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Chelsea 100 v Liverpool 0

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Chelsea, without a natural enemy, seem to have adopted Liverpool as their favourite whipping boys. First there was Mourinho winding them up in Cardiff in his first League Cup final in 2005. Then the Champions League clashes. Then that Rafa Benitez business. And now the Steve Gerrard songs. Anyone who thinks any fans, let alone Chelsea fans, are going to desist from such mockery and start showing respect to an opposition player clearly doesn’t understand the psyche of football crowds.

Still, don’t despair, Koppites, you’ve still got something to sing about.

Honours.                        Liverpool         Chelsea

Champions                          18                  4

FA Cup                                  7                  7

League Cup                          8                  4

European Champions           5                  1

UEFA Cup/Europa Lge         3                  1

Cup Winners Cup                 0                  2

UEFA Super Cup                  3                  1

Who’s Chelsea’s Number One Rival?

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There’s been much discussion about who Chelsea’s biggest rival is. Andy Jacobs on TalkSPORT reckoned it was currently Liverpool, in view of their recent acrimony with Rafa Benitez and the Champions League encounters. The local rival is, of course, Fulham, but that’s a one-way hatred, Fulham not having inflicted many stings to spoil Chelsea’s picnic over the years. Then there’s Leeds – “Wash your mouth out, son” and all that – but again, it’s more Leeds hating Chelsea than Chelsea hating Leeds, Chelsea having won that spiteful Cup Final in 1970, and you suspect that a large proportion of Chelsea fans under the age of 25 might not realise that their club have ever even played Leeds.

These recent years of success under the Abramovich regime will have thrown up a few on-field rivals, such as Man United, Liverpool and Arsenal, but these are rivalries based mainly on competition for the big prizes. Real football rivalry is about much more than that, and when it comes to that inborn acrimony that lingers in the blood, regardless of form or fortune, the one that has history on and off the pitch, Chelsea’s number one rival has to be Spurs.

Especially after last night’s kaning.

Are we right? Or are we right?

100-0 books launch today!

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The first two 100-0 books are officially published today. Manchester United v Liverpool and Spurs v Arsenal kick off the series, with Celtic v Rangers and Sunderland v Newcastle following on 4 December.

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It’s been a day of endless Champagne receptions, graced by the giants of the literary world, and we haven’t been invited to any of them. Still, who needs prawn sandwiches when you can have cod and chips?

May God bless these books and all who sail in them!

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