Listen carefully at Stamford Bridge this afternoon and you may hear an old tune twisted into acclaim for an all-action midfielder. 'Fla-mi-ni, Fla-mi-ni' are the lyrics to a version of The Sweeney theme music that is more appropriate than it first seems. Mathieu Flamini does not just career around his London manor with all the madcap energy of a Seventies TV copper, he also has as intimate a knowledge of the law.

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