Ballacks to you Jerry!

Chelsea 4-2 Bryan Munch. Certainly a score to be pleased with, until you realise it was 4-1 before Ballack cheated the enormous 18 stone clog-wearing lard-arse in the middle into giving him a penalty in injury time. In the final minute, the referee also decided not to stop play when two balls were on the pitch together only feet apart, but did give a very dubious free-kick, which was taken a mile from where it was awarded, which led to the incident in the box where Michael Bollock did his impression of a Barnes Wallis bouncing bomb.

Still, Jerry won't be happy. They won't stop us scoring out there, and they had nothing at all in the locker last night. We could easily have scored 5 or 6. In fact, we should have. If the ball hadn't bobbled when the Duffer was one-on-one, or if Drogba was able to finish.

Bryan on the other hand offered a very blunt attack, albeit without Makaay, and not much else to back it up. If the lard-arse in the middle with the spring-loaded arm hadn't given them constant free-kicks on the edge of the box, you'd have been hard pressed to even realise they had turned up.

A very typical European refereeing performance from Fat Boy Rene Temmink. 6 yellow cards issued in a game that wasn't remotely dirty. Just remember Temmink, your dad used to have a push bike!

The Jerry fans, who are always good value, gave a good rendition of "It's coming home" when they equalised. Strangely, it was the last we heard of them for the rest of the night!

Superb to see Forssell make an appearance. Lets hope that continues.

Brum this weekend, and back to the normal business of trying to win the only competition that actually matters.