Sir Alex Ferguson has looked ahead to this weekend’s game against Chelsea, playing at a ground which has typically been a difficult place for us to go. Whilst we’ve beaten them there in the Champions League, we haven’t won in the league at Stamford Bridge since 2002, when Scholes, Nistelrooy and Solskjaer scored in a 3-0 win.
In recent years, big decisions have gone against us and have been costly, but after going on equal points with City at the at top, Ferguson is keen for us to get a win on Sunday.
“We’ve done very well away from home this season and we need to be good from now on,” he said. “We’ve got some really important away games in the run-in – Chelsea, Tottenham and City. They’re going to be crucial games. Games at Chelsea in the last few years have been tough and we’ve had terrible luck there which has caused us disappointing results. But the players know what they need to do. They know their responsibilities and the standard and expectation at the club, and they have to carry those things with them when they go into games.”
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I think we’ve got the 3 points. Chelsea have been poor this season and Torres can’t score. Drogba’s off to the Cup of Nations isn’t he?
I think he really wanted to say terrible officciating, but the FA would have been all over him. And it’s not just Atkinson. Remember that last season the game was supposed to happen in January (and they were there for the taking at the time), but the game got postponed because a hint of snow appeared outside Stamford Bridge!
And yeah, we did win there last year, but it’s still 10 years without a league win.
drogs already at the cup of nations
the way we’ve played since scholes has come back has been much improved, hes added some real impetus and drive in the center again & with the way the rent boys are currently playing we should hopefully tear them a new one, no cashley for them either Tony V is gonna masacre these rentboy cunts down the right
cant fucking wait for this game
STFU, you whatevers!!! Everytime we say something like this, we end up losing! Fingers crossed in fucking knots!!
Let’s hope we forget that on Sunday and just focus on playing better football than them. There’s no reason why we shoudn’t win the game outright.
We must not analyze this game too much after Sir Alex has his say. Don’t want to jink it though we know we are the better team and our away record is very good this season. Much depends on whom the officials are for the match. Anyone know.
Could be quite a few players returning from injury hopefully,that will be the deciding factor this weekend.
Players I’m really looking forward to watching : Scholes + Carrick (in their recent form and combo, they’ve been damn good) and Tony V. Oh man, he’s going to tear apart Chelski’s defense.
As long as Rowan Atkinson isnt the ref we could get a result there. Also that peanut of a linesman who gave those decisions against Smalling last game. Hopefully those two will be elsewhere fucking each other up instead of us.
Please stop all this talk of how we’re gonna tear Chelsea apart, how Torres can’t score etc. Do you want to go into this match full of over confidence, like we did with Blackburn? Fans bragging before games usually don’t look back at what they’ve said when it all goes horribly wrong, but if Torres does score, and he’s got quite a good record against us, I know who to blame!Not that I’m superstitious or anything.
Scholes has played like 160min of football in a week nw so I don’t tink he will be considered on sunday,will be giggs-carrick.valencia shld run riot,even if the equally strong malouda plays at left back for chelsea.have never bin one to feel ova confident wen we go to d bridge,buh seriously we shld win this.3-0 I pray
It was Ole got the other one? Thought it was Giggsy!
Marro got mail! That was for Jeet.
No Giggs just set it up.
Costas – Ha. Yes mate. I remember Scotts photo of the Bridge and the surrounding areas and there was fuck all snow!
Referee for Sunday is Howard Webb.
http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/match-official-appointments-4-6-feb.html
The game postponed was before Christmas. It was snow joke.
Howard Webb being chosen for that game doesn’t make me sleep any easier. He’s been making more and more high profile errors since the WC final and he’s also trying his level best NOT to be favorable towards United.
@King Eric
Hi mate. Not to mention that Luiz and Torres were available to play in the rescheduled game. Thankfully it didn’t cause us the title, but the whole situation was a joke.
I bet Ashley has more fleeting thoughts about how Tony’s going to break him in half on Sunday than about which guy Cheryl’s currently bedding.
I never go into any game thinking Utd will lose regardless of injuries etc,this is the worst rentboy teams in years,players just don’t seem to be buying into AVB even the way he’s handling the Cahill transfer is just odd.Everyone is waiting for Torres to come good and no doubt he’s due what’s he scored 3 goals in 32 appearences he’s always fucking due.Not saying rentboys won’t step their game up but definitley there for the taking.
Agree with Costas refs have been fucking us over recent years,the offside Drogba goal still kills me,fucking yard offside and wasn’t flagged
Fergie is wrong, luck had nothing to do ith our defeats against the rent boys. Refs cheated us on at least 3 occassions!
Our lads are long overdue a win at Stamford Bridge.
Rentboys have indeed stunk royally lately but nowadays they’re like Cesspool – against United, they could easily move up two gears and play great…then go back to being shite against friggin Norwich City.
