1. Beating Liverpool is always brilliant. Knocking them out of the FA Cup is great. Destroying all the good feeling and positivity that came with Kenny Dalglish’s appointment is even better. Although I’m frustrated we didn’t totally destroy them today. We dominated the game entirely, as you would expect for a side with an extra man for an hour, but just weren’t clinical enough in the box.
2. Steven Gerrard is a thug. How Dalglish can watch the replay of that assault on the TV time and again and think it was anything other than a disgrace is beyond me. Whilst I don’t expect the Messiah to return to rip apart the only player who stands between them staying in the Premiership and going down, it wouldn’t hurt to acknowledge that when you fly in with both feet off the ground and smash in to an opponents . The other big decision of the game was the penalty decision just a few seconds in to the game. Daniel Agger made contact with the player and didn’t come close to the ball. It was a soft decision but Berbatov reckons the minimal contact was enough to end him off balance. I’d be furious if a decision like that went against us but you can’t make contact in the box and not win the ball. The penalties we should have had later on were obviously waved away by Webb, you couldn’t expect anymore more, but I’m sure there won’t be too many replays of Martin Kelly pushing Evra over in the box when he was past him or Evans being hauled to the ground.
3. Jonny Evans has had a dreadful season before now and I’m sure nobody was happy to see him the starting line-up, particularly in the absence of Edwin Van der Sar. The manager said before the game that Evans has been brilliant in training so it’s great to see him transferring that to the pitch. He also game closest to scoring our second goal, seeing his header come back off the woodwork just before half time. He looked a bit jittery on the ball at times but he didn’t put a foot wrong and dealt with Fernando Torres. Now, this isn’t the Torres that Vidic had to deal with (and failed) a couple of seasons ago, he couldn’t look like he wanted to be there less if he tried, but we all know what he is capable of. He turns 27 this year and is no doubt wondering why he has wasted the best years of his career at that club.
4. To be awarded a penalty so early on means the player stepping up to take it needs balls. Cristiano Ronaldo bottled his opportunity to put us 1-0 up at the Nou Camp so early on in 2008 but there was no way Giggsy was going to make the same mistake. Even with Reina going the right way, Giggs’ penalty was so wide it would have taken some keeper to stop it. He was much better than he had been during our victory over Stoke in the week and it’s great to see him playing an important role still. Contract renewal? Unlike with GNev, I think Giggs still has enough to offer us next season too.
5. Michael Carrick is a funny ol’ soul. He got a lot more stuck in today and I loved that. He was putting his foot in and showed a rare bravery for him. But he still won’t pass forward. The crowd were crying out for it. Saying that, he made more of an impact on the game than Darren Fletcher who, sadly, was anonymous before his substitution.
6. The atmosphere was brilliant. Outsung them with easy. Best chants of the today were “Sacked in the morning, you getting sacked in the morning”, “Going down, going down, going down”, “You’re not famous anymore” and the return of “Have you ever won the Treble, have you fuck?”
Quick Reactions From Victory Over Liverpool…
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Spot on Scott – send The Dippers back to Shitfield
I wasn’t unhappy seeing Evans in the line up, Scott.
1-0 job done, nervous at the end, expected some more flair but as it stands we move on.
With Rooney, Scholesy, Parky and Tony back we will be able to take advantage of this situations.
Well said, STR!!!
United 1 Liverpool 0: Red Devils Pile On The Misery
http://www.theunitedreligion.com/2011/01/united-1-liverpool-0-red-devils-pile-on.html
We’ll Do What We Want
We’ll Do What We Want
WERE MAN UNITED
WE’LL DO WHAT WE WANT
No mention of ITV showing some piece of shit chanting Munich in the stands?
Of course the papers will just brush by it like they do with all of the Scum’s misgivings.
I thought Carrick was quality today, many difficult passes he made well, switched play, held back to protect the back 4. I’d give him MOTM personally as he really did stand out.
@costas: was not happy with Evans inclusion, either. however, we should have known it was coming because ferguson spoke highly of evans in his post-game talk after either Stoke City (or WBA can’t remember exactly which one without looking it up).
Fucking Dippers got what they deserved.
Fantastic win. Stopped Dogleash’s revolution in its tracks.
Liverpool are in a relegation fight now.
Brilliant.
And the ‘controversy’ engineered by the pro-Liverpool ITV twats just made it even sweeter.
Watched it on TV, and there were a few of them singing Munich chants. Fucking cunts.
carrick was the man today…
disapointed with fergie and the player negative approach all game.
1- 10 men vs 11 , embarrass them by atacking in numbers, not sitting back.
2- I doubt rooney and vidic was injured more like rested for the prem.
3- VDS is fit, why give kuszack a chance when he bottles it every appearance and is not imposing enough.
4- Nani was terrible, fletcher was useless.
5- berbatov held the ball up too many times and slowed down attack and wasted more than 5 shots.
6- why replace hernandez our only threat with owen when berbatov should have came off.
7- evra and rafael was great, rio magnificant and evans handled torresh & co to perfection.
We Need to Start Killing Off Games with Larger ScoreLines to secure victory !!!
we barely had 3+ goals this year !!
hammons – 2 objections ) i said i wasn’t unhappy, i knew he would take his chance. games like West Ham are a thing of the past, it doesn’t get any worse than that ))
And the second objection i guess you know what i am talking about ))
FOXES YOU BEAUTIES….2-2 v Shtty.
“Darren Fletcher who, sadly, was anonymous before his substitution.”
Take another look, Scott. It was Darren Fletcherinho who passed the ball to Dimitar Berbatov in the sequence that led to the penalty. It was a thirty-yard, perflectly-flighted ball. Otherwise, he did what he had to do – break up play and move the ball to the feet of his more skilled colleagues.
The guy who was really anonymous today was Nani – but, so what ? He wasn’t needed. Good to see an anonymous performance in those circumstances – or, perhaps, Nani wasn’t comfortable playing in second gear.
Ryan Giggs, though, was comfortable – and was quite brilliant on several occasions when he “twisted the defenders’ blood”. It was deja vue, all over again.
Apart from Jonny Evans and Rio Ferdinand – who had LadyBoy in their pocket – the performance from that little tiger Rafael Da SIlva was a joy to behold. What a player. And he’s supposed to be the “less brilliant” one of the twins !
It was a real shame that we didnt totally humiliate the scousers today by scoring 3 or 4 goals when they went down to 10 men so early. I think sometimes we overcomplicate when we get near the box and try to walk it into the net. Sometimes just shoot and we might get lucky with a deflection.
I still think we lack pace and creativity in the middle of the park and I hope we sign a world class midfielder in the summer. I still think we missed an absolute bargain with Van Der Vaart he would have been ideal for UTD.
Dream ending would have been Red Owen scoring in the 96th minute of Fergie time. Best atmosphere this season at OT.
Gloat all you like … it’s the beginning of the end of your dominance. LFC are back so watch out! YNWA.
Great result for us.We are showing everyone that we are the best.We overcome every difficult situation.Now we have to just get three points at white hart lane.
And i am very happy for evans.
UNITED FOREVER.:)
Carrick passed forward plenty of times. Man of the match.
