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                meant and then I stuck up for Zenden during a discussion with the guy at the next urinal.
As the second-half began it wasn't a case of us hanging on, as we took up where we'd left off. Seven minutes in, we were 2-0 up and it came following a great break down the left as Henderson put it through for Gyan to run onto and knock past the advancing Cech. Our lot went berserk and as Gyan and his team-mates danced on the touch-line, I was dancing along too – it wasn't a pretty sight but I was way beyond caring. From then on in I couldn't see us losing it as Chelsea didn't look capable of making a comeback. If anything we looked more likely to get another and a gentleman behind me summed up my thoughts by announcing, “We're takin' the piss, man!” Our third duly arrived three minutes before full time. We were pressurizing down the right and Cole made the basic error of not putting enough power into his back-pass which was intercepted by Welbeck and knocked into the back of the net. Welbeck played a blinder and I thought he was good against Spurs on Tuesday too.
Chelsea had a bad day and their shooting was poor as were a lot of their passes, which too frequently went out for throw-ins to us, but that's not to take a thing away from our own efforts. I was at the game with a couple of my students from Ukraine and one of them asked me why we didn't play like that at Spurs the other night. I didn't know the answer to that but what's to stop us trying to play the same in future? With the exception of Everton, we've now played all of the
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