Who would win in a fight between one Diego Costa sized Diego Costa and several hundred eight-year-old sized eight-year-olds? That's one of humanity's most-asked riddles, across every culture ever to have existed. Now Chelsea know the answer:

Yep, it's time for the first team to have some fun against the smallest members of the Chelsea academy. And Diego Costa* wasn't the only one involved. Thibaut Courtois, Cesc Fabregas and Didier Drogba all got in on the action as well:

*Incidentally, there are no reports of a rash of small children being hospitalised, which leads me to believe Costa wasn't playing for very long.

.@cesc4official also in the thick of things against the Chelsea Under-8s... #CFC pic.twitter.com/gvyACasEl0 — Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) December 24, 2014

Not sure the Chelsea Under-8s really stood a chance against @didierdrogba... pic.twitter.com/iPABxoDeiq — Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) December 24, 2014

My only regret is that there exists (so far) no video of this stupendous event. (Edit: oh my god there's actually video)