"Thats Why We Are The Champions" Chesea RULES Forever

Alan Hansen's column
Alan Hansen

By Alan Hansen
BBC Sport football expert


I cannot remember a decision as bad as the penalty awarded to Chelsea on Sunday going against me during my career

There have been false dawns before but this time I think Liverpool are here to stay.

They look as though they have a squad capable of competing for the Premier League title - Andriy Voronin and Yossi Benayoun, for example, did not even make the bench for Sunday's game with Chelsea.

We will have to wait and see what happens over the course of the campaign but it is an absolute certainty that they will be a lot closer to Manchester United and Chelsea than last season.

Liverpool will be distraught not to have beaten Chelsea at Anfield.

There was not a lot between the two teams but Liverpool deserved to win because they scored a well-created goal while Chelsea's equaliser was a gift.

Refereeing is a hard business, all about split-second decisions, so I do not want to be too critical but referee Rob Styles made a bad mistake in awarding Chelsea a penalty.

As a player you are inevitably going to be on the end of bad decisions from time to time but I cannot remember one as bad as that during my career, certainly given that it came at such a crucial time in a big match.

Chelsea have not really been firing yet but Sunday's result means they have picked up seven points from their opening three games.

Manchester United, in contrast, have two points from their first three fixtures.

As I have said before, you cannot win the title in the first six-to-eight matches but you can certainly lose it.


Man Utd's fixture at home to Tottenham next Sunday is a must-win game

I'm not saying that this has already happened to United but they are five points behind Chelsea and making up that gap is a big ask.

I thought that United's overall performance at Manchester City on Sunday was really good, especially given that it was a derby.

But it is goals that win you matches and the reality is that United have scored just one in three games.

With both Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo injured they are missing a lot in the final third and they lack a proven goalscorer.

A lot of the new players that have come in to the club have done OK but that is not enough. When you join a top club you have to perform better than really good, you have to do great.

Having said that, Owen Hargreaves made an excellent debut for United and they still look very strong defensively.

If they can get Ronaldo and Rooney back and in form there is no reason why they cannot start making up ground.

But they must win at home to Tottenham next Sunday. It is a huge fixture for both clubs after their indifferent starts.

chelsea has the best team ever

good news makelele extended his contract... and we have our young boy who had signed a four year contract..Sam Hutchinson a good future of Chelsea....

Hope Alves will come to chelsea and we'll have the strongest team in EPL this season..
Chelsea fans should be delighted with this news..... makelele is the person who should be given a great credit coz without him it's very hard for lampard to score goals...
and without him chelsea's midfield wouldn't be that great without the great player makelele...

-rocks

no quiero.. u hve no clue what u r talking about.....
he has won every title a professional footbballer dream of but with liverpool
Liverpool FC (1977 to 1990 - 623 appearances)..it obvious that a liverpuudian will make such biased comments.....if i had played for liverpool for so long i'd have said the same....i didn;t find anything about villa game where gerard was acting like hollywood star (he sud be nominated foe oscar.....)
get over it mate.......its just pendulum of luck which can swing livepool's way anytime but last sunday it swang chelski's way..........

and he's famous for misleading peolpe
1. During the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Hansen said that "the Argentine defender wants shooting for a mistake like that", and the BBC made an apology after Colombian defender Andrés Escobar was gunned down. [1]

2. In 1995, after Manchester United had lost their opening fixture of the season to Aston Villa with a team containing many young players who had just broken through from the youth side, Hansen famously remarked: "You'll never win anything with kids." It is a quote of which he is constantly reminded, as this Manchester United team contained players such as Gary Neville, Phil Neville, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, and Nicky Butt - all of whom were 20 or under. United went on to claim The Double

3. In 2007, before the Champions League Final, Hansen declared in his online BBC column that "I am 100% confident Liverpool will win the Champions League." Liverpool then lost to AC Milan

chelsea rules

Well, goodlife do you think that's why Alan Hensen is working in BBC and you and I are talking in sajha. Alan hensen is very respected figure. Everybody has a minor blip.

Regarding your chelasea, we can take out 100 things that is insane and rediculos about jose morinho.

you see that's what i m talking about.......the game is over we need to move on.......
here's saturday's fixture

saturday, 25 August2007
Arsenal v Man City, 15:00
Aston Villa v Fulham, 15:00
Bolton v Reading, 15:00
Chelsea v Portsmouth, 15:00
Derby v Birmingham, 15:00
Everton v Blackburn, 17:15
Sunderland v Liverpool, 12:45
West Ham v Wigan, 15:00

Sunday, 26 August 2007
Barclays Premier League
Man Utd v Tottenham, 16:00
Middlesbrough v Newcastle, 13:30

here u go....

this sunday gay utd vs spurs...again its a draw game or gays losin it

INTERNATIONAL football tomorrow. Here are some of the eye catching fixtures.

In UK time,

England v Germany, 20:00
Hungary v Italy, 19:50
Norway v Argentina, 18:00
Sweden v USA, 19:30
Switzerland v Netherlands, 19:30
Scotland v South Africa, 20:00

no_quiero can u make that in US time

tomorrow' winners
germany, italy, argentina, sweden, switzerland n scotland

UK TIME = GMT

Pacific time (US and canada) = GMT-8 (so the England vs Germany game should be around
12 PM tomorrow )

Arizona = GMT- 7 hours

Central America = GMT- 6

Eastern time(US and Canada) = GMT-5

cool

i wanna see germany beating england

THIS IS GOING TO BE BORING MACTCH OF ALL TIME...BOTH SIDES ARE CRIPPLRD WITH INJURIES........

GREMAY: Michael Ballack,Mario Gomez, Lukas Podolski ,Jan Schlaudraff ,Torsten Frings , Tim Borowski ,Marcell Jansen Clemens Fritz , Miroslav Klose, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Sami Khedira

ENGLAND; Steven Gerrard, Owen Hargreaves ,Darren Bent, Sol Campbell , Wayne Rooney , David Bentley, Wayne Bridge, Ledley King .....

P.S. THEY ALL ARE NOT PART OF GREMAY V ENGLAND FIXTURE...THEY ARE NOT PLAYING...ALL MOTHERFOKKERS ARE INJURED......I WON'T BE WATCHING THE GAME

i think people using sajha from UK should be banned... If u going to post info about matches post it in US time. we dont wanna hear abt this game at this time in GMT or Uk time or whateva... sajha is used by mostly people in US so u should post relvenat info.

just my 2 paisa's

-lato

Well latoboy, What about banning people in US from watching the Barclays Premier league. In any case that info about fixture and time was copied from BBC website.

hey folks there shouldnt be any argument in this matter...EPL is followed all over the world
n waht kind of ppl should be banned are ppl watchin other leagues
i cant tolerate amigosss writin here in this thread...amigos watch boring league i.e. liga
amigos are banned here

kupkaboy, I know 5 people who have posted here in this very thread are from britiain. And I just copied the schedule according to what I got in BBC. No body can tell me what to post and what not to. True there are many people here in sajha from US but there are many british-Nepalease who are in this thread or just reading it.

And isnt it good that I am writing time in GMT . So that everybody can adjust their time accordingly whereever in the world they are.

If you should criticize somebody than that should be latoboy. He started to talk like a nerd. Seems like he have been to US just yesterday.