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Attacking free kick to Saints. It's played short and then backwards until Chelsea nick it before racing away to make it 5-1. Totally Russball.

Surely that has to go to VAR.

Manning fouled there wasn't he?

Saints look ok when moving the ball forward quickly. Should be 2-3.

Chelsea miss another sitter. Martin surely can't survive after this shambles.

Chelsea have missed a sackful. There's another bad miss. Could easily be 6 already.

Saints well ahead on possession though so there is that.

It was exasperation from me but I agree it was dumb of Stephens. Just trying to remember the last time we saw a VAR referral for pulling hair.

Calm down, dear.

Without VAR nobody sees it. Still stupid by captain Shoehorn.

Ref's lost it. Chelsea kicking our players gets no punishment at all.

Stephens can sod right off with Martin as far as I'm concerned.

FFS! VAR strikes again.

VAR for a possible red card? Stephens pulled a hair.

Invited to take a shot so he does and scores. 1-3.

For a few minutes Saints gave Chelsea some problems when moving the ball forward quickly. Then came the instruction from Russ to stop that sort of thing and get back to tippy-tappy at the back. This is high risk, low reward stuff.

This is on target for 9-1 so an improvement I guess.

Saints very poor at corners both in attack and in defence.

That is Russball madness in a nutshell. Chelsea defence looking ropey so why the hell are we playing tippy-tappy at the back?

Another tippy-tappy screw up. 1-2.

Chelsea defence there for the taking. 1-1.

Abject defending.

I'm looking forward to some excellent referrals to VAR. 😜

Swansea in reasonable form and Saints will no doubt field a Championship level team. Could go either way and should offer us an indication as to Saints likely level in the Championship next season.

I mentioned that VAR would want a look at the time.