Manchester United have been drawn at home against Kettering or Leeds!
With teams running out and United still not being drawn, the possibility of facing our hated rivals loomed large. United were the last team to be drawn with Leeds or Kettering our opponents, following their 1-1 draw today. The game will take place on January 2nd 2010, three days after we take on Wigan at home.
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Lets hope we don’t draw the mighty Kettering. Sounds a tough tie that one!!!
Come on! They have to beat Kettering. I’m definitely going to it if they progress.
Well all hate Leeds scum, we all hate Leeds scum…
Been a while since we played the scum!
Leeds! Fantastic!
Get the fuck in!!!!! Couldn’t be better. Cleverley to dump the chavs out.
Best draw we couldve got. If Leeds go through we humiliate them and there disgraceful fans.
We hate Leeds scum.
I might even give up my Stretford End seat for just this game only, so I can be constantly ripping the piss out of their inbred away support.
A happy new year
Yes! Hope we draw them, bring on the fucking scums!
A lot of the JCLs who post on here won’t know the significance of this draw but for true Reds, this is huge. Fergie MUST put the first team out and run up a cricket score against Dirty Leeds! I want nothing less than utter humiliation for them!
Been looking forward to a Leeds match for nearly 6 years now. Bring them on. Can’t beat the matches between those scum bastards and united
leeds are the worst side – cant even beat kettering – you were odds on complete crap – leeds will never win promotion only relegation bye crap leeds – odds on and lost
It’s been a while! Happy with the draw. And how typical. Chelsea get another home draw to a lower division side.
Costas – So did we!
mikekelly12:
Yes, but ours was a rarity. Chelsea get home ties with lower division teams quite often. I think this is this the first time United get a home tie with a team from a lower division in 4 years. Since the Burton game in 2006.
And now they are ahead at the Emirates.
2003 was the last time we played them….1-1 at home I think.
2-0 to the rent boys!
2 defelctions before hitting the post and going in. That’s Chelsea on a weekly basis. Every week they are the shittiest flukey team it’s unfair.
They were always going to win though.
fucking arsenal, no favors today then?
bring on the leeds scum! to be honest, i can’t even remember what division they play in these days.
Never say never. Think the gooners will pose more threat after the break, hope so anyway.
@mikekelly12:
Yes it was the 03-04 season and we drew 1-1 at OT. Alan Smith equalised for them. I have been waiting for this game ever since.
@Red Army: It is sad that we don’t get to close the gap thos weekend, but Chelsea might drop points at the Shity next week. It is a blow to Arsenal though and i am glad we are getting some distance from them. Now all that’s left is for Chelsea to start running out of steam.
Last time we played Kettering was in 1897 in the FA Cup. Won 5-1 as Newton Heath…
Right lets see just what a genius Wenger is. That’s what the likes of Pat Barclay would have us believe.
Red Army, don’t talk shite. Chelsea are not a shitty, flukey team. The league table doesn’t lie, Chelsea deserve to be top. Take off those red-tinted glasses or maybe just get your head out of your ass. The bile you’re spewing sounds like the kind of crap ABUs say about us.
Get in! Cant bloody wait, it will be one of The games of the season imo
Oh so they don’t get a defelction or an own goal or a shocking decision every game. Every game.
Shimmy Shake. Sounds like a twat. Is a twat. Who the fuck are you?!
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We all hate Leeds scum
We all hate Leeds scum
We all hate Leeds scum
It has been a while since we’ve last played them …
Fucking hell, rent boys are winning at Arse
And truly Gallas is shit… Same old arsenal loads of possession but no outcome atleast we do score a goal or two when v have loads of possession… Best Of Luck to Ronaldo but I hate Real Mad-kids n M supportin Barcelona today no one can hate them!
Shimmy Shake, you are the one talking shite.
Chelsea deserve to be top MY ASS. The press were all acting as if United would be hammered at the smallford bridge,yet United completely outplayed them on their own turf and hadn’t Chelsea been such lucky, flukey, referee-aided bastards, United would be top of the table right now.
@King Eric:
Wenger is a very good manager, but his teams lack passion and metal in these sorts odf games and that’s his undoing. Chelsea are just doing the same thing they did with us. Soaking up pressure and taking their chances. It’s not pretty but it’s effective.
Now the injustice at the Bridge hurts even more. But, we’ll catch them, sooner or later.
Yes, Red Army. You’re so right. Chelsea have cheated their way to the top of the league as usual with all their goals coming by the way of flukey deflections and assistance from referees.
How can such a shitty team with shit players such as Drogba, Essien, Terry, Carvalho, Cech, Cole, Anelka etc be top of the league? IT’S A CONSPIRACY! United is da best we shud win evry twophy coz we jus da best! Evry ovva team is wubbish! Especially Chelski! They cheat to win every game!
Red Army, you’re a typical OOT JCL cunt, never been to a United game in his life, probably started supporting United in 06/07. You know nothing about football so keep your gob shut.
Che Guevara, you can shut your trap as well. If Chelsea’s goal had been struck off as it should have been, we still only would have drawn 0-0, so no, we would not be sitting top of the league today. Jog on.
Brilliant, can’t wait for the Leeds scum to get battered by the kids!
