Originally Posted by skeg
Originally Posted by danneth
still think had chelsea not lost there best/big players for abit of this season would have gone on to win it and thats what will make next season so interesting,
Nah, you've been listening to Moaniho as have all their players about all these excuses. We got 89 points and didn't bother with the last 2 games. Dong and Eagles even got the "guad of honour"
Last season they got 91 points without the Cech and Terry situation and we were 8 points behind with Keane, Smith and Giggs all getting broken bones plus Scholes out blind for ages. Fletcher and defender Oshea at CM.
So 2 points less than what they got when they won without the issues.
The reason United won this year was because they did something they haven't in years, they started off great . Its funny because Ferguson and the United players weren't kicking up this much of a fuss about their problems. It happens. They were losers and not good enough, never did they match our football. 5-1 first game of the season! Not because Chelski had injuries.
You can't have it both ways, if Chelski lost it because of injuries then so did United the previous year.
Well said! We lost our entire back four Rio, Nev's, Vidic and Evra at some point due to injury. Let alone injuries to Park, Saha or Ole. Terry and Cech go missing for a few games and thats the excuse for losing it. "We wouldn't have conceded had Terry been fit!" - Yeah then he comes back and you still concede.
The reason Chelsea finished 2nd is because they spent big on experience and both of them flopped, Ashley Cole has hardly set the world on fire. Without Drogba you wouldn't have finished second. Undoubtedly without Ronaldo we probably wouldn't have won it.