No doubt the refs screwed us in several matches against the Rentboys but nevertheless we cannot whine about it, least of all the team. We’re United…we gotta be classier than the rest of the pack.
Reds oughta take a page out of Derek Jeter’s book.
We are due a win at the bridge in the lge and I strongly believe that this is the BEST TIME to be facing Chelsea. I think we will get the win this time.
Hi folks. Is it just me or are the majority of the bad decisions in games going against manchester united. I have gotten into the habit of making notes for whenever a bad decision goes for or against us (and i am only talking about blatant error here, ala Evra’s double tackle, but no penalty given). In the last game it was 9-3. Before that 7-2. My girlfriend has just recently got into football. and A few matches ago she kept on asking me why the ref was giving a foul for a united player pushing another team’s player, but not when it was the other way round. I am amazed at how “normal” it has become for united fans to accept such shocking decsions. Any other club would be in uproar at the treatment we get week in week out.
we’ll win it which my opinion is based on the rentboys current form. but playing at their backyard should make them step on the gas, don’t need faulty decisions from the referee, just a clean match of tony v mauling the left back will do. nani will score in a 2-1win for us.
just watch out for sturridge… the lad has a run!
Remember Fergie wrote:
‘After the Arsenal game, one of the London papers said we were the worst United team they had seen, and I noticed Alan Hansen was at it again, saying we had not played well for one-and-a-half years. I reckon that comment goes alongside his claim a few years ago that you don’t win anything with youngsters, and you know how he ended up with egg on his face after dismissing the Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Gary Neville crop of kids so foolishly.’
Hansen replies:
“I really don’t know where that has come from. I never said that at any stage. What I said was that, over a period of 18 months, they haven’t been as good as they have been in the past. I have also said if you take the three teams at the top, United have consistently played worse than Spurs and City. But it is to their credit that they are where they are and they will be the team to beat. In 1995, I said you can’t win anything with kids. In 2012, I never said you can’t win anything if you are hopeless.”
Hansen is a gibbering gimp. I wish he’d swallow the ball.
“…it is to their credit that they are where they are…”
And what is the reason behind that, Hansen??? Superior squad quality? Better management? More resilience to defeat?
Hansen’s blind prejudice against United prevents him from asking the important question – if United really are that bad and still at the top, imagine how far behind the pack would be if United played at their best. How much could United have achieved if they didn’t have this many injuries???
I dont have the words or the energy to describe how much I hate the world we live in. There are just far too many incompetent people who get a podium to express their unqualified opinions. The words “pundit” and “expert” have been ass-raped into the gutter. And the incompetence isnt in just one industry, it’s everywhere…government, corporations, schools, hospitals, sports, you name it.
UGGGHHHH!!!
We must approach the wounded animal that Chelsea is with caution. Drogba has had very good results against us and can strike like a cobra. Torres will get up for this one as he knows if he scores it will erase many derisions against him. SAF knows this and will be well prepared. We have a solid matchup and mental advantage going into this fixture if our key players are fit. The team must play with patience and discipline. AVB will over coach and micromanage as usual. And that is in our favor unless the Chelsea veterans ignore him. We have to let them make mistakes and punish them for it. It’s on !
I forgot Drogba is at the AFCON. Better for us.
@Saad 13:54 I am a huge Yankees fan, since 1977. In New York they don’t say “Jeter” they say “Jeeda”
Lonestar
Completely agree mate, im concerned that we seem a bit giddy! We have not hit top form yet and still have crippling injuries. Chelsea is a massive game for us and as SAF points out we have had such bad luck down there.
@LoneStarRed
Just saying this coz of your screen-name but aren’t you from Texas??? If you are, you’re the first Texan I know who likes the Yanks.
On a side note, this Sunday, the only time my heart will be a color other than Red is Big Blue!
Saad
This is a football site dont go palutnig it with your passion for Handball. Ps I fancy the Patriots
@Saad
Born in London , SW19, Wandsworth. I grew up in NYC. I left after High School and I have the sense not to go back. For me it’s a great place to visit…not live. Been a Bombers fan since ’77. Been through it all with them…still don’t like the Dodgers… tells you how far back I go, Munson’s plane crash, Craig Nettles, Goose Gossage, the Royals were actually a team to be feared once, Reggie Reggie Reggie, Holy Cow, hated Steinbrenner so much in the 80′s I supported the Mets for a while, Jessie Barfield ..what a bust just like Fernando Torres, it goes on and on.
Texas is my adopted home. After I left the Marines I settled here. Cities, wide open spaces, beautiful women, manly men not girly men, guns, low crime, lots of commerce, low taxes, law and order, old fashioned values. What’s not to like?
I hope the Giants CRUSH pretty boy and Belichek. No Mercy!
