And while Jose Mourinho said that he respects Wenger and the club for keeping him for so long, he couldn't help but take a dig at the Frenchman. The Portuguese, in typical fashion, veiled his praise with a 'bad moments' jibe.

How many more games Arsene, asks the reporter: "I don't know," says the professor.

Quote: 'Eight years without a trophy, is very good...' said Mourinho pre-game. Will he bite his tongue after today?

4 minutes: Brilliant football as Rosicky slips a beauty of a ball for Giroud whose left footed shot is blocked.

GOAL!! 7 minutes: What is happening? Andrea Schurrle has acres of space as he charges in from the right, looks this way and that and just decides to fizz in a low shot into the bottom corner. Wow.

RED CARD and PENALTY: The ball is laid off for Hazard in the box and his shot has been saved (with his hands) by Oxlade-Chamberlain. However, Kieran Gibbs gets sent off! Unbelievable.

SUB: 23 minutes: Podolski comes off for Vermaelen.

38 minutes: There's no fight from Arsenal at all. Not that they can be blamed for not going gung-ho with 10 men on the pitch. Chelsea still pressing...

48 minutes: 5-0? Almost! Torres breaks free and the rebound from the save falls to Luiz whose shot is saved again! Good double from Szczesny there.

54 minutes: Arsenal trying to move forward now. Some positive signs for the bruised Gunners as they get some respite from Chelsea's attackers. They couldn't make anything of their first corner though.

62 minutes: Oscar nearly makes it 5-0! Szczesny the savios again. Torres runs down the right, inside the box, dribbles, cuts inside and lays it off to Oscar who tries the lob shot, Szczesny leaps and just gets his fingertips to help it over the crossbar. No corner given though!

66 minutes: GOAL!!! This was coming! Oscar makes it 5-0. Szczesny should have done better there. Oscar receives the ball inside the box an drives it low past Szczesny.

68 minutes: Szczesny almost makes another error! Luiz runs in and drills in a low shot towards the far corner. It bounces before Szczesny who fumbles but recovers well to make amends.

71 minutes Substitution: Luiz off and John Obi Mikel replaces him.

80 minutes: Ivanovic whizzes down the right and provides a low cross but Szczesny intercepts to make the stop.

84 minutes: Schurrle almost makes it 7-0. His crunches in a low drive from just outside the box and it flies inches wide of the far post.

The FINAL WHISTLE goes and on a day when Arsene Wenger celebrated 1000 games in charge as Arsenal manager, Arsenal suffer a humiliating 6-0 defeat to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea sit pretty at top with 69 points. Liverpool are behind them with 62 points with two games in hand.