Come off it Mr Mourinho!

Yes, yesterday's result at the Etihad Stadium was no fake. Chelsea failed to show their quality in the final third and it could be argued that they had been fortunate not to have been down by a few goals in the first half. It took them over an hour to produce a really good goal scoring opportunity and they failed to convert it. Fabrigas was painfully slow at times. The attack lacked penetration. Manchester City consequently managed to keep a clean sheet. Chelsea went home without a point, which seems fair and no fake.

Mourinho has been criticized for his petulance of late. The Carneiro and Fearn affair has not helped his cause. Experts and medical practitioners firmly believed he was wrong.