Following our humiliating 4-1 defeat at Middlesbrough in 2005, Roy Keane had a massive rant on MUTV, ripping apart so many of our players for their attitude and performance.
Darren Fletcher was one of those players and the opinions of Keane were reflected by most of our fan base. Fletcher wasn’t good enough, and as far as we were concerned, was never going to be good enough.
Of course, we have been proven wrong since then, as has Keano, but Fletcher has today attributed the high standards set by Roy as the reason why he is the player he is today.
“I think I’m the professional I am now because of Roy,” said Fletcher. “He made clear the standards expected of a Manchester United player. He drilled that into you and that’s the thing that stayed with me. If you didn’t do something right, Roy would criticise you. If you did, he’d praise you. People never saw the praise side of things because it came quietly – a word in your ear.”
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Legend.
Thats the way it should be. Glad Fletcher listened. Too many prima donnas in the game today.
keano’s fuckin magic! fletch is the player he is today cos of him, no doubt about that. and i’ve been given a big fat piece of humble pie to eat cos i was 1 of 1000′s urgin the gaffer to get rid! darren fletcher….football genius!
Legends inspire younger players who then in turn become legends. If there was a Keano in every football team, football would be much better than it is today; at least, mercenaries wouldn’t exist.
Well said Darren. He could be the key to our League campaign. Tomorrow it will be the first time Fletcher has played in a final in 5 years.
me too in eating humble pie about Fletcherino……thought he was not up to it….what the fuck do I know eh
Roy Keane, Dennis Irwin, Noel Cantwell….makes me proud to be a Cork man.
Roy keane’s a legend and darren fletcher is on the road to becoming a legend.
keane is a true united legend take no shit on or off the pitch.united have a great history of such players. styles,crerand,charlton,robson,keane……………and maybe fletcher still has a bit to do but is getin there
Who were the others singled out in the interview? I remember Richardson and look what’s happened to him. Fletch listenened and put in the hard work and is reaping the rewards. FOOTBALL GENIUS.
D.F.F.G.
And I too must eat the humble pie. I never thought Fletch was gonna make it. But that’s why Fergie’s running the team and I’m just watching them, eh?
no doubt fletch has grown a lot..becoming an influential player now..now thats called keano effect..fuckin greatness from gaffer and keano
completely off topic – but I just took a look at our’s and arsenal fixture list to come, again. And now more than ever its clear that, forget Chelsea, we just cannot afford to drop any more points. Arsenal actually have me more worried than Chelsea. That run up for us looks absolutely terrible compared to Arsenal’s to the extent that I don’t expect Arsenal to drop any points at all. Wow, this is getting nerve-wracking!
I still miss Keane. He was such a leader. Everyone fear of him and he brings together such a squad and play his best match in the CL semis 1999 when he knew he was suspended from the final.
Braw Laddie Darren,Full of guid Scots’s Trait’s hardworking committed unselfish and a proper team player and humble with it.Keep up the great work Loon.Yer a Star*
That doesn’t surprise me, Keano was a hell of a captain.
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@Mahesh
Hi mate. On papaer they have an easy schedule. But they have to go to a few grounds where teams are fighting for their lives. Arsenal struggle in those situations more than us and Chelsea because they can’t impose themsleves in the same manner.
Today’s game at Stoke is one example. I hope they can hold on, given their game in midweek.
PS. Did I see Danny Pugh’s name on the scoresheet? That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while!
And just when I say that, Bendtdner has equalised. Come on Stoke!
Hope Arsenal drop points today.Everyone was so premature to write them off.If they get within 3 points with a win today they will be favorites for the title given the fixtures they have coming up.
On arsenal’s run – in, football is’nt played on paper, you can drop points any where.