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Was anybody else impressed with the short shift that Michael Owen put in when he came on? (Even though I didn’t really like seeing Hernandez make way but still…)
amazing how tinted your manc lenses are
the penalty you strangely youy forget to mention was a clear dive was rather key in your win (thanks mr webb again)
gerrard’s tackle wasn’t that bad, probably a yellow, in fact rafael’s stamp on meireles moments before was as bad and more dangerous
the fact that you ignore your own player making tackles worse than gerrard’s on a routine basis makes you rank hypocrites of the highest order
webb is the new riley isn’t he, manu’s twelth man
Why’s nobody mention the difference that Anderson made?
We looked a completely different side with him in midfield.
@Dela – i actually fancied Owen getting some minutes on the pitch. Nether Berba not Chicha didn’t look like being on top of their games. Was it because of the shift the whole team put in i dunno but i was really pleased Owen came on.
The task is giving him 5 more starts in the premiership in order for him to get the medal in May.
Scott as you were at the game you didn’t see the scouse animals clearly chanting Munich. I’ve bust my ankle so couldn’t make the game, but even with my ankle I nearly fucked the tv out the window… Some classless animals they are..
And they get up on their high horse re Hillsborough chants…
Didn’t have a problem with Evans starting. I was upset that we would miss Vida (who wouldn’t?), but I was hoping Jonny had turned the corner.
Agreed with most points. Carrick’s best game for United in a quite a while in my opinion. He, Rio and Giggsy shared MOTM honours for me.
It’s sad that we’ve reached a point where Fletch gets taken off in these games as the going gets tough. I don’t think he played badly, but for a weird reason, his role is more advanced than it should be this season. I prefer to see him play a bit further back and maybe allow Carrick to play forward…
Good result but a OK performance.
It’s looks as to we just want to do enough to win the game, once we take the lead we don’t try to score second or third. It seems we are content with what we have and try to just hold it.
BTW Shitty draw
*Not starts, rather games.
Fletcher was anonyumous? ARE U KIDDING ME SCOTT? he put a perfect ling ball for the penalty,broke up play and put in some wonderful long passes to switch the flanks..in fact giggs couldnt take 3 of them properly with the sun in his eyes..and for first 30mins carrick and fletch were against 3 of them in CM..still the werent being run over..will u get off ur high horse and stop slagging Carro/Fletch mid combo already?? they arent flashy but they can attack and defend equally well..modric/nasri/fatfrank/stevieme no1 can play in Cm as a 442 better than either of them..Carro/felcherino alow us to have an extra atacker up top..the work rate without fuss-who appreciates than huh?
Madrid down 1-0
Great start by villareal and a deserve lead
It’s a great night. Adam (he is a regular on ROM, but i cant remember what his nickname is) comes to Malaysia and we watched the match together with two ‘pool fans.
2nd minute, penalty. Haha.
Then Gerrard got sent off. Dreamstart.
Until about 15 minutes later, i still cant believe my eyes watching Gerrard sent off.
The ‘pool fans turned red. haha.
This is just too great. We beat them on the return of their king. haha. We beat them when they were nearly exploding with hope, we burst their balloon just like that., right on their ears. haha.
1979gooner-
You fail to mention gerrards wreckless two-footed lunge at the feet of carrick, did you not notice where the ball was at the time of the exact contact?
Plus agger did not even win the ball, all he did was get MININMAL contact with berbatov, you read that contact which mean the berb has a choice to go down because he has been impeded.
Rafael? stamp? madness ! everyone said meireles should have gone all in and bottled it.
Webb the new mike riley, doubt it when he denied welbeck a penalty against everton a while back.
The Stretford end is the 12th man you doughnut. As for Rafa’s supposed stamp on Meireles, the latter chickened out, but he certainly didn’t stamp on him. Why is this the concern of a gooner?
Berbatov needs Rooney
Real Madrid 1-1
Ronaldo scores again :O
@1979gooner
1979, was that the year your mam was born?
Do one!
I thought Kuszcak was fantastic today. That performance should boost his confidence. Today he showed that he can be our no1.
1) Rafa stamped on Meireles? Where? On Fifa 2011?
2) What does this article have to do with Arsenal? Don’t tell me that this areticle also appeared on Arsenal’s newsnow page. Voyeuristic much?
1979gooner..
Fuck off to an arsenal blog ya daft twat…. Why oh why do ye lot always come on here..
Def pen, def sending off.. End of…
Rather like robin van persies (rapist) against brum no? Were u complaining then?
*article*
@1979Gooner why are you being so bitter? Because you are mad that we are staying in the cup competition, your best chance for any trophy? hahahahahah
I wont be so hard on Nani…he’s still getting his touch back.
Evans was fine in the end, although I still think he needs to be more confident with the ball instead of being negative and going backwards.
Rafa is DA MAN!
As long as Carrick doesnt do anything stupid, I always love Michael Carrick. His calmness gives us authority in the midfield.
Berba was Berba…
Chico is getting better, but I think he needs to be more assertive when going one-on-one with the defender…he’s got great speed and acceleration…he should use it better.
Something’s wrong with Fletch…and i’m worried about it.
Will someone do something about the friggin’ bug??????
can’t take a bit of constructive comment? sad, but typical of manu fans
gerrard’s tackle wasn’t that bad, it was oblique to carrick, not through him directly and mildly reckless
i have seen far far worse recently from manu players that hasn’t even had free kicks given for it
your rank hypocrisy is exposed when looked at rafael’s very poor tackle
meireles wisely got out of the way because the tackle was so dangerous it may well have done some serious damage
he went through the ball with straight legs and studs up, it was a very nasty one, yellow at least
trying to deny this was even a foul gives you away for what you are
next time gary neville does a tackle like gerrard and doesn’t even get a yellow i bet you’ll be changing your tinted lense again!
I am sorry but there is no way we dominated the game. Even against 10 men their midfield was more than equal to ours. That is the only area of the I feel we definitely need strengthening. A small ball retaining centre full of guile and intelligence who can dribble and turn sharply in midfield like Modric and in my dreams Iniesta would be perfect. Obviously we won’t get those two but someone in that mould
We completely outclassed the Scouse again – in every way without at least four of our first-choice players – Rooney, Vidic, VDS and Scholes!! I am glad that Ferguson went with a strong line-up.
BTW, why the fuck are their goons on here, again? This is a Liverpool post – guess they are contradicting themselves again by saying that we are the ones that care about them.
United Cup-letely Outclassed Liverpool
http://www.theunitedreligion.com/2011/01/united-cup-letely-outclassed-liverpool.html
Did anyone say anything about Arsenal? Trolls?
Giggs MOM, what stones that man has.
Really impressed by Evans, welcome back son.
Very pleased with Carrick and Fletch, Ando didn’t add anything.
PIG did a fine job as well. Very comfortable with him while VDS recovers fitness.
Fine with the Penalty. There was contact. Defender missed the ball, completley touched Berbas leg and put his foot in the middle of berbas stride. Brought him down. If you say there was contact, then it was not a dive. Clear peno.
Gerrard RED, absolutely. 2 footed, straight legged, inch more and carrick breaks his leg.
Dalglish, should be ashamed of his comments, but he had to say something, Liverpool played 90+ minutes of shITE.
Liverpool fans signing Munich, well, says it all really.
Next up Spurs away. Time to step up lads. Really pleased.
Rafael? Stamp? What the fuck?
Just saw this on BBC text:
1819: Breaking news: The Football Association has opened an investigation after Liverpool winger Ryan Babel posted a digitally altered picture on Twitter of referee Howard Webb wearing a Manchester United shirt.
