Ahead of our game, Sir Alex Ferguson has explained why Patrice Evra has been wearing our captain’s armband for most of this season.
Nemanja Vidic is our captain but has spent most of the season injured, meaning Evra has filled in. Ferguson gave Evra the responsibility because of his fitness and his personality.
“Someone playing all the time should be in the forefront to be captain and that was the case with Patrice,” said Ferguson. “He’s a very popular player with a good personality, which is important if you’re captain of a club like ours. He’s very friendly and has a good sense of humour, but he’s also quite a determined lad. Rio Ferdinand would have been captain if he hadn’t had all those problems with injuries at the time. Patrice is not as voluble as Rio, but certainly influences a lot of things, and his own performances have been very good.”
Evra will wear the captain’s armband on Saturday against Liverpool in the FA Cup. The last time he was at Anfield, Evra was racially abused by Liverpool striker Luis Suarez. Liverpool responded to this by wearing t-shirts in support of their player and the manager, Kenny Dalglish, continued to insist his player was innocent, despite being found guilty by an independent commission. Given the club are in complete denial over what their player did, Evra is likely to be on the receiving end of some more abuse for Anfield crowd at the weekend.
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Fucking Quenn Twatty and the Klu Klux Kop will be out in force this weekend guaranteed Pat will get booed along with there customary racist chanting CUNTS. best thing you can do Pat is fucking beat those bitter dipper cocks and they will get theres at OT in a couple of weeks.
just looking forward to it. and for evra hope he can handle the abuse he surely will get but i think if one player can do it he will.
Evra seems to take the armband well. Really steps up his game in my view.
Some are saying Phil Jones could be back in the line up but I am skeptical. The lad has been playing most every match and probably needs a rest.
Hope we get a couple of good goals tucked away and put this to bed.
Evra, last minute into the kop to win the game, the same as O’Shea did. That would make my weekend!
Hmm Evra scores the winner or makes an assist right in the dying minutes in front of the Kop end, that would be just fantastic, and rub some more salt in those racist scums’ wounds
I’m absolutely delighted with the Gaffer’s decision about that.
Evra is my favourite player. If u are a United supporter, I think you should be grateful to have a such quality left full-back in the squad, ‘cos there isn’t so much in the world football in that category!
Just hope Paddy knows and understands the depths the Kop will sink to, and the heights of leadership he will have to demonstrate , to overcome these people . I do not envy him ! Im not going to worry about the result . Lets hope we get no more injuries and with the moral high ground still intact.
I guess Saturday would be the perfect day for Pat to score his first FA Cup goal, eh?
Popular he may be, but to be honest, I don’t know how influential he is on the pitch. He has lapses of concentration and that affects the others. But if we don’t want to keep passing the armband around, he’s as reliable as they come. You have to admire him for never getting injured.
That being said, I have a feeling he won’t play on Saturday. It’s a great tactical move as well. Take the sting out of the scousers.
wilkymufc
If that happened it would make my season!
Played well at Arsenal. Not many options for capo. If Fletch was around, he’d be my choice while Vida’s out. The other choices are Rooney and Rio. If the latter could stay fit, maybe he would be captain.
Well done Captain Patrice Evra!
Your stars are well earned, so United now looks to your leadership.
Lead on sir, to glory!
SAF is spot on imo. also wish he scores or assists a goal in Fergie time.
I think Pat is the kind of guy who will be able to ignore the scousers and get on with his game. He’s a wind up merchant and I love him for that so he’s used to taking abuse, particularly off the Arsenal fans. Obviously the abuse he’ll be subjected to on Saturday will be like none other and he’s done absolutely nothing to warrant it this time, but I’m confident he won’t let it affect him.
Costas – Hello mate. I have to disagree, I am pretty sure Evra will play. Who else is there!!! Fabio? Very unlikely throwing him in at Anfield after very little foootball. It won’t bother Pat, he will rise above it.
Heard Brazil the fat Alky on talksport saying Stevie Me was “immense” last night. Irani the arse licker agreed. I thought Gerrard was poor last night to be honest.
Hey up BigPhil Where you been pal?
