So Chelsea have done it, United have come up short remaining on 18 league titles and all is well with the world from the eyes of a Liverpool fan, right? Well, kind of yes though it would have been nice over the course of the season if Liverpool had managed to put in some kind of challenge when, as it turned out, they could only manage a very poor 7th place, their worst finish since 1993/94 when they finished 8th. But now isn’t the time to rant about Liverpool’s season but rather talk about Chelsea’s victory and United’s failure to capture a forth straight Premier League title.

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Sunday is another one of them fine days that comes along a few times throughout the year when you want to do nothing more than sit down on the sofa and move only to feed and water yourself while watching sporting action and in some cases, sporting history, develop before your eyes. Tomorrow morning I will arise bright and not so breeze to watch the Spanish Grand Prix were Michael Schumacher is expected to finally come good in his new look car and then a few hours watch the drama of who will win the Premier League unfold. Riviting stuff. Later there will be Stanley Cup playoff hockey and the final day of the Players Championship in the Golf.

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So Tottenham Hotspur tonight confirmed their place in the Champions League for next season by beating Manchester City 1-0 through a late Peter Crouch goal. Leave it to an ex-Liverpool player to deliver the goods while Liverpool look on sweating over whether they will even play European football at any level next season. Selling the likes of Crouch and Bellamy and running with only one competent striker has come back to bite Liverpool while over at Spurs, manager Harry Redknapp has done a brilliant job with his club, spending the ready money wisely and on the right players in the right positions.

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“I am confident and I have to be confident,” said Ferguson, whose team trail Chelsea by one point with two games to go and play at Sunderland on Sunday. “Great clubs don’t throw their histories away. They don’t throw their traditions away for one game. In 1995 it was exactly the same. We depended and hoped on Liverpool producing and we got that from them. I remember Roy Evans [the then Liverpool manager] saying to me: ‘You have to earn the right to win the title’ and that stands today. I think Liverpool will do their best on Sunday. They have to, there is no doubt about that. They have been in 10 European finals and won 18 titles, so that’s a fantastic history. You don’t throw that away just because of one game. And do you think their fans want to go home saying their team capitulated and didn’t try?”

— Daniel Taylor, The Guardian, 1 May 2011

The first words of Ferguson’s quote says it all. He has to be confident. He has to be hopeful as well and his comments above are the words of a man desperate for Liverpool to bail him out an help his team win the title. How ironic that is after all the hate and dislike towards the club over this season, and others. After his tit for tat with Rafa last season, he now requires the Spaniard to motivate a bunch of players with nothing left to play for other than a position above Everton in the table.

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With two games left in the season and City desperately chasing a forth place finish for a Champions League spot, it seems odd that the manager at now of all times would come out and identify what players he would like to see gone before next season. I understand context and all that, and how papers like to take it and stretch it, but couldn’t he have waited until the job was done before alienating some players? Or was this some strange method of getting these players to play big in the final two games and have him change his mind?

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The Independent newspaper recently had it’s list of the alternative Premier League team of the year and when you go through their list it is hard to argue with some of the names on there. Some cracking players have made the jump to being one of the leagues best this year and in the middle of it all is Frank Lampard, an elite player for many seasons now who is having another cracking year but yet somehow flying under the radar when it come to awards shortlists. It’s no real surprise that no Liverpool players have made the cut – you might say Reina but for me he’ll make the official team of the year and so is ruled above and beyond the alternative team.

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