Once the title is out of your hands, it’s a long, long road to the end of the season.
And for these four sides (Arsenal, Newcastle, Liverpool, Tottenham), they’ve got very little to play for except in Europe, and it shows in their league performances.
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At first impression it serves no purpose - if Mourinho was trying to put the Manchester United camp under pressure by claiming that Chelsea would be on top of the table pretty soon, he’d know from experience and common sense that Manchester United are hardly going to be bothered with such petty shots, especially if they come from Chelsea’s direction.
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It goes something like this:
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They say you should never kick a man when he’s down - however, it’s an equal travesty to not consider the reality of the situation, so hear me out before you start screaming.
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Chris over at COS has hit a home-run with his ‘Premiership Dream Team‘ post.
The basic premise is this - if you could sign one player from each Premiership club, who would it be?
I’ve put my selection below - let me know what you think (and what you pick) in the comments.
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Everyone who loves football watched United draw with Chelsea at the Theatre Of Dreams. Many a pundit and even both managers came out with their own conclusions about the results. One factor remained however: The status quo has not really changed.
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Mourinho was right, and Ferguson’s face showed it during the post-match interview:
Manchester United lost a fantastic opportunity to stake a claim to the title.
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Newcastle recorded their first home league victory since they beat Wigan on the first day of the season and their first league win since beating West Ham on 17th September, in beating Portsmouth rather easily 1-0.
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Scrappy, always threatening to explode but just avoiding it, end to end and at the end of the day, cruelly exposed the deficiencies of both sides while making sure it brought out the best in them as well.
Like it or not, Manchester United and Chelsea have made this year’s title challenge a two-horse race, and on today’s evidence it will the Premiership race will be long, tough and pretty entertaining.
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Peter Liaros, our Manchester United channel correspondent (fancy term that means that Peter’s a United fan) will be live-blogging the Manchester United-Chelsea game.
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Wayne Rooney has agreed a new £100,000-a-week contract with Manchester United that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2012.
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Catch the Manchester United v Chelsea game live here
Yesterday we talked about several things that made Manchester United better than Chelsea - or in other words, different areas of the team in which United had an advantage.
Apparently, some people jumped the gun and got all offended at the mere thought of someone pointing out deficiencies in their club.
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Catch the Manchester United v Chelsea game live here
Manchester United kick off on Sunday afternoon against Chelsea at Old Trafford in a game that will most likely define the rest of the season. A win for United and they will fancy their chances for the title with a 6 point lead. A defeat, and we’re back to the starting blocks.
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Catch the Manchester United v Chelsea game live here
Both sets of fans have been going on and on about why their team will win on Sunday - and after having watched both teams since the start of the season, I’ve picked out a number of reasons why Manchester United is going to win (simply because they are SO MUCH BETTER on certain areas of the pitch than Chelsea).
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Would you believe it? First it was FIFA, and now UEFA are finally talking sense about improving the state of the game.
Uefa is considering copying rugby’s lead by allowing only captains to talk to referees during games.
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An extract from Kevin Nolan’s weekly column at BBC, where he’s talking about diving (in reference to Torquay’s chairman’s announcement that he’d sack divers after the their third offense - the players aren’t happy, apparently):
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Liverpool lost Gonzalez, Pennant and Alonso to injuries last night, and as luck would have it, it was just when Gerrard was coming back into form and the Kuyt-Crouch partnership looked like something Benitez might just stick with up front.
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Daniel Taylor of the Guardian writes about “Saha’s confidence crisis“, but for the life of me I can’t understand what he’s on about.
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The Wales international is alleged to have assaulted 19-year-old Sophie Palmer and 20-year-old Holly Smith during a night out in Cardiff city centre during the early hours of February 5 this year.
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Team of the season? But it’s still November, dammit!
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FIFA has finally moved on introducing video replays in football and will start by using replays for goalline decisions in next year’s World Club Championship.
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Jose Mourinho would have smiled after watching Manchester United stumble against Celtic last night.
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Fantastic comeback by Arsenal last night - they went down to a good goal, but rallied well in the second half and put up enough pressure in the last 15 minutes to squeeze in two goals.
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A familiar script for both Manchester United and Celtic.
Manchester United - away from home in the Champions League, for the first time in many years, played their natural game but lacked the flair and confidence that you normally associate with them. Poor first-touches, no final balls, sloppy finishing.
But for the players, this was Liverpool in the Premier League form table, not Manchester United.
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The first half of Matchday 5 is up, and here are the results:
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As a Man Utd fan, sympathising with anything Arsenal is pretty rare - I’m more fond of poking fun at them and then laughing at outraged Arsenal fans who take jibes too seriously (note: Rocky and ArseBlogger, I’m talking about you two particularly).
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Whisper it, but Manchester United are not favourites going into the Champions League clash at Celtic Park.
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A short preview of all the games from Matchday 5.
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After months of speculation, West Ham have now joined the ranks of Manchester United, Chelsea and Portsmouth in selling out to rich businessmen.
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