What a horrible week it has been for the Blues.

Starting with the defeat in Milan after a terrific team performance, compounded with the horror show that was the 4-2 defeat to Man City on home territory.

Seventeen years ago I was a fresh faced youngster attending, I think, my third ever Chelsea match against Manchester City. The last time we ever lost to City at home in fact, and yes you guessed it - we ended up losing 4-2.

Football is a funny old game indeed.

City have now taken 6 points from us this season, and with all melodrama aside, swept us off our feet in what is possibly one of the worst second half performances in a home game in my memory.

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Television pundits here in the UK were quick to pounce upon the fact that we dominated City for 44 minutes of that game, it was the remaining 46 that were the problem.

After the game I had a discussion with a fellow fan on the way to the tube station, and he was insistent that it was all down to Carlo Ancelotti's substitution choices - which weren't exactly inspired, but we lost that game as soon as we lost focus and Craig Bellamy ran alongside Mikel unchallenged for almost half the pitch and knocked in their second past a hapless and helpless Hilario.

What has frustrated me the most about this match in the last two years is the comparison between us and Man City, what with both teams both being bought out and funded by rich owners.

There have been 18 years of Premier League football, and only in 5 seasons have Man City managed to sneak into the top half of the table, with 9th being their highest placed finish.

We haven't been lower than 6th place since before the 1996/97 season and had reached the Champions' League twice before actually being bank rolled by Abramovich.

This is in stark contrast to the project undertaken at City, they were a team who needed to be rebuilt completely - whereas we had domestic cup success, higher league table finishes (in all but one season) and European attendance to our name.

Back to us though. If we are to win the league this season we must stop making these fundamental errors. Cesc Fabregas accused his team of making schoolboy errors just the other week, and we have been caught doing exactly the same.

The two sending offs were ridiculous on our part, Belletti struggling to atone for allowing Barry the space to beat him for strength and pace, and Ballack struggling to atone for yet another poor performance.

There is only one player who deserves any credit for their performance on Saturday, and that is Didier Drogba who didn't stop for breath once during the game. Running around the pitch for the team, whether in attack or defence.

Yet there are 10 more players who need to take a long hard look at themselves and question whether they are worthy of winning the league, the door has just been left wide open when it should have been slammed shut by January.