I’m actually really worried about our situation with Vidic. Vermaelen had the same injury for Arsenal and he’s become twice as injury prone afterwards. Are we gonna have the same problem with Nemanja :S
Can you imagine if Pat scored on Saturday? Hahaha it would be priceless.
Haha @ Gaz – Klux Klux Kop.
Every LFC supporter I know with so much as a fucking TAN won’t be allowed to live all this bollocks down. Kenneth may have bought himself a reprieve in the League Cup but his twittering days at Anfield are numbered, the silly old twat.
As for Alex commending Patrice, he’s spot on of course. I disagree when people say Evra has “been shit” recently, if anything he hasn’t been as amazing as we’ve come to expect imo. But the bigger question is this lads – WHO in the league has been better at LB than Paddy? Since he forced Heinze out only Ashley Cole or Baines have been anywhere near him, and Paddy is hands down a better player than both those fellas – Long may that continue until the Da Silva brothers are able to match the Frenchman’s level of consistency, no small feat I think we’ll all agree. Captain Paddy is fucking class.
utd_fc @ 13:34: “I’m actually really worried about our situation with Vidic. Vermaelen had the same injury for Arsenal and he’s become twice as injury prone afterwards”
Good point – CaptainVidic is also relatively “old” and his recovery will also be affected by that.
For all the talk about getting more midfielders – and there has been a lot, including all the blather concerning Pogba/Morrison – the real pressing concern is for a quality “replacement” for CaptainVidic. Clearly, MrJones is better suited to being a box-to-box midfielder and it would be “square peg/round hole” strategy to keep trying him at either right back or central defence. BigManSmalling is an outstanding “replacement” for Rio – he was the glue that held together UTD’s defence in the match at TheEmirates. SO, it’s not a matter that SAF has made two signings and got one of them right but, rather, one of the guys was the right guy but for the wrong reason ! Hardly a problem. Getting the right guy for the right reason to partner BigManSmalling is going to be a challenge but, fortunately, it’s not an urgent matter – Jonny Evans gets waaaay too much criticism; he’s perfectly “competent” BUT, of course, UTD want a central defender who is more than that.
@Κing Eric
Hi mate. I am sure Pat won’t mind. He’s a wind up merchant in his own way and he’s been to hostile places before. I am not concerned about him coping. The problem is that Saturday’s game will be very physical and he’ll get his fair share of tackles. I’d hate to lose him for any period of time.
That also goes for the likes of Carrick, Valencia and Rooney. No point in wasting them in a competition that we are not likely to win? 3 competitions is too much for a club with out injury problems.
This is a kinda old quote? No or is it new? feels like DeJa Voo.
Anyways Sir Alex is spot on though.
Patrice is a liability at time and unreliable this season but theres no doubting his commitment and captaincy.
He and Vidic are an inspiration to lads looking to become the next big thing at Utd. They joined 6 yearsa go and now their heroes. A bad debut and then carling cup winners, the rest is glory filled history.
Come on Patrice, Kiss the badge in front of the kop or do a “you smell” hand gesture at the scouse skinheads.
@Denton – not real worried about the rehab to be honest, the aggresive HGH therapy and other peptide coctails that they use nowadays have done wonders to reduce rehab time and increase the likelihood of full recovery. In the NFL you see RBs, WRs and CBs tear up their ACL or even all 3 knee ligaments in ways that in the past may have ended their careers but now they’re back at full speed 6 months later and showing no signs of the injury.
Evra will score. A hatrick.
it will be a good game, they will be on a high from beating City, hopefully a bit worn out as well, but they don’t play too many games so expect a tight match.
Phill Jones is not a miss for me, his performances recently have been poor defensively and he is nowhere near the level of Rio or Vida or even Smalling and Evans, he would be a liability in this game. He needs some time to just train and get his game right away from the spot light and there is also the question of finding a proper position for him and sticking to it if he is not to be another utility man like O’Shea.
Nani is a huge miss if he does not play as his trickery and pace will be missed. They will close down on the wings but Valencia and Nani on their day can do the business. Expect it to be a rough tacking game. Expect Valencia to be our key attacking outlet and Welbeck our main goal threat.
At the back, Bellamy and Gerard will be a handful. I expect Liverpool will score. Which means we need to score more than one goal.