Aren’t you lot ashamed to always win matches because of corrupt officials? Anyone who believes that Berbatov was fouled has a serious problem. Compare this incident with the tackle by Gary Neville in the West Brom game and hang your heads in shame.
Perfect day.
Gerrard Off… Giggsy scores directly in front of 9000 Jobless Muppets and Torres got the Curly Finger from Dalglish… awesome.
well said Gary
Trolls? Fine to accuse people of this who deliberately say nothing constructuve and just disrupt
However all I am doing is pointing out that you have yet again benefited from some poor refereeing decisions that have gone your way courtesy of Howard Webb.
Penalty? as Gary says if any of you think that was a penalty then you need your tinted specs changing again
keep the insults coming and ask yourselves why you can’t comeback with a decent rational argument, is it because you can’t and have to stoop to petty insults?
@joel huh seems like another player gonna get sacked because of twitter..
@Gary so what? Shit happens. We were robbed of victory against Birmingham, we didnt complain.
Rafael’s tackle went straight onto the ball. Gerrard’s?? The ball out of the camera view already when he went into the tackle.
So there was no stamp? Just Meireles getting out of the way? Make up your mind with your constructive comments, lol.
Anyway, it wasn’t as bad as say…Gallas’ tackle on a Bolton player last season at the EMirates. Thanks for coming…
No problem with you trolls coming here. It’s just that you are conspicuous by your absence when decisions go your team’s way. Hmm…
1979 gooner- we did not get the call when zigic from birmingham fouled us, used his arm and scored a goal to tie 1-1 a few weeks ago, shit happens…..
berbatov is one of the few players that manages to stay on this feet despite constant fouling, he does not dive.
gerrard is experienced enough to know not to go in with two feet, yet he chose to and he got caught….
1979Gooner comeback with those arguments when you are better than us in the disciplinary league.
Costas,
if all you can do is comeback with a little tit for tat, oh one of your players did a bad tackle once, then that’s a pretty lame duck argument for me
we’re talking of the here and now and what happened today
berbatov dived, webb donated you a goal
webb then harshly sent off gerrard
btw i have no time for gerrard and he does regularly commit some very bad tackles, howevere today’s was nowhere near as bad as many of his tackles, it was a very harsh red card
1979gooner – Come here the next time if one of your twats got tackled with both feeds.
Btw I saw lots of worse tackles than Shawcross’ against Ramsey.
my, that disciplinary league argument, the problem with that is the league is only as good as the referees who dish the cards out and that’s pretty damn poor
united george, fair point about the zigic goal, was a clear foul
still that was a rare one that went against you, the vast majority do not go that way
in the last few weeks we’ve seen a dodgy pen against clichy, nevile get away with murder, west brom denied a red card and pen, now liverpool today, luck appears on your side
And what about last years games against Chelsea?
Non of you deluded twats mention it.
Wanna know who the ref was at OT? Webb.
gooner 1979 wat abt chamakhs handball agnst us,van pussy vs birmingham.life of a gunna
@1979gooner fortune favours the bold
Zelh,
I agree to a degree on Shawcross, it was bad, a red card for the force of it, but yes we do see a lot lot worse, fair point
still I don’t think Gerrard’s tackle was that bad, personally I despise Gerrard so I have no interest in defending him, that’s just my opinion, it’s fairly subjective i do admit
Webb’s dismissal of Gerrard is “harsh” only when you see it in retrospect. Referees dont have the luxury of video referral and going back in time to alter their decisions. From where he was standing, he saw a reckless two-footed challenge and that warrants a straight red according to the laws of the game. End of discussion.
Now there’s two trolls. Liverpool can’t except there rubbish and why is the deluded Arsenal fan here again? It was a soft penalty. Arsenal and Liverpoo have been getting them at their grounds for years. Gary Neville should have went at West Brom, but Owen was brought down by Carra at anfield, no red card. How can you have a rational discussion, when your argument is United get everything from the refs? So bring it on lads, discuss away.
@1979gooner
For the record, I also found both decisions harsh. Keep in mind that not every United fan here agrees with Scott on everything. Webb imo f’ed up the game. And keep in mind that he denied Jonny Evand a clear penalty in the 2nd half.
So what? Does this mean that Liverpool would have gone through if Webb hadn’t given those two decisions? No. Just that we have an incompetent referee on our hands, something that’s been evident in almost every game he has officiated. I don’t see why as a United fan I should feel bad about that.
Zelh,
I think time has come for technology, the refs are just struggling to keep up with the game and there are too many bad bad errors
It’s frankly an impossible job
1979Gooner that is the worst excuse i have heard regarding the disciplinary league. If so, then why does Arsenal always comes out among the worst in that league?
rather amusing that it’s Gooners visiting RoM and being bitter and not the Dippers lol.
Gary and 1979gooner- as those above me said, shit happens. can name countless times in the past, that important decisions went against us. it happens to all the teams, decisions going for and against them. and that’s rather rich coming from a supporter whose team have gotten the most penalties awarded this season? not to mention that one of your players admitted to diving…as recent as yesterday.
Costas,
fair enough, can’t argue with that
Oh darn. I thought the goons only spammed our blog when it featured comments from one of their pathetic impersonations of footballers. I was wrong apparently. It’s funny how the whole ABU world when it comes to United, regardless of whom they support.
Firstly, I thought Berba dived and felt sickened by it. That said, decisions go against us all the time
which the ABUs conveniently ignore. Hang our heads in shame? Sure, isn’t that what Chelsea did when the officials won them the game against us last season? Or Arsenal fans after Chamakh’s Oscar-deserving performance against Birmingham? Oh wait, did they?
gooner – don’t have to be technology, but there have to be professional refs and not just for a hobby. full-time refs. end over.
@Teelius or the many seats that were thrown from tier 2 in east stand, one which narrowly missed me at the end…
@1979gooner
With you on the technology bit. The refs are just bottling far too many games for the issue to remain ignored any longer. As much as I am delighted about the win tonight, this isn’t how I would have liked our victory to be due to one of our own players rather than Howard Webb.
@1979gooner
Zelh mentioned the Chelsea game. In Webb’s case, I think just about every club can say that he has helped them or screwed them at one point or another. And after today, I am really wondering why he didn’t send off De Jong in the WC final for a tackle far worse than this…
Anyway, as I said earlier on the day, I wanted to beat Liverpool 11 v 11. Sadly Webb had other ideas.
The ref made the call, it’s a peno. There was contact, so it wasn’t a dive. You say dive, fine, through around your words. They mean naught. Because Giggs stepped up and stuck it in the back of the net.
Over 90+ Lilipoo had 1 decent shot. They didn’t have a clue. Good luck to them stayin up. Pathetic football. Pathetic fans.
@Gooner 1979. Please go away silly little boy this is a Manchester United site not for you.
Just because A you are leaving the prestigous Champions league competition in the next tie with Barclelona and you are envious of our record in achieving silverware, Crow to us when you win a cup? In fact remind us when you last did?
From Jeff Winters site a unbiased view unlike your poxy destructive and unthought out postion.
Jeff says on Dimitars tackle this.Was it a penalty? In my opinion it was. A massive call for the officials but they got it right. Why on earth does Agger make a challenge in that position, when all he has to do is stay on his feet and block the cross? He makes contact with Berbatov and that is enough.
The pundits describe it as minimal, but he does not have to murder him. It was a totally unnecessary challenge and a foul. Whether or not Berbatov makes a meal of it is immaterial. It was a foul, and as it was in the Box it is a Penalty
On Stevie G, he should be locked up he is a very dangerous Individual.
