Watch Chelsea » manchester united http://www.watchchelsea.com Part of the Watch Live Breathe Network Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:45:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Riot of goals makes compelling case for the defence | Richard Williams http://www.watchchelsea.com/2010/05/10/riot-of-goals-makes-compelling-case-for-the-defence-richard-williams/ http://www.watchchelsea.com/2010/05/10/riot-of-goals-makes-compelling-case-for-the-defence-richard-williams/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 23:10:05 +0000 admin http://www.watchchelsea.com/2010/05/10/riot-of-goals-makes-compelling-case-for-the-defence-richard-williams/

The Premier League season was made all the more entertaining by the defensive weaknesses of the top teams

Eight-nil to Chelsea, four-nil to Manchester United: the squabbling monarchs of English football decided their argument and closed the league season with a veritable riot of goals and entertainment. The millions of viewers from Anchorage to Auckland who provide the Premier League with a king’s ransom from broadcasting rights must have been ecstatic.

When asked on Sunday night if he had just won the best league in the world, Carlo Ancelotti provided a careful response that satisfied the questioner without saying anything potentially dangerous if placed before a more rigorous court of inquiry. “I

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As Manchester United licked the wounds of their lost titlethe focus turned to Rooney and England’s World Cup prospects

As Wayne Rooney signalled to the bench that he needed to depart the stage with an aching groin a pessimist would have feared that two campaigns had died at once. Manchester United’s mission to win a fourth consecutive Premier League title was disappearing under a tide of Chelsea goals and England’s chances of winning the World Cup seemed similarly imperilled.

Half an hour later Rooney was back on the pitch with his baby son riding his shoulders. Kai Rooney now knows how popular his father is and what a mass protest looks like. Against a landscape of green and gold scarves and ‘Glazers out’ cards, Rooney Sr and his unsteady passenger drew the heat from a day of demonstrations that featured a smoke bomb outside the megastore and a shoving match at the directors’ entrance, which activists tried to breach while tossing Monopoly money. As indignation coloured United’s final home game of a comparatively unproductive season Rooney surrendered his hold on the Golden Boot for the Premier League’s leading scorer to Didier

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As the 2009-10 season draws to a close we take a look back through the ups and downs of the teams battling for the title

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