A Pointless 'Epic'

Liverpool unexpetedly beat Chelsea 2-0 in The Premiership (aka the most uncompetitive league in the entire world in any sports including curling, lawn bowls and caber tossing…) today. It was promoted by the media as one of those huge matchups between giants that would decide who gets the title. It wasn't.

Pretty much every soccer fan in the entire world knew that, once again, there were only really two teams that had the money to win (/buy) the trophy this year. It was either going to be Chelsea or Manchester United. We all knew it and before we’d even reached Christmas (the halfway point of the season) we were proved right.

Yet still the clowns of soccer punditry played this game up like it actually had any significance to the final results. The league table currently looks like this:

Team	P	W	D	L	PTS
Man Utd	23	18	3	2	57
Chelsea	24	15	6	3	51
Liverpool	24	14	4	6	46
Arsenal	23	12	6	5	42
Bolton	23	12	4	7	40

Between first and third place there is a massive 11 point difference. Between first and fifth there is a frankly ridiculous 17.

I don’t care if this match means Man Utd. have the Premier League sown up. The Premier League was already sown up before this season had even begun. This is supposed to be the biggest and best soccer league in the entire world and all it really is is a farce. If you’re club has got the money, you win (/buy) the trophy. Thats the way it is and nobody seems to care. A third of the season left and we already know whose going to win. What a joke.

With falling attendences and T.V. viewing figures, how much longer do the idiots in the F.A. really think this is going to last?

Thank the Lord there is some decent NFL action on this weekend.