After thrashing Porto in the Champions League this week, Arsenal boss, Arsene Wenger, claimed he thought it would be a good thing to be drawn against an English club in the next round.
It was a fairly bizarre comment, given that Arsenal have been beaten home and away by the remaining English clubs in the competition.
Chelsea battered Arsenal 3-0 at the Emirates with United managing the same, with a 3-1 scoreline and their only goal coming from a deflection (or an “own goal” as it’s called when United score with one).
United comprehensively beat Arsenal in last year’s Champions League semi-final, with a 1-0 win at home and a 3-1 win away, their only goal coming from a penalty that should never have been awarded.
Regardless, Wenger thinks it would be a good thing to play us again.
“I have a funny feeling, maybe it’s good for us to play an English team,” Wenger said after Porto. “We have not done well against Chelsea and not done well against Man Utd this year and it would be a good opportunity to show that we can do it against them.”
Isn’t that the point though? Arsenal have shown that they can’t do it against us, repeatedly. In fact, in our last 10 meetings, United have won 6, Arsenal have won 2 and we have drawn 2. But a win against Porto seems to lead Wenger to believe that Arsenal are suddenly now good enough to beat United, five weeks after the mauling at the Emirates.
Now, let’s get some perspective here. Arsenal lost to Porto away after defending non-league teams would be embarrassed of, then gave them a total beating at home. But Porto are only the third best team in Portugal, a totally inferior league to that of England, Spain, Italy, France and Germany, so a 5-0 win, however entertaining, doesn’t mean an awful lot. Porto are 11 points behind the leaders in Portugal and have conceded 20 goals in 22 games. They finished second in their Champions League group, ahead of the 10th best team in Spain and the 2nd best team in Cyprus. Not exactly a great pedigree is it?
Regardless, Manchester United went on to thrash AC Milan last night, after already beating them 3-2 at the San Siro. Whilst as well as being a great team of the past, they are enjoying a good season in Italy. They are second in the league, just four points behind Inter Milan, and therefore are title contenders. Ronaldinho, Pato, Beckham, Seedorf, Huntelaar, Inzaghi and Nesta are amongst Milan’s squad. Serie A is no La Liga or Premiership but is obviously of a much higher standard than Portuguese football.
Still, that didn’t stop Wenger from playing down the 4-0, claiming that it was expected after our 3-2 victory in the San Siro. This is fairly odd considering that even the most positive United fan was imagining that we would progress, but not that we would totally destroy Milan.
“It was not a surprise,” said Wenger. “Last night’s game was never in doubt after the first leg, which put Milan in a position where they had to chase, go on a big gamble in the second leg, and of course Manchester United punished them. The decider was in the first game. In the heads of Milan, it was already all over.”
Of course it was a surprise! No team with the history of Milan and quality of players would come to Old Trafford believing they could do anything but win. Sounds like someone is finding it hard to give credit when it’s due. But then, 7-2 over the second best team in the Italy is no 6-2 against the third best team in Portugal.
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Wenger isn’t as smart as he and the media thinks he is. Comments like these prove it.
“Cocky Arsenal Boss” or just “Cock” for short.
The man is a fucking joke his gob spills out more shite than my Anus. Tosspot!
Porto were so punk, I imagine Chelsea might have beat them also.
I couldn’t believe how full of bravado he was after the Porto drubbing. Let’s not forget this deluded fool “guaranteed” us Arsenal would beat United in the semi-final at Highbury last season.
Probably trying to get his players to stop pissing their pants. What a wanker is Wenger.
Porto are a fucking pub team, he is a bitter man no pots in five years is getting to him.
Funny that.
Last season I thought you lot needed a 45 yard screamer to beat the same mob that Arsenal have just beaten 5-0?
Didn’t Porto draw with you at Old Trafford as well?
Your argument holds no water.
Wenger can say what he likes but i think deep down he wants to avoid United.
Come, Come. Its almost as arrogant as saying your striker has to equal a madrid reject in goals scored. Oh, but red nose is not arrogant.
Anyway, as a gooner I’m still laughing at madrid.
get a grip will you – you say the portuguese league is worse than the spanish league etc… but that didn’t stop porto drawing 2-2 (i think?) at OT last year did it? we all know these clubs step it up for the CL – just look at Lyon last night. they are also third in France, yet they went to table topping madrid and knocked them out so relative league positions count for nothing. as for his comments, they’re hardly derogatory, he’s just saying you effectively knocked them out in Milan, which it’s difficult to argue with. Stop moaning that wenger is so against you the whole time.
and redscot – at least our manager bothers talking to the press, unlike yours who hides away
so arsene wenger expected you lot to win, oh cocky very very very cocky
Whatever the case, talk is cheap, I prefer our guys to do talking on the pitch, just like Fletcher said recently. Look at Real – their players were saying ‘we gona win 3-0 etc..’ – what’s the point in saying that!
It’s called mind games, your boss is the fucking expert at it. If his comments are winding you up, which seems apparent, then he is doing his job. We all respect what you did to Milan last night, no question, a great result, but even we kicked their arses 2 years ago in the San Siro!
Of the “big players” you named that play for Milan, only 1 started.
Porto were actually on a 13/14 game streak not to long ago before they lost to Sporting Lisbon, so get your facts straight. The reason they’ve dropped in the title race was because the most of the team is the same and after 3 straight titles, they aren’t fighting for it as say a team who hasn’t won it for awhile. United dropped off a bit this year too, I think.
Roma is a much better team than Milan right now. Table doesn’t always tell the truth. Yo honestly expected Milan to give it a go, especially after Rooney made it 1-0. Stop being naive. Only one team in the history of the competition overturned a 1st leg home deficit and it was Ajax. Bonera, Abate are not CL quality players. Huntelaar, who is he? For his largely overrated reputation of finishing, he cost Milan the tie in the first half of the first leg!!
And go and watch the Porto-Chelsea games, both of which ended 1-0 for Chelsea. Porto deserved AT LEAST a draw in both those games. They were amazing and Arsenal fans were actually worried about Porto.
What say you about United’s tough time against Porto last season? Arsenal beat them 4-0 last season as well!! It was the same team, for the most part. Lisandro was sold, but Falcao came in and he is a bloody brilliant striker. His record in the CL and the league speaks for itself. Cissokho was sold, so thats the only difference I think. Hulk, Merereis, Bruno Alves, Rolando, Fernando, Helton, Rodriguez all played.
Portuguese league is about the level of the German league actually. Everton got a right old spanking from Sporting Lisbon, a spanking that no PL team has given them this season(not counting our 6-1 cause they had internal problems then).
Serie A is the league in decline. Le Championaat will probably take their coefficient place if FCGB can get past Olympiakos.
WTF ?
Stop reading Daily Mail you nutters. Of course it was a great win for you. Whats wrong or paranoid in saying that Milan were chasing the game and that you had effectively sealed the tie in Milan itself ? Arsene Wenger is actually crediting you as someone who can defend a lead well , but then if you are looking for mischief, then thats what you get.
I suggest to you that it would have been a different game for you had you drawn 1-1 at Milan rather than win 3-2 like you did.
feeling pretty chuffed about the win last night. BUt to be honest don’t wanna face arsenal in the Quarterfinal, they are playing well in the competition but i’d rather we got someone else. Tjhat said the teams left are strong too, Bayern Stuttgart,Barcelona, Inter/Chelsea,including Arsenal. Cant wait for the draw
Porto won the league last season when we beat them, when they conceded 18 goals all season.
Porto are third in the league this season when Arsenal beat them, with them conceding 20 goals (so far, with 8 games yet to play).
Come on Arsenal fans, at least make it hard for us to make you look silly.
Arsene Wenger – I called your manager cocky because he thought now Arsenal were good enough to play two teams who have totally thrashed Arsenal this season, all on the basis of a 5-0 win against Porto.
I dont think Wengers comments were cocky in any way. But I still want us to draw Arsenal in the Quarters. How easy those games are. Set fletch and co against the ‘young talents’ lmao.
Porto a pub team? Stop judging a team based on its name and history. Milan ARE a pub team as well. Have been the since they knocked you out in the CL.
Arsenal brushed them(Milan, a few seasons ago) aside 2-0 away and Milan didn’t have ANY chances in both games. That was with Kaka and Pato both playing. Was I happy? yes, but its not the big grand Milan of old.
Porto, Milan, CSKA, Stuttgart, Olympiakos are/were the worst teams in the competition in the knockout stages!
scott, your looking over your shoulder aint you fella? own up, your taking to much notice of us
What the hell is the article about???
Just more racist anti-Wenger writings….typical of this website….
If you think he is such a bad guy and not a threat on Manchester….why keep writing every second article about what you hate about him….
Equally similar things could be written about Ferguson (and probablt are – but nowhere near the frequency of this website)
WRITE ABOUT YOUR OWN CLUB! Stop hating
How sad. You’re just seeing what you want to see here, as usual. If we can’t do it against you then you have no reason to be worried if you draw us, and if you think the win was good then it shouldn’t matter what another manager says. Sounds like Wenger is getting to you, which is ludicrous as he has said nothing out of order here.
Did any of you ever doubt you’d beat Milan with or without their zimmer frames? So why should Wenger? What exactly is it you all expect Wenger to say about the next round? If he’d have said he wanted to avoid the English Clubs then a whole load of Chavs and Mancs would be screaming that he’s chicken or some such sh*te.
Am quite enjoying your Yellow and Gold campaign – looks from here like its got real legs. But do the scabby Yanks ever intend selling before they’ve milked you dry and is there going to be any real money behind the alleged bid?
