We were told what a waste of time the FIFA World Club Cup was going to be over and over again. What were doing flying to Japan when we had a Premiership title to defend back in England? Who cares about this competition anyway?
A week after arriving in Japan, United are now ‘Champions of the World’ and our position in the league is even better than before we left. Our players are re-energised and hungry for silverware. It begs the question, can we do this every year?
Results back home
Arsenal and Liverpool drew, with Adebayor facing a one match suspension following his yellow card. Liverpool have now drawn three of their last four, and couldn’t beat the ten men of Arsenal, who lost their star striker with half an hour to play. Not great for morale.
Then just to really put a smile on our faces, Chelsea dropped points at Goodison Park. This was Chelsea’s toughest away day of the season so far, made even easier by the fact that Everton didn’t have any strikers available, meaning Tim Cahill was playing up front. Still, TinyTears doesn’t like to do things the easy way, so he decided to add a bit of spice in to the match by getting himself sent off ten minutes before half time.
John ‘British Bulldog/Man of Steel’ Terry leapt off the ground, clattering in to Osman, giving the referee no option but to show him the red card. My only surprise was that a ref finally has shown the balls to hand out punishment Terry! All going well, the FA should enforce the three match ban this time, meaning he will miss two Premiership games, before Chelsea’s FA Cup third round game.
United now have two games in hand on Chelsea and Liverpool. If we win them, we are on the same points as Chelsea and 1 point behind Liverpool. Considering we’ve already played all of our toughest matches, this is just the kind of position we wanted to be in.
Ready for more
The general feeling from the United players after winning is they feel good and they want more of the same. Our form has been hit and miss so far this season (fortunately, so has the form of our title rivals) and hopefully getting their hands on some silverware can refocus them, after the highs of the 2007-2008 season.
“Being a world champion is a great feeling,” said Rio. “Not many teams in the world have ever got their hands on a trophy like this and to be the first British side to do it is phenomenal. It was great to see Wazza put the ball in the back of the net. It wasn’t even really a proper chance, it was half a chance if that, so it was fantastic to see it go in. A lot has been said about this tournament not having the profile of other major competitions, but it’s always been a big trophy for us and now we’ve got our hands on it we want to win it again. We’ve been disappointed in ourselves in the last couple of months in terms of the way we’ve played and the results we’ve got in the league. We’ve had opportunities to get closer to the leading pack but we haven’t done. The Club World Cup final was very important in terms of confidence and hopefully you’ll now see the real Manchester United.”
Rooney’s form
He’s hitting a good spell just at the right time. Following on from his goal against Aalborg in the last game he played in, Rooney scored another three goals in the two games of the FIFA World Club Cup, which helped earn him the Player of the Tournament award (and a free car!). The same honour was bestowed on Kaka the season before when AC Milan won it (we should also note at this point that if this competition isn’t below 7 times European Cup winners and 17 Italian title holders AC Milan, then it isn’t below us either!).
And of course, to be in this competition against next season means we have to win the Champions League again in May. I fancy that!
To the tune of 1 man went to Mo went to mow a meadow
Tiny Tears went to kill went to kill a player ,1 break, 2 break, 3 break.. etc
Or juggle around Tiny Tears for Rent Boyz…..A little fine tuning i think it’ll be ready for when those Gimps turn up at the Theatre of Dreams.
Woke up and it was in my head, so add to it to make a chant by all means!!
You’re not wrong Scott, as much as I thought I could take or leave the tournament in Japan, in the afterglow of success it feels great having won it and allowing us to claim the title of the World Club Champions!!!
Anyway, seeing as I usually only get access to your site here in work, chances are I wont be around too much over xmas, so Id like to wish Scott, The Republik of Mancunia, and the rest of the regular posters on here a great Christmas and hopefully 2009 will be just as successful as 2008.
Champions of England, Champions of Europe, Champions of the World…
What a fantastic last 7 days of football..
Dippers and Rentboyz dropping points..
Players suspended…
Citeh in a relegation dog fight..
And we are crowned “World Champions”..
“Happy Days Are Here Again”…
Plus… we aint even in second gear yet.. .never mind 5th… YEH BABY YEH
Everything is good with the world of football for us at the moment. Had a good chuckle when Lion Heart was red carded last night, even Scolari winced when he saw the tackle. Surely the FA can’t overturn this one. Although, if the Rent Boys do appeal, he could miss the United game. Hope he plays to be honest, so he can whats coming. lol.
), for playing the CWC the right way and actually giving a shit.
Very proud of our boys, including Roanaldo (
Let’s do the business now against Stoke and Boro and try and pile on the pressure.
Merry Christmas folks.
In addition to Rooney s form the tournament also saw Ronaldo looking
something like his best.
This is where our season really kicks off now. come on United!
Merry Christmas y’all
Merry X-mas to you as well North Stand
It’s all well and good saying the right things (Rio), but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Come on, let’s go to Stoke and play to prove this isn’t the beginning of a false dawn!
Also, didn’t they criticise us over the Saudi game?
Let’s hope winning in Japan has the same effect!
and soooo this is christmas, and a happy new year.
we are the world champions.
lets some beeeeer!!!!!
Great week or so for us… and to make things even better, those who were worried about burn-out can see that we could put 11 men out who didn’t start the CWC Final and still have a great chance of beating stoke!
These were on the bench / Didn’t play at all and could start against Stoke:
Kuszack
Neville Brown Evans O’shea
Nani Fletcher Scholes Giggs
Berbatov Welbeck
Obviously, there’s the fact that Rooney will definately play and that Brown is just coming back from injury.. but you get the idea!!!
Our squad was made to beat the world and as I keep saying.. Roll on 2009 (and Boxing day!)
Well boys, what a fucking week…. as said before by Failsworth, just goes to show dunnit….. I almost pissed meself laughing when I heard that crybaby gobshite Terry had got himsef sent off…….
TO ONE AND ALL, MERRY XMAS (cept fucking Rentboys and Dippers) and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR (cept Arse-nil and Shitty City).
COME ON YOU FUCKING REDS
UNITED !!
UNITED !!
UNITED !!
ps: i hope Santa gets North Stand a laptop for Crimbo….Merry Xmas fella….
Er… Don’t know where I got Brown from!!!
I blame my source… http://www.manutd.com!!!
I admit I was wrong pre game saying I didnt care about it…I had no idea how much I would enjoy watching the devils become WORLD fucking CHAMPS!!!
HAHHAHAHAHA
YESH!!!