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Chelsea all over Brighton. Cole Palmer 31 minute hat trick. Brilliant free kick for his third. Chelsea look to be properly back in business this season.

Everton losing at Goodison again. Guehi the scorer too. I'm putting it on to drink in the fractious atmosphere and the boos.

Joleon Lescott who's worked with Gordon for England U21s and now seniors says he's never known a player to be as interested in working as hard off the ball as he does on it. Spunking on about his "football IQ".

Gordon on there saying he's not at peak fitness yet. Says he's about 90% but games like today with constant running will help him. Says last year was his absolute peak physical condition and he needs to get back to that.

Aye. Of course he left his leg in to make contact with the keeper and go over. It's fucking shite but it's also now an accepted part of the game. "There was contact so he's got a right to go down". You hear it all the time. No point being a couple of old dinosaurs and claiming it's not a penalty. That's been a penalty every time for at least 10 years now.

Macks is too close to Mackems for my liking.

I was gonna watch the Arsenal game next but every time I watch, hoping they fuck up, they just steamroller the opposition. Might watch Chelsea v Brighton instead.

The start to the season Haaland has had, they did class keeping him quiet. He was frustrated as fuck missing that chance at the end.

I felt for Longstaff a bit. Two bad passes under pressure could have cost us. He looks back to having no confidence again. Anyway that was class. Best performance of the season and a good result. 1.56 vs 0.87 on xG as well, you'll be thrilled to hear.

A point and that performance feels almost like a win. Very little not to like about that.

Gvardiol man of the match. He's been repeatedly skinned by Murphy all game.

6 games in and Fletch is bigging up how close the title race is.

Well in there Gordon. He's back up for the scrap today that's for sure. That was clearly a foul on him too, I thought.

Murphy gets himself in killer positions but 4 times out of 5 the final ball is a stinker.

Shame that fell to him so soon after coming on. Unlucky.

Change at right back not exactly what we needed. Looking forward to seeing Willock smoke Walker in a race down the wing though.

Brilliant from Pope there.

Greg Norman in the house. Loved him in Crocodile Dundee.

Getting space in behind them here. More chances to come hopefully. Ugh, someone has to attack that from Murphy ffs.

Dive but I couldn't give a fuck.

Blatantly just copying my post and preemptively claiming you haven't read it.

What the fuck is going on at the met. I know you get bad apples everywhere, but these are turning up the worst kind of wrongun every few months.

We might go on to get beat by two or three here as we try to get back into the game, but if we take this level of effort and performance into the rest of the season, we'll do class. The press has had them looking properly ragged at times.

Lynsey long-legs. Phwit phwoo.

We're dead unlucky to be going in behind here. Big improvement on everything we've seen so far this season.