Chelsea 4-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv; Post-Match Reaction

Finally, Chelsea have got their first home win of the season, in last night’s Champions League opener against Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv. Former Chelsea players Tal Ben-Haim (of which there were two, the other one a striker), and Slavisa Jokanovic the Maccabi manager, didn’t have many happy memories of their time at Stamford Bridge anyway, and certainly didn’t add to them last night. 

Ruben Loftus-Cheek was awarded the Man of the Match award for his impressive performance

Panic on the streets of (West) London

The international break was both brilliantly and atrociously placed. Brilliant so Jose Mourinho can sit and plan how to turn around this poor start to the season ready for the game at Goodison on Saturday, yet atrocious as it has created an echo chamber on Twitter for moaning about the events of the season so far without the hope of a game soon to come up immediately.

Chelsea players look dejected after Joel Ward seals Palace's win late on

Papy Djilobodji: a buy by any other name would be just as panicked

The title for this piece is a play on a famous Shakespeare quote, but it’s still difficult to determine whether the saga that was Chelsea’s attempts to buy a centre back this transfer window were a tragedy or a comedy.

Papy Djilobodji in action for Nantes, who he left in a 3 million Euro deal