Quite the shock comeback by Chelsea as Luton wrote the riot act on them in the first 25 minutes.

The Hatters needed all three points as they neared potential relegation, whilst Chelsea were hovering mid-table.

The Dane Lars Elstrup opened the scoring on the 14th minute where he completely eluded the Chelsea back-line.

This was followed three minutes later by more calamitous defending Sean Farrell pouncing on a loose ball to double Luton’s lead.

Once more Chelsea’s defence went missing and Kingsley Black left unmarked in the box finished coolly.

Luton looked to have the game in the bag, but Chelsea revived themselves.

Graeme Le Saux pulled one back on the half-hour mark but unfortunately, a blatant elbow to the face of a Luton defender meant that he was sent off before half-time.

This galvanised Chelsea, who came out looking much the better team with Graham Stuart thundering in a header in the 55th minute.

Dennis Wise was brought down in the box and scored from the rebound after his penalty was saved.

The game finished all square and Luton managed to survive at the end of the season, finishing three points above Sunderland who were relegated alongside Derby County.

A game like this on Friday could be welcomed by both sets of fans at the start of the season.

A classic encounter between United and Forest at Old Trafford on a lovely Christmas afternoon.

Sir Alex Ferguson had built a beast in the Premier League in the last two seasons.

United had not conceded a goal since April last season but Forest came into the game with a bit of confidence having just gotten promoted back to the Premier League.

Stan Collymore, the perennial journeyman, let loose an absolute screamer into the top corner beating the United keeper all ends up.

This was followed by Stuart Pearce doubling the lead before Eric Cantona pulled one back for the Red Devils.

That season Nottingham Forest felt rejuvenated and chased along for the top four spots.

They even managed to pip Newcastle United to third spot in the league holding out against Liverpool and Leeds United as well.

Manchester United had a downturn in fortunes this season, they lost the title on the final day to Blackburn Rovers, and one week later would lose the FA Cup final against Everton.

Ferguson would be back though and dominate English football for a lot longer.

Forest would be relegated again two seasons later.

Newcastle had been through hell in the past few years.

They were relegated two years prior and had just been promoted but without the finances to really survive.

Chris Hughton had done a great job in getting the Magpies back and was stabilising them in the top tier but soon received the sack.

Up stepped Alan Pardew.

At first, he was hated by the fans but this win against Liverpool got everyone on board.

Liverpool themselves had started to look in trouble in the past season.

They almost won the league in 2009 but Benitez’s magic had worn off and they finished outside the top four for the first time in five years.

This season was meant to be the revival, it was anything but.

Future Anfield flop, Andy Carroll put in a performance that made Liverpool want to spend 35 million pounds on him.

The first goal he headered down for Kevin Nolan to tap in.

Some awful defending at the back proved that Newcastle was still vulnerable, and Dirk Kuyt made them pay to equalise for the Reds.

A Carroll header set Joey Barton free inside the box and he let loose doing the damage against his childhood club.

Andy Carroll would finish off Liverpool in stoppage time with an absolute belter of a shot, leaving Roy Hodgson completely flummoxed.

The win for Newcastle would allow them to leapfrog Liverpool in the top half of the table.

At the end of the season, Newcastle would survive comfortably and soon after the delightful era of Pardew would settle the club down for a couple of seasons.

Liverpool would endure more difficult afternoons such as this until Brendan Rodgers arrived.

Paris has only been the dominating behemoth of French football since 2012.

Before that, it was very much the controversial club that would go up and down the league table just like a yo-yo.

Lens travelled to the Parc des Princes in Christmas (no there’s no theme today) 2005 looking to revive their season that has seen a ridiculous number of draws.

The Sang et Or took the lead through Olivier Thomert who belted his shot into the bottom corner.

Paris equalised though with superstar and club legend Pauleta chipping the goalkeeper after eluding the Lens defence.

Drawing 1-1 after ten minutes but Lens picked up the gears.

A well-worked corner with Thomert finding Aruna Dindane at the back post made it 2-1 Lens.

An awful pass back by the PSG midfielder found Jussiê free in the box who easily dribbled round the keeper and slotted it home.

Lens had won their previous three visits to the Parc and were hoping to make it four in a row.

Jussiê worked his magic once more this time releasing Dindane on the right-hand side who duly blasted the ball past the keeper to make it 4-1 with 20 minutes to go.

Pauleta got his second goal of the match in the dying embers, once again chipping the keeper.

In the final moments, PSG got to within one with Mario Yepes scoring from four yards out.

Lens would get their season back on track and eventually finish fourth 24 points behind champions Lyon, and behind Bordeaux and rivals Lille as well.

PSG’s season would completely derail and they would finish ninth at the end of the season.

The last Grand Prix in the Netherlands until 2021 was an eventful race with Nikki Lauda getting his last ever victory in Formula One.

Nelson Piquet won pole position ahead of Keke Rosberg, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna, Lauda would start in tenth position on the grid.

The three-time world champion and reigning champion Lauda would not be phased, he had won from worse positions.

Piquet never started, a disaster for the Brazilian as his car remained motionless at the front of the grid.

Within six laps the Austrian had moved up to fourth whilst Prost and Rosberg were battling for first.

Rosberg’s Williams would eventually blow smoke and his car would slow down to a halt forcing his fine weekend to come to a tumultuous end.

The final laps of the race were a battle between teammates Lauda and Prost.

Lauda managed to defend against the Frenchman who remained on top of the leaderboard by three points after finishing second.

Ayrton Senna would finish third and despite his horrendous non-start Nelson Piquet managed to climb up the field and finished eighth.

More than half the grid had to retire at Zandvoort.

Alain Prost would eventually win the title ahead of Michele Alboreto.

Nikki Lauda retired after a fine career in Formula One, his 25^th and final win coming at the last Dutch Grand Prix for 35 years.