for goal of the season.

Chelsea took the lead after 68 minutes, a somewhat fortunate goal by Mark Hughes, who was in the right place to tap home from a cross from Petrescu that was meant for Zola, who missed the ball, as did Schmeichel. The roar from the few Chelsea fans that had managed to steal tickets was admirable, but no more admirable than mine from my sofa. Curtains were twitching in the street (most people in Fulham seem to "support" Moan U, judging by the Moan U shirts most of the kids wear, although to be fair there are a fair sprinkling of "Zola" Chelsea shirts around now).

As usual, Moan U managed to score a jammy goal in the 86th minute to equalise, what a sickener. A cross from Beckham skidded off the top of Leboeuf's napper, straight to Ole Solskjaer, who turned and curled a shot into the top corner, a great goal by any standards, but still sickening. If Chelsea get half the luck of United this season, we'll be champs by a mile.

It's worth mentioning that "land" De Goey made some crucial saves, he gets down to low shots very well for such a tall bloke. I've been a bit scathing about him till now, but he definitely saved Chelsea last night. Hats off.

Bernard Lambourde made his debut and looked a good prospect, although he did miss a sitter, as did Petrescu. You need to take the chances, one thing that Moan U do all the time (except when Cole is playing).

Typically at Moan U, the ref somehow managed to add on 5 minutes of extra time to give them the chance to get a winner, but Chelsea held on to grab a point, not bad considering united had conceded only 1 goal in the previous 6 matches. I reckon united were bloody lucky to force a draw - I told you they were shite.