@willierednut
Of course but given an option both of us know which set of fixtures we would have wanted United to play
Roy Keane in his prime was fantastic, that unfortunately didn’t include his two last seasons with us. He had knackered hips and knees and had the biggest fucking mouth any Fergusson player has ever had. His outspoken comments lost him his place at United and he was proved well and truely wrong. When Keane made those comments Fletcher was younger than Keane was himself when he had his impressive season at Forest. He opened his mouth before thinking and jepordized the coaching of Sir Alexs youngsters, most of which is mental training. I realise that Fletcher has praised him, as I do my old school teachers especially the stricter ones but that doesn’t mean they weren’t argumentative busybody cunts.
Keano you were well wrong mate, good luck with your managerial skills, wherever you are nowadays.
Arsenal favorites for the title ? You must be kidding.
@ Goat. i think you will find him at Ipswich, and doing a fuckin dreadfull job, not dissimilar To the Crap job he did at the Black Cat’s in the end.
@ corea. here here, wp
@Corea
i am not kidding.Damn serious about it.
@aig alex is god – for sure their team doesn’t look like being favorites, pal.
@Corea
They struggle in the big games but are flat track bullies and get the job done against the smaller sides. Apart from City home, Spurs away and possibly Brum home there arent many tricky fixtures. United and Chelsea have a host of big games coming up especially against each other
@redscot
oh hes still there i thought he got moved on, hes got the determination and the fear factor if you want to call it that but he doesn’t always strike me as someone who listens to others and learns from others.
Who gives a fcuk if keano’s a bad manager, he was a great player. Keano > viera
Ryan Shawcross just sent off, that’s a disaster for US. Shame for the young lad though Arron Ramsay,Nobody like’s to witness that, sickening.
shit
again in february..
He had a go at Alan Smith too, who I always liked. Alan Smith did put in decent performances after that incident and so did Fletcher. Richardson can fuck right off though.
Real blow for ramsey. The lad is immensely talented and will definitely make it big in the premier league one day.
Hope he comes back soon
Holy mother Ramsey! Got Eduardo’d by Shawcross!
Shawcross was in tears too when he left the pitch. Good they didnt show the replays. really sickening
I didn’t see the tackle, loked over at the TV and caught Shawcross crying his eyes out. Hopefully the lad can come back.
people say foot was broken in 2 pieces, i don’t know how i wrote this but if they didn’t show it this was sickening.
has to be proper bad if even the opposition players start crying…
@ goat, yes I know what you mean m8, he is a gobby man, but as everyone will testify he was great(legend) for United as a player, he is one of 15 on my wallpaper desktop, lol.
He is single minded, I think he lost the dressing room at Sunderland as he has done at Ipswich with his bombastic manner.Recall the Irish world cup campaign? Completely divided Ireland, If that is possible. lol
@Corea
yes. Thats what happened it seems. Wont be back for atleast a year.
stoke players look physically shattered.. this is a big moment for arsenals season.. come on stoke!
Great comments there lad’s that’s why we are United, recognise good footballer’s and got CLASS.
bellend taughts on terry been a wanker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhbv1UxjjU
3 points for the gooners then. The title race becomes even closer. Anyone could really win it. Too tight to call.The game with Chelsea on 3rd april could possibly determine which team battles it out with Arsenal for the title.
Lucky, lucky Arsenal.
I just wonder why we are not given blatant penalties as well.
3-1 to Arsenal full time, Febregas pen and a Vermaelen tap-in win it for them.
Big result for them, it’s gonna be nip and tuck till the end of the season.
were back in your ass boys, no glory today though, worse day than a loss, i had to turn the telly off, i dont care what anyone says, that shawcross has to put his hands up because for a centre half to run into such an area in the oponant half and tackle like a train , them tears were good PR
i wouldnt exactly call us luckylucky arsenal today xyth lol
arsene wenger
Good to see you back mate.How are you?.
back in it for you guys and i think possibly you are the favourites now if you continue to slaughter the lesser teams against whom most of your remaining games are
Sad for ramsey. Great talent and he will come back
arsene wenger – 66th minute, again february.
hi mate
im alrite aig cheers,are you feeling good about tommorow?
iv seen this coming the same way i saw the eduardo incident coming, i didnt think it would be the ram, i thought it would be eboue or nasri, the same way i fancied hleb for a bad injury, there can be no excuses this time, alan hansen should take responsibility
Oh boy. Lucky for me, I didn’t watch the Shawcross tackle live. What can I say? I hope poor Ramsey will make a full recovery. Hate it when this happens.
