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Dont like either...BUT....Ive been dragged to pub all season to watch UTD play every match.....and seeing as I hate Chelsea with a passion...

Gonna have to be the Northeners Im afraid.....

So come on UTD...

Listen to comments made by Avram Grant (nice to see the FA are now protecting Utd as usual and going after Chelsea for Grant making the comments), think about them seriously, and he has some positively amazing points, for example:

Last Sunday, the deciding day of the title race the referee was obviously willing Utd on for the titlle.

Scholes should have been sent off, but wow, he wasnt, he got a yellow for the first offence, repeated the offence and got nothing the second time he commited the very same offence against the very same player.

Then there was a clear penalty decision after Koumas had been fouled by Rio Ferdinand, but again, the referee gave the decision Utd's way.

There have also been other numerous decisions over the season that seem to go in favour of Utd.

The problem is, everyone hates Chelsea, especially referees so if helping Utd gets one over on them, then a lot of refs will do it where possible.

The other problem is neutrality; I recall a survey Talksport did not so long ago, and it turned out that the vast majority of Mancunians born and bread, were actually Citeh supports, it seemed that most, including a high percentage of regular attendees at Old Trafford, have little or no connection at all with Manchester, and are glory grabbers not wanting to support a team that is even remotely local to them; it is for this reason, a lot of refs are influenced by their own liking of Utd (and to a degree the same can be said for Liverpool), but not just refs, also their families, kids etc can have a strong influence as to what team a referee prefers.

Refs are so protected in this game when they give contraversial decisions, that it is no surprise they feel at liberty to play blind to some teams when they do wrong and yet punish other teams for the same things.

Imho, the game at Wigan was a fix, and the sending off at the beginning of the season of Mikel was in no way a red card, and as Grant said, it completely changed the game for Chelsea.

Regardless though, Chelsea did pretty damn well, as its no secret that referees hate them and everything they stand for, the players have been aggressive towards refs in the past and nobody liked Mourinho or the way Chelsea bought their way to success.

jus sounds to me that man u were the better team over a season and should manage the double,as for games bein fixed thats just bitter an a load of crap!

Well you try explaining why referees always seem to favour Man Utd over Chelsea. And I personally hate both teams.

refs get it wrong all the time not jus where the title fight is concerned its just highlighted more!

yeah they do fair enough, but there was deffo some foul play involved in the scholes decision.

Not saying they still wudnt have won the game, as they do have the strength in depth to do so against Wigan, but it still gave them an unfair advantage.

foul play, thats just daft! yes he should have been sent off but refs make mistakes they are human! you get people whining foul play all the time, for example i know a bluenose who when in the champs league the other year when collina (best ref in the world) chalked off a perfectly legitimate everton goal vs villareal claimed it was fixed because uefa didnt want 5 english teams in the competition!!!!!!!!!! sour grapes just make people look stupid, united have deserved to win the league and heres hoping they beat chelsea too!

typical liverpool fan hear what ur sayin matt but it sounds like"urr we not good enough to compete with man u urrr"

Well, Not long to go now

Come on Chelsea!!

i agree vivaro_sparkie!!!

Chelsea

chelsea have to win...lol

COME ON YOU NORTHENERS !!!

well i still say come on you aliens, and take the whole stadium and fans and teams to another planet, they wont get a better opportunity