Patrice Evra is quickly making a bit of a name for himself where Arsenal are concerned, after comparing their recent display against us as boys compared to men. It must have been hurtful to hear but if we’re honest, it was a fairly accurate assessment. Arsenal were on their home turf and we totally bossed the game.
Still, the Arsenal players were not impressed and let Evra know about it last weekend when they kicked him off the park. For all the years of Arsenal fans complaining about the Neville brothers bullying poor Reyes, they were able to see Nev qualities in their own Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie.
Fabregas was booked for clattering in to Evra’s knee, forcing the player off for treatment. As soon as Evra returned, Robin van Persie escaped a second yellow card for fouling him, whilst Samir Nasri also picked up a yellow card for fouling our Frenchman.
Evra has slammed their behaviour today, suggesting they should have put more effort in to playing well and scoring, rather than targeting him. After all, our results against Arsenal this season have seen us book our place in the European Cup final and win the Premier League!
“The bad challenge was Fabregas when he touched my knee,” Evra said. “I was very angry because, OK, maybe they were not happy with what I said in the semi-final of the Champions League, but I think that when you have a problem with somebody, you need to try to win on the pitch, not kick someone. Or see me outside the pitch; that is the best way. You think you might miss the final for some stupid tackle. I was going to react in a bad way, but the referee made me calm myself down. I don’t understand why the players of Arsenal did that. OK, I said some things they didn’t appreciate after the game at The Emirates but when some players speak about United they say we are not a good team I try on the pitch to show we are by scoring a goal or helping to win the game not to kick someone back, that is easy to do. If you want to do that you go in the boxing ring not on the pitch. That is not the way to play football at all – it is not the way. I don’t know why they did that.”
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That Evra pic LOL
‘Or see me outside the pitch.’ classic!
3 yellows in 5 minutes? i can’t see it rather than possible revenge.
and he can say what he wants. just weak people would try to revenge in that exact way. this shows what the Arsenal team is all about now if the revenge theory is accurate.
Fabregas – beware, “outside the pitch” Evra will kick your ass all the way to Spain
Bit rich coming from the guy who almost ended sagnas career earlier in france dirty mac
That’s the second time Evra does that thing with his arms. (1st time against Wigan when Carrick scored)
Is he trying to copy FSW? Lol
I love the fact he’s been mimicking the Rafa “Its’ over” arm gesture. Class.
How sad. He shouldn’t talk trash if he can’t handle the consequences.
Thou I cant argue with the fact that the Mancs outplayed us and are, for the moment, the far better team Evra should shut the f0ck up.
After years of having gifted footballers kicked around by savages at United such as the Neville brothers, Keane, Scholes etc etc poor “man” Evra is not in any position to whine.
Good luck in the CL final.
That picture is hillarious!Evra should have taked notes from Gaz Nev.After Neville kissed the badge in front of the Scousers he took a real bearing at Anfield 2 months later.I think that 4-5 LIverpool players got yellow carded for fouls on him!
@ gooner
Did Scholes hit someone intentionally ?
he just doesn’t know how to tackle. yes, it’s true. it is all about the passion, but i didn’t like Keane’s behaviour some of the times. but it think it was a totally different issue. Evra didn’t say anything but the truth.
Hmmm..I remember a time ago I heard a lot of shit from many Mancs. saying that if Reyes can’t handle being kicked a bit then he needs to stay off the pitch because football is for men. But I guess it’s a different thing when it’s a Manc. player being kicked about. Now I wouldn’t have done that to Evra on the pitch, I would have just gone on with the game, but I’d have no problem waiting for him outside the stadium! That pusseh hole was always somebody I wanted to see get slapped around!
@corea
Perhaps, Ginger is not that big of a thug. Agree.
Actually if Neville and Ronaldo leaves – I have hard finding someone in the current squad to really dislike
…how…strange…
But even if Evra was speaking “the truth” it doesnt make it less disrespectful.
And of the five (?) yellows at Emirates I think maybe one max two was correct.
Corea Scholes has kind of bullied them once.Remember when they won the league at Old Trafford in 2002?In the first 10 minutes Scholes and Keane were going in with some flying tackles as if to say “you will have to earn the title” which they unfortunately did.But overall, Scholes is not a bully.He just mistimes his tackles.
Love that pic, taking the piss out of FSW with the waving of the arms. His smile makes me laugh as well – mischievious written all over it. Looking forward to seeing him making his trademark runs down the left on Wednesday. Best left-back in the world.