Jeff Winter says this.Gerrard went in two footed and caught his opponent. Webb took his time and got this one right as well.
The bad thing about this, for me is Gerrard does not miss any League games to compound there misery.
ronaldo scores again…..
mycowlsthebest
you are just plain wrong i’m afraid
actually look at arsenal’s position in the disciplinary league over the last few years, we’ve consistently amongst the best,
oh dear oh dear oh dear, you are so far off it’s amusing
cheers all, over and out
thanks to the fans who have said some sensible and interesting things, no thanks to those who just throw around insults because their brains are too small to do anything else!
I thought the penalty could have gone either way, but I don’t believe Berba dived. It doesn’t have to be one or the other, you know. Players can go down without diving AND without there being a foul. If that challenge had happened outside the box, I don’t think many would have complained if a free kick had been awarded (no card, just a regular, direct free kick). On that basis, the penalty is fair enough, given that the ONLY difference between a regular direct free kick and a penalty is that the latter occurs inside the box. The rules and criteria are the same in both cases, the only difference is *where* they occur: outside the box, it’s a direct free kick, inside the box, a direct free kick is given as a penalty.
@united.george
That’s 30 in 28 games I think…
Anyone hear about Babel’s rant on twitter? He accused Webb of being a United fan. Simply can’t take defeat this lot. The FA are looking into is comments.
ps RedScot – if you are relying on Jeff Winter then that says it all, he never had a clue and still doesn’t
several rather prominent pundits on radio think gerrard’s red was harsh and a yellow card offence
there is a lot of opinion stating this, i do acknowledge that there are a few who agree with the red card, still there are at least as many who disagree, opinion is pretty split and it was definitely not a stonewall red as opinion would not be this divided otherwise
it’s sad that you can’t follow the example of some of your readers and say something sensible, rather than just saying what is easy and what will keep the gutter happy
Over and Out, 10/10 lol
@Costas … I believe that after the WC, Webb said he hadn’t had a clear view of the de Jong incident, but that having seen it later on replay, he did regret not sending him off. Something like that. Basically, he offered a reasonable explanation, and apologized anyway.
*his*
The classless wanker Babel just posted Webb in a United shirt
Typical of Liverpool football club.
@ 1979, I was giving you an independent view, he has know interest in United, you clearly do.
@willie … yeah, he posted a doctored photo of Webb in a United shirt and said Webb was a joke. Got to think there will be some punishment for that. A fine, suspension, something. Maybe against the player and the club.
Arsenal sites down today? Pathetic loosers. We beat Liverpool today. What did you do yesterday? Hope Leeds hand you one in the replay. Good luck to you.
Pathetic football, pathetic fans, that about sums Liverpool up.
@ Fletch the man, I did not go there! lol for obvious reasons!
Doesn’t Gerrard miss 3 games in the league as well?
@costas – on the other hand, the defending in La Liga is such a joke, when he scored his second, he was basically standing all by himself in the box. Either way, I would still rather he keeps scoring so we dont have to hear about Messi all day.
When a gooner can’t fight the urge to come here and spout a bunch of drivel after a FA Cup game between United and Liverpool you have got to feel that 19 is very very close. The ABUs are starting to panic and “I would love it” if we got to 19 in the most controversial of styles with a goal that shouldn’t have been given or a really dodgy penalty or a goal in the 98′ minute in a game where only 3 minutes of extra time had been given.
@RedScot Please tell us honestly whether you personally believe that a penalty was justified. No one who loves football more than the team they follow can be so biased.
@ Passe, well said mate. Drivvle is being kind, we call it Havering and mindwandering.
Long time reader first time poster.
Whilst I will agree that the penalty was light, the majority of players in the league now go over easily, buying penalties.
The fact that gunners are here complaining against this is embarrassing as two of the bi ggest culprits in the prem are van rapist and chamakh. This also comes the day after walcott publicly admits diving to keep them in the cup.
The sending off was 100% the correct decision. It was a total lunge with two feet off the ground. There was contact but these idiot gooners seem to believe that as carrick was still able to walk then it was harsh. They go on to comment on rafa, if gerrard had have done the same and pulled out then maybe he would’ve seen out the game.
I hate these gooner idiots but to be fair its kind of flattering that they take the time out to come here and worry about our club, rather than their own.
Carrick played well today and it was good to see Evans make a real come back. Rafael and giggs were brilliant and imo should’ve battled it out for MOTM.
Thats totally fucked up my response to the 5 quick observations I normally lke thinking that through and responding. Dammit.
My night is destroyed.
Agree with UniteGeorge, If the red stands, Geraldine the Scouse thug sits out 3 matches. That is what KingKenny will be crying about this time. Lets see the FA rescind it and show how pro scouse they are.
@Stateside
Ah, thanks. Didn’t know that. At least he acknowledged it afterwards…
@Gary it was soft, a Bit Like 129 Gooners Head. In the rules of the game it was a pen. Thats all that matters.The Rules, the ref did not cheat or favour United.
I still wonder why an Arsenal fan comes here in the first place.. must be like i said earlier.. he’s so raged that we managed to beat Liverpool even though we are not playing at our best, even though we were missing Vidic and Rooney and Park.
He knows if we are still in the competition, their chance to win the FA cup is slim. And FA Cup is their best chance for a trophy this year.
Can’t believe there’e a gooner on here trying to defend a decision on a 2 footed tackle. After all, these decisions are made now due to the whinging from their players and manager about such tackles, hypocrit. Also, what a bitter twat Babel is.
I dont think he does miss 3 league games you dont carry Reds from one Competition to another.
Stateside Aussie is good at this stuff maybe he can illuminate those in the dark!
I think the penalty was a tad harsh..but berba is not ronaldo.
“Mum, I’m afraid to go to the kitchen. I think someone is there in the dark”. Mother – “Don’t worry, sweetheart. It’s just Fernando Torres. He is incapable of doing anything”
@Redscot
Red card punishments are carried through out domestic football. Zabaleta was red carded last Wednesday, but his red card was rescinded so he can play against Leicester just now.
It’s a shame arsenal fans come here questioning the one penalty that was harshly awarded while turning a blind eye to the other two more legitimate penalty claims turned down.
We played terrible to be honest just doing enough and not going for the throat when taking the lead. They were there to be humiliated and we just didn’t bother. I don’t know if this attitude is coming from ferguson or the players are feeling get a goal and coast through a game. They had ten men for god sake and we never made reina make more than one save, I think people are forgetting we are man united , we shouldn’t accept performances like that. It’s not just about winning it’s about winning in the united way attacking free flowing football, glory glory man united! That and this whole season hasn’t been a Man united I’ve enjoyed watching!
Carrick MOM some said earlier you must have watched a different match, he was terrible sideways, backwards passes constantly. He and fletcher were the main problem today too slow and safe passes all the time, thank god ando came on who can actually take the ball frm midfield to attack. The quicker we have scholes bk the better and a world class creative player is needed also in the summer.
Ps it was never a penalty berbatov dived everyone. He got touched slightly yes but then took another step and fell over. Flip it round and everyone would say it was a dive if Torres did it.
@ RedScot – Gerrard will miss 3 league games, all cards count in any domestic competition. It’s only in Europe where it’s different. remember Irwin missed the 99 cup final cos he got sent off at Anfield in a league game.
will the thug get a 3 game ban now if the red is upheld?
