As You Were
Add comment December 15th, 2008
After West Ham held them to a draw at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea joined Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal in failing to pick up a victory this weekend. Just a few weeks back it was the first time such a phenomenon had occurred in the history of the Premier League. Now it’s happened again. This, it seems, is the league no-one wants to win.
The results mean it’s essentially as you were at the top of the table, though Aston Villa have leap-frogged us into fourth place. I have to say, it just makes the points we have dropped this season all the more frustrating. It’s a gigantic ‘if’, but a couple of victories here and there would’ve seen us right in the mix.
Speaking of ominously huge ‘ifs’, if we can beat Liverpool next week we’ll be just five points off the current leaders. Emmanuel Adebayor is under no illusions as to the importance of the game:
“If we think because we have beaten Man United at home, Chelsea away so we are going to win easily against Liverpool then we have got everything wrong. Every weekend comes a massive game, massive game, massive game for us. [Each is] the game of the season. We all know how important this is for the Club so we will just try to keep our dreams alive.”
It certainly is a big game. So big that I’m probably going to miss my grandparents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary to be there.
Some things are bigger than family.