Well some soft body checks against Evra means yellow but, Tevez can cut people from behind and escape any card!!! That Tevez tackle was the worst but he still escaped, but touch poor (man) Evra and it is a straight yellow!! Double standard at Trafford once again!! And if you make stupid disrespectful comment about your oppositions don’t expect them to answer you on the pitch, that would not be answering you directly. Evra had to get the “message” personally.
And by the way, Patrice Latyr Evra is only 173cm (5 ft 8 in) high, that is hardly a man the last time I checked, boy at best
evra’s mouth is bigger than his trousers – but man u have achieved everything this season playing Tevex who’s not even owned by the club… er, how does that work? bunch of poseurs, rule-benders, divers and cheats. i may be a gooner but i can be objective about some things.
@ gooner
after the Porto 1/4 CL game at OT which finished 2-2 i would have said we were poor, weak and stupid. we didn’t know what to do.
this censorship is killing me. i love honesty. people are just unable to handle the truth. poor world.
i love the truth but it is impossible to tell the truth nowadays.
did you players honesly believe Evra wanted to insult Arsenal players ? You can not.
@corea
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Atleast Fabregas took it as an insult
@ mangetout
i don’t see any other attitude towards the players like Ronaldo, Rooney from the supporters of the other clubs. there are some exeptions of course but i dislike the attitude of the cheats like Adebayor.
players like Ballack make me sick. it’s ok, but what are you doing here, ah ?
it really sums up everything. fuck off to where your club’s blog belongs.
Evra is just an average player in a great great team.
I think its time us Utd fans got wise to this idiot making stupid stupid remarks about other teams.
Truely class players like Scholes would not utter anything against his fellow professionals.
plus I would take fabrigas into our squad in a heartbeat, he would be brilliant with Carrkick and Anderson. He is a gifted player who is only 22.
If it ment that we had to get rid of Evra i would take it without considering it, We would have a much better team.
Fergie needs to get him up to scratch on how mature football players act. He is a baby himself.
@corea
You really didnt address this to me but lets keep us somewhat grounded here. I enjoy discussing with fans of other clubs, especially ones like here where it seems people are not that hostile nor subjective.
Firstly, Rooney is ok. Only things I might have against him is the way he treats Everton fans and refs. Oh I know he gets a lot of stick from his former clubs fans but kissing his new clubs badge infront of the club that raised him? Otherwise he is a sport. Much better now than a few years ago.
But Ronaldo…For every time Ade have dived Ronaldo have done it a thousand times. I dont fancy Ade much and I saw his dive the other day but comparing him with the one whose face appears in a dictionary besides the word “cheat” is quite….harsh.
Now, let me not “poison” your blog nomore,
and again..good luck in Rome.
cheerio
Scholes a thug? are you having a laugh, i know you southerners are soft but thinking Scholesy is a thug is just to far even for you lot
He’s a bad tackler in terms of timing but nothing more. considering you gooners had the likes of keown and viera in your team at one point i think you should all stop and think about what your actually arguing.
I do respect wenger and arsenal but Evra was 100% right it was men vs kids you just didnt cut it, so instead of trying to play this ‘beautiful’ football you go on about you resorted into some stupid tackles on a player that is a english champion and has the chance to become a european champion for the second time
same old arsenal always cheating.
Yeah I should have left….pardon me.
Im from the North. The real North. So that “soft” remark dont really get to me.
And I did take back what I said about Ginger. And I did agree that Evra was “right”.
That was not the issue. If someone at Arsenal makes stupid remarks against someone at Manu, true or false, I expect him to get a few kicks at OT. QED.
But “same old Arsenal, always cheating”? That’s beneath you. That’s for Spurs and Bolton fans and such.
This is ridiculous and some of you need to take of the tinted glasses. Only cesc’s yellow was deserved and thats a maybe, b/c he WAS pulling out and he barely scraped his knee.
On the other hand, how the fuck did Rooney not get a card that game? Or Carrick? Ridiculous refereeing cause both had worse challenges and apparently only Rooney is allowed to show dissent right in front of the ref.
@ gooner
hehe. you made the point but you are a clever man and you can easily understand what i meant to say.
we love to hear unbiased opinions from the supporters of the rival’s club. it’s very true.
and another thing is also true. i am not in any way the one representing this wonderful blog. i am a small piece of the puzzle but this idiot came here and put this useless post. i don’t go to other blogs, once in a year maybe. i am happy here and it is not for my liking to come to some blogs and trade insults. it is so stupid and unnecessary.
