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A moment from Kai Havertz that displays why we keep coming back to football, in a match that offered so many reasons to stay away.

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Procedure insists we must state the scoreline of this match at Stamford Bridge was a late 1-0 win for Chelsea over Newcastle United, but the real significance is not on the table or anything like this.

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It is what it means for the sport, and society. The wonder is how a fixture like this will be looked back on. What will its place in history be?

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There were many moments were it barely felt a football match at all, and not just because it was mostly a poor game.

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It is difficult not to feel that, just at the point where the Premier League appears to have reached a peak in terms of financial power, this showcased the absolute worst of the sport.

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So much of it, put bluntly, was so depressing. Follow all the reaction from Chelsea vs Newcastle below and live coverage of Arsenal vs Leicester City:

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A moment from Kai Havertz that displays why we keep coming back to football, in a match that offered so many reasons to stay away.

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