The So, Happy generic festive holiday season.

Greetings Paul. How are you this winter solstice

happy non-denominational winter festival greetings of your choice Ed

I'm marvelous thank you here in Birmingham it's been snowing constantly for six weeks and we're now under eight foot of snow and there'll never be another football match again

Or so you would have so Chelsea would have us believe. Well, yes, Chelsea, the famous Birmingham side that they are.

Oh yeah, but they're scared.

That's the only excuse that I can think of, Ed.

Me too. Me too. I just I it just made no sense I looked at all

the pictures on the Sunday afternoon the roads are clear on the Saturday afternoon two

hours after they called it off, the pitch was spotless and there

was like a light dusting of snow outside the ground.

I mean, in all seriousness, is there any cause for serious complaint by United over the way that Chelsea behaved.

To what extent was it Chelsea's call to call off the game?

Well apparently it isn't, so in the rules it's apparently the police is called but you know I'm

absolutely sure they work with the local club to decide what's on and what's not. It's just the

really early way in which they made that decision, unnecessarily early.

It's not like their fans were having to travel several hundred miles to get to the game and United

Sporters wouldn't have said off until the morning of the game and they called it

off at lunchtime on Saturday with the game home more than a day away and it

just seemed really really strange and I said on the

site what was it about Chelsea's diaphragm and injuries to key players that that

made them so scared I mean it's it had to be right I mean funny enough United didn't make a fuss

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