Crafty British broadsheet identifies the vandal in the Chelsea line up who ruined all their dreams

The young men at the Guardian’s daily football email The Fiver, though over-educated and known to get through eight pints of sarcasm of an evening, have put their weakness for detective drama to good use for once. They have cleverly deconstructed Chelsea’s season and in a piece of deduction worthy of the great Christie - that’s the crone Agatha, not the seventies pop group responsible for Yellow River - to reveal the malign spirit putrefying the core of CFC. If you wish the identity of the villain to be revealed, read on.

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“As Avram Grant drags his surly also-rans up to Goodison Park for tonight’s tryst with Everton - a match that’s been rendered as meaningless as zgfhzxkagkatyg by Chelsea’s flower show against Wigan on Monday - there’s one key question the Fiver feels compelled to answer: who is Chelsea’s weakest link? Before considering the evidence, we can, of course, rule out two unlikely