“We all hate Leeds scum, we all hate Leeds scum!”
What a miserable day. Everton play well and lose to the dippers. Arsenal get hammered by Chelsea. Now the only consolation can come if Barcelona thrash madrid.maybe they to will dominate the game but go on to lose.
As for the premier league title it seems we may have to do it all on our own this time out without much help. Sad to say this but atleast for the moment Chelsea are looking really good.It will take something special to stop them but we are more than capable of it
Game over for arsenal. Was hoping the rentboys will drop points. Cannot wait for the day they come to OT, I will only be happy with a 5-0 demolition. Hate the fucking twats, now watch the media drooling all over them. Top of the league, my ass.
Well I’m 41 and a season ticket holder for 20 years. Not that that makes me the biggest fan in the world but it’s been a bit longer than 06/07 you spanner. Strange how you come on here today, whilst Chelsea and Liverpool were winning. Spells out Wind Up Merchant to me.
And World Class players like Terry, Carvalho, Cole, Lampard… What?
@Shimmy Shake
Tufty in disguise?
aig – Of course we are. Fergie is the master at this. It doesn’t always work rotating the team so much but Fergie does it too perfection so all the players are used at the right time a la Giggsy and Scholes etc. Ancelotti is picking practically the same team EVERY game. Come the long winter months some of them will be fucked or injured. Essien and Drogba will be a huge miss. Arsenal are a joke. Everything about them seems diluted and watered down. Their stadium, fans, atmosphere, football. They have no bite whatsoever. They looked like boys out there today, they won none of the fifty fifty tackles. They are as far from winning the league as ever. Their defence nowadays is not in the same league s the likes of Dixon, Winterburn, Adams, Keown etc . Neither is their midfield . They have no Viera or Petit. No Bergkamp or Henry. The title is now a two horse race as most of us and Fergie predicted in the summer.
Fuckin hell, could we have asked for a better draw? Leeds must win, who knows when we’ll get another of these again.
Fze123 – They already are drooling over them. The fuckers on Talksport are saying that they played Arsenal off the park. Did they fuck. Arsenals defence fell asleep for 3 minutes and game over. Cracking free kick by Droba though. Long way to go yet.
@King Eric
Hope so mate.Hope that we can pip the rentboys. as for arsenal well typical of them to show their football against the lesser sides and get walloped against sides who make it tough for them.
Shimmy Shake – It would have been one nil at the bridge. Rooney’s goal was onside. Anyway it wasn’t .
We have seen off far better teams than Chelsea.
Good point King Eric. I forgot about that one.
Red Army, I assure you I’m no WUM. I dislike Chelsea as much as the next fan but I give credit where it’s due. Claiming all their wins are flukes sounds too much like the kind of bitterness I encounter all the time from ABU fans.
Anyway, let’s let bygones be bygones.
Not all foreign fans are glory hunters. I have been watching since I was 7 years old and supporting United was passed onto be my Father
And I am from Bangladesh, there are lots of fake fans but dont judge all of us to be plastics
As for this, I am chuffed! Does anyone remember the Leeds game where Djemba Djemba scored a cracking extra time volley? hoping for a good match!
Rio to score a winner?
We hate Leeds and we hate Leeds
We hate Leeds and we hate Leeds
We hate Leeds and we hate Leeds
We are the Leeds
HATERS !
Not all foreign utd fans are JCLs, as someone claimed. Not a nice thing to say, as people from all over the world post on this blog, and they don’t sound like mighty glory hunters to me.
Let the rentboys have their ephemeral joys of celebration. We’ll see if they’re still celebrating when they see off their players to the ACON. I don’t even think they’ll be much weaker than they already are; drogba wasn’t of any threat when we played them at the bridge. From now on we simply cannot afford to drop any points, hopefully we’ll go on a winning streak, top the league mid jan.
Yep. Let bygones be bygones.
Rio scoring the winner against Leeds. I am loving that scenario. Imagine it.
I remember the last time we played them, it was away and our fans were brilliant. United fans were humming along to the Emmerdale theme.
I hope we play our strongest team when and if Leeds visit. Get Rooney, Berba and Valencia tearing them apart.
Watching Real vs Barca and Ronny is just so good. Big shame he didn’t want to stay but he’ll be back eventually.
This is huge,I’m sure the scum won’t need anymore motivation to win the replay,than comin to ot! It’s massive for us fans as it’s not a game we get very often,shame ay shitty Leeds fans!! Can u imagin the atmosphere in the stands,i can see there’s trouble on the way!!
pique is having a great game right now, stripped ronaldo of the ball a couple times in the box. bring him back!
Evans > Pique
United fans will out sing them and United will more than out play them. If there is trouble I know plenty of United fans that can more than cope with the fuckin dingles.
side story, pique are playing so well for barca today. so painful to see all these great young talents slipping thru our rank. rossi as well. hope we dont repeat è same mistake again with tosic, macheda, foster, welbeck….. we have been doing excellent in spotting these great talent, but what’s é point if we dont keep hold & fulfill their potential at utd.