Still though. The penalty was a bit soft. Arsenal are definitely in the title race now. The biggest test for them, will be to win in places like Stoke. Games at Hull, Wigan and Brum might be more crucial than the Tottenham game.
im realy cut up for the kid, he just dislodged denilson, a few more games and he would have been ontop of diaby as well
lol costas but the penalty when they brought down ramsey was spot on and they didnt call it
corea how you doing? its the curse of february, still im glad we won, we could have gone on and lost and i think that would have been it for our season
andy gray is on telly now saying PEOPLE say to beat arsenal you ruf them up, why wont he take his share of blame
@arsene wenger
Honestly I didn’t see that. I was flipping channels and I stayed with the Arsenal game after Ramsey got injured. Walton is an awful referee mate. I wonder why he is still refereeing.
I probably won’t watch the tackle. Was it deliberate? Reckless? Shawcross looked pretty distraught after that. A lot more than Pogatetz and Taylor in similar cases.
@arsene wenger
Villa are a very difficult side to beat so it wont be easy. High time we beat them this season.Possibly extra time or penalties but i think we will edge it
Did you feel something like that coming?.why? i think Fabregas has been targeted a lot by opposition players this season
i have some pictures but i won’t put them here. you are all grown up people and will figure out the links. looks bad.
@Costas
I was lucky too not to watch it.Watching Leverkusen vs Koln
Thought it was a penalty.No doubt in my mind.Think Arsenal will win against the lesser teams.They may struggle at Spurs and City at home.
arsene wenger – not bad mate. not bad.
iit would have been better if we could interchange opinions in a pub with all of the main guys from RoM. it will be an interesting climax of the season.
aig when you pick up your newspaper and hear players talking about get in their faces thats what we will do to beat arsenal its predictable, when alan hansen doesnt clarify what he means by get in their faces its a problem, thats like givin a threat, straght away its bringing the game into disripute, they tell the ref exactly what they are going to do and he dont do nothing about it, what part of football is getting in someones face? the ref doesnt put his foot down in the first minute and these teams get carried away and then cry like victims of their own challenges
villa are seriously stubborn, and they have the knack of bobbling the ball into the net, our draw was definantly a point earned
the amount of times i see arsenal players lay the ball off and get caught by the follow through and the ref plays the advantage and desnt book, its a joke, you get battered for being quicker with a ball, and these teams get the freekick every time because it suits them
lol corea seriously that would be a laugh, im used to sitting in the pub with spuds and scousers, not much utd
@arsene wenger
Their fans don’t help matters either. Last year Wilkinson got sent off after kicking out at Ronaldo and he got a standing ovation. It’s just that Shawcross seemed more like a clean player.
corea its a really really bad challenge on a player that is static, theres no need for the defender to even challenge in that area and especially to go to ground divin in like so
the ones who watched the vid on youtube even Ars fans consider that it was unintentional. stil thinking whether to watch it.
arsene wenger
i can understand what you are trying to say.Well its just this way , some teams dont have enough quality in them to match you and hence the only way for them to beat you is by getting a bit rough. However to win the league you have to get on with it.
I just watched it really quickly. Seems like a 50-50 challenge, but Shawcross goes very strongly in there. The ball is at the center of the pitch! Ramsey isn’t going anywhere.
costas,the ref didnt even want to send him off, thats the joke, he spots the injury then realises he has to send him off, i dont wanna start nothing but all these refs are from the black country, they hear these managers squeeling about let us play our game, and they let them, but when a passing team complains then they are slagged off,stoke as a club are shit, last year they beat us, we didnt say a thing and by monday they were in the press saying we know how to beat arsenal and arsenal are soft, wheres the class in attacking a team you have just beaten?
aig thats true, but there has to be a rule for all, against stoke on the f.a cup they commit 21 fouls compared to our 7 and we got 2 yellow cards to their none,and there wasnt a bad tackle in the game so wheres the encouragement for us to play our game?
seems injuries are going to determine this season. I said it when Cech limped off..
