Sometimes, John Stones really doesn't do himself any favours.

The Manchester City centre back has been heralded as the future of English football by many for the way he plays out from the defensive third but sometimes, he really needs to just put his foot through it.

The summer signing from Everton is undoubtedly a good passer of the ball and a decent defender, he wouldn't be in the Premier League if he wasn't, but his decision making, at times, is utterly woeful as he once again demonstrated against Chelsea earlier this afternoon.

In a game against your title rivals who boast one of the most lethal forwards on the planet in Diego Costa you don't muck about, unless apparently, you're Stones.

The former Barnsley player won the ball off of the Diego Costa and should have cleared his lines but instead he tried to play his way out and very nearly gave the visitors the lead.

It got people going on Twitter, too, as you might expect and so here are just some of the best tweets...

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