Red Army – I thought Ronaldo was awful tonight. Nothing he tried came off. He looks lost at those horrible cunts. He certainly misses a Rooney. They look to have no shape or balance. Sick to fucking death as well about Guardiola being called a “managerial genius” and “man of the match ” by the commentators. Fergie is a fucking “managerial genius”. Someone that has retained success for the last 30 years not one season. As for Benzema. 35+ fucking million for that cunt. Has done nothing in his career and is over rated to fuck. Looks like he may have made the wrong decision joining the fascists. He won’t get a look in.
Observations made from watching ‘el clasico’
-Ron subbed 70th minute, would fergie do the same if playing against one of the big four?
-Real spent £230 million in the summer, yet failed to win
-Barcelona played magnificently, we really need to improve our performances in europe if we are to qualify further in the champions league
-But overall a very overhyped game
When Zlatan Ibrahimovic volleyed in that sublime winning goal I felt a surge of electricity shoot through my body and I heard a voice say “YOU ARE NOW A BARCELONA FAN!”
King Eric:
Agree with you. Once the winter months are here, Lets see how much steam chelsea keep. Plus it’d be ACON time. It’d also be interesting to witness who next for rent..In january.. If its a striker, I dont think it’ll be a high profile striker. What about Anelka? Hehehe..Since there’s no way rentboys would sideline/rotate drog, i guess the anchor would fall on anelka.
One interesting thing is Liverpool moving in for Nistelrooy loan/transfer. I don’t think they can afford a transfer now, but if they do manage, It’d be reallllyyyy interesting when we host them at OT. With ruud on their team and Owen on ours!!
I have a confession to make : my heart bleeds everytime I see Cristiano wearing Real’s shirt. I actually feel sick. I hate Real with passion. Fucking hate them. Always have,always will.
@Fze123, I agree with you about the overhyped bit. How can there still be people out there saying that LA Liga is better than the PL? Seriously??? The PL is and always will be the best league.
King Eric – The only reason they added benzema to the world player of the year shortlist is because of his ’35 million’ price tag. I really wanted Fergie to get him in the summer despite his price, but now I am thinking, fuck him, we’re better off with Owen. Fergie made the right choice as always.
Haha I know this is my first post but I’m a big fan of ROM and all you guys! I’ve finally decided to write in, mainly for some consolation. The rent boys won, and now we’re back to them being five points clear. I just don’t see how the fuck we’re going to get above them, not until the African Cup at least. And to think if we hadn’t be robbed at the Bridge we’d be cruising….so in this hopeless time how do you all find hope. I mean I’ve been a Red since 2001 and we have a knack for plowing on through at this stage in the season, but still. How do you guys think we’re gonna come out of this?
portugueseprincess – Don’t worry, he has “why the fuck did I come here” written all over his face. Let him regret, regret is insight that comes a day too late and will weigh stones upon his shoulders.
I don’t know why I even bothered to watch the match, it was pretty flat and slow. Even with their star studded teams on the pitch, it didn’t have the same excitement and awe of a regular premier league match. Even westham are more entertaining than the fascists. Loved seeing Perez’s face at the end, spent all that money to lose narrowly. The PL is simply the best league. Because simply the greatest team in the world play in.
*play in it
real madrid played pretty decent to be honest, better than i expected them to…arsenal are just forever toothless. fucking ballerinas getting hammered 3-0 in their own backyard! and people were saying they can win the league, hah! i seriously expected them to put up somewhat of a fight, but eduardo was woeful, their defence couldn’t deal with drogba (which brown and evans did VERY well), arshavin was poor today, everytime he got a chance- he took to long to shoot, or lost the ball….
but chelsea won’t be able to keep this up, another wigan will pop up and they’ll drop points. we just need to keep doing our thing.
Fze123
you finally realised fergie was right thatts 15 months ovee duo, not getting benzama you should have trusted fergie from the start, we all knew he was a real madrid fan yet people still were moaning we should have got him. but my view not changed united need a no 9 to get the best out of rooney.
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emonod – How are we going to get out of being 5 points behind? Easy, we are United and for the reasons I outlined earlier. You obviously weren’t a fan when we have been behind the gooners or 10 or 11 points behind a rampant Keegan’s Newcastle going into January. 5 points is nowt mate.
Welcome by the way.
theres only one Keano – Don’t think I have been mourning and moaning over him since the summer. I did not slate Fergie for not agreeing to pay the full price for him, I was just gutted he didn’t want to play for us. I didn’t “finally realise”, I trust his decisions completely and he simply knows what’s best. Today was the first time I have seen benzema play, and I am glad he chose to go to the fascists. Had no impact when he came on for Ron.
@Paul Nolan: don’t be that guy. they’ve got enough bandwagon fans after the triplete already.
cav – Well said. Was he serious?
Considering Ronaldo has played 20 mins in the last two months he looked electric every time he was on the ball. What are the stats…scored 9 in his first 8 games all of which RM won. He misses the next 10 games and they win 5. He is out and away the best player in the world. I’m still gutted that we had to let a player of that ability leave.
Fuck him. Great player but United weren’t good enough for him. I for one am not gutted, not in the slightest. Thats not bitterness either. Viva Wayne Rooney.
@King Eric: Thank you my good sir. My naivete apparently proceeds me in these matters haha. You’re right, we’re United and we’ll get through this. Besides, it could be worse. We could be the Scousers right now. Five points off the top heading into our best time of year is not too shabby when you think about it.
