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If the extreme temperatures and the earlier start to the season had made the adjustment back into Premier League Land a little tougher this time around, then a petition calling on a referee to be banned from officiating a team's matches - and that petition seemingly being backed by that club's manager - should bring us right back to reality.

By Monday morning over 95,000 people - you'd presume all Chelsea fans - had signed up to change.org's call for Anthony Taylor to be removed from officiating any future Blues fixtures following the fallout from Sunday's fiery 2-2 draw with Tottenham.

The change.org platform has after all become the go-to for the aggrieved supporter in modern times, with hot take calls for replayed fixtures or alterations to VAR sitting alongside heartfelt pleas for health reform, asylum status or inquests into deaths from bereaved families.

Chelsea and their supporters were incensed about the decisions around both of Tottenham's goals in Sunday's 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge, with the latter strike from Harry Kane coming in the dying embers of the game and moments after Cristian Romero's tug on the long hair of Marc Cucurella went unpunished.

And as the petition was set up and began circulating around the world off the back of events at Stamford Bridge, Thomas Tuchel sat in the stadium's press room and admitted that he does have