NationStates Jolt Archive

With Arsenal's lost today the Gunners fall 10 points back of red hot Chelsea. Arsenal won two of the last three Premiership Championships and finished in the top two every year since 1998.

Manchester United finished at the top of the Premiership table 8 times since 1993, but are 11 points back of Chelsea in third place.

Is it too early to proclaim the beginning of the Chelsea Era?

too bad the US netwroks hardly ever carry soccer. Otherwise I'd actually know what you were talking about. I think there's an anti-soccer bias in the US media.

too bad the US netwroks hardly ever carry soccer. Otherwise I'd actually know what you were talking about. I think there's an anti-soccer bias in the US media.

Networks have a bias toward making money and most Americans don't care for soccer.

Can't do much about that.

However, if you are interested and your cable company carries it, Fox Sports World shows matches (http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/england).

too bad the US netwroks hardly ever carry soccer. Otherwise I'd actually know what you were talking about. I think there's an anti-soccer bias in the US media.

That's because we have Ice Hockey, which is soccer with big sticks and a lethal projectile. If the UK adopted Hockey their hooligans would pick it up and never look back.

Soccer is great. Go Liverpool...

the UK has hockey. it's rubbish.

Blackburn won the league once in 95. I would hardly call that an era.

Its much too early to proclaim a Chelsea era

There will be no era. Liverpool will win the league and everything else. Just like the old days. And I refuse to believe anything different.

There will be no era. Liverpool will win the league and everything else. Just like the old days. And I refuse to believe anything different.

You hang in there! Just 20 more unanswered points and Liverpool goes to the top of the table.

You hang in there! Just 20 more unanswered points and Liverpool goes to the top of the table.

Damn straight. And we showed our ability to challenge when Chelsea were forced to cheat to beat us. Hand ball, broken ankle, it all adds up.

Damn straight. And we showed our ability to challenge when Chelsea were forced to cheat to beat us. Hand ball, broken ankle, it all adds up.

Oh come now. The Reds managed just one shot on target in 90 minutes. Hardly the effort of a winning side. Were you looking for the referee to offset Liverpool’s poor play?

the UK has hockey. it's rubbish.

Really? Wow I never saw it on the TV when I was there. Oh by the way, I notice you live in Essex, I lived near Harlow. :D

You hang in there! Just 20 more unanswered points and Liverpool goes to the top of the table. :D

Chelsea was lucky some Russian millionaire guy turned up from ill-gotten gains from the fall of the USSR. That Roman-guy is friends with Putin so Chelski will have no issues with money.

I did notice Liverpool is going Spanish of late.

Maybe the possible sale of Man U to the Glazer family is more of a signal of the end of an era than the growing power of Chelsea?

Yeah. Liverpool are going Spanish. But we're still Liverpool. With Carragher, and Gerrard. And, erm, Mellor.

Watch Division 1 football, no overpayed poncers there (Well not so many.)

GO NFFC, GO CLOUGHY'S boys!

Oh and go The Tigers as well!

Watch Division 1 football, no overpayed poncers there (Well not so many.)

GO NFFC, GO CLOUGHY'S boys!

Oh and go The Tigers as well!

I like Forest. They're the closest thing I have to a decent local team. My county sucks so much.

That's because we have Ice Hockey, which is soccer with big sticks and a lethal projectile. If the UK adopted Hockey their hooligans would pick it up and never look back.Wait... what's hockey? :p

Soccer's gotten more coverage lately in the U.S. but there is still an anti-soccer prejudice in the American media. I should know, I used to be a beat writer covering D.C. United, back when it won the 1999 MLS Cup.

Do you think that the European clubs could send us a few players back. The quality of domestic football here is awful at the moment. (You could have kept Rivaldo, we didn't want him back.)

Chelsea's buying power is crazy.. They'll most likely win the Prem this season.

Arsenal haven't recovered.. and their squad is still too thin. Wenger gotta spend big.

Manc's.. well.. Manc's is manc's. Maybe Ferguson has been around for far too long. :p

Liverpool Hahah. Although this season is a new season for them, with new managers and players, their doing okay. Hopefully be title contenders next season.

STEVEN GERRARD INJURED AGAIN!

Wait... what's hockey? :p

Soccer's gotten more coverage lately in the U.S. but there is still an anti-soccer prejudice in the American media. I should know, I used to be a beat writer covering D.C. United, back when it won the 1999 MLS Cup.

There may be some anti-soccer prejudice, but that really isn't the problem. You could devote half the sports page to soccer and the American public still wouldn't read about it, because Americans don't like soccer.

What can you do?

I run into the same problem with hockey (back when we still had hockey). I love the sport. It's fast, graceful, exciting to watch, especially in person. It bugs me it gets so little coverage, but the reality is that most sports fans in the U.S. don't care much for hockey either (maybe because it is soccer on ice?).

Everton drops behind Man U; Chelsea keeps on rolling.

Liverpool Hahah. Although this season is a new season for them, with new managers and players, their doing okay. Hopefully be title contenders next season.


Having seen Liverpool's performance against Southampton, I disagree. Some serious changes need to be made. A Premiership winning team won't concede two goals in twenty minutes, and STILL make more huge defensive errors.

Will anyone score on Chelsea again this season?