Chelsea are fading into oblivion and there’s nothing they can do about it.
Their failure to take advantage of the early goal against Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea succumbed to the sucker punch to draw 1-1 and allow Manchester United to keep hold of their position at the top of the league.
Their ability to win the title is now only in their hands if they beat Manchester United on April 3.
Dumped out of the Champions League in midweek this was another of those “worst” weeks which used to afflict other teams.
But this is a poor Chelsea performance, devoid of imagination and with nothing coming from the coaches table to suggest that the decline will be anything other than permanent.
Chelsea have to go to Portsmouth on Wednesday where they have to win - even if they do, they will still be behind the Old Trafford outfit who came from behind to defeat Liverpool in the early kick-off match 2-1.
Didier Drogba opened the scoring on six minutes but Blackburn got a deserved equaliser through El-Hadji Diouf on 70 minutes.
Chelsea have dropped eight points out of the last 15.
There are now no excuses. Players and manager have said they must focus on the next game and win - but they are failing to do it.
Arsenal and United just cannot believe their luck.
Chelsea fans cannot believe what is happening either.