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Chelsea's Petr Cech walks off the field after being red carded against Wigan - Source: Reuters -
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Over the last few weeks, it really looked like Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea had forgotten how to lose - but last weekend they, er, remembered.
It was the most unlikely of teams who knocked Chelsea off their perch at the top of the Premier League table as Wigan derailed the Blues steam-train by inflicting a shock 3-1 defeat.
Titus Bramble headed Wigan in front with a powerful shot before goalscoring machine Didier Drogba equalised at the start of the second half.
But it was when Cech, who was shown a red card for bringing down
Hugo Rodallega, went off and stand in goalie Hilario came on that
Chelsea fell apart.
Cech will now miss the side's massive clash with Liverpool at
Stamford Bridge this weekend, but due to the way Liverpool have
been defending this season they probably won't be too worried.
Goals galore in the Prem
It may be a cliché to say that this year seems to be the most exciting Premier League season so far, but just seven games in, few draws and 196 goals it is certainly ringing true.
Last weekend Liverpool hit Hull for six at Anfield with a fantastic Fernando Torres hat-trick and then Steven Gerrard did THIS!
Tottenham's Robbie Keane showed off his impressive form after
smashing in four in Spurs' all-too-easy 5-0 win over Burnley.
And Darren Bent took time off of Twitter to continue his goalscoring rebirth in Sunderland's 5-2 win over Wolves . (See we actually do know that more than four Premier League teams exist, so there!)
One team who were not so fortunate though were Portsmouth, who, along with being broke, have been handed the illustrious title of having the worst start to a season in 79-years.
Pompey boss Paul Hart said he doesn't think it is time to hit the panic button just yet, but we feel some bookies would disagree.
Liverpool fall in Florence + other stuff
In other football stuff this week, a defensively dire Liverpool lost the plot, and the game, to Fiorentina on Matchday Two of the Champions League.
The travelling Reds were undone by two-goal hero Stevan Jovetic, who, after the game told reporters he had aspirations of becoming just like Italian hero Roberto Baggio, which will be great news for Liverpool should their next game come down to penalties.
In other Big Cup results, Ryan Giggs continued to prove he is well
better than some of his younger counterparts by scoring his 150th
goal for United in their 2-1 win over Wolfsburg, while Michael 'I'm
not injury prone' Owen helped his bid for a World Cup place
by going off with groin-knack 20 minutes into the
clash.
Arsenal left it late again with a 2-0 win , while Chelsea continued to be thoroughly unimpressive with a 1-0 win over Apoel.
OTHER STUFF
Nelsen denies El-Haji Diouf up
Blackburn skipper Ryan Nelsen has set the record straight on his reported punch-up with team-mate El-Hadji Diouf.
'The News of the World' had reported that a dressing room bust-up happened just minutes after the Senegal international was accused of racially abusing a ball boy during the sides Premier League loss to Everton.
But Nelsen has since come clean about the incident telling reporters there was an argument - but no blows were traded.
Maradona calls for help from Beard
Argentina coach Diego Maradona
has called on 'God's hand' to shield the South
American country from World Cup elimination.
"The Beard (God) saved me many times, I hope he saves me this time
too," said Maradona ironically, probably.
Wenger becomes Arsenal's longest
Arsene Wenger, who last week credited living in a pub for helping shape his outlook on life and knowledge of football, has become the longest-serving Arsenal manager, after celebrating 13 years at the club.
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Neill gets initiated
Everton's new signing Lucas Neill has been initiated into the club by getting robbed .
Adebayor fined
City striker Emmanuel Adebayor has escaped with a suspended two-match ban and a 25,000-thousand-pound fine for his goal celebration in front of Arsenal supporters.
Having already served a three-match ban for raking his boot down the face of former team-mate Robin van Persie, he is finally available to stop my Fantasy Football team falling of the table by playing at Aston Villa on Monday night.
AND FINALLY
C-Ron gets spell bound
And while Real may have won once again in La Liga last weekend (The beat Tenerife 3-0 FYI) the more exciting news came from brilliant Spanish paper El Mundo, who are reporting that the Spanish giants are under siege from a voodoo priest.
According to reports, a letter has been received from a man who claims to have cast a spell on El Diver that will leave him injured in a 'freak' accident after being contracted by a mysterious person.
"I can't promise that it will be a serious injury" the voodoo priest said "but he'll certainly be out of action more than playing."
BREAKING NEWS: Cristiano Ronaldo suffered a sprained ankle in Real Madrid's 3-0 Champions League win over Olympique Marseille and is a doubt for Sunday's La Liga match at Sevilla.
Coincidence? We think not.
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