Their form at the home of the north London club in recent years has been nothing short of dreadful for Sir Alex Ferguson's team. They have not beaten Chelsea away since 2002. Since then they have succumbed to five defeats and almost as many draws.
So it was always going to be a 50:50 call on whether to go for a Chelsea win, or a bore-draw. But Chelsea were in-form and United had several keys players missing. And maybe it should have been a bore-draw.
A Darren Fletcher challenge on Ashley Cole was judged to have made contact bringing down the Chelsea defender. To my personal annoyance, John Terry scored from Lampard's resulting free kick.
Until this point neither team had looked like scoring.
But only £2 was wasted on a draw, which after reading and listening to all the hype before the game I assumed the event itself would be a let down. The boxing fight the night before recouped a lot of money lost so far, so two quid wasn't going to reduce loss margin too much. It did mean I couldn't buy a bottle of coke on the way back to university.
Match report can be seen here at www.bbc.co.uk/football
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