Come on Manchester United: I'm Rooting For You!

Let me start by saying that I'm a Liverpool fan. And one of the criteria to being a Liverpool fan is to dislike Manchester United.

You may, therefore, be surprised by the title of this piece.

However, Chelsea have fast become my most hated team in the world. Even more so than United, even more so than Everton.

There are many reasons for this. One is their harassment of referees in large groups. They seem to think that refs aren't allowed to give decisions against them. These groups are usually led by the likes of Drogba, Terry and Ashley Cole.

This leads me to my second reason. I dislike almost all of their players. In fact the only one I like is Michael Essien.

This reason is just personal opinion, I understand, but Drogba for example, I find the most disgraceful player I've ever seen.

Obviously, I'm not too fond of United either, but their style of play, and some of the players they have are a long way ahead of Chelsea, and anyone else in England for that matter.

However, the main reason I want Man United to pip Chelsea to the post in the Premier League, and beat them in Moscow, is because Man United have earned it, while Chelsea would have bought it.

United have no doubt spent big while Ferguson has been in charge, but not needlessly big.

He's seen an area that needs improvement and spent the appropriate money to improve it.

In fact, the only huge money signings in the strongest eleven of United are Ferdinand and Rooney.

However, Chelsea got an investment from Roman Abramovich and immediately splashed an unnecessary amount of cash.

For example, up to May 2006, he had signed 13 players for more than £10 million. six of whom have since left.  He has also bought many more since then.

A standard starting eleven for Chelsea today would have cost them £146,630,000. And those are players bought just since Abramovich came in. And I haven't included £21 million signing Shaun Wright-Philips, either!

This worked for a bit. Coupled with managing to entice 'The Special One' to oversee operations at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea managed to buy the title two seasons in a row.

But they couldn't buy the Champions League.

And I want it to stay that way. For Chelsea to win the Champions League would be a travesty. It would mean that even Europe's Premier Club competition is able to be devalued, and conquered by money.

The terrible prospect of that even outweighs the awful prospect of United winning a double.