They all hate Rooney because he is successful and he is strong. He is not like the others. They all hate Ronaldo but Adebayor is a much of a cheat. Ronaldo is brave, he challenges the defenders and he has his fucking excuses, no ? what does Adebayor do at the soccer field ?
Rooney is overreacting sometimes but he is pationate person who fucking cares! And refs know that.
Same Arsenal, always cheating? You fucking hypocrite. You have the biggest cheater in the league on your team, CR. Not to mention the calls you get, or don’t get against. Happens to every team, but more often for United.
So fucking think before you speak, you muppet.
Ade has been swayed by the money and is on his way out. The Ade of last season played with passion.
Evra has an ego that is rapidly getting out of control. Yesterday he was quoted as claiming he is the best left back in the world. Maybe he is, but he should have at least a degree of humility about it. It’s a shame because I actually use to like Evra when he first went to Man u. Now however he is becomming an arrogant little tit and needs a good slap.
you know why Evra told ‘Or see me outside the pitch; that is the best way’ …
because Vida is gonna be there with Pat and you can’t fuckin mess with Vida.
@Scott : is there a full pic of that above one ?
haha the gooners getting frustrated, “fucking think before you speak muppet” oooh hard man over the interent now you must be southern surely?
yes ronaldo dives everyone knows it he is a cheat but what can i do about it? im not to keen on him to be honest but he’s one hell of a player, but when you used to win thing if you can remember them days you had a team full of cheats all of them worse than ronaldo is now, keown in ruud’s face after the penalty viera,pires,cole the list could go on.
and gooner your a northerner and you support arsenal? shame on you.
whenever that Diouf half brother from senegal takes to the pitch something on his face demands a scything, roy k on alf-inge style. I mean the twat is that arrogant. He appears like united is the world and he has done what no man has ever achieved. we should all be enjoying the unpresidented success this year by united(playing for them) . you look at most of their players they are fine players and probably gentlemen too, but this idiot. he spoils everything. Look at a player like rooney, yes he can have his problems in the heat of a game, but you dont see him starting trouble from nothing. evra can start showing his stupidity way b4 a ball has bn kicked. like his behaviour on hleb b4 the league game at the emirates. anyways with his big gob i know he is no saint we will soon see him in the bag pages, he is hogging the spot lights.
You’ve totally misinterpreted his quotes.
Cruel world. We are so fucking hostile these days. But i can not judge you on this. You are the Arsenal fans at the end of the day. Yes, it’s true.
Evra showed zero respect, what did he expect? As an Arsenal fan I’m more than willing to conceed you bossed the tie brilliantly, but to come out and call fellow professionals ‘children’ and then accuse them of ‘jealousy’ later on for this is crazy. Wenger came out and complimented the manager and the team on a job well done winning the Premier League, and Cesc Fabregas even stayed on the pitch to personally congratulate the players after the 0-0. Those initial comments and then the further ones just show Evra to be arrogant. You talk about Liverpool being graceless in defeat, but comments from this guy just make you look totally classless in victory.
“You talk about Liverpool being graceless in defeat, but comments from this guy just make you look totally classless in victory.”
how can one player single-handedly make us classless ?
he was honest, maybe a little bit overjoyed. nothing more.
if you like to kick him for that try your best. but this is not the right thing to do.
Didn’t say he alone made you classless, just makes you look it. And yeah, theres no doubting he was right, men against kids that night, but he must’ve expected a kicking for that. Wenger should’ve stuck those comments on the wall in the dressing room. The right thing to do would’ve been to prove him wrong on the pitch by putting in a good performance, but frustration set in.
Reminds me of the Nani situation when we beat you 4-0 in the FA Cup.
We are people, we have our pride. Yes, it’s true.
No doubt, but insulting your opponents is bound to have some consequences.
Pat – ‘Same Arsenal, always cheating? You fucking hypocrite. You have the biggest cheater in the league on your team, CR. Not to mention the calls you get, or don’t get against. Happens to every team, but more often for United.’
‘So fucking think before you speak, you muppet.’
Who are you addressing that at you cunt?
Ronaldo is not perfect, granted, but Adebyor is a fucking cheating cunt – the handball for the goal at Old Trafford in the Premiership last season, and the blatant one at Old Trafford in the first leg of the semi-final this season, both of which he got away with.
Cesc is a fucking little twat. His tackle was a disgrace. He went at Evra Knee intentionally the little yellow bastard( just like his pizza throwing and spitting, does ity then runs away and hides.). If he connected the way he wants and intended to then Evra could have been finished. That i find disgraceful. The nevs and keane never tried anything like that. Same old Arsenal nasty bastards
Nothing wrong with Van Persie or Nasri’s challenges, should never have been yellows, but Cescs was a absolutye disgrace.
