London, Dec. 15 : Luiz Felipe Scolari has said that Chelsea's fans were right to boo their side off the pitch after Sunday's 1-1 draw with West Ham United.

Nicolas Anelka's 100th Premier League goal earned the home side a point after Craig Bellamy had put West Ham ahead, but Chelsea missed a great opportunity to return to the top of the table and remain one point behind Liverpool, the leaders.

Chelsea's stuttering form is in danger of undermining their title challenge, which is being kept alive by a 100 per cent record away from home.

London, Dec 14 : It looks like soccer ace Cristiano Ronaldo wants to spend this year's Christmas in a lavish way, for he is turning his house into a grotto and dressing up as Santa to hand out gifts.

The footballer has paid an events firm a whopping 6,000 pounds to decorate his 4 million pounds house - and provide a Father Christmas suit.

His Cheshire mansion now has a 6ft tree in every room, thousands of twinkling lights, hundreds of baubles and a huge nativity scene.

Rome  - Serie A leaders Inter Milan beat tail-enders Chievo 4-2 Sunday to open up a nine-point lead on pursuers Juventus and AC Milan, who were due to play a classic tie later Sunday in Turin.

A brace from Zlatan Ibrahimovic moved the defending champions on to 39 points from 16 games, while Napoli lie level with Juve and Milan on 30 after a 3-0 defeat of Lecce on Saturday.

Fiorentina beat Catania 2-0, Genoa and Atalanta drew 1-1 in a game that the hosts ended with 10 men against a nine-man Bergamo side.

Hamburg  - Germany coach Joachim Loew has admitted to dissenting voices in the national team squad but still feels the Euro 2008 finalists can look back "positively overall" on the year.

Apart from the run to the final in the summer, where they lost 1-0 to Spain, Loew also pointed to his side's confident start to the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign, where Germany top Group 4 with 10 points from four games.