Johnny Nicholson: Impressive Tuchel has got the Chelsea machine in gear again 

Since the whole Abramovich debacle began, if anything Thomas Tuchel’s side seem to have been playing even better

Chelsea's Mason Mount (left) and manager Thomas Tuchel after the Emirates FA Cup quarter final match at the Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough. Picture  Owen Humphreys/PA Wire. 

Boro come up short in the Cup

The FA Cup quarter-finals kicked off at the Riverside with Middlesbrough, a side kept afloat at times by a local multi-millionaire owner of a haulage company, taking on Chelsea, a club given £1.5bn of free money stolen from the Russian people by a multi-billionaire Russian with links to an evil warmonger. Only one is on the right side of history. Only one should have always been illegal.