Another weekend, another Brighton win over Chelsea, another inquest into how £250m worth of players, management and recruitment staff could have swapped Sussex for Stamford Bridge and yet the Albion still maintain a hold over the Blues.

A brilliant goal by Brighton & Hove Albion's Kaoru Mitoma and a Yankuba Minteh double gave the Seagulls a 3-0 Premier League home win over Chelsea on Friday, a week after they knocked their London visitors out of the FA Cup.

Two months ago, the Chelsea supporters were joyously singing that they “had their Chelsea back”. Those were the glory days of December, when a title charge looked like a genuine possibility for a squad stacked with quality options in almost every position.