Scott, we beat Porto 4-0 last season just as easily. Their style suits Arsenal much more than it suits United.
Bayern is another weak team. Add them to the list. Viola absolutely pissed all over them in both matches. The officials got them through the next round.
Gooner
But that season porto were the Portugese champions correct?
And if im not mistaken they beat you last season!
arsene wenger – I’m taking notice of you in Europe, certainly. I’m glad Arsenal are in. I think you’d probably be my pick of the draw if I’m honest. That’s not arrogance I’m just basing it on Wenger’s inability to get his tactics right against us recently.
Stew – How is this article racist? Laugh a minute your mob.
stewthegooner
Maybe if your manager didnt start the argument then maybe this article would have been never published
we beat them 4-0 last season ..what’s your point ?
Arsenal fans always bite.
Scott regularly misinterprets quotes. Wenger just said it was expected. Come on, 2-3 away win pretty much sealed it. And if that didn’t, Rooney’s 1st did.
Also, the writer of these articles clearly does not understand the own goal rule.
If its on target and its deflected, its credited to the player. If its off target, then its an OG. SImple really.
The comments were a direct response to the question “Will you be hoping to avoid the English clubs?” They weren’t just offerered up and you’ve entirely misunderstood the context.
He even went on to say that he doesn’t want his words to be twisted to become “We want to play UTD or Chelsea!!”
Its on the link below at about 2.11 if you are remotely concerned with the truth of the situation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/8559027.stm
This isn’t a bad site but this is awful journalism/blogging.
It’s a shame that you’ve done the exact thing that Wenger said he expects from bad, sensationalist writers.
It will be interesting to see if you’re big enough to admit you’ve misunderstood, I doubt it. I’d love to be proved wrong but UTD fans don’t have much of a reputation for humility.
Do you care about the truth or hits?
Let’s see.
Let me get this straight. You’re upset because Wenger expected you to beat Milan? Wouldn’t it be far more insulting if he said he was surprised that you won? I admit that Wenger often makes ridiculous statements, but surely by his standards this is quite reasonable.
you are a joke …u r so obsessed with arsenal bcoz thats the only way u will get hits on your silly website
scott, well the thing is all good things must come to an end, id rather see you next round than in the final, so if we get drawn and have to face you i think the pressure will be on you lot
Porto beat us away last season….because we played our kids in the last game of the group stages. We crushed them at home, whilst you struggled and drew 2-2.
Scott, we’ve got it wrong the last game in the the CL semis. At OT, earlier this season, we absolutely battered you. If only Foster was right-footed….No way he’d save RVP’s point blank shot with his slower foot.
scott knows about gamesmanship, he knows how to turn a quiet afternoon into a rumble, fair play
fabgooner – Well what does that say about you you cunt coming on a UNITED blog. Wenger the genius that ain’t won fuck all for 5 years knows full well United will hammer them in a two legged affair. Powder puff fucking fags, not in the same league as United.
Scott, he said he wanted an English team BECAUSE ManU and Chelsea have both beaten Arsenal twice and would like an opportunity to redress the balance a bit. What sort of a manager would he be if he didn’t believe in his players? Anyway, he can’t say he wants to avoid them or he’s conceding ground to Ferguson before the draw has even been done. In short, what choice did he have, after being asked the question?
Though the Mail leads off the article with “Wenger not impressed by result” this is bullshit tabloid sub-editing; he is only quoted as saying he is not “surprised” by it. Sounds like a compliment to ManU, that he would expect a resounding victory over AC at Old Trafford.
Try not to be so negative, eh?
How about some applause for Claude Puel!! Wenger has taught him well at his time at Monaco and Arsenal.
I still find Bordeaux the better team though. They’re solid defensively and have the best header of the ball in Europe, which is why they cross as much as they do.
@PG
but he also mentions his arrogance too,Saying he can beat chelsea and united just because they beat a team that is 3rd in the portugese championship,like scot said the portugese league is nothing compared to the la liga neither the seria A.So if arsenal think they can defeat united and/or chelsea why can’t united demolish you lot since we beat milan 4-0
To make it a bit simple
Seria A->Portugese league
Milan->Porto
Pat – The Porto of last season were a very different prospect to the Porto you faced. Sunday league at best. As for Scott wanting “hits” he gets plenty without having to chase them
It’s not even particularly clever looking for hits by distorting what Wenger says. There are only 1,293,943 others trying it.
It’s a bit juvenile to attack a rival manager for not gushing about your victory isn’t it?
Stop being so anal and enjoy your win.
I think you got it backwards mate. Wenger saying he was not surprised is giving United a huge compliment and speaks to what he thinks of their quality compared to Milan’s.
You should know by now that Wenger has always believed that in order to be the best, you have to beat the best. It would seem to me that the man has the highest respect for Manchester United.
King Eric , i was just pointing out the writer’s obsession…he also cooked some half-baked facts of arsenal’s fair play record just to wind up arsenal fans…call me whatever u want but i am just stating the truth
Pat, I just remembered that we had just 1 day of resting just after the aston villa game(My username was born ^^) with porto having their players,maybe not fully rested but still more time for them So the 2-2 draw was good that day having the fact that we were very tired
“Funny that. Last season I thought you lot needed a 45 yard screamer to beat the same mob that Arsenal have just beaten 5-0? Didn’t Porto draw with you at Old Trafford as well?”
No actually, it wasn’t the “same mob” at all. Porto were forced to sell half of last season’s championship winning team when the European vultures came circling.
Team that United beat:
Helton,
Sapunaru, Rolando, Bruno Alves, Cissokho,
Lucho Gonzalez, Fernando, Raul Meireles,
Lisandro, Hulk, Rodriguez.
Vastly inferior team that Arse beat:
Helton;
Fucile, Rolando, Bruno Alves, Alvaro Pereira;
Ruben Micael, Nuno Coelho, Raul Meireles;
Varela, Falcao, Hulk.
Nice try though.
it would have to be 7-2 (uniteds agg. score vs AC) vs 6-1 (arsenals agg. score vs porto)
Dunno where you got 4-0 from?
Either way, you smashed Arsenal in the prem recently, true. Back in August, the fans OPINION is that we had a game that matched yours at Old Trafford (given, u were not in the swing of things yet – but neither were we)
I don’t believe it is BLIND optimism with which Wenger states such things – but I similarly don’t think its completely unfathomable that we should win silverware this season – even if it means beating United or Chelsea to get it.
Only time will tell and I believe United/Arsenal/Chelsea are all capable of winning either Prem/Champs.
Hope its an all english final now REAL MADRID are out. ( !!!!! )
Remember we were missing RVP. We were told we would not finish in the top 4. Then when we lost RVP we were told we would fall away. We were also missing Cesc, the 2nd player thta has carried us in 1 year. In addition, Gallas was missing and we had Almunia.
As well as other absenties, I wonder how well you would have faired over the two legs without Rooney?
Not as well as we did with out the biggest player from each area of our team.
In the words of the fool that is Rafa “FACT”
Fucking hell, here we go again all the Goons back on a Utd blog bigging themselves up coz they had a good result. Then they get twated by someone and it all goes silent again. Same old shit, different day. We put Milan out boys this season here and now, you beat Porto, we won both legs and you didnt. You beat a team that has never beaten an english team at an english stadium EVER, we beat a team that we had never put out of europe, oh and the second most successful team in champions league history if im not mistaken. End of argument.
There’s one more thing to be noted when we play you in Europe – you wont have the Mike Rileys and Howard Webbs of the world, who can be bullied by SAF.
At OT we lost to you,but be a man enough to admit that we battered you. But for the generosity of the ref who let Fletcher remain on the pitch, we’d have got a draw or a win.
So lets be a bit more objective here, shall we? I am a man enough to concede that we were awful against you at Emirates this season and deserved to lose. Same thing for both legs in the CL semi finals.
fabgooner
http://soccerlens.com/awards/best-team-site-of-2009/
King Eric, we hammered Porto 4-0 last season so that argument isn’t too good, now is it?
That porto were pretty much the same team. Cissokho out is the only difference. Falcao > Lisandro, so their forward line technically strengthened.
Hulk is so shit. Denilson on steroids, that is all!
Macheda, another one who can’t read right. He never said we’d beat Chelsea/United. He said he “has a funny feeling” we might draw you lot. And he explained he said so so we’re not at a disadvantage psychologically.
Jesus fucking christ, is it that hard for some people to interpret quotes?!?!
milan> Porto is just an opinion. What are you basing that on? Milan might be 2nd, but Roma had an awful start and Juve have been awful recently. Milan have just been average all the way. Sporting Lisbon would destroy Milan, and I’m sure a Milan-Porto game would be a very tight affair.
I like this site normally but this is rubbish.
If you couldn’t see an easy win that doesn’t mean Wenger couldn’t (maybe he knows more about Utd and Milan than you do, a relatively poor Arsenal beat them two years ago).
Just cos he says he wants an English team doesn’t mean he does or that he’s cocky. Any sensible manager tries to say what’s best for the team.
Of course Arsenal are going to be vulnerable to teams who can defend because they can’t but he doesn’t have to say that -
What on earth do you expect?
@PG 17:21
During the time we beat you 2-1 RoM accepted that you battered us.
The funny thing about this lol Is Arsenal fans have to visit A Manchester united blog to find something worth while to read. Well played Scott.
Pat – I called Wenger cocky because after beating Porto 5-0 he thinks Arsenal have transformed in to a team good enough to beat United or Chelsea over two legs… despite losing to both teams home and away this season.
United beat Milan 4-0 last night. For Wenger to claim this isn’t surprising is to belittle the victory. I was bloody surprised! I would have been surprised if any English club managed to dish out such a battering to Milan.