And I agree with what everyone else has said about El Clasico, Ronnie looked like he didn’t have a clue what he was doing. Personally, who cares? I think we’re playing better as a team without him. And his “replacement” Valencia is doing just fine, especially after yesterday.
emonod – You are right. It could be worse we could be scousers.
I thought Ronaldo was a fantastic player for United and loved watching him but I just find it a bit bizarre when fans says they miss him and can’t bear to watch him playing for another team. After watching Robbo breaking his legs and ankles for the cause and Eric inspiring the youth to achieve great things. Or even Brucie and Pallister sweating blood for United I ain’t gonna lose any sleep over his leaving. United have always been about moving on and changing. Fergie likes to keep everything “fresh” at United and at the moment will be building his next great team. He said a bit ago that he wanted to see all the young ones mature. We are seeing a different style of football developing at United post Ronaldo.
Rooney >>> Ronaldo
no doubt Ronaldo is the best in the world at what he can do but a Wayne Rooney or a Ryan giggs or a Paul scholes can do that little bit more
I admire your optimism but it’s way too early to say that we’re better off without the best player in the world. That won’t be proved until we get to the businness end of the CL. Right now we’re just were Inter, AC Milan and Lyon are …big clubs who fed talent to Spain for money.
My view is we need to get 26/ 27 points from the next 10 Prem games and then we might have regained the sort of swager we need to see us through to at least the last four in Europe.
I’m hopeful but not yet convinced.
that Paul Nolan. Was he serious or what.
If so than he can fuck right off. What a twat. He now supports Barca. United are a better club without him.
King Eric, I agree. We are Manchester United. We will claw it back and create a gap ourselves. Fergie will give the lads no choice. United players play for the pride and honour of our club. Other teams players play for themselves and money ala the rentboys.
Please if you get a minute just read some of these comments off the Manchester United Evening News website from “fans”. I use the word fans loosely. They are a disgrace. Why do we attract such knobs? One of their user names is “Fergie hasn’t a clue”. Fuck off and support someone else.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchester_united/c/1184386_portsmouth_1_united_4_player_ratings?page_size=25#comments
@ king eric- the fans on the utd forums on the website are even worse! i’d get so pissed off everytime i visited them- for fuck’s sake, just now i read one for which the topic is berba/owen= ngog!!!!! here..http://community.manutd.com/forums/t/83231.aspx
what is wrong with these people? i don’t understand if they have so many issues with our players/manager, why they don’t just support chelsea/madrid etc…
Those guys are United fans!? Bullshit! they should be ashamed of themselves.
Overall I’m with you guys on this. Having different opinions on players and formations is o.k. but anyone who would attack SAF or say he needs to go just really have to ask themselves why the say they follow United.
On the other hand, fans who say something’s always wrong are no different to me than those who say everything’s always right!!
Just posted that Alan Smith picture on a Leeds blog (yes, they have a blog). They were not happy. I’m a Munich apparently.
Bitter racist pikies.
haha YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ronaldo v Messi
Kaka v Iniesta
Alonso v Xavi
blah blah blah
The most overhyped game in world football – end of.
West ham v Burnley had eight goals in there now that is entertainment and it belongs in the PL!
I wonder how Ronaldo’s dream is going – ain’t so bright after getting subbed in the 65th minute to a dumb frenchman that thought he would be better off scoring goals at the official club of viruses instead of Manchester United FC!
Point is you need to play games actually to have a chance of scoring goals – funny how Valdano was doing the press rounds that RM didn’t do badly – no they just lost a game which cost them the best part of 250million big ones.
Perez and his cronies are at it again – good luck to the biggest idiot in the world who traded in the best shirt in the world for the biggest joke in the world. CL final apart, Barcelona have to win that league to leave Real Madrid clueless for at least the next two seasons.
King Eric thanks for the post the other night – I truly am saddened as you quite rightly point out at the behaviour of our so called fans. Maybe they should get lost and join the inferior blue bit of Manchester.
haha YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i can’t wait for this I CAN’T FOOKIN’ WAIT
COME ON YER DIRTY LEEDS CUNTS
WE ALL HATE LEEDSCUM
WE ALL HATE LEEDSCUM
I can’t wait till we give these inbred racist bastards a good seeing to
MG …I think your deluding yourself if you think that Ronaldo getting subed suggests anything other than RM wisely resting a star player who had played only 20 mis in the last two months and ankle surgery!!
I hate Barca and Real as much as you but don’t kid yourself that along with Chelski they are the clubs that are at the top of world football…. forget West Ham and Burnly, mate!!!!!
man scott…… that pic is killer…… really miss smudgy……. he couldve been united legend proper!!!……… shame really…. really really a shame………
Ways a OOT JCL anybody?
I’m looking forward to meeting leeds and giving them a thrashing.
@Shak:
OOT = out of towner (someone who isn’t from Manchester)
JCL = Johnny come lately (someone who only started supporting United recently)
what the hell is a JCL supporter? or OOT JCL? Or whatever the hell it is?
