Chelsea's win at Manchester City not only ended the home team's 100% record at home this season, but threw an already exciting English Premier League title race completely wide open and ensured that no one actually really knows who is going to be champion come May.
So here's a look at the remaining fixtures for the trio -
Saturday 8 February
Liverpool v Arsenal, 12:45pm
Norwich City v Manchester City, 3pm
Chelsea v Newcastle, 3pm
Tuesday, 12 February
West Brom v Chelsea, 8:45pm
Wednesday, 13 February
Manchester City v Sunderland, 7:45pm
Arsenal v Manchester United, 7:45pm
Saturday, 23 February
Chelsea v Everton, 12:45pm
Manchester City v Stoke City, 3pm
Arsenal v Sunderland, 3pm
Saturday, 1 March
Stoke City v Arsenal, 3pm
Fulham v Chelsea, 3pm
Saturday, 8 March
Manchester City v Aston Villa, 3pm
Arsenal v Swansea, 3pm
Chelsea v Tottenham, 5:30pm
Saturday, 15 March
Hull City v Manchester City, 12:45pm
Aston Villa v Chelsea, 5:30pm
Sunday, 16 March
Tottenham v Arsenal, 4:00pm
Saturday, 23 March
Chelsea v Arsenal, 12:45pm
Manchester City v Fulham, 3pm
Tuesday, 25 March
Manchester United v Manchester City, 7:45pm
Saturday, 30 March
Crystal Palace v Chelsea, 3pm
Arsenal v Manchester City, 5:30pm
Weekend of 5-6 April
Manchester City v Southampton
Chelsea v Stoke City
Everton v Arsenal
Weekend of 12-13 April
Arsenal v West Ham
Liverpool v Manchester City
Swansea v Chelsea
Weekend of 19-20 April
Hull v Arsenal
Manchester City v West Brom
Chelsea v Sunderland
Weekend of 26-28 April
Arsenal v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Manchester City
Liverpool v Chelsea
Weekend of 3-4 May
Arsenal v West Brom
Chelsea v Norwich
Everton v Manchester City
Sunday, 11 May
Cardiff v Chelsea
Manchester City v West Ham
Norwich v Arsenal
There is no doubt that win for Chelsea was massive as they face a fairly straightforward February and early March - their toughest matches are against Everton and Tottenham but they are at home. Manchester City should recover with home games against Sunderland, Stoke and an away match at Norwich where they have a good record, but they do have the distraction of the Capital One Cup Final against Sunderland, which means their derby match against Manchester United has been postponed until later in March.
On the other hand, current leaders, Arsenal face a tough run with Liverpool this weekend and then Manchester United in midweek before their cup games against Liverpool and Bayern Munich before they host Sunderland and a visit to Stoke City.
February has always been the month that has broken Arsenal title challenges in recent years so this is a critical time for the Gunners if they are to remain genuine title contenders - shame that they'll be missing Aaron Ramsey and new signing Kim Kallstrom for much of that run.
If the Gunners fail, it looks like the Premier League's financial heavyweights, Manchester City and Chelsea could be fighting for the title - their stars, old and new are shining at the right time.
After the end of February, well we'll have to look and see. Given how this season has gone, this looks like one that will go down to the final day between this trio.
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