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The Run of Play found this 12/9/2007 on news.bbc.co.uk [flag]
Goals from Andriy Shevchenko and Frank Lampard helped Chelsea see off a hard-working Sunderland. The unmarked Shevchenko stretched to head home Salomon Kalou's cross from close in for Chelsea's first. The Black Cats worked tirelessly to keep Chelsea at bay in the second half but failed to trouble Carlo Cudicini. Lampard made the game safe from the spot after Danny Higginbotham had tugged ... [link]

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A Line Under Sunday, December 9
Published 12/9/2007 by Brian at The Run of Play
... Chelsea 2 - 0 Sunderland — What happened to the Avram Grant who was going to keep us entertained? Where’s the tap-dancing Avram, the starry-eyed Avram, the Avram with top hat and cane? I’m looking down on the stage of the cabaret—once more alone in the balcony—and all I see is one sad mime in a Shevchenko shirt, sweeping up a dusty spotlight, weeping. Drogba’s knee injury is like the Broadway strike of Chelsea. ...

Idiot Of The Week: Manchester City’s Red Card Goon, The Liverpool and Chelsea Referees, and Rafa Benitez.
Published 12/10/2007 by Ned at CaughtOffside.com
... Idiot D: Peter Walton - For adding to ‘wrong penalty mania’ this weekend and giving the softest of penalties, after Sunderland’s Danny Higginbotham had supposedly tugged at Chelsea star Alex’s shirt. ...

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