Drogba the destroyer blows Gunners away

DIDIER DROGBA finally found a way to eclipse John Terry in the headline stakes last night as he produced a powerful two-goal performance against Arsenal that not only sent Chelsea back to the top of the Premier League but re-focused attention away from off-field sexual intrigue and back to the more straightforward business of football.

It was inevitable that Terry would earn his share of the limelight at Stamford Bridge in a match that was played just 24 hours after he was stripped of the England captaincy following two weeks of unwelcome tabloid headlines about his private life.

But, thankfully, the centre-back’s extra-marital affair with the former girlfriend of fellow England defender Wayne Bridge was not the enduring story of the day as Drogba out-muscled Arsenal, just as he had done earlier in the season, to all but end Arsene Wenger’s hopes of winning the title this season.