Chelski are gonna nose dive & our defence needs to finish strong or else it will be Arsenal’s title…
Thank you Shitty, for doing SOMETHING right
& hope Ramsey a speedy recovery
Showcross mistimed his challenge just like Taylor.
end of the day shawcross has dived this week and now broken a players leg badly, and he should be charged with both
@arsene wenger
I think he hesitated because Shawcross got a slice of the ball? But in certain cases(like today) that means nothing.
There’s bad blood with Arsenal and Stoke from last season. It seems like when you complain about a team being too physical, they get even more physical.
Get the violins out for arsene wenger, the worlds against us bollox.
lol corea when a player gets a red for a two footed challenge, its because he could have broke a leg, now a player breaks a leg its a mistimed challenge? dont be a phil brown, its a shame ramsey is a nobody,nothing will be done about it
lol wildernut, it could be anyone mate, this is what im saying, its impossible for a ref to play a fair game when two different teams collide, but he has to use his brain at least
Shawcross will get hammerd by the media after whingers comments, the kids not that type of player.
costas this is the thing, we didnt complain,it started 2 days later the row after sorenson gave an interview saying we were soft, but in the champions league some teams say were too physcal, so wheres the border between hard and fair and just reckless? and wheres the border between a ref letting a physical team be physical and a footballing team play without coming under rash challenges just because they move the ball quickly?
it is all over “arsene wenger” commenting in this blog right after the 1-3 result. let me tell you it is united’s title not arsenal’s.
the kids not that type of player? well i think you will find he is
don’t be too exited ‘arsene wenger’
Shawcross turned away in horror.He must have heard the crack. He looked distraught and I just knew then that Arsenal would win.
arsene wenger
i can understand you feelings mate. We felt the same way when Ronaldo was targetted at times in the last few seasons. It is systematic fouling. Every time a different opposition player commits fouls on the same player so that they get away with it
arsene wenger – it wasn’t a two footed challenge, mate. i can’t argue with you right now because all of this shit just can’t be assessed straight away.
end of the day i dont think players should get broken legs, its unfortunate its my team, but same way i dont think players should be flyin in for nothing balls, anything last ditch i could take but diving in like that is just stupid
@arsene wenger
You are right. It’s a matter of perception. Don’t expect anything to change here. Need i remind that a few weeks after the Eduardo incident Ferguson complained about Portsmouth’s physicality and nearly got a ban? This isn’t just about Arsenal in my opinion. There’s just this macho mentality that often leads to stuff like this.
The funny thing is that English referees in the Ch.League are adopting a diffeent style. Howard Webb for example disallowed a goal in the Olympiacos game that he would never have if it was in the Pr.League.
anyway thats an old chapter now, i dont think shawcross should be hung drawn and quartered, hopefully he will just learn from it because shit happens ,hopefully other players will just think twice before being reckless
@ arsene wenger
The injury was terrible but the tackle was not. I can definitely understand your frustrations though. If something like this happens to our players 3 times (Diaby,Eduardo and Ramsey) we would be very pissed.
But this looked like a 50 – 50 challenge imo.
Hope Ramsey gets back on his feet asap. Great talent.
its not just arsenal, its just that arsenal dont have a plan B to combat it, well we certainly didnt,united have more power and height and can mix it better, id say were getting a bit more bottle now with a slight plan b @costas
sinbad, i wont ever watch it again, but he was charging in like a man possed, he had all the momentum required to break a leg and thats all there is to it, he treated it like a 50/50 but ramsey had the ball so the challenge was 100/0
Arsene wenger dont talk crap, im sorry for ramsey but it was a accident.