Liverpool were doing:
Where were you in Istanbul to Michael Owen
Now for a successful club that’s where they are stuck in Istanbul
Geez I get it that it was a good comeback but to say that Istanbul is the only reckoning is the scousers history is well a bit fucking thick isn’t it.
Rafa got them brainwashed good and proper me thinks.
corea ….torres in da house lol
@ MYCowls so he does miss league games. Great thats brilliant news, restored my mojo mate.
Its just envy them ignoring other facts and that Jonny also crashed one of the post with a stunner of a header.
I misunderstood my stupidity its the cheap Cider.
The thug misses the derby next week.
@1979 gooner
Weather or not the referee made the wrong call or not, the fact remains that during a time when you have to make spilt second decisions as player and manager, both the penalty and the sending off can not be mistaken.
I would be angry myself if one of united’s players got a sending off and gave a penalty in the first 30 seconds but the players cannot except to be pardoned. The penalty was awarded because Berbatov was contacted inside the box, however small it may be and had enough of an excuse to go down because you cannot contact a player in the box without a decent enough play for the ball. Berbatov went down and from whatever angle the referee saw it at, he made that spilt minute decision to point to the spot and it can be easily forgiven. The sending off was for an unprofessional act. Maybe it was a bit harsh and yes, he should of just gotten a yellow but Gerrard should of known better than anyone on that pitch that you cannot go diving in with two feet straight at an opposition player. He got sent off for that foul and once again you cannot mistake that. They played pretty bad all through the match and on the final whistle, the best team won.
if the 2 decisions today was awarded to the fucking Gooners they would accept with thanks…..by the by anyone listen 5 live sport….. heard little Theo Walcott admitted he dived yesterday ….. FA have you got your ears open….
See the non believers on the site
Imran
Poor Imran LFC are back – where from the dead? I reverse order you’ve only managed to get into the coffin again – try getting out of that first before doing a Rafa – Facht
1979 Gooner
You are funny – so fucking funny you are on the wrong blog – no team called manu here
Au Revoir – that’s constructive anything for you.
“How Dalglish can watch the replay of that assault on the TV time and again and think it was anything other than a disgrace is beyond me”
This is why Dalglish will not save Liverpool; you can’t fix a problem if you don’t acknowledge that you have one!
Old English, gotta love it. I missed Woy today. He would’ve been very very very unhappy.
anyway ….fuck em
rat munching fuck pigs
@ TonyBee exactly mate he admitted it Walcott. Berbatov never did that, play the Ref it was Agger making a unecessary challenge, Berbatov was going nowhere.
jus a msg 4 that gooner twat….. FUCK OFF OUTA HERE AND WORRY BOUT UR OWN TEAM, y u even on here talkin bout us, should u nt be on ur own site praisin that diver wallcunt .
@MG
I was thinking the same. Instanbul was 6 years ago. And that’s all they can come up with when they see Owen?
Loserpool FC get one deluded manager after another. Dalglish needs to go to SpecSavers fast or they are all going down.
If Jeff fucking Winter, who we all now is a very vocal member of the ABU camp, says it was a penalty and a sending off then I rest my case!
Funnily enough no one is moaning about Arsenal being given even a softer penalty in the last minute yesterday!
Bozzer99 – Isn’t that the point though, Torres would’ve went down, with the slightest touch as well? It’s part of the game, I don’t like it either, but it is what it is. Glad Gerrard finally got done for his famous two footed challenges, the cunts got away with that for years.
For those of you not at the game today! L/pool fans ripped up seats,smashed them to pieces then hurled shards of plastic at the UTD fans below,they sang Munich and other shit, but hey there scousers! what do you expect, a apology from King Kenny! behave, the man is as deluded as their sick fans.
Oh dear, scousers on the blog. Guess that means somebody’s had their PC nicked.
Meanwhile I think people need to learn to appreciate that a well played game of football does not necessarily mean an exciting one. Strange as it may sound I think both sides played very well, United played better, hence the result, but either way for all their thievery and relentless ugliness the dippers put in a shift as well. With ten men they battled bloody hard, a lot harder than they did for Hodgson, and that is worth considering. If they keep this up they’ll finish with a shot at some sort of Europe.
I think the United performance, barring the shooting and delivery of the final ball, was absolutely first class. We played a great game. Sure it was close and somewhat tense, but that’s what happens when you don’t kill teams off. For me this is one of our best performances of the season, just because of the effort and the work that went in. There was none of the sloppiness that marred our play in the early part of the season, none of the laziness. And the goals? They’ll come.
This has been a good day. And with both Arsenal and City landing replays this has been a very satisfying weekend.
nice to see that after the game the scousers wanted to stay and sightsee OT a little bit after the game instead of fucking off and nicking everything they can lay their hands on …vermin
Dogleash shoud be ashamed of his defence of the thug. hope somebody at the FA SORTS THE THUG OUT FINALLY…..
Costas
Istanbul it seems must be woman then too right
Is she hot?
@ Diablo there was a lad on here commenting on that during the game on here about the singing of those Vile songs.I cant remember his name sorry.Very very sick people I hope the Plod and the internal cameras can locate those that destroy the furniture.
Just because they probably sit on Bannana Boxes in their houses.
Disgusting lunatics.
Bit rich scousers singing Munich I thought after Hillsborough they’d learn not to take the piss
But there you go I’m sure not all are at fault but the few are just that moronic.
@MG
Don’t what to say, lol. I am a Greek, so I am in a tough spot. She is hot in the summer, that’s all I know, lol.
Owen looked very lively by the way. I guess the “Owen comes back to haunt Liverpool” chapter is delayed until March 5th.
1979gooner – go away you fucking cunt.
The penalty was soft but Berba is not a diver.
And I don’t understand there even being a discussion about the red card. That is a clear red if ever I have seen one!! You can’t jump in with two feet and studs up. The dirty bastard could have easily fucked Carricks ankles. Soft penalty, but the red was spot on
Scum Liverpool fans chanting Munich throughout the game. Classless cunts.
Munich chants are bad enough, but has there ever been another set of fans that has destroyed seats at our ground? They keep reaching new lows. As their sponsor says, Standards Lowered..
I was quite disgusted with the scousers singing about Munich throughout the game. After Hillsborough, I would expect even them to have a little bit of respect. That’s an all time low for them. It was a tragedy and any opposition fan mocking that to get at us should be thrown out.
They probably ripped up the seats, to bring back to their houses. Classless cunts.
lets face it, wat else wer the verman gonna sing, wer crap n we no we r? wer staying up?
I was quite disgusted with the scousers singing about Munich throughout the game. After Hillsborough, I would expect even them to have a little bit of respect. That’s an all time low for them. It was a tragedy and any opposition fan mocking that to get at us should be thrown out. Then to top all that, they damage our seats at the ground. They can moan about the penalty and the sending off but if that is what they were saying and doing, it’s what we will offer in return. I don’t know why there is an arsenal fan on here moaning when it has no relevant to his team but the penalty and the sending off were what could be expected when you contact a player in the box without a play for the ball and knocking a player over by diving in with two feet, and specifically seeing that Theo Walcott has admitted to diving he is in no fit position. Another win, we are through to the next round, top of the league with a game in hand – i’m excited!!!