King Eric
well I am still up freaked out by paranormal activity anyone like horrors see that movie so this is a late night message, that link whos username called fergie has not a clue, coincidence GROGNARD from redrants who is canadian he must be the same persone a plastic gimp.
@MG
Not every big game lives up to its hype. United vs Liverpool is always hyped like hell and turns out to be 100 times boring then yesterdays EL Clasico.Atleast the 2 times tried to play football.With so much at stake you cant expect both teams to go for it. still a good game rather than boring, physical top 4 clashes in England.
Happy that Barca won. made me a feel a bit better after the 2 league reults that saw dippers and chelski win. Of course i am a united fan but i love football as a game and credit where its due.Barca are the best team on the planet.They play the game the way it must be played. Real were good yesterday.Created quite a few chances and defended well.But the lesson to everyone is that you cant buy sucess.anyone seen Barca’s starting 11 against Inter and yesterday. Apart from Henry, Abidal,Alves and Keita all the rest of 7 players are homegrown talents.Great goal by Ibrahimovic though. I am happy that we never went for etoo.i find him vastly overrated. The only reason he scored for Barca was becasue of the service he got from Xavi,iniesta and Messi.Etoo is struggling at inter. Now you will see Ibrahimovic too score for fun.Same of Benzema. The cunt dosent even get a start and they paid 35 million for him.Pique was fantastic though he was overshadowed by Puyol.Pique and evans would have been a great future partnership.
As for Ron, well he did ok. Better than the CL final . However the bottomline is that Messi is way way better than him as we saw yesterday.
Messi might be better than him but to be honest I have never really seen Messi tear apart a really good team. He didn’t look anything like the best player in the world against us. Although to be fair Ronaldo didn’t look too great either. I guess what I mean is I can’t remember a performance from Messi like Zidane or Ronaldinho. Who doesn’t remember Ronaldinho against Real Madrid or AC Milan or Chelsea? He was fucking unstoppable. I might be wrong since I don’t watch too many La Liga games but has Messi really performed extraordinarily against a really good team?
I wouldn’t mind being wrong but I can’t help thinking he is just a little overrated. I have higher expectations of Aguero.
@20legend
sorry mate. Disagree.Messi was good against us in the final.brilliant against bayern in the quarters and Lyon in the round of 16. are these not big teams. he scored in both games against real last season.Was the best player when we beat Barca 1-0 at Old Trafford in 2008. Was good yesterday twisting and turning 3-4 players every time. There must have been atleast 30 fouls against him.To have a good game you dont have to score a goal.
Dont forget he is just 22.Long way to go for him.
As for Aguero the most overrated player. nowhere near worth 50 million.ocassional flashes of brilliance but no consistency.disappeared when Barca thrashed atletico 5-2 at the camp nou earlier this season. Aguero scored but was anonymous throughout. Messi scored 2 and set up 2 others.He also sets others up.You can only do well against teams that want to play football.for all his talent Messi is huma. When the opposition puts 3 men on him he cant make this work every time as chelsea did last year in the CL.
haha paranormal activity was scary, the first night after i watched it i kept thinking i was hearing noises. the part when she was just standing and watching him sleep for 2 hours was SO FREAAKY!
@ aig- i agree with you about barca, mate. they’re damn good, xavi and iniesta are brilliant players. noone ever talks about barca’s defense though, and as they showed it yesterday, they’re strong as well. i’m not overly fond of pique after he said man united players are fat and not fit enough, but he’s a hard working, brave and committed defender. and puyol, wow…that man is a rock. easily MOTM yesterday. henry was just piss poor, i always had a grudging admiration for him while he was at arsenal, but gosh…even pepe outran henry!!!!! lol, even tho i want ron to do well i’m glad he didn’t score against barca…would’ve been a tiny bit annoyed given that he couldn’t score against them with us two years in a row! lol….
@20legend- well, i can only remember really good messi performances against real madrid to be honest, he scored a hattrick in a 3-3 draw at the bernebeau a few years ago and i think he might’ve scored 2 last yr when they thrashed them 6-2? other than that, i agree, messi hasnt been all that unforgettable against big teams.
@jellybean
Barca follow the simple rule of defending from the front.Look at Xavi, Iniesta and the rest .The moment you have the ball even in your own half they put you under pressure.Henry was shocking yesterday. just kept being offside.Ibrahimovic looks worth 40 million.Have always rated him highly.The teams that he played for in inter and juve were rubbish so cant blame him much.cracking goal though.Pique is brilliant.Love his ability to get the ball out of defence.As for Puyol he is a barca legend.he is 32 now yet his performances are top drawer.
aig, jellybean, 20legend- Fuck Barcelona, we are Man United and we are the greatest team in the World. We can beat them if we have to.
loughie21- OOT JCL = Out Of Town Johnny-Come-Lately
PS: Ibrahimovic is WAY over-rated.
we all hate the scum!