I understand own goals perfectly but that rule doesn’t seem to apply to United. Take for example Carrick’s effort against Pompey which was on target but went down as an own goal. Don’t be so patronising eh because it only makes you look like a twat.
The Arsenal fans love ROM.
u guys want to compare the porto team of this season & last season..we beat AC MILAN when they were champions of europe & a far better side than the AC MILAN u guys played last night
honestly i thought youlot were gonna score more against milan lol
@izham
aren’t chelsea pensioners too?
They battered you lot 3-0 and 2-0
And again I say during the 2-2 draw we just had 1 day after the 3-2 thriller against villa
If’s, but’s and maybe’s!! sounds like your latest youth products man!! FACT is lads we beat you home and away in the league. We dicked Chelsea at stamford bridge but they won, thats football. When you look back through history the results dont say Arsenal dicked Utd but lost, they say Utd won and thats the only stat that matters!!
Assessing both matches Aresneal V Porto and United v Milan, what was evident was that both winning teams were never really stretched, Porto were woeful and Milan are so far past “it” they cant even see “it” anymore.
What did surprise me is how Bentdner suddenly became a great player after scoring his hattrick (1 offside, 1 pen and he tried his very best to be offside for the third), Arshavin was their only player of note.
Arsenal have a decent first team but a very poor squad. I’d love to get them in the CL minus fab, RVP and Gallas. Rooney on Sol Campbell would be beautiful.
Aresne Wenger will talk shit all week long if the hacks would listen to him, of course he’s going to talk his team up saying everyone is out to get them, hurting his little players (dont forget willy gallas is a bit wild in challenges too aresen!)
The really frustrating thing is they are still well in contention of winning the league and without doubt not the best team in it.
@fabgooner
you’re missing the point you thick twat
Wenger thinks they are a GREATER club than united and chelsea because they beat PORTO 5-0 but PORTO is not as good as CHELSEA or MANCHESTER UNITED
UNITED&CHELSEA>MILES AHEAD OF PORTO
willierednut its as if when an arsenal page comes up they wake up immediately!
you would love us to get in the CL minus fab rvp and gallas? whats that all about? shall we just drop our best players?
Fred, that Romanian RB is shit and went back to Romania for that reason, so Porto improved there.
Same CBs as last season. Worse LB. So RB improved, CBs the same, and LB got worse.
Fernando and Meireles are still there from the midfield 3, but Fernando was suspended. Lucho went to L’OM.
Rodriguez isn’t too good and he played yesterday and against you lot last season. He was on the bench and came on later. Hulk is shit, I don’t know why united struggled with him so much.
Lisandro was sold, but they got Falcao who is a much better forward. So overall, defense stayed the same. midfield slightly weaker and forward line improved a lot with the addition of Falcao(who was close to a move to United and Arsenal). This is all on paper, mind you.
5-0 but whatever
Get a grip scott. I told you to stop believing everything you read. You missed the part Wenger said “we need to improve first before we can talk about Manchester United and Barcelona.” Is that being cocky? no? oh!
He also expected United to win last night. Isn’t that compliment? what, did you want him say he expected United to lose?
“The really frustrating thing is they are still well in contention of winning the league and without doubt not the best team in it” … so liverpool were the best team &deserved to win last year as they beat u home & away last year
United would have that Porto team at least 6 or 7 for fcuksake, if we meet yous in the quarters thats yous out.
Macheda IS GOD Said,
March 11th, 2010 @17:31
@fabgooner
you’re missing the point you thick twat
Wenger thinks they are a GREATER club than united and chelsea
macheda is god, if thats what you think, your really missing the point ,oh and by the way, spending a billion pound on two league titles doesnt make anyone a great club, just makes them a bigger joke club than they originally were
Well arsenal-Your still shite
END
@arsene wenger: They’re currently injured!, jesus christ you lot are thick.
macheda is god , how do u come to the conclusion that wenger thinks like that based on the comment ?
the tea-bagger speaks and the gayners lap it up!! Isn’t it funny how everyone else in football waxes lyrical about United but the ol’ groomer sits in a grump jealous of a manager and team who he can’t touch with his PALTRY record of 3 leagues and 0 European trophies. LOL. It’s in the trophy room where it counts and the emirats trophy room is still a shell!! keep it up Wenker at least your grooming works on your fans!! you can’t make it up!!
This is an unneeded article Scott, arsenal were awesome on tuesday and united were last night. Porto are a very good side and missed a lot of chances. Milan are only a liitle bit better and you can see where wenger was coming from when he said he expected us to win
“I have a funny feeling, maybe it’s good for us to play an English team,” Wenger said after Porto. “We have not done well against Chelsea and not done well against Man Utd this year and it would be a good opportunity to show that we can do it against them.”
How the fuck does that translate into “We will beat Chelsea or Man Utd?” or cockiness ?
Man U and Chelsea are a challenge and Arsenal would have to overcome some mental cobwebs to do that.
Self belief is more important than some here might think. If ever there was a time for the team to be believing in itself, this is it.
So isnt it exactly the kind of message a manager would give to his players ? And thats all the message is saying. Interpreting anything more is playing into the hands of the stupid English media.
Apologies for sounding like a twat Scott. I disagree. I was not surprised.
Did you, by any chance, watch Arsenal-Milan a few seasons ago. I believe we battered them even more than United(the finishing was off though).
Ade hit the bar, Cesc hit the bar, Hleb had a clear cut pen denied. This all at home!
But that wasn’t impressive. The away game was when we battered them and made it look like a practice match. United had some troubles at the San Siro and only had a good 10 minutes when that brilliant fucking shrek look-a-like scored 2 headers.
I wasn’t surprised at all. I may sound arrogant, but I watch many leagues. Serie A used to be one of my favorite(I was a fan of football first, then Arsenal, specifically Bergkamp made me fall in love). Serie A is shit now. Ligue 1, Bundesliga are rapidly catching up. Inter are pretty good, but Chelsea should win by 2 at least. Eto’o is always awful against Chelsea. Inter’s only hope is if Pandev starts. Brilliant fucking player and one of the very few creative geniuses they have
MachedaIsGod. Yeah, it came up on NewsNow/Arsenal. Methinks ScottTheRed knows what he’s doing there.
You could do with chilling on the insults to other bloggers though… cunt!
I once remember Ferduson saying he thought ManU were a better club than Arsenal and when the press scurried off to Wenger to stir it up he said “everyone thinks their wife is the most beautiful”. Like him or hate him, he’s got a point, any manager has to show belief in his team – greatest or not. It is THEIR team and I think you guys would despise him even more if shied away from the rivalry… like a kind of gay French wizard.
arsene wenger
They still are a better club than you right?
gerkeo and we would love to play you without rooney fletcher and evra or ferdie, but thats just an ongoing hopeful senario for all of us
macheda is god, chelsea a better club than arseal? are you new to football?
Oh, and we beat Porto 4-0 at the Emirates last season. The same Porto that managed a 2-2 draw at your place. Plus they only lost 1-0 to Chelsea this season. They are not as bad as you think.
if chelsea are a greater club than arsenal then liverpool must be the greatest club on the planet
Stop comparing games. Unless teams play the same tactics, its irrelevent. You guys are just arguing for the sake of arguing! As a United fan, I have a lot of confidence after watching the game last night. However, I also watched the Arsenal game, and they were very good.
And also, stop comparing the leagues, that means nothing either. Lyon aren’t favourites to win their league, but they knocked Real Madrid out over two legs. Lyon are 4th. Real Madrid are top. That doesn’t mean that Lyon are better than Barcelona, or that the three teams above Lyon in the league are better than Every other team in La Liga.
Different teams can beat different teams. Its not a heirachy system, where team A beats everyone, team B beats everyone except A, team C beats everyone except A and B, etc.
Honestly, it annoys me that people cannot praise eachother any more. Also, literally every team is either ‘world class’ or ‘shit’. Whoever described Porto as a sunday / pub team should be a ashamed. Whoever says Milan are past it should also be ashamed. I mean, honestly!
Sorry…
real madrid are a joke, i thought lyon were going to beat them, a draw dissapoints me
@Arsene Wenger
Your to small a club for us to worry about pal.
@arsene wenger: Gallas, RVP Fabregas injurys = Real world
rooney fletcher and evra or ferdie injurys = your fantasy land.
even with your full team last years champs league semi had to be the hardest game you ever watched as a gooner, admit it?
And then for the nightmare to happen again in the emirates this year in the PL. ye were taken apart, do you think fabregas will stick around if that happens again, not a chance.
Drabik, you make it sound as if its a surprise they knocked Madrid out!! Comment of the day though. Top post Drabik!
6 consecutive years for Madrid hahah.
Neither Arsenal or United should get their hopes up after wins against teams who are both shit. Liverpool beat madrid 5-0 at home and 2-1 away last season, did they not?
comparing this year’s Porto team with last season one.. is just utterly stupid.
they lost..
Lisandro Lopez >> Lyon
Aly Cissokho >> Lyon
Lucho Gonzalez >> Marseille
So 3 out of 5 decent players they had, they only have Raul Meireles and Hulk left, so you deluded Arsenal supporters better think twice before even comparing our victory against them last season to this shit team you lot managed to win. Too bad it’s the last games you’re winning in UCL this season.
I really wish we get Arsenal @ some point before reaching Bernabeu, to prove Mr.Bean and his kids wrong once again.
gerkoe, fabregas back in a few days, gallas back in a couple weeks,rvp back in a month real world, arsenal v man utd in the cl for now = fantasy world next cl ties over a month away= real world
Gerkeo, we haven’t had a full team for awhile against you lot.
gerkeo not the hardest , i wasnt even suprised to be honest lol
@styy
If you read the Arsenal fan’s posts above, you would realise that they also played Porto last season, beating them 4-0. They mentioned it a few times…
Styy, look at my 17:34 comment.