Babel apologised for the Webb picture. He blames it all on an emotional reaction after the game. I understand him. It’s not easy to stomach that you are playing for this lot…
BERBATOV WOOAAH
BERBATOV WOAAAH
HE CAME FROM WHITE HART LANE
AND HE DID THE SCOUSER AGAIN
We’ll Do What We Want
We’ll Do What We Want
without killing anyone
WE’LL DO WHAT WE WANT
Babel could have picked the right top, fucking clown.
The biggest Jeremy Hunt in the history of football defends the second biggest: pardon me for not being surprised. Never mind Babel’s tweet, how about this on the same site from Dalglish’s Damien Omen 666 spawn:
“Howard Webb MBE. Manc of the Busby Era. I am not normally bitter, as you know, but it is different rules against them.” In a separate tweet, he added: “Fergie has his puppet Howard Webb on a piece of string.”
FA must act against Dalglish.
wats this about babel??
fuck me. have I not just seen my team manchester united knock livershite out of the fa cup?
well there is a wank fest all over the media.
its a real scouse love in,………………. bunch of cunts plus chelski are back ( look over your shoulder )
again bunch of cunts the lot of them.
carry on fergie, regardless.
Edgy atmosphere near munich tunnel today. United lads chasing dipper scum to their turnstiles. Fuck ioff you scouse cunts. Nowt left to play for. Giggs was like a twenty yeart old and coolness personified. Evans was excellent and proper chuffed for the kid considering some of the bile on here over a twenty two year old kid. Rio is getting better by the week. Rafa is a hard little cunt. Owen looked sharp as fuck when he came on. Nani was appaling but didn’t lookl fit. He looked ill and no energy. He will be back to his best next week. Fletcher did his job geed the laads up and had to be careful after his early booking. Carrick was top drawer and pkayed some great passes. The dinked one over the top to the tunnel corner. Sitting in the heavans you can really appreciate him. He fucking glides across the back four and his positioning is excellent. Got stuck in as well.keeps the ball moving and makes us tick. Berba a genius. Some of his first touches were ridiculous. A great day. “There’s a tavern in the town, in the town. And we`re gonna burn it down, burn it down and hang dalglish from the highest fucking tree so all you scouse bastards can see”. Anyway was always gonna be an ugly game. Bring on the saints.
@willerdnut . Yes but I don’t think we should be resorting to diving tactics ala Torres . Agreed on gerrard finally a ref has the balls to punish his two footed challenges .
@ King Eric, Brilliant review of the match, from a Fan at the Match.
No taking the piss mate, just trying to lighten things up. Chase Me Chase me. lol
As you say bring on Southampton and we move on although the Spuds game will be a tough nut to crack.
if you look at the replay and see how berba’s ankle goes before he fell, i think its more of a case of him losing balance…
RedScot – Tough nut to crack? We better bring a big fucking hammer then, smash those cunts lol.
Long live the King Eric!
Postmaster!
Seats ripped up by Scouse, bogs trashed, papers silent on it tommorow.
Good win. After Gerrard walked there was only ever going to be one winner. Torres doesn’t give a shit about Liverpool any more. It’s hilarious.
http://www.fivecantonas.com/?p=10
Very pleased that we managed to keep a clean sheet with Kuszczak and Evans playing.
@ Willie, am sure you will have your NutCrackers at the ready.
Dont under estimate these at the Shit Hoose lane.
I see Becks is just training with them to stay fit”"”Cough”"”".
This is a bastard of a tie to win Willie.Trust me we will need Blackburn form to beat the Spuds.
How good was it when Sir Alex turned around and started fist-pumping to the Stretford End! After initially walking out with Daglish, he heard the chants and showed his love for the fans.
Ferguson’s red & white army.
Had a great night watching the match with MyCowIsTheBest – utterly lovely fella – only made better by the bitter gits venting about us on here!
Gunners fan – why are you on a United blog regarding a match that doesn’t have anything to do with you lot?
My second and last question – why are you questioning a so-called dive from a United player that doesn’t do so when your own player this very week admitted to diving to try and win a penalty himself? If he won the penalty, he certainly wouldn’t have been so forthcoming with such a comment.
@RedScott, oops, I was off for a nap … no doubt someone else has already answered this, but yeah, FA Cup and PL matches are all considered First Team Competitive Matches by the FA, and suspensions carry over. According to the fine print, a straight red also means he is also suspended from non-First team matches (I guess that means reserves?), but can play in any friendlies. Sidenote, what I didn’t know, is that card-accumulation rules also count across these competitions: 2 yellows in the FA Cup, and three in the PL, before Dec 31 of the year would be suspended for one match.
RedScot – I think spurs will be made for us mate. They’ll attack us all game, that’s how we’ll catch them on a counter attack. Will be an open game, looking forward to that one, after watching the dross the dippers served up today.
couldn’t give a rats ass what anyone’s got to say about the penalty and red card, both were correct decisions, whats on my mind is why the Fuck Rafael doesn’t get the credit he deserves, for me he’s one of the most if not the most exciting youngster in the league. The one player who can claim that spot is bale – i’ll say yeah he’s been good this season but the pessimist could also say he’s had a good patch and nothing fantastic ever since- fair one. I just want to know why our young Rafa doesn’t get the mention he deserves. The guy is hard as a nut, fast as fuck always bombing forward and no nonsense when defending. Young player of the year for me and best RB in the country – yeah i said it best RB in the country; don’t believe me ? well who out there is better than he is? Johnson ? Ivanovic ? Sagna ? who ? No one is the answer. this lad is going to fuck teams up next season, watch this space
@ Stateside Aussie, Cheers mate yes My Cowls confirmed that, regards the Red. Hope you enjoyed your nap.
I noticed previously you corrected me over Vidics Yellows as well and that was a blessing. Cheers mate.
I need to study the rules more.
@ Willie Ano mate it was a tatical game, few goal mouth chances I think Kuszczak had two saves to make and Reina not three.
We move on and hope as you say, we get a win at Shit Hoose lane.I wished I had your confidence there.
The Dippers were poor and thats them with there inspiration at the helm today, we did good to stem them.
The spuds not sure, if Modric is on a game and Bale, and thon Twat with the good looking Burd, not half as nice as mine(Blow Up Doll) we will need to be at our top notch, firing. Bring it on I think
@slim … couldn’t agree more about rafael. kid’s seriously come on this year. just in time, too. GNev hasn’t got another year left in him and wes is right out of favor. rafael always had the speed and the skills going forward but until this season, his positional play and tackling let him down a bit (which is a bit of an issue for a defender!), especially when he had played forward and then needed to get back. He’s come on in leaps and bounds and doubt he has peaked yet. His brother is pretty good too, but is stuck behind Evra and may be there for some time. Hope they both hang around for years.
1979gooner is a Scouser in disguise.
Firstly, just followed a link about Munich chants. Thought I heard the tune on ITV and as a lifelong Liverpool fan (who shamefully use to sing along with it on the Kop 25 years ago), I would like to apologise on the clubs behalf as I also thought that kind of ignorant behaviour went out with the monkey chanting. Hopefully, some more enlightened fans will have given them a clip.
Secondly, I read a few comments to see what your take was. As this site was shortlisted for an award (won by the Tomkinstimes btw), I was surprised to see the majority of posters are the same sort of brainless contributors as those who phone in to TalkShite and 606, with the exception of Doghouse and a few others. What do you get from reading this drivel? Where’s your expert analysis?
