Football's most operatic week

It may be cliché, but what a week we've seen in football. There have
been more twists, subplots and stories than your average season of The Wire,
passing everywhere from England, through France and Italy to the
Iberian peninsula. To wit, we catalogue (briefly) the past ten days in
football:

1. Chelsea defeated Barcelona (away from home, with the
winning goal from a most unlikely source) in