Lyon have strengthened at RB, weakened at LB.
Lucho Gonzalez is their ONLY loss to be honest.
Falcao pisses all over the mediocre Lisandro. 17 goals in 21 matches and 4 in 7 in the CL.
Cocky (no pun intended) Frenchman plays down his own team’s victory!
“For me the most important thing was to qualify, if it was 5-0 or 1-0 it’s still exactly the same,” said the Frenchman.
“I believe we focused on the way we want to play football and the way we want to behave. As long as we respect that I believe we have a good chance to win our games.
“We will not feel down because we won 5-0, but we have as well to be realistic, keep our feet on the ground, make sure the hunger is there as we just talked about.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-we-have-to-maintain-our-hunger?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arsenal-news+%28News+Feed%29&utm_content=Seesmic
Whats all this we beat Porto 4-0 last season and you could only manage a 2-2 draw!! WE FUCKING BEAT YOU and put you out of europe last year you fucking numptys lol!! you are so fucking fummy with your we did this and you did that. We have won the European cup, have you??
anyway i think both porto and milan are shit and if they played each other i would watch the bill or the one show instead, if inter milan dump chelsea then this will be a succesful round for me
“In the heads of Milan, it was already all over.” -> Not cocky? Isnt it disrespectful to say such a thing to the likes of pirlo, nesta, gattuso etc..?
@arsene wenger
I am an inter supporter next week! lol. When is the draw for the next round?
Could we please stop this ‘my dads bigger than your dad’ crap. I dont mind a bit of banter, but come on… the same things are being said over and over.
Gee ,we went unbeaten for a season have u ?
Oh i think it might become the first 1000 posts thread. It took Arsenal to score 5 goals in the CL Last 16 to get so many gooners here.
Clever from Scott. Football is business, this blog as all about business
The likes of Collymore and co have so debased football coverage in this country that people don’t even know what a controversy is anymore.
But you certainly got the hits. Try changing Ferguson’s name for Wenger in your title and see if you get as many hits.
Gee, you dumped us out when we didn’t have our full squad, which is almost always when we play you lot.
One wonders how United would do without their best player like Arsenal did without theirs.
Many say Cesc is. Well, he is RIGHT NOW. When the injury happened, RVP was simply untouchable. Assists, goals, pouring in every game and just like Cesc controls the midfield, RVP controlled the front 3. EVERYTHING flowed through him. Fucking Chilieni, dirty cunt.
Pat ,
I was targeting this post with my reply most likely,
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“Gooner Said,
March 11th, 2010 @16:49
Funny that.
Last season I thought you lot needed a 45 yard screamer to beat the same mob that Arsenal have just beaten 5-0?
Didn’t Porto draw with you at Old Trafford as well?
Your argument holds no water.”
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cba reading 53215132512 arsenal fan comments telling us how badly we played and only beat Milan 4-0 and how superior team Porto is compared to them.
To all Arsenal fans on ROM, rvp started the leg last season but it didn’t make any difference lads, Rooney > RVP.
milan do enough talking their chairman disrespecting clubs and tapping up players so they got a bit desrespected for once, no big deal rooney
rooneyisgod, you’re forgetting that nesta, Gattuso didn’t even play
@Don. Most of the United fans on here are regulars, with ROM saved to their favourites, whereas all fans from other clubs presumably are linked here via other sites.
drabik goodman, aint got a clue when the draw is but it will be interesting
willired, no he didn’t. RVP started the 2nd leg and wasn’t match fit at all. We rushed him back and he didn’t play a few games after that.
I think RVP and Rooney are the best strikers in the world. Hard to tell who is better. Before his injury, RVP was head and shoulders above anyone in the PL, be it Cesc, Rooney, Evra, Drogba, Torres.
@fabgooner
What age are you 5? Ok then, have you’s won the treble, no fuck that have you’s won the champions league.
I hope we get Bayern to be honest. I’m Polish, so that should explain it. We’d fucking batter those lucky, cheating cunts
After the fantastic Champions league ties this week… who is watching the EVEN BETTER… Liverpool (6th in league) vs Lille (6th in league).
last season we had tweetie pie in defence and gibbs played(his inclusion dont change nothing) and kolo toure, i was still dissapointed with the result,one things for sure if we get you lot in the next round we cant do worse than our last season…or can we
Either the clock is wrong on these posts, or I should have gone home about half an hour ago.
Love the way everyone totally ignores the objective and thought-out posts and just calls each other a shower of cunts. Priceless.
Changing the subject a bit: The Glaziers seem to want to run ManU into the ground for personal profit and I think that the Premiership is better of with than without ManU.
ManU fans: do you think the take over is likely to improve the financial situation at the club?
cant wait to see eden hazard rip insua a new ass hole tonight, remember that name chaps (bet he plays shit an lets me down)
pat are you the guy from poland who told fabianski he was a goal keeper?
@arsene wenger
I’ve heard a lot about Hazard, but have only seen him play on football manager. Hope he is as good as his reputation suggests.
“Gee ,we went unbeaten for a season have u? ”
Arsenal “Invincibles” 2003/04
ECL: Sept. 17th 2003 Arsenal 0 3 Inter Milan
ECL: April 6th 2004 Arsenal 1 2 Chelsea
FAC: April 3rd 2004 Arsenal 0 1 Manchester United
Premier league champs with unbeaten LEAGUE record.
@ Fabgooner
Fucking hell, you still roll that old one out don’t you. You sound like a bitter reminding us how they once beat us 5-1 lol. All you did was win the league mate, admittedly undefeated which is some feat dont get me wrong but still thats it mate, you won the league. We have won the league….oh yeah 18 times lol.
@ Pat
RVP has played against us many times mate as has Cesc and I dont remember either of them owning the game mate. And when we were playing with midfielders at centre back we still didnt lose touch with the top of the table, makes me wonder how far behind we would have left you and Chelski if we had a fully fit first team.
@Pat:
duh.. nesta, gattuso didnt play? so what? He didnt tell the names of the starting eleven when he said they were going to lose! he said AC milan lost it in their heads.. its the entire team. Grow up!
@arsene:
yeah, just coz the AC Milan chairman is a disrespectful loser, Wenger can be too? is that ur justification? really?? !
Arsenal-fan invasion here, scary.
drabik, tonight just sit back and watch the magic show, this kid is amazing, worst thing that can happen to him is someone buys him in the next couple years, great skills no ego (yet)
Back to the name-calling we go…
Scott, apparently a virus was trying to attack my computer from this page – just a warning…
@Rooneyisgod
So are you just standing up for poor little AC, or do you think Wenger was disrespectful to ManU as well?
I remember there was Arsenal fans on ROM in the summer saying rvp wasn’t all that good, now he’s the 2nd coming.
@arsene wenger
With a name like Hazard, you just know the English media are itching for him to play in the premier league. They probably have a notebook of ‘clever’ headlines already.
Wow, our friendly gunners certainly come here in mass don’t they? For the record, as a United fan, I would like Arsenal to draw Chelsea in the Quarters. It will be quite draining for both clubs and Chelsea have to play United in between.
@Pat
Good point about Puel. A very good manager.
rooney, i agree, but all managers talk this kind of talk, should he have defended milan and said they deserved anything from the game? they were beaten before the game started i think, if it wasnt for david beckham taking the pre match headlines the press would have told milan that before the game
lol drabik, probably, he has a younger brother who is better and harder to manage due to ego, he is the one the press will love
@ Arsene wenger
Hazard has been class this season, that is something we can both agree on mate. I was hoping SAF might make a cheeky bid for him in the summer. If he can keep on performing that is!!
@arsene wenger
I never knew he had a younger brother. Better as well? Wow. Who does he play for, how old is he, and what’s his first name?
i want barca in the next round, and i want you lot to face inter @costas, then i want inter in the semi first leg at the emirates (obviously hoping they beat you costas) then you lot can take the league because our squad will be wrapped up ready to batter whoevers left in the tournament, hopefully not a german team or lyon lol
@ Arsene
lol Barca would cream you mate, your defence couldnt handle them.
@arsene wenger
Thats quite a wishlist. I would be happy just getting to the final. Barcelona are pretty much expected to get to the final, so I would like someone to knock them out beforehand.
@arsene wenger
I want Chelsea to go through. Given their FA cup engagements, 2 quarter final games before and after the UNited game will be the final nail in their coffin. But in terms of how the C.L. tournament shapes up, I will have a better idea next week. I have a weird hunch that United will get drawn against Bayern.