Saad – Cole suspended mate!
smartalex – Hello mate. Good to see you back pal. Hansen is a fucking cunt but was a boyhood United fan. I am sick of this United are shit nonsense. Why the fuck did we win the league by NINE points then and are joint top despite the crippling injuries. Fucking idiots. The table doesn’t lie. Some of our recent games the passing has been slick and we have dominated games.
Take last nights “Your on Sky Sports”. Fucking Cundy wanking over Spurs for beating Wigan. We beat them 5-0 with a ridiculous line up on boxing day. He also said its a poor United. Then what the fuck are the rest of the league. Keep hearing City “are missing Toure”. Oh boo fucking hoo. ONE player. We have had entire starting line ups out but NOT ONE CUNT mentions this. Even a Newcastle fan called in to talk about “hIs club” yet finished with “I don’t rate United”. Err whats that got to do with Newcastle you thick jealous cunt. It is fucking them off bigstyle that despite losing Edwin and Scholes albeit temporarily , HUGE injuries they all expected us to finish mid table or summat yet here we are joint fucking top. They hate it!!!
Saad – spot on mate at 3.16pm
King Eric @ 3:16: why do you let those guys get on yer tits ? It’s their job to do that and you are ( indirectly ) keeping them in business. Let them stew in their bile after Giggs12Gerrard0 changes his moniker.
@ King Eric
I say let them disparage us. It gives us positive strength, unlike LFC, and causes them to underestimate us. I expect we will never get full plaudits due to the widespread ABU virus. So be it. “Superiority lies with he who is reared in the severest school.” We are seeing that in Womancini’s cracking and AVB coming to full realization of what he is up against.
The link below is of Womancini after the loss to Everton. Could he be more uncomfortable? At least he seems to be learning that complaining only only gets more ridicule piled on him. He looks fresh from an ass chewing by a certain sheik. Frankly, I think he realizes that if he doesn’t deliver the goods he is history. It is quite delicious to watch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16695861
@Giggs12Gerrard0
Lol! I respect you for calling it handball. But as far as rooting for the Pantsy Pats is concerned, you can go fall off a tree!!!
Big Blue all the way on Sunday, but United’s my first love always!
@LoneStarRed
Clearly a big age gap between us, no disrespect. My love for the Yanks and Big Blue go as far as ’86…a childhood experience that has stuck with me ever since. Dont know what I’m having to go through just to get the SB telecast all the way out here.
Speaking of London, I still have family all over SW17, my whole paternal side. Some great memories whenever I visited them.
@King Eric
So I guess Tony V won’t be getting charged with assault and battery this Sunday. Awww shucks!
@Denton
Why, you think they’ll get any wiser when he changes it to “Giggs13Gerrard0″ ???
King Eric – they are all junkies, hiding from the real world in a deluded trance fueled by regular bursts of insane claims that United are on the wane. Years of overdosing on the same poisoned opiate of false hope followed by dismay has ravaged the sanity of the wretched ABUnati. They love themselves too much to care what others think. Lies and laughable claims are dispatched without care for their obviously deluded hatred.
To listen to Hansen you would think that United have had a poor team for years, and his team Liverpool, Chelsea and City have been carrying the flag for England. Hansen believes his own insane version of life. We see his lies, and can only laugh; but he is best avoided like the plague. His insanity is unsanitary, his vanity in vain.
Dirty, lying, self-adoring, blinkered puppet of the losers (ie ABU)
Saad
They won’t get wiser but as united collect our 20th trophy the cunts will be stewing.
Giggs13 no fucker best steal it haha
Smarty
Dixon, Hansen, lawrenson I actually don’t mind as all had great careers. Who the fuck is Cundy like he is some kind of rent boy legend. He is a fat fucking disgrace. I love how since the Russian crook came in ‘ Chelsea legends’ have appeared like cundy and that brylcreme using jockey Minto.
I expect us to win on Sunday. I’ve expected us to win there last season and the season before when we had the better team, playing better football and they were playing fairly poor. Not taking anything for granted, Torres always ups his game and should have had a brace at OT this season, luckily he wasn’t wearing his Lucky High Heels.
Its a bonus Cashley is suspended as he also always plays well and I hate to say it, he’s not a bad left back and dangerous in a counter attack.
COME ON REDS!
King Eric
Hi mate. One day I’ll pay someone to go and Punch Cundy for you.
Jiggy
I see Hansen on TV here, but not Cundy. I’m happy to hate him on your say so!
I’ll be putting a fiver on Torres to score Sunday. Fuck it I’ll go a tenner for the fucker to get one.
Reckon we’ll win. Huge game in my opinion. Will really give the bitters the hibbeejibbees if we do.
Just heard Torres’ Grandmother has been killed in a car crash. He might be missing on Sunday. Rather him miss due to injury, football aside and really sorry to hear that. RIP.
