Everton 3-6 Chelsea, 30 August 2014

Footballing entertainment doesn’t get much better than this goal-filled classic at Goodison Park, as we continued a brilliant start to the 2014/15 season, which would of course end with us as champions. It took just 35 seconds for Diego Costa to find the net in the third consecutive match since arriving from Atletico Madrid over the summer. When Branislav Ivanovic made it two in the third minute it looked like game over, but Roberto Martinez’s Everton weren’t about to give up and got a lifeline through Kevin Mirallas on the stroke of half time.

Jose Mourinho must have thought his Blues had killed off any chance of a fightback when Eden Hazard’s shot was deflected past Howard, but that kick-started a crazy spell of five goals in just 10 minutes. Steven Naismith pulled one back for the home team before Nemanja Matic restored our advantage with another deflected effort. Former Chelsea striker Samuel Eto’o then came off the bench and gave Everton more hope by scoring with his first touch for his new club since leaving Stamford Bridge, but Ramires finally settled things down by scoring our fifth almost straight from the restart. Any lingering chance of late drama was ended when Diego Costa added a goal in the final minute to the one he had scored in the first, which must have felt like an age ago for those watching in the crowd!