The outcome of the league could be decided by how the 3 teams do in Europe. When United have their best XI fit, we have a good chance at both fronts. We just don’t have the depth we had last year.
this sory is not my cup of tea really, United played a team and won, another manager commented on it (a meager few words )
Whats the big deal?. At this point i’m more excited about having a solid defense back, having 3 Lung Park playing like an Attacking Midfielder we have been crying out for, and Rooney banging in the goals. At the end of the day only one team will win this tournament. I couldn’t give a rats ass what Arsene says just as much as Fergie wont mind if he’s said a few things about a team that his team is in competition with
Thorgan hazard, signed to lens @Drabik, exact same position and style, 2 years younger at 16 … costas, and drabik, i would take a final against anyone apart from chelsea, far too organised and wont worry about entertaining a billion viewers one bit, which aint good to play against
costas i know what you mean about fixtures piling up, i think the team that goes out of the CL first may well go onto win the league, but i think that chelsea are well equiped for a load of fixtures and will just win games 1-0 over and over wether they are in or out of the cl
why are PPL still hyping barcelona, and the way they have been playing how can anyone say they expect them to get to the final, when they have lost the threat of etoo, iniesta is out of position henry has been woeful, and xavi is not been great this season, yes barcelona will be a threat but they are unbalanced disjointed and lack the fluency of last season.
play down the porto win all u want, bt lets gt 1 thing straight ac milan saw united as whipping boys until the arsenal came along and on a football level dominated ac milan, and since then milan hav neva been da sme team, thus allowing united to beat them aswell (finally)…
everyone is feeling the depths or lack of at clubs this season costas, i wonder if clubs will be watching the wage bills carefully and only bringing in the absolute necesitys for the next couple of years, chelsea have had the injury luck the longest although now theyve lost cech and cashley hopefully a couple of teams will take advantage like citeh did
@Rooney
Yea, I prefer Eto’o to Ibra, but he isn’t bad. They still have a great squad, and will likely perform when they need to. Let’s hope they are over-confident.
RNTK because uefa will want barca in the final, and the refs will help them again
arsene wenger – it does not really matter who ever goes out if united continue this form pending if rooney stays fit I believe the league will remain at OT, if united take out chelsea shitty and liverpool well say by the time united face shitty united may have a gap.
and did anyone see the RTE panel shit on united here is the link of the cafe, I will refuse to watch that lot on their site.
http://www.redcafe.net/f6/rtes-take-debt-288386/
barca have always been disjointed to any team that is playing well, its their style, same as arsenals, they will roll over the same way
thats the big thing though RTNK its all ifs and buts right now, if chelsea beat you i think its over for everyone
Haha, did you hear the intro to Europa league
“Liverpool travel to high-flying French side Lille”
oh dear oh dear. If Lille are high-flying, I guess Liverpool are too!
@arsene wenger
Yeah, that’s true. Chelsea have had an advantage over us two in the sense that they haven’t had many injury problems for most of the season. But now they’ve lost Cech for a month and Cole, Bosingwa and Essien for the season. I don’t know Arsenal’s squad all that well, but United are deprived of good alternatives like Brown, O’Shea, Owen and Anderson. You could bring play these 4 after a European game and freshen up a bit. We will see. I hope things don’t get worse for United.
But of course you lot have had your problems with RVP and now Fabregas too. Among others.
id still love to see barca or real madrid defend a stoke long throw, thats one of my last ambitions in football, i think about it whenever i see their defences all over the gaff
Drabik – ibrahimovic slows barcelona down because he lacks mobility when barca are all about mobility, with fletcher in there and the team a hell of alot happier than last season united can beat barca. yes united beat a average milan side but united did beat milan if that was chelsea or arsenal who did it no offence arsene wenger, because united get very little credit from pundits and the media when they know they have egg piled on their face.
@rtnk
Lets hope you are right. I would love United to be the team to knock Barca out. (btw, glad this thread has stopped being a war).
arsene wenger – well united wont face chelsea for another 4 or 5 games and if they drop more pts then by the time united face chelsea that may not be the case, chelsea’s loss of essien may be the deciding factor for their failiure to win anything because if united have the spine of the team fit who knows, but ferdinand and vidic fit has been part of the reason for uniteds much stronger performences has of late.
i dont think rvp is our biggest worry, it wouldnt change our chances if he didnt return this season costas, i think gallas is massive, not because i rate him highly, its because vermaelen gets moved to a different position and either campbell or tweetie pie has to cover clicheys lack of brains, so gallas’s return is the most important thing for arsenal, even higher than cesc long term, also the hope that fabianski wont end up in goal
Okay, I admit, I was wrong about Lille. I saw they were 6th, but didn’t look at the points. They are not on par to Liverpool. Nowhere near.
the media are massively covered in egg this season anyway, their anfield sweethearts have basically lost them their credibility, hopefully aston villa or spurs can grab fourth and rip their ‘expert’ tag off the thread it is just about dangling on by denyin man city, although harry fucked portsmouth up and talks a bag of media crap with his sun column(his main job)
What absolute BS. I appreciate the fact that you’ve done this for hits, but at least have the decency to admit that Wenger, in all his arrogance never really insulted or downplayed Utd. Is it downplaying a team to say that they wrapped up their game in one leg. You’re trying too hard. What do you expect him to say ” Man U showed the hearts of lions to win protecting a 3-2 lead at home. Also I’d hate to face them in the next round ’cause they’ll beat us.”
You’re a deluded lot really, a few good results in the space of a few months and you’re acting like Arsenal are not in the same league as your bunch.
Word of advice if you can’t think of something positive or constructive to say about your own team take a day off. Or talk about Rafa.
but at least lille are good to watch and take that as a responsibility (which in pro football it should be) @drabik
poor old alberto, could be forced to play tonight by lucas’s injury,poor man
Off topic for some reason i feel if we dont draw an english team it will b barcelona in the next round…how bout that for a sensational draw…fletcher…im jus sayin…
What a ridiculous article. The point Wenger makes is absolutely true and on top of that he is complimenting the skills of your team: Machester United. To lose 2-3 at San Siro makes it damn near impossible for AC Milan to come to Old Trafford with any ounce of confidence let alone the thought of being able to hold up a 2-0 score line. Your point is very weak. Trying to insult Wenger for saying he wasn’t surprised at the 4-0 score line at Old Trafford. Yes, I agree that his reasoning was a lot to do with the defeat AC Milan suffered at home but he also definitely knew Man U’s capabilities and made the comment as a compliment to their skills.
What you claim Wenger did with his remarks you are doing right now by downplaying Arsenal’s victory over Porto at the Emirates. Yeah Porto is no Milan, but regardless, to come back like that from a 2-1 loss at Porto renders nearly the same merit as Manchester’s victory. When you want to make a point always make sure your not using the same tactic that your trying to argue against.
RNTK the title race could take massive twists this weekend, who are chelsea playin?
i think there will be an all english tie that will definantly involve manchester but only if chelsea go through, i think chelsea v you lot, i dunno why, i think arsenal will get lyon
@arsene wenger
I havnt seen them play yet this season, so am looking forward to this. Ther’re no Unirea, so Liverpool are in trouble if they cant finish (fingers crossed).
Game has started, so wont be commenting as much.
Arsene should stop talking about Man Utd’s games and start working on a plan to beat us.
Well said Scott lad. To be honest only one tning is in our minds with regards to the CL: Beat the Barca midgets.
Arsenal or Chelsea are just not good enough.
arsene wenger – I remember paul merson last season on soccer saterday before united lifted the third straight premiership title anyone remember it, he tipped liverpool to win the league. A telegraph collumnist said before this season when fergie said liverpool wont do anything, he said fergie is wrong and liverpool are fav for the premier league title. Now its time for the joker league welcome to channel 5 scousers LOL.
If Barca get to the final, Perez will have a stroke.
lille have got a good exciting 3 man atack, hazard, gervino(ivory coast) stand out, im predicting goals for and against liverpool though drabik
@arsene wenger
3 United-Chelsea games over 6 or 8 days? That’s a nightmare. I will vomit at the sight of tiny tears.
Chelsea are at home to West Ham this weekend by the way.
Hopefully Lille will keep the tie open until next week. Liverpool have to play full strength next Thursday,
arsene wenger – chelsea have west ham at stamford bridge
lol RNTK the reason merson works on sky sports is because he is broke, where did all his money go? so when he makes a prediction it usually goes bad , infact i think he said arsenal might win the league last week lol
@arsene wenger
Havnt seen liverpool do anything that positive yet. Lille look threatening. I will predict (hope) 3-1.
@RTNK
Paul Merson is a dickhead remember he said the rentboys would beat us 4 0 at the Bridge.
Costas – what do you think of that drunken RTE pannel and what they said about united even after united destroyed milan
yeah that would be too much, playing chelsea 3 times @costas i hear you on that
last time chelsea played west ham a fake penalty got them a draw, hopefully carlton cole can do the biz RNTK
arsene wenger – I got to say but are all pundits see united like lepers they all seem to stay away from tipping united to win anything, its like do they always pick the wrong horse no wonder they are pundits they must have spent all their money not backing that white steed that kept winning the races.
drabik, thats a shit pitch, probably suit liverpools style
their all flopped ex managers RNTK i dont know why these people are paying them,look at tony adams on the tv keepin it down, 15 years ago he was burning down restaurants and on the rampage, now he is acting well spoken lol
yea, pitch looks awful. Is it like this all the time? Lille dont seem to mind it, still playing fast football
sorry not burning down restaurants just putting out imaginary flames with the fire extinguishers, now he on tv criticisin alex song for getting ahead of the ball when were 5-0 up and in posession
always a bit sandy down the middle drabik
@RTNK
I saw your link and it just took me to a discussion board. Was there supposed to be a video somewhere? Anyway, I read some of the comments and it looks like my cat has more knowledge about football than them!
@arsene wenger
And it’s not just about Chelsea. You went through the same thing with Liverpool two years ago. Playing a rival 3 times in a week can be very draining.
i remember that costas, i thought liverpool were gonna do us a favour in the league game as well ,bastads
Pundits are always contradicting themselves. One instance its ‘anticipating play’, then its ‘getting ahead’. One time its ‘greedy’, next its ‘confident in own ability’. etc etc
Costas – I will refuse to listen to their garbage, they hate cristiano ronaldo even when he was amazing in 2008 they still tried to find ways to discredit him. You can go to rte website to listen to their garbage or go to youtube and check some of their retarded moments especially dunphy.
has anyone noticed how very phew ex united players are pundits.
