The Arsenal game was postponed 3 hours to kick off. The Chelsea game more than 24hrs before! What was the hurry for? They were worried that if they don't seize the chance to postpone it might be too late - the weather might get better the next day.

To the best of my knowledge, the only games that are postponed a day before are the ones being played in stadiums without under soil heating - and this basically affects newly promoted sides!

The reason why the matches were postponed was mainly because the slippery conditions around the stadium and the harsh weather posed safety threats to the fans, especially traveling fans. All the stadiums were alright to play in.

FROM THE ENGLISH PRESS.....

People Who Like To Say 'Hmmm'
It is not a question that can be easily answered. Just why was Chelsea v Manchester United called off early on Saturday afternoon when Ipswich v Leicester was played a couple of hours later in a blizzard?

Sven-Goran Eriksson described the Portman Road farce as "very bad PR for football", but with no further snow falling on Saturday afternoon in west London, the decision to call off this weekend's Premier League's showdown event seemed equally perplexing as early as Saturday night. On a weekend when Stoke fans, only informed of Arsenal's postponement three hours before the scheduled kick-off, were stuck on gritless, gridlocked motorways until 1am, any suggestion that a postponement was made in haste can be considered untimely, but by Sunday morning it was hard not to be slightly perplexed at the decision made from Stamford Bridge.

In their ultra-brief announcement issued at around 1pm on Saturday, Chelsea declared that the postponement had been made 'following consultation with the Police and the local authority', with the club apparently deeming the words 'There has been heavy snow in London on Saturday' as sufficient explanation for the decision. It could be argued that there was nothing more to be said, but those words do not tally with the Chelsea statement issued ten days ago when another news item on their website modestly announced:

'The pitch would have to be frozen solid or completely under water to be the reason for a game to be called off, which shouldn't happen at Stamford Bridge. In this day and age, with all the modern technology, it is very rare you get a game called off.'

Hmmm.

Almost everybody believes that the reason Man U surrendered the title to chelsea last season was as a result of the former's controversial double loss to the latter. Personally I know how the title was lost.......By losing 1-0 to lowly Burnley earlier on in the season!! The same way aseno fans came to rue the loss to lowly shakhtar Donetsk in CL this season.


True there is no knowing what would have happened had Man U played Chelshit last weekend. However we now know what chelshit think of Man U!!

@pesa paps...the answer to you last question is obvious. A chelsea win. Let's revisit come tuesday.

@mwenza...nice one. But as always, we have respect for man-u.