Good morning everyone
anyone and ghtt means anyone who thinks united are finished for the season and it’s Chelseas league or the clusterfucks Europe is no united fan. It’s the start of December and if any of them wanted to take a gander on wikifuckinpedia of the premeier league in the last say 19 years about uniteds form in the second have of the season instead of going on uniteds offical site and saying fergie has list it, get the special one my favourite giggs is too old, need a slap off there older man because they have to be 9 years old or younger. 5 points off the top arsenal breathing down our necks old rivals maybe in the fa cup just lost 1 nil in Europe to a team Liverpool distroyed 2 years ago?? At the start of December???? I say united are well on track. Anyone hear gears changing about7 minutes into the united everton game a few weeks ago. I hope Chelsea did
@theboogeyman
chill mate. Just talking generally since i am tired of people praising Chelsea and how goodf they are and all that crap. Bacar are better and atleast you feel like talking about them. Dont feel like talking about or watching chelsea unlike Barca.
Disagree about Ibrahimovic. not because he scored yesterday but he is a good player.good strong player.If he was over rated why would Fergie say he is the danger man ahead of the Champions League clash with Inter last season? And anyways Inter are crap. Cant compare muntari,stankovic,viera,quaresma with xavi,iniesta,toure,keita or fletcher, carrick,giggs and valencia
@zade: Classic mate!
aig- I know what you mean mate, but I’m sick of people like Paul Nolan who just convert from United fans to Barcelona fans simply because they beat us.
I agree with you re: Aguero, he also is overrated.
But Zlatan is over-rated, IMO, the reason he was the danger man for Inter in March was because the rest of the team is crap, like you said.
Anyway, I don’t care about other teams generally.
PS: I think I’m one of the select few who wanted Real Madrid to win last night.
david villa and david silva going to manchester united for 53 million is a given in january acording to a guy that i didnt catch his name on newstalk in Ireland . anyone any further info I missed the whole start of what they where saying
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David Silva & David Villa for £45 million would be the deal of the century
Posted by Cathal Breathnach on October 28, 2009 | 20 Comments
If you look at it this way, Manchester City spent £32.5 million signing Robinho from Real Madrid last summer. To think that Manchester United might be able to sign Valencia duo David Villa and David Silva for just £45 million this January is incredible.
Several papers have reported today that Sir Alex Ferguson is preparing to spend a large chunk of the £80 million received from the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo last summer on the Spanish pair once the January transfer window opens.
Valencia have admitted this morning that they would find it incredibly hard to turn down any bids for both Silva and Villa this winter, with the club still firmly in financial difficulty. As you can probably guess by the title of this piece, I’m a massive fan of both Villa and Silva.
Both players still have several years left in their career’s, especially Silva who is still only 23-years old. I’m sure the majority of you who saw the pair play in the European Championships back in 2008 will know just how good they are. Without them, I doubt it whether or not Spain would have gone all the way in Austria & Switzerland.
As a football fan in general, I would be delighted to see both Villa and Silva play in the Premier League. At the rumoured £45 million, they undoubtedly represent great value for money and I think it’s fair to say that the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City would all be very jealous should the duo arrive at Old Trafford.
Completely off topic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8385164.stm
Tick tock…
“We will look at Dubai’s commitments and approach them on a case-by-case basis,”
are city a money maker or a commitment that they can drop to save money
@theboogeyman
why did you want real to win???
ghtt
hi mate.its all crap. 45 million.That is what valencia will demand for villa alone and he is 28.although he is in great form i wont pay more than 25 million for him.valencia will ask for 60-65 million pounds for both of them.Silva is my main priority as we are lacking a bit of creativity which he can provide.Happy with the strikers we have. However if we can get both for 50 million i will be delighted.
A.I.G. Im just relly keeping my mind open about david sivla thou if You Open Your Mind Too Much, Your Brains Will Fall Out, but If United got 2 of them I wouldnt say no. Id love Villa but we dont need Villa , I think we could do with Silva thou our season wont fall to peices if we dont get him, but someone will be bought in january im sure to add to 2 more players coming in and the curley headed one coming back
maybe davis silva can replace nani as Ac Milan are trying to buy them
ghtt
i agree with You. We have got Diouf who has arrived and Ljajic coming but he will be a fringe player this season. Hargo is of course gonan be back too which will give us added steel in the middle.Rio too should be back by then. However if we get Silva i think he is the perfect replacement for Scholesy. We still havent been able to replace Giggs though.
have you heard or read this in a reliable source?
Off topic: Micah Richards to United – is this some kind of a sick joke?
David Silva to replace Nani? But Fergie said Nani wont be leaving in Jan.Maybe that will be last chance for him because Obertan is staking claim for a regular place now and Giggsy is still in top form.
@Xyth
Rubbish pal. rather Fergie should sign me. i can defend better than that cunt. hailed as a bright prospect a few years back. All that he is doing now is giving Tevez company on the bench.
Is it true that Van Persie is out for the season? Also, did you guys notice the posetr held up by the Arsenal fan, “After the recent exploits of a certain gentleman from Togo, I am feeling better disposed towards Cole”? Classic, that one…
All the people here – yesterday’s result was not a big downer for us, actually Arsenal winning with a game in hand wouldnt have been a better result for us, best would have beena draw…:) 5 pts behind Chelsea is not the end of the world, for chrissake its only December!! I feel it ion my bones we will fo 4 on the trot this year…not sure how well we’ll do in Cl though…
btw, the tampax one was absolutely bloody marvelous…split my sides laughing at that one!
