Seven and hell

Kammy hails Chelsea's magnificent seven and has his say on Gianfranco Zola's problems.

Chris Kamara's picks of the Premier League weekend

Every Saturday afternoon, Chris Kamara heads to stadiums up and down the country to deliver his unique match reports for Soccer Saturday. On Sundays you can see him back in the Sky Sports studios as he brings you all of the highlights on Goals on Sunday. And then on Mondays you can find Kammy right here on skysports.com as he brings you his picks of the weekend. Join us every week as he runs through his highs and lows as well as answering YOUR questions... GAME - Chelsea 7-1 Aston Villa
Nobody would have predicted that result in a million years. When John Carew equalised to make it 1-1, Martin O'Neill must have though his team had a chance of winning, but from that moment on they were destroyed by Chelsea. I'm not sure Villa played that poorly, they just got battered by a really good team. It's a shame for Villa who seem to be fading again after a good season. They could have won the Carling Cup Final if decisions had gone their way, it seems they won't finish fourth and the FA Cup semi-final could be a formality after Saturday's result. I know football doesn't work like that, but I can't see Villa beating Chelsea at Wembley in two weeks' time. TEAM - Chelsea
It's got to be Chelsea. Without being disrespectful, they didn't put seven past a bottom-of the-table side like Pompey, Burnley or Hull; they did it against a team with aspirations of playing in the Champions League. People were writing Chelsea off after they dropped points at Blackburn and they said the season would fizzle out after losing to Inter. But if you took a balanced view you could see Manchester United and Arsenal weren't going to go without dropping points until the end of the season. The title race is going to be nip and tuck all the way and there are some characters in the Chelsea dressing room who will keep them going until the end. They certainly proved that on Saturday. PLAYER - Frank Lampard
Scoring four goals is brilliant if you're a striker, but he does it from midfield. Jermain Defoe said on Goals on Sunday that Lampard finishes like a striker, which is the ultimate compliment. Lampard is a great player but hasn't had as much freedom with Michael Ballack in the team. The German is an attacking midfielder in the same breath as Frank and he has cramped his style. It's not been a match made in heaven and I think that has limited Lampard at times this year, but he showed on Saturday what ability he has. GAFFER - Iain Dowie
It's a close race between Carlo Ancelotti and Iain Dowie, but I'll give it to Dowie for getting his first win as Hull boss against Fulham. West Ham fans have e-mailed in to complain that Fulham made six changes to their team, but those complaints only come in after the result. Roy Hodgson put a team out that he thought could win the game, but unfortunately it didn't work out. Dowie deserves credit because he is trying to prove a lot of people wrong. It's similar to when Gary Megson took over at Bolton because lots of people are saying he didn't deserve the job, but at least Megson had most of a season to turn things around. Dowie has got to produce results over a seven-game period, but he's no mug. He knows his stuff. GOAL - Fernando Torres (first)
This was a special goal. It was not a hit-and-hope goal; he was looking for the top corner and dropped his shoulder after beating a couple of players to produce a fantastic strike. It just about beat Ricardo Fuller's effort against West Ham which was also a special goal. If somebody like Lionel Messi or Wayne Rooney scored that goal everybody would be drooling, but he has just been shaded out by Torres. GRIPE - Birmingham's equaliser
I feel for Brian Laws after the controversial penalty against Blackburn, but my biggest gripe was Kevin Phillips' equaliser against Arsenal. Well done to Alex McLeish and his boys for showing so much character, but I don't think that goal should have stood. Craig Gardner was trying to play the ball to Christian Benitez, who was clearly offside. Bacary Sagna wouldn't touch the ball if Benitez wasn't there and he ended up clearing the ball onto Phillips and it went in. Benitez has to be offside in that instance and if any referees say that goal is valid it's nonsense. If Benitez was standing on the other side of the box, everybody understands he is not interfering but Gardner was passing the ball to him so the flag surely has to go up!

Kammy answers your questions...

Do you want Chris Kamara to answer YOUR question? Email him at skysportsclub@bskyb.com or use the feedback form at the bottom of the page. TO THE FOUR
I suddenly think Liverpool are a seriously good bet for fourth place. They have an easier run-in than their rivals, they have momentum and their top players are fresh and in form. Spurs have hard games to come and will drop points. What do you think Kammy? Gavin (Liverpool fan).
KAMMY SAYS: Liverpool have hit top form, but the problem is they can't afford any more slip-ups between now and the end of the season. That makes life very difficult for them. Yes, Spurs have got hard games against Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea and if they lose all three it's a disaster for them because their lead over Liverpool would disappear. But with the squad they have, I'd be surprised if they lost all three. Like the title race, that race for fourth is hard to call because Manchester City are right in there. I would probably say it's now a three -horse race between Liverpool, Tottenham and Man City. After letting in seven goals, I don't think things are right at Aston Villa. NO MORE MR NICE GUY?
People say Gianfranco Zola is too nice to be a Premier League manager. What do you think of that? Do you need to be more ruthless to survive at this level? Tony (Hammers fan).
KAMMY SAYS: Gianfranco Zola was nice last season and he got some fantastic results, so I don't think that's the problem. I think he's got the same problem that I had when I was the Stoke City manager and that's inexperience. Like Gianfranco, I had never been involved as a manager down the bottom and with hindsight I can see the mistakes I made. They're similar to the mistakes Gianfranco is making and similar to the mistakes Gareth Southgate made at Middlesbrough last year. He keeps changing the team, there are four or five changes all the time and the players don't know who's playing every week. I made those mistakes and I can see him doing it. Maybe he needs a little bit of help because even Steve Clarke has never been involved in a relegation battle before. Maybe a more experienced coach might have gone 4-5-1 against Stoke to stop the slide. The supporters might see it as negative, but a point against Stoke might have given them some confidence. They didn't have to win that game - a draw would have been a good result - but it's got nothing to do with being nice. From my own failings I can say it's a lack of experience that's the problem.