There are teams like Arsenal, there are teams like Stoke. You can’t have 20 Arsenals. But it’s 21 century and authorities should figure out the way to make the game safer.
wildernut, it is what it is, its not easy to break someones leg, it takes more than just a bang in a tackle, rasey had the ball, the guy flew up the pitch like a man possesed,its fact
Why are people saying Arsenal have a “much easier” run in? Aside from Citeh away ours is pretty good and we normally do well against the smaller teams. Arsenal have to go to Brum, Blackburn and play Spurs. NO games are givens nowadays. I honestly think they are missing a bit of quality. Need a decent keeper and a striker. Stoke were clearly knackered second half and a fit Stoke would have held on.
@arsene wenger
Watched it again. It was just about 50-50. The ball was lost and they were both going for it. Not that it excuses the tackle. Just saying. I know it doesn’t mean anything to you, but Shawcross does have United roots and one would think that he learned better than that. It’s really unfortunate that he lost the plot like that.
I reiterate that I hope the lad recovers soon. One bright point for your team? The reaction was completely different to the Birmingham game. It must have been because Gallas was missing.
i dont think stoke are a dirty team, they do commit a lot of fouls, but when refs continously let it go they begin to get a bit more desperate as the legs get heavier, shit happens, but refs need to cut back the synical fouls where theres no attempts at the ball, chelsea are masters of this game also but obviously they arent fighting for their lifes
arsene wenger – Shawcross did not mean it. Fuck all to do with PR. Fuck me.
probably i am a bit in shock,i dont think it was quite martin tailor,but again i dont think players should be getting broken legs in challenges, i thought we looked quite down an out after that, it was only eboue and bendtner that drove us on
@arsene wenger
Don’t really want to discuss the specifics but my reading of the tackle was that Shawcross lost control of the ball and tried to get it back. It wasn’t under the control of Ramsey. It was a hard challenge but it i don’t think there was anything malicious about it. It almost looked like a collision.
@King Eric
Arsenal’s biggest obstacle might be games like today. Places like Hull, Wigan and Birmingham for example. We have a long way to go and the good thing afte today, is that it’s back in our hands. But we really have to start looking over our shoulder.
willierednut – Spot on mate.
Costas – Yeah I reckon it will be between us and Arsenal now. The rentboys will nosedive.
again lol i dont think shawcross should be blamed too much,he was involved and he probably shouldnt have made the challenge in such a nothing area of the field,anyway enough of that now
costas mate i think thats our hardest game, its so set up for stoke there, such a shit pitch and as small as possible, the long throw is deadly,imagine introducing that to barcelona or madrid in the CL league
“shawcross should be hung drawn and quartered”. Oh do fuck off. You are coming on the wrong site here mate tonight if you want sympathy. He is a United lad so we ain’t gonna condemn him. Well I certainly ain’t.
i agree chelsea will nose dive, they have stoke next as well, i dont think hillario will appreaciate the delap
king eric, that was heat of the moment stuff, read on further
@King Eric
Lol, he said “I don’t think shawcross should be hung drawn and quartered”. What’s with you this week?
lol yeah king eric, what the hell, your doing a news of the world quote stylee on me
United’s fixtures
Saturday, 6 March 2010
Wolverhampton v Man Utd, 17:30
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Man Utd v Fulham, 13:30
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Man Utd v Liverpool, 13:30
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Bolton v Man Utd, 17:30
Saturday 3rd April 2010
Man Utd v Chelsea, 12:45
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Blackburn v Man Utd, 13:30
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Man City v Man Utd, 12:45
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Man Utd v Tottenham, 14:00
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Sunderland v Man Utd, 15:00
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Man Utd v Stoke, 15:00
Arsenal Fixtures
Saturday, 6 March 2010
Arsenal v Burnley, 15:00
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Hull v Arsenal, 17:30
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Arsenal v West Ham, 17:30
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Birmingham v Arsenal, 15:00
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Arsenal v Wolverhampton, 15:00
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Tottenham v Arsenal, 12:45
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Wigan v Arsenal, 13:30
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Arsenal v Man City, 17:30
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Blackburn v Arsenal, 15:00
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Arsenal v Fulham, 15:00
Chelseas fixtures
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Chelsea v West Ham, 15:00
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Blackburn v Chelsea, 16:00
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Portsmouth v Chelsea, 19:45
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Chelsea v Aston Villa, 15:00
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Man Utd v Chelsea, 12:45
Monday, 12 April 2010
Chelsea v Bolton, 20:00
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Tottenham v Chelsea, 17:30
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Chelsea v Stoke, 16:15
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Liverpool v Chelsea, 15:00
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Chelsea v Wigan, 15:00
@arsene wenger
Yeah, Stoke are a culture shock no doubt about it. Given our problems with high balls, I am surprised they haven’t scored against us in 3 games. Anyway, you deserve to be angry in my opinion. I just think that Shawcross got caught up in the moment and didn’t do anything with malice. He will feel the heat though. If a back elbow by Rio gets him banned for 4 games, imagine what the repurcussions of this will be.
