One football website has set out to catalogue refereeing blunders in the top flight this season and publish an alternative league table for what could have been without the calamitous cock-ups from the referees.

U Need Specs Ref! has been running since the start of the 2006/07 campaign and they reckon that Chelsea would still be second even if all the dodgy decisions were reversed.

True, they would be just a point behind Manchester United in that alternative reality, but what is remarkable about the U Need Specs Ref league table is how similar it is to how things are in real life, with the top four all in the same order, the same three clubs in European places and the same bottom three.

According to the site, the clubs to have suffered most from unjust decisions are Everton (who should have four more points) and Aston Villa (who should be three places higher).