Chelsea have scientific disadvantage in Premiership
Chelesa will start the Premier League with a scientific disadvantage, researchers claim.
And it has more to do with the colour of their shirts than the players wearing them, so the potential £20m bid for Brazilian Robinho may not be that important.
Boffins say teams who play in red gain an unfair advantage because referees are more likely to favour them in split-second decisions.
The psychologists argue this is the result of subconscious activity and only comes into play if athletes are of a similar ability.
But with three of the other top four teams, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool all wearing red it is bad news for Scolari's men.
Experts from the University of Munster said: "Referees decisions will ‘tip the scales’ when athletes are relatively well-matched but have relatively small influence when one is clearly superior,"
"Our results suggest a need to change the rules or support referees by providing electronic decision-making aids in those sports in which this color bias may be a problem."
They found refs had a bias for teams in red by getting them to score matches of tae kwon do featuring a competitor dressed in red followed by one in blue.
Even thought the two performances were the same (the first video was digitally altered so the colour of the competitors outfit was switched from red to blue) the refs gave those in red 13 percent more points.
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there is a league table on which points that are results of wrong refereeing decisions are corrected, you can find it in the internet.
for the epl's last season, it places united first, arsenal second and chelsea trailing at
third place, far behind arsenal and only a few points ahead of liverpool.