@RTNK
Lol yeah. It’s probably because MUTV snaps them up before Sky, ITV or BBC does. So that leaves just Liverpool players running those shows.
I will go and have a look at the video. I remember Dunphy trashing Ronaldo for his behaviour in the 0-0 draw at Barcelona. I can’t imagine what he said last year! But he is the guy who Keane trusted for his biography…
Remember Gooners – we were involved in all competitions last year. We played more games than any other football team in Europe. Our squad was restless all season. It’s no fucking surprise we struggled against them. We played against Porto in the quarters – you didn’t – where they were desperate to win both ties. They raised their game when playing against us and were difficult to deal with – plus they were in great form last season. This season they are a joke.
I don’t care whether he intended to credit us or play down our win but the fact that he did not have the decency to praise us for our performance shows his lack of decency and lack of class. Yesterday before kick-off it was not all over. Milan came with a job to do; we all knew how well they are away from home and how capable they are of changing the outcome of a game completely. It was certainly not ‘all over’ before the game as he put it.
Costas – you listened to the guardian podcast, rob smyth sean ingle called the current united side ordinary saying rooney is carrying this united side over the line, so because valencia park nani are not superstars like the real madrid side that have ronaldo kaka gonzalas diarra raul and who are through exactly stupid pricks. I am so pissed off how still they bash the other players that played their part in the win. rob smyth called gary neville a joke, so VDS neville ferdinand vidic evra fletcher scholes park valenica nani are average.
the pundits out an about ,former players are just liabilitys, thats why they aint been snapped up by their clubs to do a bit, match of the day 2 aint too bad, they just joke around, but sky sports is a massive joke, ilike charlie nicholas, he is more of a celtic man than an arsenal man but he never really citcises any team, its the hansens and the thompsons, they are just so bitter its unbelievable
torres screamed like a bitch
@DT (and Fze)
I thought this argument ended?
DT – wishing death upon anyone – wow – now we will respect your opinion. Unfortunately in this world, people make assumptions from stupid comments like that. Dont let down the rest of your supporters, most of whom are decent people.
@DT
Wenger did say that last night’s result was never in doubt. He didn’t say that before the game. Check your facts better before you are rude like that.
DT dont go too far
he said at todays conference about the game being over, he also said he wouldnt choose to play an english club though
@DT
You are a complete and utter moron. End of.
DT needs to get laid.
@RTNK
Nah I missed that. It was probably for the sake of my mental state! Don’t pay any attention. Hopefully some silverware in May will shut them up.
@arsene wenger
Yeah, Charlie is ok. I remember one incident where he was celebrating a goal against Liverpool and Thompson got fed up!lol!
I dont mind the sky sports team – I like their banter – its expected that they will be a bit biased. Banter between Jeff Stelling and Thompson is always good!
they dont even let thompson cover the liverpool games anymore costas, the man is such a bad loser, its one thing being happy when your team win but being that bitter when your at work and meant to be neutral(ish) is terrible, what i like about charlie is he is just straight, its great or not good enough, no justifyin or friendship towards certain players, proper scotsman old skool lol
Costas – what ever happens they will still say rooney carried the team when guys like valencia fletcher park are giving energy that is causing tons of problems, the media still say because we dont have superstars we are average.
hansen just has issues, he needs to cut down on the face botox and stick a bit on his neck, he has mr burns body, watch on motd lol
i hate that carried the team bollox, everyones more dangerous with their best player,its a real fact
wenger……………………….dickhead
@arsene wenger
me and my dad noticed that on the weekend. His neck looked awful – we thought it was shadows, but turned out he has skin of an old woman
without drogba cesc and rooney it would be a 3 horse race between liverpool and stoke and bolton
@RTNK
Yeah, Real have plenty of superstars and look where that took them. United is more of a team this year with plenty of hard workers and a couple of special players who can dig us out of tough predicaments. And if the team playes with its soled back line, then we won’t get in many tough predicaments.
@arsene wenger
Lol. Hansen thinks he is a Beattle…
lol drabik, maybe he is tryin to become a size zero
@arsene wenger
could be! Anyway, I’m going now, my internet is so slow, its taking a few minutes for every refresh. Nice talking to you.
Lol, I found the Thompson-Charlie vid. Thommo is irrate because Nicholas is celebrating Berbatov’s winner at Bolton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dMdJD9KjRw
Wow, there was a time hen Liverpool were actually just 2 points behind us!
Later Drabik.
Liverpoo – watching paint dry.
Sorry guys, another hillarious one with Thompson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwTRQ4Wc_XE&NR=1
Costas – the guardian podcast today summed up for me the attitude of the media in general have of united, because united have lost ronaldo they still write united off. and that clown paul wilson who did a review of the match did not even include the performences of fletcher and park it was all about rooney it was a disgrace, lets be real because they are hyping rooney to a point because of the world cup very little credit is given to the hard workers of united who are effecting the play, like how valencia nani scholes carrick are delivering chances to rooneys feet and head how is rooney scoring the goals because of the wide players service, and players in CM like carrick fletcher scholes even park now when they play there are controlling the game and winnong the ball, yes if we lost rooney it would be massive but to call the team average when these players are also pulling a shift is a joke.
Cocky arsenal manager? May as well have just put Cock Arse, would have still been able to tell who it is :3.
Wenger is an idiot for saying that, because now if we do draw him we’re going to want to shut him up even more.
laters drabik mate
costas thats hillarious the berbatov goal lol
@Costas
Those video’s are class mate, always good to see big nose in a huff.
@RTNK
The truth is that Rooney looks very good at the moment because he has 5 midfielders working for him. He is on the best form on his life, but lets not discredit what that midfield(or even Berbatov when we play 4-4-2) does for him. In the summer we will see the difference. Lets see the England midfield support him like the UNited one does.
the liverpool vs barnsley game was hilerious, I dont mind thompson he calls it fair but his face with liverpools defeats is still priceless
Costas – thats why they try to fit gerrard lampard d other names in the same team all names not what workes the best. They still do it now, check this hilerious vid out, fergie calm down calm down LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV2GHOx3V7E
@willierednut and arsene wenger
No problem. Ad of course there’s his infamous reaction after Riise’s own goal against Chelsea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ycbUM53mFk
There is also a funny one where he is happy about Tottenham making the score 4-4 at the Emirates, but it could be too much for arsene wenger, lol.
@RTNK
Lol! Easy Sir Alex!
IMO being beaten twice doesn`t mean better ,because Pool beat Utd twice and utd still won the league. Is City better now for beating Chelsea? Saf uses the word galvanize and before the game everyone said Bendtner is a joke and w/o Fab they won`t win. So Wenger is galvanized by the win.I have more issues w/ some gooners wanting his head when every 2 weeks Arsenal seems to be out of the race, then scott`s views I wonder … don`t see too many gooners defending Wenger when other Arsenal blogs demand him out.And if you are not one of them fine, just saying Wenger seems to be #1 again.In wenger we somewhat trust for some gooners.
Hahahahaha Scott, you really know how to get up them gooners arses!!!
Just read the first 10-odd comments… mwahaha…
They could all make up a law team for Wenger when his chequered private life catches up with him! ;O)
i really do not get why any of this is worth discussing about
Pat Said,March 11th, 2010 @17:02 Porto a pub team? Stop judging a team based on its name and history. Milan ARE a pub team as well…”
mwahahahahaha what!? WHAT??? MILAN??? …ahahahaha! Pat you are a muppet. at least argue (however stupidly) like an adult\/
Ladyboy’s getting frustrated.
Pat Said,
March 11th, 2010 @17:09
Scott regularly…. …”
bwahahaha!! Hats off to you Scott!! you have regulars in the goon mob! :O)
some arsenal fans are alright some like all rival fans piss me off when they talk utter shit
Looks like Big Sam’s feud with the waiter continues:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/8563092.stm
Hey guys off topic…Watchin tha reserves derby United up 2…William Keane looks like he deserves a call up 2 tha 1st team tha he is a real proper player…jus watched him finish deftly for uniteds 2nd…
Paul Scholes- The Goals. Sky Sports 10:30 tonight.
@Old Trafford King
Thanks. Good to know. I suspect that Fergie will keep a close eye on Keane II. It was around this time of the year when Kiko made his big splash and he was around Keane’s age.
the dippers are a laughing stock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! come on lille you certs
lille 1 0 liverpool brilliant
Hazard-ous strike!
and aint it fucking majik.Bonsoir.
Dippers 1 down and could have been 2.
yeah @ willie Crashed it off the post. Dammit
lol costas i just checked out more phil thompson moments ,i saw the north london derby one lol, my boy hazard didnt let me down
Good to see possebon getting along run-in in tha reserves…passin well @ tha moment as well as breakin up play
@arsene wenger
Yeah, Thompson is hillarious. I love his lemon face and I imagine he has one right now!
Beat 1 0, Rafa must stay. @Costas If i was fsw i wouldn’t wind up big Sam.
Great result for Lille and a great result for us too. Now Liverpoo will have to throw everything at Lille 3 days before the game at OT.
Off topic once more…over here in tha US studying…was wondering how i could acquire a gold & green scarf…i cant seem to find one on this side of tha pond…
lol yeah, poor old phil thompson, right thats me, costas, RNTK, il catch you all next time, have a good one
@arsene wenger
Bye mate. Same to you.
@willierednut
Me neither. And I don’t know what he thinks he can accomplish with this. Saying that Barca should take lessons from Blackburn? How petty and miserable is he?
later wenger, united batter milan 4 0, and scouser lose to lille now I want chelsea and arsenal to draw
See ya Arsene Wenger, we all know you are United fan deep down lol.
