Chelsea's game against Arsenal on Saturday afternoon heralded warm spring sunshine and Arsene Wenger's 1000th game.
Alas, Wenger's milestone game will not be remembered as fondly as he would have liked or as much as this blog's 1000th post.
Not only was his Arsenal side hammered 6-0 by the home side, really mentally putting them out of the title race, they had a man sent off early in the 1st half.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain handled Fernando Torres' shot on the line, stopping it from becoming Chelsea's goal - automatic red card regardless of the intent.
However, unbelievably Andre Marriner sent off Arsenal's left back, Kieran Gibbs, mistakenly thinking he was the man who handled the ball on the line.
Ok granted, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs perhaps do look alike but that's like saying all Indians and Chinese and white people look alike.
In this day of age of modern technology, numbered jerseys and assistant referees, it is quite unbelievable how such a rookie error could be made - and unbelievable how the referees were unable not to call back Kieran Gibbs and send Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain off.
Credit to Marriner, he did admit his mistake after the game although he will probably be sidelined for some time yet due to his high profile mistake.
Was it the worst referee mistake ever?
Here are some other memorable ones.
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