arsene wenger – Really sorry mate, I completely misread your post. Don’t I feel a cunt!!
Costas – I really don’t know mate. I have been in a fowl mood all week. Sorry lads!
Thanks AIG. That’s the tough bunch right here:
Sunday, 21 March 2010
Man Utd v Liverpool, 13:30
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Bolton v Man Utd, 17:30
Saturday 3rd April 2010
Man Utd v Chelsea, 12:45
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Blackburn v Man Utd, 13:30
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Man City v Man Utd, 12:45
Arsene wenger his momentum took him into ramsey, ill agree it was a full blooded challenge but certainly not dirty and if think that your out of your tree.
aig alex is god – yeah. quite a difference
@Costas
Anytime mate.
Should have spaced it better. The fixtures of all the teams look a bit jumbled up. Chelsea are truly fucked. really tough run of fixtures there.
costas i think he should just accept the red card and take his 3 games, he is a quality player and it doesnt benefit us him being banned so i really couldnt care if the rescind it and he plays chalsea next week, i just dont want one of them eduardo situations where it rumbles on and they show it on telly daily. im sure ramsey will accept any explanation and wont make any accusations. generally out of every 100 tackles there is a leg breaker, and in every 50 leg breakers there is a broken lefg, its just unfortunate for the player it happens to. ramsey will be alrite, eduardo not so alrite, he has lost that yard of pace, ramsey can chill because i feel he is a player who plays with his brain
wildernut, enough, read what im sayin and im sure you had plenty to say about gallas a few weeks back lol
@King Eric
It’s ok. A.W. is a reasonable lad and he will understand. Squeaky bum time has come early me thinks…
This incident today got me thinking. We have actually been lucky to avoid stuff like that. The most serious one I can recall was Rodrigo Possebon and he was very lucky on the day. Alan Smith’s was something different. A freak of bad luck.
lol king eric its cool mate,its a hot debate,i definantly over reacted with the PR comments
remember that liverpool player, seriously i cant remember his name, the french striker, now his leg breaks were freakily accidental
@arsene wenger
Nah it will be more than 3 games. And unfortunately the media will latch onto it.
I hope Ramsey will come back just as good. He is young and is strong enough to do so. But you better keep him away from the Man United medical stuff. Still waiting for Owen Hargreaves to return. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ramsey returned before him.
Costas – it will be a 3 game ban.
@Costas
Lol.Nice one. As you said if we dont win the league the team that does should share it with our medical staff
lol costas, our medical staff definantly came from the same college as yours, ever since we lost gary lewin we have had problems especially predicting the expected return date, 3 weeks often turns into 6 or in the case of bendtner 19 leage games lol, the case of hargreaves is one of lifes mysterys, the only thing that suprises me is no one on here has threw their toys out the pram about him still getting paid like lots of gooners did about rossicky
@Corea
Yeah that’s the letter of the law, but I wouldn’t be suprised if they increased. They did it for Taylor I think.
@arsene wenger
That medical stuff is a winning team! Anyway, last question before I leave for a bit. What was the deal with Diaby? I don’t remember him getting injured like that?
I know why aig is so pessimistic at times.