Yes, but they didn’t find the words to answer that comments.
This shows you that they knew he was right.
Kicking the opponent is the easiest way. You just can not tolerate this shit no matter if it’s your player. But this life has it’s laws, human laws, not the one’s written.
It was only his vocabulary that angered the players. If he’d said ‘we were definately the better side’, no problem because he’s spot on. I don’t know whether its a translation issue but calling experienced professional footballers in a Champions League semi-final ‘children’ stinks. If any team is full of children is Chelsea for the way they reacted!
The Arsenal players did end up proving Evra right, he called them kids and they proved they were indeed children. “He makes a snide comment on the pitch, oh yeah, lets kick the sh*t out of him”. Kids indeed along with 90% of their childish, jerk- off fans.
@steve far: cry me a river.
such a short memory
@Redharryforlife
“If he connected the way he wants and intended to then Evra could have been finished. That i find disgraceful. The nevs and keane never tried anything like that.”
lol…ha ha ha…what a clown!
Are we talking about Roy Keane here?? Please redharry have a little think before you embarrass yourself fella.
@corea
you really area moron. you area dimwitted red turd. you area donkey’s fart. if you don’t want the shining light of gooner logic on your precious blogosphincter – do not write about Arsenal. can your woefully under-powered cerebral function make sense of these words? you total wancorea?
mangetout why don’t you fuck out of here?Corea is here because it’s a United blog. Why are you here?Maybe Mourinho was right.Maybe some of you are voyeurs.
Evra’s comments were wrong, It showed a lack of class and is not the United way. We won the game easilly but you shouldnt insult your opponents its poor sportsmanship and in bad taste. Im glad he escaped unhurt and will be fit for the final but his comments were out of line, he should take it like a man as his bitching make him sound like the baby now.
I think if he had said men against boys it would have been largely accurate. The actual quote was men against babies, which is not attempting to be accurate, but insulting.
There was only one challenge of the three yellows dished out to Arsenal that merited a card, but Tevez made two worse tackles in the game without receiving one.
Gooner here, have to say i got big respect for most of your players & I think Roon & Scholesy are complete legends. But Evra was a classless tool for making such remarks & deserved a bit of retribution & well to whine about it afterwards makes him look an even bigger twat.
This was extreeemly biased. Extreemly biased, once the liverpool manager made a wave sign showing disrespect to the other manager showing that the match was called off. When a team defeats a next team, that doesnt make them babies. Liverpool beat man u twice, Man u lost to arsenal and drew the next one in the leage. But the ref seemed biased, i think only 1 tackle warranted a yellow, and tevez’s tackle was even worse than all the arsenal tackles that got a yellow. IT was utter disrespect to say “babies” not BOYS! Also, i think he hates Arsenal i dont know why. there are alot of french players there, but he has ALWAYS picked on arsenal. WHAT FOR? They tackeld him and that was wrong i guess, then the referee as usually protects liverpool and man u more than chelsea and arsenal i guess. What the referee said, really shocked me. But you cannot say things like that. He hasnt apologiesed to the arsenal fans. they won the champions leae semi final. Arsenal beat them in the league. man u may not even win the Tie, barca are clearly better this season. But it was disrespectful of Evra, he probably hates Arsneal becuase of some perosonal thing against his contry men, namely wenger.
This was biased, come on, think about it. and even nasri tackle him and the tackle was not worthy of a yellow card. tevez made a tackle that was worthy of a yellow or red because it was from behind. So i think he has a vendeta agains the other french players in the side. Why would nasri tackle him. Its a bad statement, and for such a humble player as evra, his statemtns were not professional, and the arsenal players played him rough, NOT TO DAMAGE HIM!!, but played him rough because he disrespected them, his fellow french man, Arsene Wenger, Samir Nasri and Bacry sagna, not to mention Gael clichy.
Oracle
Are we talking United – Arsenal games here?
Which Arsenal player’s careers did Roy attempt to end? He may have kicked a few but try to end their careers? Roy may have been a lot of things but a bully and a coward he cetainly wasn’t. Sorted that twat Vierra out in the tunnel, that was a real captain standing up for his men in the face of a big bully who then shit himself when Roy went for him.