Lone Star Red and Denton davey – Yeah true lads. Ha. yeah that Mancini interview was quality. He is doing a Keegan. Is that the REAL Denton? Capital Letter. “yer tits”. Not like the usual words of denton!!
James – Hello mate. Could have done it myself prior to the Rentboy game this season as the cunt was 2 yard away at the lime bar. To be honest though he was considerably bigger than me! Looks small on telly but pretty big in real life!
Giggs12 – Ha. I know mate. Cundy wasa fucked off by the Chav’s but makes out he is a Chelsea legend! God I dislike Minto. Looks like he needs a good meal the thin, greasy pasty faced prick.
James21 – Oh thats bad news if true pal about his Grandma.
2Evra Rio Evans Owen Nani Berbatov Roo Giggs Smalling Park Hernandez
Vidic Carrick Young Cleverley Fletcher Valencia Kuz Lindegaard Scholes DeLaet
U21 DeGea Jones Rafael Fabio Welbeck
EPL 21 man roster:
Evra Rio Evans Owen Nani Berbatov Roo Giggs Smalling Park Hernandez
Vidic Carrick Young Cleverley Fletcher Valencia Kuz Lindegaard Scholes DeLaet
Also available U21s :
DeGea Jones Rafael Fabio Welbeck
MUFC U18s FA Youth Cup
United 2 Swansea 0
2 Goals in rapid succession by Barmby and vanVelzen
ComeOnUREDS
King Eric @ 19:11: yessirree, it’s me – ” yer tits” was added to give the comment some real Mancunian piss ‘n vinegar. It’s GroundHog Day here on the warm, sunny Pacific coast of Mexico but when I woke up I saw my shadow so I’m not going back to TheGreatWhiteNorth for six more weeks. Age has it’s privileges.
Meanwhile, I’m looking forward to reading Scott’s comments about Morrison AND, of course, some payback at TheBridge on Sunday – if not for that fukwit ( akaMartin Atkinson) TheLads would now be on course for an unprecedented six-peat. It’s just going to be sooooooooo good to UTD win at TheCouncilHouse and then raise #20 a few weeks later – and it will STILL be Gerrard0 !
United U18a are in complete control as they go in at the half
HT United 3 – Swans 0
Goals from Barmby, van Velzen and Bryne
@ Sandeep
No worries. I took no offense at all. It’s actually quite funny here. Up until last year all the Texas Rangers vs. Yankees games here were sold out with waaay more Yankees fans in attendance. Same as when UTD are away. The home fans spent more time hating on the Yanks than cheering for their own team. And like UTD , Yankee fans are everywhere. That’s what happens when you are perpetually committed to excellence instead of just making money. You win , which attracts supporters, which generates revenue which allows you to get good players and have a good development system and perpetuates winning. So hate on ABUnati bitches. And the Reds go marching on on on.
@LoneStarRed
Since Sandeep was never in this thread, I’m gonna guess your last post was intended for me!
No ways!
LoneStarRed was talking to me!
For those interested in the fine FA Youth cup run.
Todays 5th round encounter saw United running out 5-1 Winners v Swansea
First half goals from Barmby, van Velzen and Bryne where followed
after the break by a second from vanVelzen who had a fabulous game.
Late strikes from Blackett.
Next up: the quarterfinals v either Spurs or Charlton
United are the current holders and are looking good. You lads who havn’t gotten into the youth teams should still be well pleased at the progress.
I hate American football and all it’s affiliates! Love America though.
For those asking: “Why bring back Scholes?”
http://files6.fliiby.com/images/_original/stt8jzdpdr6.gif
smartalex being smartalec with me.
King Eric 16:19 – I agree with what you say . Rather than united not being at full strength, losing several brilliant players over several seasons and juggling a hinge injury list . They are still joint top . No giving credit to a clubs resilience in such difficult times. Envy and sheer bitterness. Fuck em. We are privileged to have all made at least one wise choice in life. To support the greatest club in the world. Maybe not always the best team but ALWAYS the greatest club
@Willie
Watch “America’s Game” on YouTube. Maybe you’ll change your mind.
Of course, I’d recommend only the following episodes:
The 1990 Giants, 1986 Giants, the 2007 Giants, 1985 Bears, 2000 Ravens, 1994 49ers.
Only the best!
Saad only, I’m not smiling like I used to be,
There’s a Saad oh hanging over me.
Oh, yes today came Saadenly.
Why Saad had to chirp I don’t know Saad wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong, now I long for Saad to say:
“Yes okay, glee is a much better way to play.
Come on smartalex have fun today.
Oh, I believe in what you say!”
Saad – Na mate, I’ve tried my best to get into American sports. To no avail! Been to Florida 8 times. It’s all thats on the tv over there lol. The country though, can’t get enough of. The people are real friendly. Love to go back some day.
@ Saad
Sorry mate. I was multitasking at my office and screwed that up.