will you ever stop banging that drum? the point that people were making at the time was that we would end up with more points at the end of this season than we did last year. Which was correct.
I don't follow your logic. If we didn't look like challenging for the league, we'd have changed the manager and looked to improve, Chelsea or no Chelsea
it's terrible news for England. But it may solve the Gerrard/Lampard problem. Play Stevie off the striker, and put a defensive midfielder in alongside Fat Frank.
I think it's equally unlikely either way to be honest don't see much difference between saying "we need Boro to batter them" or "we need them to win neither"