He goes to sleep too late 
I am off. A little bit drunk, a little bit depressed and want to watch our game tomorrow as soon as possible. Hopefully in a pub with some mancs.
it will be a 3 game ban and i think that fits the bill because his mindframe might not be very safe even if it was accidental, his mindframe might even require more time out of the line ups
@AIG
Yeah, I still maintain that.
Don’t worry about the fixtures. It’s Scott’s fault! He doesn’t have a bold and italic option for our fonts! Chelsea also have it rough I agree. I think another thing that will play a role will be the C.League campaigns of us 3. They really take a toll as we found out recently.
diaby got a broken ankle against sunderland i think away, in the 94th minute when we were 4-0 up a week before our CL final costas, he was out longer than eduardo, that was a proper bad challenge
@costas, they reckon this is one of the reasons for diabys bad injury records, he spent a year in bed depressed an got right out of shape
Bye Corea. See you tomorrow. Hopefully for our first trophy of the year.
Apparently the whinger wants the death penalty for shawcross, arsene wenger i did read your posts you talk cack, but it could be worse, you could be scouse.
@Costas
The CL will be a factor, no doubt. Hope Arsenal or Chelsea wont have to play less fixtures.The early kickoffs dont help as well at times
Off to sleep now. Good night.
the strange thing about the diaby incident was he walked off the pitch and was stamping into the ground like he just hurt his foot but you could see it hanging off, weird costas if you can see that footage somewhere you will think that geezer must be hard as nails or just unable to feel his legs
wildernut read them again mate, and make notes
bye corea. Good night.
@arsene wenger
Oh really? I didn’t remember that at all. I didn’t know Diaby was playing back then. I remember that I first caught a glimpse of him in the 97-98 season. Thanks for the info.
Anyway, I am off for a bit. Take care everyone.
any predictions for tommorow?
laters costas mate
Night AIG
@arsene wenger
Ouch! That sounds like something Roy keane would do! I’ll make sure not to watch it. And actually, the worse thing today, is to be John Terry.
Here’ a prediction, arsenal wont win a thing.
wildernut perhaps
who would have thought eh? Us vs Arsenal for the title? Well I bet people like Jamie Redknapp feel like idiots for writing Arsenal off everytime they lose and going over the top about Chelsea… (notice they don’t say much about United – thats just the way I like it)
jamie redknapp has such an empty space between his ears spurs were considering it as a location for a new stadium, that guy isnt qualified to talk about football, he was a sideways crab that made denilson look like pele
by the way why is the competition is Spain so crap – Real and Barca seem to get cricket scores every week…
Only kidding arsene wenger if we dont win it hope yous do.
willie, id rather you win than chelsea definantly 1000%, im excited about the game tommorow i think it could be a classic, i cant call it though because i aint got a clue who will be in your line-up, if you start with rooney and valencia i think you will grab the game, without those i still fancy you to snatch it, anyway good luck il catch you lot next time
@arsene wenger
Prediction? As once Hollywood legend once said:
P A I N….
Just kidding.
I am a huge Rocky fan.
lol rocky 3 classic
Adriannnnnnnnnn! shawcross made the england squad.
My thought’s lol when you walk through a storm hold yer heid up high, and dont be afraid of the dark.
Abody is entitled to free speech. i will say is this. My club mean’s more to me than my dog, and that mean’s fucking everything. We have a great chance here lad’s. Shame for the Pedo’s tonite, just wanted the Potter’s to get a Draw at the very least. Anybody who was chuffed with the Bertie’s win is kidding themselves.Look at the fucking big picture please.
Rant over.
No I don’t hate Richard Dunne. But I pity the fool…
Well im of to see if i can find andrain, good nite lads.
Night willie. See you tomorrow.
The Shawcross call up does come as a bit of a shock to me. I know that Capello is exploring his options and of course Rio’s situation isn’t helping, but I think that the last thing on Shawcross’ mind is playing for England.