PPL we got to start doing a pettition and get the waiter costums has a protest to keep the fat waiter at scouser drunk land
Oh no! I went too far? Sorry. I never meant to offend anyone…except Scot. He’s a dick. The quotes quoted in the quotations were both yesterday’s and today’s. So yeah, I did check my facts. Anyway, the point is this website is garbage and if you don’t want Gooners trolling, get the “writer” to stop “writing” about Arsenal every 5 minutes. He won’t though. He needs the hits – people don’t come here for the quality of the articles, do they?
I’m going to paraphrase, but Fergie said after the Milan game “this team’s fantastic”. Hey, Scot, I’m going to write on my Arsenal website that he’s cocky! Any tips about spouting utter rubbish? Oh yeah, I just did that
DT
how about stop acting like a little bitch and fuck off and leave the decent gooners here
He’s obviously jealous.
@DT
Ah, yeah. What Ulster Red said. United gets discussed in rival blogs all the time. Grow up.
costas
did you watch the dippers..it was a dire game but lille just edged it i thought, juve 1 up also
@Ulster Red
Nah, didn’t watch. Just following it over the internet. Can’t say that the result shocked me.
I feel that Fulham could hold their own against Juve over the two legs. They will miss Murphy today, but they are probably saving him for Sunday’s game.
costas
yea mate if it stayed 1-nil i would fancy fulham at home, yes mothers day cancelled due to the united match lol.
2 nil juve
Fulham up against now 2 down.
Slightly disappointed. If there ever was a time for Fulham to go against Juventus, this was it.
Is Smalling rested for Sunday? Or has he lost his place? Is he even allowed to play against us now?
im not sure about the smalling thing..id like him to play as he would be up against the best player in the world for the last time before joining him!
i’m an arsenal fan and i disagree, both with you and wenger. milan have a collection of great players, but great players circa 2005-6. ronaldinho? fantastic a few years back, seedorf likewise as was becks, etc. the fact that they are second in italy sadly is a reflection on the league there. porto were fairly poor and would be in the bottom half of the premier (if that). however arsenal WERE mising their lead striker rvp, their world-class midfielder fab,
and no. 2 centre-back gallas, so it was scarcely a full strength arsenal.
however,quite frankly i would like to miss utd, chelsea and barca for now. i’d be very happy with the winners of seville- olympiakos- or lyons (and let chelsea, utd and barca sort out the other half of the draw!). however, if it is to be any of the big three so be it! the past is the past and we’re due! c’mon, didn’t you believe arsenal were dead and buried when you and chelsea beat them? but, “we’re baack!” and when i look at the premiership at least, which fixture list would you prefer?
utd did indeed thrash “yesterday’s men” (and sadly many of you won’t get the old political reference, you’re too young!) but y,know they’re not setting the premiership alight. last four games (since chelsea beat arseanl) utd 8 pts arse 12pts (and chelsea 1 win 2 defeats in three).
Yeah that’s true Ulster Red. A good opportunity to see what the kid is made of. It will also be inteedting to see Zamora against a United first choice defender instead of Carrick or De Laet!
Fulham scored.
we hear PPL still say liverpool should have won it last year, can they just get off that old record liverpool last year played well above their level, liverpool are realising this season is their level
A potentially crucial away goal for Fulham.
O/G What is that !
Guys it was reported in another topic that Ritchie De Laet got a bad leg injury in the Reserves game.
@RTNK
SAF called it at the start of the season about Liverpoo and people said he was talking rubbish but as usuall he got it right.
@ Costas yes he recieved oxygen as well. All very distressing.
3 1 Juventus
@redscot
Then it’s serious. Such a shame. He had a good chance of playing in the first team in case either Rafa or Nev got injured. Is Fabio playing?
Half time @ Juventus foolwho, might get a second though to keep them in the Tie, well i hope so, I sorta like Fulham, not a pretentious Club.
Not this Sunday though.
Half time @ Juventus foolwho, might get a second though to keep them in the Tie, well i hope so, I sorta like Fulham, not a pretentious Club.
Not this Sunday though.
costas
i feel the scoreline will be reversed on sunday, possilbly more
willierednut – wasnt he right about rebuilding united, how chelsea look old etc he does not get it wrong much
@Ulster Red
I hope so. Like redscot I have no problem with Fulham, but we have to avenge our last 2 defeats to them.
If we score 3 we will reach 100 for the season. I think it’s the first time in 20 years that we could reach 100 after 46 games.
Gooner – your comments are fucking nonsensical you stupid cunt. Yeah we drew 2-2 at home with Porto last season, but became the only English club to date to beat them at their place to progress to the semi-final where we took you apart.
Is it any wonder all Arsenal fans make shit comments when their manager endorses it with his own short sighted statements. Typical prick, always getting giddy over a big win, overlooking the fact that they looked out of their depth in their games against United and Chelsea. Arsenal have lost all english ties against Chelsea (2003/04), Liverpool (2007/08) and United (2008/09). Check your facts before piping up Wenger you dozy cunt.
costas
you always have a stat for the lads
@Ulster Red
Lol, Can’t help it.
Porto are not anywhere near the team they were last season, they’ve sold a fuckload of players and are doing shit in the league.
Milan are a better side because the table does not actually lie, so far this season they have done better in a better league.
As for age, United’s first XI (with and without keepers) was older than Milan’s.
Laughing at the dippers is getting boring now. It has become the norm!! According to the commentary on my way home Stevie Me was fucking woeful again. He does not want to be there, he will go in the summer. Would fucking piss myself if he whored himself to Citeh . Mind you I wouldn’t be at all surprised the horrible bastard. I will put my mortgage on it that the dippers play out their skin against us next week.
Costas – I don’t think Smalling can play against United mate.
Was watching a recording of the champions league highlights. Salgado was asked who would win the Final and he said Chelsea are favourites as “they have the perfect blend and mix”. What the fuck, no seriously you long haired bitch? By the right mix is that a load of fucking pensioners who care more about money than the pride of the shirt. Nevermind the chav cunt’s a London club has NEVER won in Europe as they ain’t fucking good enough. What makes Chelsea the fucking favourites? God it annoys me. Over rated to fuck.
A poll on SkySports revealed nearly 50 % of fans think United will win the league. We are now joint favourites. Oh how the abu’s change their fucking tunes.
They only won because Hulk have become so shit from only being able to play in Europe (he has a lengthy ban for attacking a Benfica steward)…
king eric
alrite mate, yea him and barbie were awfull tonight, toress bitching about anything as usual, standing up 2 people like some hard cunt!! lille were the better side but in saying that the game was crap imo, what does salgado know about chelsea – clearly fuck all, they are bottlers in the champions league like arsenal are in the prem, i feel we are the best side in europe at the minute with the best fucking player in the world!!
costas
keep them coming mate, good reading!!!
@King Eric
Ah ok. Good to know. Makes sense. He is practically a United player now.
My bets friend who is a dipper after watching us last night told me that he considered us the favorites for the Ch.League. And he is someone who didn’t think much about us after the departunres of Ronaldo and Tevez. It just goes to show that the Milan result finally made people realize that a full strength United side is not to be underestimated. I don’t know if it’s wishful thinking, but if we have Rio and Vida fit for the remaining 9 games of the Pre.League, we have as good a chance as anyone.
It’ll never get boring laughing at the dippers with the shit we’ve took from them cunts down the years. I hope we destroy the fuckers next week.
King Eric – did he forget chelsea have not qualified yet, and they have lost essien and cole for the season, terrys head is all over the place cech is injured theur side is getting on a bit and they were stuffed against shitty. he is right they have the perfect blend of fucking behind their wives backs. it has been proven chelsea are the most hyped side in the history of the game, with the energy of the likes of fletcher valencia park and the craft of scholes carrick and the genius that is rooney with VDS ferdinand vidic evra how can anyone back against united now
christ arsenal are a bigger threat than chelsea now to the title
I heard Reece Brown scored today. Does he play at right back?
don’t give a fuck who we play alot of our boys are hitting top form together and new boy valencia is getting better every week and we finally have something of a back 4.a.w. wants a piece of us bring it on
arsenal win a couple of games against nothing opposition and suddenly they are the real deal again! Joke, they are the archetypical flat track bullys…
Wenger is playing mind games here, he would dread united and chelsea…
He is accustomed to not winning as is arsenal, they will get to the semis and then choke… Easy
With his packet of sweets
@ Costas, nope no start for Fabio. I see Panathinakos took a tonking Tonite.I am assuming you are in Athens.Its a Magical city visted the Plaka below the thon load of old rubble called the Acropolis lol. Got pished like a good Scot and had a brilliant time, fantastic people.
@ keanes. pmsl with his packet of Sweets, you are very naughty.
@redscot
Plaka? You picked a great place mate. I am glad you enjoyed it. I said it in another thread. Panathinaikos’ defence resembles that of United’s when Carrick plays there. It’s nonexistant. How on earth they got passed Roma? 1) Totti and Toni missed both games. 2) Ranieri is Roma’s manager.
Shame about Fabio. I wish someone could ask Sir Alex about him.
Pat – You’re talking about when Arsenal beat Milan back in 2008 right? When Milan finished 5th in Serie A, 21 points behind the Champions?
Sorry, I don’t understand what that has to do us with us thrashing Milan now, with them being 2nd in the league and 4 points away from top.
Care to explain because it just sounds like you’re clutching at straws…
“I don’t know if it’s wishful thinking, but if we have Rio and Vida fit for the remaining 9 games of the Pre.League, we have as good a chance as anyone.”
As good a chance as anyone? I stand by my assertion that these 9 games will be an absolute piece of piss.
