Chelsea were mugged once again by Blackburn Rovers when the Lancashire side scored two goals in the last five minutes.
Dwight Yorke and David Dunn dented Chelsea's Champions league ambitions, with only a consolation trademark blaster of a free-kick by Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink for the Londoners.
Chelsea have yet to defeat Rovers at Stamford Bridge in nine attempts in the Premiership. Despite winning 3-2 at Ewood Park this season, Chelsea have to go back to 1988 in a play-off match before their last victory over them.
In the 12th minute, Brad Friedel was called into action after Frank Lampard screwed the ball into the path of the Icelandic striker Eidur Gudjohnsen.
But when your luck is out, it's out and Gudjohnsen's shot smacked off the face of Friedel before being cleared by Vratislav Gresko.
A Corrado Grabbi volley and a Mario Stanic header were the only efforts on goal in a poor first half match.
Chelsea coach Claudio Ranieri decided to bring on Gianfranco Zola for the Sardinian's 300th Chelsea match.
He managed to enliven the crowd with top quality first touches and excellent crossfield passes.
However it was Blackburn who decided to break the deadlock.
With the clock ticking away and the Chelsea faithful resigned to a draw, up popped Yorke to elude William Gallas from a Dunn corner on 84 minutes.
The Trinidadian striker stooped low from six yards out and clipped an angled header past the despairing dive of Carlo Cudicini.
A 1-0 defeat turned to 2-0 seconds later, when man of the match Dunn arrowed a low, right-foot drive from just inside the Chelsea left-hand side of the penalty area and the ball skipped underneath Cudicini's body.
Deep into injury time, Chelsea had a free-kick just outside the Rovers area. Zola, who had an earlier free-kick blocked by the wall was replaced by Hasselbaink, who blasted the ball high and wide of the wall and past Friedel without the goalkeeper even moving.
A mute end to a goal celebration, but as it was the last effective kick of the game, not surprisingly Chelsea coach Ranieri said afterwards: "We created some chances but they were more of a team than us.
"That was our worse performance of the season. I don't know why. We had the will to win, but we lacked concentration.
"All of us are angry, there were no boots flying round the changing room, just golf clubs," he joked.