Thirdly, far from destroying any feelgood factor, our fans were delighted with the performance today after six months of negative clueless tactics. We played a very good game (back to rafa’s formaation and tactics) and to say we were dominated is the kind of biased nonsense that gooner1979 has pointed out above. But what are you doing on this site, have you got a life?
Fourthly, it was quite funny to see you accuse the ITV pundits of being pro Liverpool when we were complaining about them having there noses firmly up Fergie’s arse.
Fifthly, there was contact from Agger, but Berbatov certainly dived. Can I remind you of Fergie’s apolplectic outburst when he accused Torres of doing the same in the league game. I wonder if he’ll put his hand up and admit that Berbatov’s simulation is a sad reflection on the game these days.
Finally, probably unlike many of you on here, I actually live in Manchester and will be catching up with one of my United mates in the pub at ten tonight – a season ticket holder of 20 years who can give it as well as take it and always tells it like it is (like most other United fans I meet in Manchester) It’ll be interesting to see what he thinks of this site.
I’ll stay on til then to see if any of you actually have anything interesting to say or will it just be a rehashing of unoriginal insults.
How ANYONE United or Liverpool can dispute Saint Stevie’s red card is beyond me. Two footed, off the ground he HAD to go. If he was any old Joe from any old club there would be no dispute, it should make a differene that he’s Saint Stevie, a red’s a red!
now Babel goes ahead to post a altered photo of Webb in a United shirt. http://soccer.mynucleus.org/story/2011/01/09/_sow_news_7
Crazy guy.
Personally I don’t think Berba did dive. Cheating and making the most out of contact are two different things. Just look at Obertan against WBA, stayed on his feet and got nothing when if he’d gone done we would have had a justified penalty.
If Berba did dive it must be because he had the “How To Dive….by Steven Gerrard” best seller for Christmas.
Love it!!! Ha ha
I don’t think the red card was harsh. I think Webb was spot on. Would people say it was harsh too if the challenge was 2-3 seconds late? It doesn’t matter really, these players are professional and they are paid to play so. They know that type of challenge was dangerous hence the red card.
My point is that, you can’t wait until someone broke their legs to get a red card.
Top post Slim! How anyone thinks Rafael isn’t the best right back in the country must be having a laugh…oh wait, that’s right, Andy Townsend thinks ‘he has potential but is nowhere near the best in the country.’ Who the fuck is then you prick? This good is seriously good and despite all the good Sheasy has done for us over the years, how the hell he started the season ahead of Rafa, god only knows! P.S: If fans can’t see that Carrick on = better ball retention then god help us! Perfect for him to control the game today but like a few, needs to find their best form until May.
I’d love a post match debate with John Aldridge after today…and tell the bitter cunt exactly what I think of him! Shame they aren’t really rivals on the pitch anymore….
@ scott the red
Spot on mate, but i have a question that is going to surprise you:
What is the difference between Gerrard’s two footed tackle and Roy keane’s tackle on haaland?or Gareth southgate? does that make Roy Keane a classless cunt?does that make him a thug?
MUFC
@Mancunian. Gerrard Tackled Carrick, mean, anything to you?
Roy was total Class, what United midfield lack just now! a Dominator.
Roy was never class as a football player, he was United through and through.
Roy meant to return the favour!
Like on here. It comes back to bite you in the @ss
@ RedScott well i was asking this question, to know what to answer when im confronted by liverpool supporters..i need a clever answer mate, an answer that will shut them up every time they compare gerrard’s tackle to keane’s..
Ok I think we all know the penalty was won by Berbs but to say agger made no contact or didnt impede is just wrong and I guess no other club gets soft pens.
Gerrard, is there really a debate on the red card, it was i accept 50/50 but only one player was off the ground with studs showing, not sure where approaching from an oblique angle is a defence in the rule book.
@ Mancunian, well start from the point he is a thug, deserves to be jailed, not only for his indescretions against his family and loyalty.
Plus he made a pass back to Riena last season at Anfield that was intended, to Drogba, that resulted in me getting a smack in puss later from it. He is looking after himself and his ego as a Liverpool legend. Can you recall that day the Liverpool supporters chanting for Chelsea.
Sad or what!
He is the fucking captain of the club, like captain of the good ship dolly whop.Its sinking.
Can you imagine a captain of this club carrying on in this manner. Like Roy keane, Bryan Robson, Nemanj Vidic, Eric Cantona.. Generals.You fight for your club.Not wish failure on another, like many OLD liverpool legends i see on the telly talking up there history, thats what it is. History.
We are United.
Mancunian, Keane was sent off for his tackle, the classless argument about SG is due to lots of other things
Scott, you, like the referee, missed another penalty incident where Giggs was tripped in the midst of the goal mouth melee which somehow Liverpool survived. That was a nailed on penalty
@1979gooner- fuck u knobbend . R u so sad u have to come in a united blog and say so eying controversial to have an excuse to argue ? Fuck off back to ur pedo wenger u impetint piece of shit . Regards , sum1 who can get it up unIike u u useless fuck
@ RedMancundonian
Mate, i know that Cunts munich ranr has pissed you off but the get the hang of youself.
you can be better than that.
Compose yourself and forget the Hillsborogh.
From the banks of the River Irwell
To the shores of Sicily,
We will fight, fight, fight for United
‘Till we win the Football League…
UTD, UTD now and Foreva.
GGMU
January 10, 2011 at 1:39
sandeep1878 says:
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ROM BABES
REDSCOT
Notorious RedDevil
MG
COSTAS (KEBABS )
willierednut
KINGS
CedarsDevil
denton davey
FletchTHEMAN
Corea
StatesideAussie ( good to hear from down under devil)
Doghouse
and many others (forgive me for missing names).
Hats off to you guys, u folks keep this up and running. Fantastic work. i appreciate ur dedication.
i have been following u guyz posts from a long time, i tell you, you guys are gifted with passion plus Humour.
i have been reading the blogs silently but the spirit in this team is superb..Never say die..
i m gaining a lot of knowledge about football which myt take me to the next level in footie fans..
and good to see few fellow INDIANS in here..
and finally thnx a ton for STR.
GGMU
Funny how a l’arsesnood fan comes on here and has a pop a day after Theo Walcotts admission that he dives. Looks like the newsnow excuse is just that an excuse!
i think the reason we got that soft penalty was, berbaz reputation. he never dives. that was a easy pick by Howard Webb.
Stevie Me was rightly sent off.
i had seen somebody blaming SRG after the last game, but believe me he had the most hunger in a red jersey in todayz game. He runs and Ballerina makes few youngsters look like a joke infront of him.
Berba was Superb, missed a few sitters though.
This Rafael has given us a new dimension on the right side, he settles well with Nani and the ladz got some fucking pace.
we defended better but we should have killed the game (lackness is us so far this season)
@ STR
yup i agree we werent clinical enough and we havent been this season.
A win is a win as you keep on winning and in the words of our Statesideaussie Winning Ugly is not bad.
GGMU
Liverpool get away with a couple of blatant penalty calls. Well nobody outside United fans saw them. Of course, our glasses are tinted.
Off topic, Babel might get disciplinary actions following his twitter entry – Howard Webb in United shirt. Haha, some people turn into a complete star behind the screen but was anonymous while on the field.
Liverpool were shit anyways, they wouldn’t win with 11 man and with 10 they looked like something – but it was better to do away with Gerrad in the first place ?