I don’t understand why you always have a pop at Le Boss as most Arsenal fans like UTD, we consider you the Arsenal of the north.
@Fred
Hope you are right. It’s not an easy schedule though. We have 8 hard games and an easy one: The dippers.
@ wayne, best post of the evening at 23.07. right on the Button.
Just get behind the lads we can do this TOGETHER.After all we are United.
We can laugh at each other of course and take the piss out of one another, but the object here is not a dating agency, it’s to show We are together. And we plan to complete this task 4 in a historical row,and bye pass the nameless and with a bit of Lady good luck well thats in a new stretosphere.
Bonuit. or as most lads say Goodnite
I don’t see what the fuss is about Gooners. I seem to recall us beating Porto 4-0 at Old Trafford back in 1997 WHO knocked Milan out of the group stages with Jorge Costa and George Weah getting into a big scrap – give me David May rising to nod the ball home over Samir Nasri’s wonder strike any day. I don’t actually know if there was a point there, all I remember is that Porto were the ‘feared team’ at the time, and we smashed them
Gooners, Milan aren’t the same side that won back to back European Cups in 1989 and 1990. They aren’t the same side who smashed Barcelona 4-0 in 1994 – we all know that and so does Scott. But Milan have picked up this season after a rocky start with a new manager – but the performance yesterday from United was class against a giant of European Football (seven times winners don’t you know). The media coverage Arsenal got, with Wenger looking like he’d won the tournament, wasn’t warranted compared to that of this morning’s reporting. Wenger’s “we will take on everyone” remarks may look like an commander leading his troops into battle, however his “we can’t do any worse” remarks doesn’t really bode well for your potential chances.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Wenger is a world class coach and has done wonders for your club. I do think he can be extremely hypocritical at times, but then i’m sure you’ll say Fergie is the biggest of them all. I did think it was an odd thing to say, even if it was of a mind game mentality. I think he would have had a lot more grace if he had of kept quiet and beat an English club – but I guess people get caught up in the moment hey?
Also on a side note regarding Scott writing about Arsenal – I don’t see the problem? He has provided you with a channel to discuss the article, which now has over 250 comments. I don’t ever understand this oversensitive mentality at times – who cares if Arsenal/Wenger/Herbert Chapman are criticized in an article. I would take this opportunity to argue the cases against rather than resorting to ‘Are you scared’ and my personal favourite ‘racist anti-Wenger’. Just a thought perhaps.
dunkyboy Said,
March 12th, 2010 @0:30
I don’t understand why you always have a pop at Le Boss as most Arsenal fans like UTD, we consider you the Arsenal of the north.
Thats a fuckin insult…. Arse could never measure up to Man United!
Relax man, Arsene said that because he was asked if he was afraid to face English teams. What else do you expect him to say? He HAD to say that he is not afraid because if he is then there’s no point in playing. Don’t be naive, all these reports are fabricated to generate publicity.
No issues or any fuss here man, except for Man U fans having deep hatred by trying to give a go by turning everything with Arsene into some sort of negative things.
Let face it Man U fans, if your club inspire to be great, would’t you fancy challenging the club such as Barca which really outplay you in last year or instead you want to challenge PSV or Porto ?
Bendtner took a hattrick against Portaloo so obviously that game was a big fucking deal my arse
“and it would be a good opportunity to show that we can do it against them”
He was right when he said the above. he meant that it would be good if the got whup again so that all arse fans would finally accept the fact that they are simply not good enough.
you said it scott
so you’d preferred if he said he was totally surprised that we had it in us to beat milan? i dont get you.
Awful lot of gooners on here today..
What are you lot doing on a Unitedwebsite anyway?
Dre – Were you expecting us to beat Milan 4-0? I know I wasn’t, I was surprised. For Wenger to say he wasn’t surprised that we won and that Milan were already beat before they came to Old Trafford totally belittles what we achieved on Wednesday night.
Why are we bothered with what Wenger thinks about our win?. There are other better things to worry about then what Wenger thinks about our win.
shut up and sit down you paedo….. Oh sorry..Sir Alex said its bad manners!
Come on, Scot, you should know better then to follow the news headlines misrepresentation on a perfectly normal statement. I used to hate gooners too when they played Viera and the bunch, but the new arsenal plays football as its meant to be played, and their supporters here were one of the few with whom we could talk seriously and not just take a piss at each other …
Of course Wenger should want to beat us, how else can he win anything otherwise?
Just, lets win 4 in row, 19th, treble again, and we can all go along ;>
AIG – I’m not worried about what Wenger says. This is a United blog which reports on United related news. I don’t have to be worried about something to write about it.
Just a twat
Sheeeeeit, now the gunners think that Bendtner is a hell of a player. BAby Jesus, what a joke. The guy is ridiculous!!!
Ok, he scored 3 goals againt Porto, facing one of the worst presentations of a defense in recent years, but after all the shit he pulled, and all the thousands of goals missed, it’s waaaay over the top think he’s the new Bergkamp now.
And Scott, there’s a new line for the blog.
Rom. So good, even Arsenal fans can’t get enough.
@Scott
Fair Enough. However i feel what Wenger says really dosent matter. We know it as an excellent win and whether Wenger chooses to downplay it, it is his opinion. His opinion on our win shouldnt matter to us. I am much more eager to read your reaction on the win than what Wenger thinks about it
“It was not a surprise,” said Wenger. “Last night’s game was never in doubt after the first leg, which put Milan in a position where they had to chase, go on a big gamble in the second leg, and of course Manchester United punished them. The decider was in the first game. In the heads of Milan, it was already all over.”
Please enlighten me as to how Wenger has downplayed our victory?Let’s face it,it really was not a surprise.But you seem to be very bitter about the fact that he isn’t giving us a lot of credit despite beating them 7-2 on aggregate.
Costas – Hello mate. Yeah funny how all the doubters are strangely tipping United now! They were at the game on talksport and they were saying that the movement, pace and forward play of United is the best they have seen around in ages. They said the dippers would do well to take a leaf out of our book!
The fact that he said it was not a surprise when we beat them can be echoed by any other United fan aswell.There are lots of fans who may be flattered by the scoreline but no one was surprised that we won.I don’t know how you perceived his comments as belitting.
What did you expect?Wenger to be praising us over the top just because we thrashed them?
And another thing.Now don’t think I’m someone who is lecturing you but you need to choose your words carefully.If Arsenal do happen to get either us or Chelsea in the quarters and get thrashed,then you’d have a valid reason to start this article.If on the other hand,Arsenal manage to knock us or Chelsea if they happen to play them,you’d look like a downright cunt thanks to this article.
Stretford End – That Porto game in 97 was one of the best atmospheres at Old Trafford. Electric.
@ ashish
it’s ramblings like these that make people look like downright cunts….not what Scott has stated….you actually lecture someone and then say I’m not lecturing you
Funny as fuck reading your last post…..”If arsenal beat us or chelsea”….well thats a BIG if my friend…..not meaning to be arrogant or anything, its just our record in the last few games that gives us this confidence. We cant all stifle ourselves and saying lets not say this or lets not do that coz in the future if something happens i may regret it…that is a downright pessimistic kind of mentality that doesn’t do anyone any good..
Ashish – I have to say you generally do come on here with negative and argumentative comments. This is certainly not the first time.
To be fair on the Pedo he doesnt mean he fancies beating us! He states that they have not done well against either us or Chelsea and he feels it is a time to show what his side can do?
I think that is a fair statement as it is probable there could be an English pairing so he wont come out and say he wants to avoid United and Chelsea as they are likely to get spanked!
Asish isnt too wrong here. Wenger has not tried in anyways to downplay our victory or said we beat a pathetic milan side or that his sides victory in 2008 was better than ours on wednesday.
Great having these Gooners commenting – funny without even realising it. Not called COCK-neys for nuffink mate!
King Eric – if you still do check this post you said the doubters are now tipping united that is not true. Go check the guardian podcast and idiots like rob smyth and that idiot sean ingle what ever he is called had called united ordinary and average, and rooney is carrying united over the finishing line, add the fact that clown rob smyth called gary neville a joke and he said arsenal will cake walk the league, we have RTE all they did was say united will collapse like they did in the 70s and their era is over, well talksport duo durham and darren gough said united are possibly the best team in europe and the prem. What one press idiot learned when asking fergie a question in todays conference is never say are united relying on rooney and what happens if he gets injured because fergie went bananas.
What else the media have learned is that they should always learn is never think having loads of superstars in 1 side will never always win you anything its not fifa or FM it is real life. And lets look at man utd and madrid, the media went on a wank fest when madrid could line up diarra alonzo ronaldo kaka benzema gonzalas add raul and how they are now the best in europe, yet they pissed on uniteds lineup that we could only lineup carrick scholes fletcher valencia nani rooney add park anderson owen even berbatov who still needs to improve for me, many said how many would of those united players could get into the top sides, despite the fact now that players like fletcher scholes carrick park valencia and nani work so hard to win the ball and they create so much for rooney, you dont need names to win the big prizes its a team game and madrid have been shown up.
@dunkyboy
You fcuking high mate, you regard us as the Arsenal of the north you couldn’t lace our boots pal.
@RTNK
I wouldn’t take any notice of them articles mate, as ive said before when they stop talking about us thats when ill start to worry.
willierednut – maybe but when they call united average when rooneys goals have come from the service of scholes carrick valencia giggs and nani and the hard work of fletcher and park then they should start looking at these players also, oh I forgot they are not superstars so they must be average. But when that muppets like rob smyth call gary neville a joke then it does make me mad.
apoel is the best team in cyprus not second best