A.I.G. I read that mate
http://www.tribalfootball.com/ac-milan-encouraged-after-man-utds-nani-raps-fergie-442281
only 16 but have been to over 3seasons worth of home games, aswell as trips to the bridge & anfield etc, we need to put our strongest midfield & strikers out to embarrsse them, anybody fancy vidic to shut that cocky twat beckford out?
Costas
it’s not true. the distance between us and gooners is not a problem. Van Persie is out, they don’t have the depth to handle the whole season. you try to find the possitives but there are none. they had to take points of Chelsea and i don’t have strong belief Shity will do it either. but even with 5 points difference we have a good chance but we can’t afford to drop points in most of the upcoming games. then it could be a real problem.
@Kanchelskis
I don’t think the Dubai debt issue will affect City too much. The crisis is in the real estate sector. To my knowledge the CIty owners’ money is largely from Oil. Theres never a lack of demand for that sadly…
20legend – Agree mate. I have NEVER seen Messi tear a team apart either.
gotta hate – Spot on pal. Jamie Redknapp and the fuckers on talk shite are saying the leagues over. Is it fuck. Have you heard Tiny Tears banging on about team spirit? Fuck off you twat. Finally cannot believe the cunts on talk shite were playing “blue is the colour” this morning. You’ll never walk alone last week now this. Have you ever heard them play the United Calypso or the like? No neither have I.
Whats this? I thought it was ROM not the Barcelona fucking fan club. Hope United get them again this season with a fit Fletch and Hargo. Lets ee if they rip United apart this time.
Dave Mack – Did you really say that along with CHELSEA barca and Real are the best in Europe? Don’t make me laugh.
@King Eric
chill mate. Just talking some other stuff because there is nothing much happening on the United front. barca are the best in the plane there is no harm in giving credit where its due.Atleast i feel like talking about them. But talking of the rentboys, it makes my blood boil. People are already crowning them as champions. and worst of all i read some comments on Sky sports where dippers fans believe they can finish 2nd behind chelsea., Cant believe ther is no limit to their delusion.
As for Messi well he may not have torn apart anyone in a big game but then neither have Ronaldo,rooney or anyone of the great players becasue the opposition put more men and coul them to stop them.
COME ON READING
People, judging the teams in december is so stupid.
I fell asleep during the El-Classico and switched the channel.
Sir Alex is not happy with the criticism our young stars are getting
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid=%7BF9E570E6-407E-44BC-800F-4A3110258114%7D&newsid=6643478
aig – Hi mate. Fergie is absolutely right to be annoyed. Like many on here it is ridiculous to write them off after one poor game. Like he says Becks, Scholes, Nev, Butt etc were all a bit older. Beckham was still on loan at Preston at 21 years old.
Having said that I was hoping Fergie may pick some of the more experienced players for tomorrow night as Harry will probably have a full team out. Obviously Fergie has the faith in them.
Oh another thing. It looks like the journalists that branded Fergie mad for selling the Judas are having to eat humble pie. Never doubt the master.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1231918/Martin-Samuel-Sir-Alex-Ferguson-right-Carlos-Tevez-worth-30m-Manchester-Citys-gloom-lack-firepower.html
We all hate leeds scum, we all hate leeds scum!
@King Eric
Fergie was spot on to sell Tevez. His goal scoring record was never good or one to be proud of. He was not the man to replace Ronaldos goals.
As for the kids these are the times we need to give them chances. It would be good if they can mix it with the experienced players. I am sure few of these players will make it big. i am confident and even if we lose tomorrow i dot care because as Fergie said it is a learning experience for the players.
My team
Foster
Rafael Brown Vidic fabio
nani gibson anderson obertan
Welbeck kiko
Can’t believe I watched all 3 crap matches yesterday. The wrong scousers won. What a waste of space that Jo is. Does he even have a footballing brain? Arse as always bottled their match. I almost fell asleep waiting them to threat Cech. And the clasico? What a shitty team that Bank of Spain FC. Can’t believe Pellegrini let Marcelo play for the whole match. Just when I thought Ronaldo was coming to life, he took him out for that joker Benzema.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtFGie_V0CY
I fuckin hope Leeds will go through,can’t wait to play them at OT. Off topic, i’m not too worried about being 5pts behind the rent boys,the season is still very long.
@Dave Mack: Chelsea and Real are the best teams in Europe along with Barca? Yeah right and Bradford will win the league in 2 years time. If you felt shivers when Ibra scored and you consider yourself a Barca fan,go on then,we don’t need gold diggers like you.
UNITED>Anything else
Can’t wait for Leeds, it’s annihilation in the making!!!!
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El Classico was enjoyable, but way overhyped. I miss Ronaldo at United, and he was good for a guy that came back on wed. to action. Xavi and Iniesta are just fenomenal! And Kaka had a good game, Puyol, Piquet and Valdez (yes, that’s right) were imense imho.
Messi isn’t the world’s best player? Yes, he is. He didn’t have a huge game yesterday, but was good. Better than Ronaldo for example. He was damn good against us everytime, teared Lyon and Bayern, teared Real in some games ago is plays very well domestically.
