Drogba 10-11 (a)

The 2010-11 season started so well for Chelsea, and Drogba. In the first game we won 6-0 against West Brom with Drogba scoring a hattrick, having also done so in the 8-0 thrashing of Wigan in the last game of the previous season. Therefore, going into the next game, away at Wigan, he had the chance to become the first Premier League player to score hattricks in three consecutive games. Unfortunately for him he didn't score at all, but we did win 6-0 again meaning we had scored 12 goals in the first two games of the season, and 20 goals in our last three Premier League matches!

Such incredible form had the supporters dreaming of, and believing in, more record breaking seasons, and domestic dominance, all achieved whilst playing the best football of the Abramovich era! However, as tends to happen at Chelsea, the incredible high was followed shortly by an unfathomable low, as we collapsed during the late autumn and early winter.

A late revival was not enough to secure any silverware, and it ultimately cost Carlo Ancelotti his job. In hindsight, that decision, and the sacking of Ray Wilkins which seemed to cause the collapse, put the club back years in terms of title winning potential. It sparked a return to the quick turnover of managers that had followed Mourinho's sacking in 2007, with Andre Villas Boas, Roberto Di Matteo, and Rafa Benitez all failing to last a year in the job.

Drogba failed to replicate his form of the Double winning season, scoring just 13 goals in 37 games - 24 goals fewer than the previous year.