Sunday, February 1, 2015

Chelsea and Manchester City look weary as Champions League looms | Barney Ronay

Top two in Premier League need some fresh legs if they are to progress when European football resumes in February

Match report: Chelsea 1-1 Man City

The world was watching at Stamford Bridge on Saturday afternoon. At least, the world was certainly watching at 5.30pm GMT. After which the world may at some point have found itself a little distracted or remembered an urgent appointment on the other channel with Chinese Idol, or Big Boss, or Quién quiere ser millonario?


Either way, Chelsea’s and Manchester City’s intense, occasionally heavy-legged 1-1 draw qualifies as the Premier League’s most-watched game ever in terms of rights holders present, broadcasters employed, TV sets reached and “eyeballs” hauled in. If the action itself was sometimes less than prime-time entertainment, then this is simply the nature of the game, not least in the fine margins of a mid-winter title race.


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