Get your money on the Champions

After the attentions last week of the World Cup Qualifiers, and the bread and butter of the Premier League, we find our selves this mid week with the Champions League taking centre stage. It is a good job that the plethora of Sky adverts are being shown at the moment otherwise the average football fan would not know where they are.

Just like Chelsea fans it would appear who are being bribed this week to attend Stamford Bridge by the club laying on free scarves. At this rate though there will be more scarves than fans there as up until midday on the day of the game the Chelsea website is still advertising tickets are on general sale.

When asked about the scarves, Wesley Barton, Stadium Tours supervisor said “'We have seen some teams on the continent who have tried it and it looks fantastic when the fans wave them. We are trying to create our own effect, this is Chelsea Football Club, not Liverpool, and I think it is good to be different, we're trying to bring a South American feel to it with the new manager and some of the players coming from there.'

Which players would those be then? Certainly not Robinho who got his Man Citeh debut off to a great start at Eastlands against Chelsea, the team he snubbed on deadline day. All right his free kick was deflected, but the Sky Blue faithful did not care and they have a new king of the new Kippax. Shame Chelsea did what they do best, even with out the harshly dismissed John Terry, and steamrollered over Man City to claim three points and sit pretty at the top of the league. Even at this early stage of the season they are odds on bookies favourites to win the league. A win at home to Manchester United on Sunday will trim these odds even shorter. If I were a betting man I would be hoping for a Chelsea win on Sunday then I’d get my money on MUFC to win the league, the odds will lengthen and with a front line that will terrify central defenders and Ronaldo still to come back, as long as the gap is not more than 9 points, it may be the only time this season that the bookies offer any value on the race for the title.