Raizzen
KL
1979gooner, do you not have to obey rules and laws as they are written and laid down, or are Arsenal fans like the club and manager “blind” and exempt from everything?
Law says an intentional foul in the box is a penalty. Doesn’t matter if Agger punched Berbatov or gave him a light shove. Your Nasri would’ve done the same no less. He might even fall over and clutch his face.
Law says jumping both feet off the ground and sliding in and making contact is a red card offence. Maybe next time you can ask Denilson to try jumping both feet up and sliding in on nothingness, or the corner flag, or one of the balloons that float onto the pitch. That would disprove the law I guess. But it would be a funny sight. It’s not the intention, it’s the way the tackle was made. Of course, if he had the intention to cause hurt, his case would definitely be reviewed and the ban extended.
HAVE YOU EVER WON THE TREBLE, HAVE YOU FUCK??
All over them like a bad suit…..simple….should have been 3 or 4
It was a soft penalty,end of story. Am grateful for it ,we were lucky and good take from Giggs,Thank God.
Berba not a diver.
Gerrad slide with a 2 footed challenge,red card,done. Congrats to Webb for being brave and doing it.
gerrad has done this and others for years and got away with it at old trafford.
Torres body language says he not in it. I think in the summer hes going back to spain.
Walcott admitted to the leeds player ,ref and media he dived,wheres that fuck gooners fan?
does anyone remeber pires diving and getting a penalty? im sure u will ask which time,like most arsenal players.
To the stupid arse fan ,people who live in glass houses shud not throw stones. u fucking shite.
Carrick was marvellous today. That was a foul in the box and it is a penalty. People are saying soft because it happened after 32seconds. Berb was taken out of his stride and lost balance and he went down, no brainer.
Everyone wanted Liverpool to win for Kenny and so form the commentators to the match analyst it was all bias but as we know We are United and it’s us against the rest.
7. I thought Nani was quiet yesterday!
I guess, any win against the dippers is a good win! however, still quite pissed off with the way we played, no urgency, no real incentive to kill off and humiliate those fuckers, and at times seemed as if didn’t want to be there. i get it that they didn’t want to overstretch and to save for other games, did just enough, pofessional performance bla bla blaa.. but still, if they had equalised, a replay would just fuck up the season.
Hey guys here’s a brilliant read on Cult United figures :
http://www.thehardtackle.com/index.php/man-united%e2%80%99s-corner-surpassing-the-cult-barrier/
Great summary Scott. As everyone knows, Gerrard has previous form for on and off pitch thuggery so hope he enjoyed his early bath and realisation he cost his team any chance.
Here is my take on yesterday’s game:
http://writtenoffside.blogspot.com/2011/01/united-vs-liverpool-immediate-thoughts.html
Pleased about the result though it should have been 2 or 3.. Clown Kenny will not save the dippers. I hope they miss out on promotion in 2011/2012.
Think we are beginning to see Fletch finding his form. Looked lively and decisive again.
Rafael is fearless, uncompromising and brilliant to watch. He has absolutely dominated his side of the pitch since Fergie deemed him ready, and he is 20.
The two teams fighting for 2nd place in the prem drew. All in all another good weekend this.
kk @ 6:29: “Carrick was marvellous today”
Yep; he did the simple things very well – that’s his game: clean up the mess and pass the ball back to Rio/Vidic or sideways to the GingerNinja (or whoever is playing). It’s not a glamourous job – and he’s no “Pirlo” – but when his mojo is working, UTD are very hard to break down. Of course there have been a few games (Inter away in the CL two years ago in the CL) when he has shown a lot more “style” but, mostly, MIchaelCarrick sweeps up the mess.
Mark @ 8:10: “I thought Nani was quiet yesterday!”
“quiet” or “anonymous” – just like Chicharito. It makes one wonder if these guys don’t have trouble when the speed of the game is reduced. Both of them seem to be best when their speed – and that of the game – is heightened.
I still cannot believe how you lot can in all seriousness tell us that Berbatov was fouled and you deserved a penalty. Even Rio has admitted it was 50/50 (which is as far as he can go without incurring the wrath of the old man). What is your take on Gary Neville’s foul against West Brom then last week. The bias of the referees in your favour is ruining football.
Gary says:
I still cannot believe how you lot can in all seriousness tell us that Berbatov was fouled and you deserved a penalty. Even Rio has admitted it was 50/50 (which is as far as he can go without incurring the wrath of the old man). What is your take on Gary Neville’s foul against West Brom then last week. The bias of the referees in your favour is ruining football.
Was that the same bias as at the Birmingham game when Lee Bowyer who should have been off the pitch for a disgraceful tackle was then allowed to score a goal that was set up by a combination of a shove and handball, I’ll leave alone the debatable offside as I thought if everything else was ok as it was 50/50 at best.
The point I’m making really is that we can all list grievences about refereeing decisions and you coming on to this website makes you look a typical anti UTD nut job. If you don’t like us mate don’t wind yourself by coming on here.
@Gary :
Berba was running hard and no question Agger touch made him lose balance.. Wat were u expectin, just bcoz ur messiah’s returnin he shud make extra effort to maintain his balance.. maybe ur messiah shud have listened to hodgy and let Agger be on substitute bench..
Football is ruined by Manchester United buying referees
What fucking joy
Sell linesmen buy referees.
Have read some of the crap from the non United subscribers.
Here we had David Scouse as “colour commentator” – what a biased dick.
“We still need a centeback” We need a winger” etc – unbiased!! “Well on second look seems like Kenny changed his mind “- wrt the gbh tackle on Carrick.
Arsenal also the same – “Oh the young guns are playing wonderful today – passing the ball around _ mind they have not come within 30 yards of the goal”
Every L’pool fan I spoke to today was sick as fuck and because their team played like shit – had two real chances and admitted United did not have their best out.
Personally I have given up with the media – we will again surpass L’pool and Arse in the league and may win a few more tropies again. And again the stupid Fleet Street press / TV pundits will start saying we are lucky etc, etc. Luck is 99% hard work – so Gooner/Scouser fuck off
Come back when you’ve knocked us off our perch
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Can’t believe Scousers and ABUs are still whiniging on about the decisions… even had one tell me it is because Howard Webb used to be a copper for South Yorks police and because they hate Scousers he gave everything against them…unbelievable!
It was a soft pen I’ll admit that, but when you have serial divers like Torres and Gerrard in the team who have consistently conned refs then it is a bit rich to start shouting fix and bribery when it goes against you.
They also had 90 minutes to turn it around and produced one chance of note… its not United’s fault that their Captain Fantastic can’t control himself and keep his studs down… cast iron red card.
To be honest it just reeks of desperation and delusion to cover up the fact they were pretty awful all game
On a seperate note not wanting to get on our players backs but my only gripe with the game was the amount of times we panicked and hoofed the ball out from the back.
In this country we seem to view that as gutsy, courageous defending, but all it does is give the ball back to the oppostion and allow them to attack again.
Obviously there are times when its safety first and it needs a foot through it, but we can normally pride ourselves on playing our way out of trouble… Johnny Evans had a great game considering the situation and fact he has had a lot of stick and not played for a while, but he really needs to learn from Rio and Vida and work on his distribution.
Rafael may have gone in and got the ball BUT you are not allowed to have both feet off the ground when making any tackle
Ben
Run – move at speed faster than a walk, never having both feet on the ground at the same time.
Ben Dover and take it like a man. Then, take a walk.
Benny the ball, knows fuck all!