But I still don’t think he’s near Ronaldinho in his golden age at Barça. The brazilian was just monumental against every team he played against, was one of the best players the came to scene in the past years. I miss the player he was, today he’s just a shadow. That is trully a shame.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/soaps/2751965/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-laps-up-Kym-Marsh.html
go on fergiee
anyone wanna email emilys videos to
socceram@bskyb.com and give out to them for only featuring chelsea and liverpool youtube fans
i’ve hated leeds all my life in 1972 as a 13yr old we got thrashed 5-1 it never left me
It’s been said before and it’s worth saying again to remind those whose faith in the Red Army may be flagging- Chelsea have a small number of very good players who, in the course of a full league and European season, are absolutely guaranteed to get tired, injured and burned out before the end. Ferguson is doing a great job of rotating the squad, he’s keeping the players fresher (and it will be noticeable when we enter endgame) and he’s not dropped too many points doing it.
When Chelsea start to flag under the pressure of so many games United right on their heels we’re going to be perfectly situated to power through.
To be honest much as I fucking hate Chelsea it makes a nice change to have something approaching a worthy adversary in the Premiership. Chelsea play dirty, effective, football and they are a team we can be proud to beat. If winning the league was easy it wouldn’t be worth doing.
Just want to say that I think our youngsters are more than a match for the spurs first team, who are very much overrated. Welbeck and Macheda are more than a match for their defence.
Doghouse and Tony – Spot on lads. Sick to the fucking stomach of the plastics saying we will never catch the Rentboys. Fuck off. You obviously haven’t been a United fan long. We have been behind much better teams in the run in and done it. Said the same yesterday Doghouse that Fergie is the king of winning the league and rotating his squad to get the best out of them at the right time. Who would you rather be? Us having ground to make up coming up to our best part of the season form wise with 3 or 4 players to come in or the rentboys knowing Fergie and United are right up their arses and have been in this position dozens of times?
why are people saying chelsea is so strong? beating a toothless arsenal team doesn’t mean fuck all, even fucking city did it, in fact- have arsenal even beaten anyone in the top 10? do you guys not remember that our 3rd and 4th choice centerbacks kept the “fucking disgrace” that is drogba quiet? on top of that, there’s the african cup when we won’t lose any players, but chelsea, arsenal and city all will! chelsea will constantly be hearing our thunderous footsteps right behind them, and i’m confident we will catch up- here’s to an 8th consecutive draw for shitty
btw, have you guys read this ridiculous rumour about fergie wanting micah richards? i’m sure it isn’t true, he’s doing crap at city. in fact, if he had been doing his job right(marking owen), we might not have even had derby day bragging rights. am excited about tomorrow, i think the younglings will be raring to go even more now after coming under criticism after besiktas…do spurs play their first team in the carling cup?
Thats a great draw for the cup, the DIRTY sheep shaggin leeds scum!!!! Cant wait its been a long time!! As for Barca and Madrid and Ronaldo and Messi, fuck them all we are UTD and we are the biggest club the world has ever laid eyes upon!! Im lovin this Villa and Silva talk tho, whats the full story on this lads??
Bitters ‘n Dippers out
I am sorry, but why do y’all hate leeds, a league 1 team??
I am certainly not up to date
they were our toughest opponents 30 years ago? is it geographical? i reaaly dont know
Manchester united.
What a club . I think I’ll be a barca fan cause they won a match maybe I’ll be a Chelsea fan cause they won
holycow
“City probably aren’t the closest of rivals, but in terms of geography, if you like they are close rivals and it’s a game you want to win,”Paul Scholes said.
“But Leeds away was just pure hatred towards us, but we always did well when we went there and we thrived on it. Liverpool is the same. We have done quite well there, although we have lost a couple of times, which is no surprise because it’s a hard place to go.”leeds are one of our biggest but also a fantastic feeder club with Jordan, McQueen, Graham, Irwin, Ferdinand, Smith and, of course, Eric Cantona.
we all hate leeds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpaLdsSFAE
5 points behind in december? come on, fellas, we’ve overcome much bigger gaps! are all the plastics that post in red rants moving here? funny how they think fergie has no clue, and rooney is not so great! don’t know if to be mad or just laugh.
i can’t remeber the last time we played leeds scum. i think it was a draw, wasn’t it? i think smithy scored, was a header, i think. lol seems ages ago!
Keano – It was 21st Feb 2004! It was 1-1 Scholes scored ours with Smudge getting the Scum goal!!! Not a great result at home, but Kleberson did start so maybe not so bad!! Keane got the winner in the earlier league game at Elland Road (Fletcher playing in the middle, No Kleberson!) We also managed to beat them in the league cup that season 3-2 , again at Elland Road….the only surprise with that game was that our goals came from Djembe Djembe, Bellion and Forlan….Go figure!
jellybean
oh yea that scene in paranormal activity was so chilling a greatt horror, and for the first time in a while thats scared me.
King Eric
I am not bothering listening 2 that crap, king dont bother listening to that I am just relaxing not letting those comments piss me off. they could not do it with ronaldo there now hes goneyet they forget we should have had a penalty their free kick was not a free kick, drogba not only fouled brown but he was offside add the fact they were outclassed. we will see when they got to play united and they got to go to anfield and some of their team is on african nations cup and their team is not exactly young.