Or are we talking about Mr Whoreland? The one with history with Roy. The the same Mr Whoreland Roy had a massive punchup with while they were at Forest, the same one that stood over him at leeds. The same Mr Whorerland who claimed that Roy ended his career, when he had to give up because of a left knee problem when Roy hit his right knee while it was off the ground and the same Mr Whoreland who played the rest of that match. That one?
Embrass myself!!! LOL Cesc is a great player but he is also a little coward, spitting throwing pizzas.
Evra made a comment and Arsenal react just like… kids. Not only that but Bendtner is caught with his pants down.
i see it like this,its a game of football,not a game of talking,man utd won the game,instead of talking about his own teams performance evra would prefer to talk about arsenal,thats why he got a couple kicks,nothing huge,its last week! anyway nasri’s yellow was one of the softest yellow cards iv seen and as for van persie we’d have done better if he got a red,evra best hope the ref dont do for messi what he did for him,i dont like these euro refs an their orders to get barca the cup
I believe that what Evra said has been probably been taken out of context by the media to make his statements appear more interesting. However, haing said that I also believe that you would not get Giggs, Scholes or many other United players making such comments that could be construed as arrogance or demeaning. Evra needs to keep his counsol, listen to his own words and do his talking on the pitch. As for best left-back in the world? Ok to back your self but you need to now back it up with a flawless perfrormance on Wed in Rome.
@arsene wenger : gooner77 and your comments are always honest & not biased towards Arsnl which are nice to read from the two of you.most of the United fans will agree that what Evra said after the 2nd leg was not correct. hope Fergie tells Evra to STFU
How many trophies have your left backs won lately.
I think as UTD supporters you must remember the assault of Reyes a few years back.
I think Evra is just mouthing off, maybe its a bit of stick because he knows Clichy will knock out the France team. Or maybe its a joke between the French lads, whatever the truth, This blog and Evra do seam very interested in Arsenal.
I believe this is evidence alone, that we are close to coming back, as no one talks about Everton, or Villa in this way, and they are good sides.
Good luck on Wed, I would like Henry to lift the trophy, however, you don’t get where you are through luck.
I think you must admit, that Evra is embarrassing you with his consistent jibs at Arsenal.
Fuck him.
COME ON THE GUNNERS
I struggle to understand the Gooners logic here. So because Evra disrespected Arsenal by calling them babies, it’s OK for Arsenal players to go around kicking Evra?
Well why the fuck didn’t our players break the leg of that pizza-throwing cunt Fabregas? Throwing food at the most successful manager in Britain of all time is a hell of a lot more disrespectful than calling someone a kid. And I suppose if he had kicked him all over the place, you Gooners would agree that it was the right thing to do, because if you are disrespectful of your opponents, you deserve a good kicking, right?
None of us have really claimed that kicking Evra was the right thing to do. But Evra has to be pretty thick to come out with comments like that and then act like the blameless victim when some, albeit too violent, retribution is handed out. We would’ve prefered to see a better performance as an answer to Evra’s jibes, but frustration got the better of the players, its unfortunately the norm with inexperienced and outclassed players, as they were on the night.
truth of the matter is, that Arsenal were well and truely played off the pitch in the semi’s….Pat was just telling it like it was
perhaps the childlike behaviour came from arsenal more so after the comments,but its a game of ego’s,evra knew what was gonna happen,he didnt mind,it gave ronaldo more freedom with everyone eyeballing him instead, arsenal now will forget all this and they will learn from that euro game,at least the younger players will, it seems the more experienced players are the ones who dissapear up their own asses
its like getting fan abuse from rivals, getting kicked from rivals, if evra was a nobody it wouldnt matter would it,so take it with a pinch of salt because even cescs challenge was only worthy of a scratch,theres a history of them challenges from RVN PV4 the nevilles nige winterburn,it wont be the last in this fixture,so firstly they must respect evra to even listen,secondly the truth hurts,and thats that,its last week business,next season evra can give some back if he wants
factman: “Evra’s comments were wrong, It showed a lack of class and is not the United way. We won the game easilly but you shouldnt insult your opponents its poor sportsmanship and in bad taste. Im glad he escaped unhurt and will be fit for the final but his comments were out of line, he should take it like a man as his bitching make him sound like the baby now.”
quote of the day!
cheers for your honesty, mate, congrats on winning the Prem
Scotty…. I agree with you…. fucking gooner cunts …fuck the lot of them …. just sour grapes thats all …. ever since Keano taught that lanky steak o’ piss, Viera, what’s what, we have hated them cunys almost as much as they hate us….remember that jug eared cunt, Keown, leaping all over Van Nistleroy….
Bye the bye anyone heard from Suhayl lately?