Chelsea captain John Terry was sent off as the Premier League leaders beat Peterborough 4-1 in the FA Cup third round at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea 4 Stoke City 2

Antonio Conte was in no doubt about the significance of Chelsea’s club record, 12th successive league win.

Our writers round up the weekend's Premier League talking points.

Hull 0 Chelsea 2

Theo Walcott hailed Arsenal's bright young things as the Gunners put the past behind them to soundly beat London rivals Chelsea yesterday evening.

Swansea 2 Chelsea 2

It’s a long, straight motorway, cutting through endless fields of corn, which takes you from the centre of Belgrade to Stara Pazova where, tucked away at the back of a small industrial park, resides the modern home of Serbian football, a state of the art training complex opened in 2011.

Chelsea 3 Burnley 0: Eden Hazard’s revival at Chelsea looks set to be as quick, dramatic and unfathomable as his fall from grace last season after a performance at the weekend which hinted he is almost back to his very best.

Chelsea 2 West Ham United 1: New season, same story. Diego Costa scored a late, late winner to get Antonio Conte’s reign off to a winning start, but controversy swirled round Stamford Bridge with unhappy West Ham supporters and staff claiming the Spain striker should have been sent off long before he put the ball into the net.

Chelsea 1 Leicester City 1: John Terry has a habit of hijacking title celebrations and this time it wasn’t even Chelsea’s party he gatecrashed as the defender took centre stage at Stamford Bridge to extend the soap opera around his future.

Sunderland 3 Chelsea 2: JERMAIN Defoe was man enough to admit he struggled to hold back the tears after his goal brought Sunderland the three priceless points that will surely bring Premier League survival this season.

Chelsea 0 Manchester City 3

Swansea 1 Chelsea 0: It was, of course, Alan Hansen who famously suggested “you can’t win anything with kids” 21 years ago before a youthful Manchester United won the Premier League title.

It says everything about this season of surprises that West Ham were bitterly upset to drop two points and miss out on a place in the top four after a controversial equaliser from the penalty spot by Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas.

Branislav Ivanovic has defended Eden Hazard after the Chelsea playmaker’s midweek shirt swap against PSG and says the Belgian remains committed to the Blues.

Chelsea 1 PSG 2 (PSG win 4-2 on aggregate): Zlatan Ibrahimovic exacted revenge on Chelsea in the most satisfying way, scoring the winning goal against them at Stamford Bridge to send Paris St Germain through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

The biggest games often call for the greatest players to take centre stage.

I have to say that when the half-time whistle went I was more than a little depressed.

Southampton 1 Chelsea 2

Gary Cahill is confident Chelsea can cope in the absence of injured captain John Terry.

Captain John Terry conceded defeat in his bid to play for Chelsea in tonight’s Champions League clash at Paris St Germain and is a doubt for Sunday’s FA Cup tie with Manchester City, interim boss Guus Hiddink has admitted.

Chelsea 1 Manchester United 1: Just when it seemed Louis van Gaal was about to gain the upper hand in his bid to stay at Old Trafford – at least in the short term — a late goal from Diego Costa, and another round of bizarre post-match ramblings from the United manager, have left everything back up in the air.

The result extended the Blues’ current unbeaten run to 11 games.

John Terry will end his 21-year association with Chelsea at the end of the season after being told his contract will not be renewed.

Chelsea 3 (Costa 64, Fabregas 66, Terry 90+8) Everton 3 (Terry og 49, Mirallas 56, Funes Mori 90) Gerry Cox, Stamford Bridge. Few players divide opinion like John Terry.

Is there anything better than a 94th minute goal? Yes — a 98th minute goal — especially one that upsets the queen mother of football managers, Roberto Martinez. It’s a MINIMUM of minutes Roberto — live with it. Course, if your players hadn’t done the equivalent of two laps of the pitch when they thought they’d scored the winner, things could have been so different.