Race to the title Part 1

I have already stated that Manchester United will win the league so I won’t be pulling back from that yet. But it does look like we are in for a resurgent premiership run-in. man Utd will have to battle to win it this year and we pray that Liverpool doesn’t give up the chase today against Aston Villa.


For the first time in 4 years Manchester United has lost consecutive games, letting Liverpool back into the race for one of their quintuplet. What happens next is up to Fergie and his men. My friend OO has been predicting a blip like this for weeks because ManU have been playing below their normal level for a very long time and it just caught up with them. Losing 2-0 to Fulham is not necessarily a bad thing but the manner in which they lost their discipline is alarming. The red card for Paul Scholes was inevitable after his attempt at playing volley ball but the petulance of Cristiano Ronaldo and then Wayne Rooney were unnecessary and ultimately led to this result.

Man Utd’s next game is against 4th place chasing Aston Villa in two weeks time and if they continue to play further below their normal standards then they will be handing the title to Liverpool. Fergie needs to recognise that the squeaky bum time he so neatly taunted Arsene Wenger with some years ago might be affecting him now and he needs to man up and find a way to win games and keep his teams discipline intact.


Before yesterday’s game, Chelsea had lost to Tottenham once in the 17 years of the premiership; they kicked off knowing Man Utd were already trailing to Fulham and just needed to win to keep up the pressure but still conspired to hand Tottenham a victory that rules Chelsea out of the title race.

How Chelsea football club is not able to recognise that this is the teams last chance of winning anything anytime soon is a mystery. They are an aging side and the only young ones – Solomon Kalou & Florent Malouda – are such poor players that they can barely be sold in exchange for James Beattie. Roman Abramovich has lost a bundle in this recession and has instructed Chelsea that they must balance their books from next season effectively ruling out a new assault on the premiership with roubles. My friend JJ must be crying in his sleep on hearing this news.

Hull has just lost again; Wigan beat them 1-0. Phil Brown, the Hull city manager blames the defeat on Arsene Wenger for not shaking his hand and Cesc Fabregas for spitting. We are looking forward to the day when Phil Brown will grow a pair and admit that his team is playing poorly because of his management skills.


Can Liverpool cut the deficit to just one point? Can Rafa continue his good judgement?

Part 2 to follow.