Have to say – Xavi Hernandez – even at this age I would break the bank to have him as replacement for Scholes…
@ arsene wenger (and all arsenal fans for that matter)
Ryan Shawcross challenge on Ramsey reminds me of William Gallas challenge on Bolton’s Mark Davies earlier in the season – what goes around comes around! You London scum can dish it out but you can’t take it!
The reason your team gets more of these injuries than any other team is because Wenger takes men and turns them into boys via arsenal’s show – pony (youth) scheme. You are honestly the most stupid and pointless team in football and you’ll win nothing until you’re taken over and Wenger is sacked – you need a manager with balls – not one who dreams up endless excuses for your team’s pathetic performance!
eddiethered stop crying mate, gallas’s tackle never left the floor, with your what goes around theory you are obviously a fool, what did alan smith do to get his leg broke? or wayne rooneys metertarsal? or what did haiti do to get fucked? think before you speak
and we will never win nothing until were taken over lol,no disrespect to everyone on here but lol taken over like you eddie?
Ohhhh A.W. you got us there…with the owners lol.
@ Costas… Why do you pity Dunne?
lol LunG420 i never really diss other football clubs, only the odd few ,glasgow rangers, liverpool , this eddie guy is just insane though, thanks to him im expecting nani to recieve a massive two footer taking his leg off soon
EddieTheRed .. you are a twat if you are going to use the Karma argument. Stupid apologists like you betray your white trash origins.
PG ,fully agreed on the karma talk
Bring Back George Best!!!
Watch your fucking mouth.
How the fuck do u expect me to watch my mouth gimme a mirror…
@AIG : hi mate. are they showing tonight’s final in India and if on which channel ?
@wazza (Bezi)
Hi mate. How are you?
yes. the match is being telecasted live at 8:30 PM on Zee Sports.
Sorry for the late reply
@LunG420
“I pity the fool” is a line from Rocky 3.
Oh and good morning everyone.
@wazza (Bezi)
Hi mate. Long time no see. How have you been?
@aig
I have been trying to find in which channel the match would be shown,thanx for telling.Thats y this is the best united blog site u can find everything about united
UNITED FOREVER.
@ash
Anytime mate. Hope they dont fuck it up this time. They said they will show it last year and at the last minute didnt telecast the game.
@Costas
Morning mate.Hopefully we get our first piece of silverware today.8 hrs to go for kickoff
oops, 7 hours not 8
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6 hours and 55 minutes now.
@Costas
Yup. The countdown begins.
Hope we can score today. Goals in cup competitions at Wembley have become a problem for us and the Villa defence wont be doing us any favours.
@AIG
Yeah, I was thinking about our goalscoring record at Wembley recently. Up until the Charity Shield game with Chelsea, we had 1 goal in 5 games over there. The pitch doesn’t help matters.
Anyway, here’s my predicted line up for today:
Kuszzak – Rafael, Vidic, Evand, Evra – Valencia, Fletcher, Gibson, Park – Berbatov, Owen.
Took a few risks as you can see!
Predicted scoreline: 1-0 to us. The fact that Vidic is playing, gives me the confidence that we can shut them out this time.
@Costas
The Wembley pitch is a concern and if Rooney starts he will play there today and again 3 days later which i dont want
I agree with your team but i think carrick will start instead of Gibson.Thats the only change i can see.
Vidic really does make me feel much secure at the back. i cant see us keeping a clean sheet but we will win. 2-1 to us i say
Both of us think United will win. How rare is that
Hehe. Good morning everyone fellas.
Have you read an article in daily mail about Owen Hargreaves ? It looks from worse to worse.
@AIG
Yeah, look at that! A real rarity!
I went with Gibson because Fergie might think that in order to depend on him this season, he must play a couple if important games.
Good point about Rooney ad Wembley. And I thinkt that Wolves’ pitch isn’t in the best condition either. I just hope that Capello is smart enough to realise that he shouldn’t use him more than 45 minutes in a meaningless friendly.
I disagree! We will definitely win.
@Costas
Possibly thats the reason SAF dosent want to start him today.As you said yesterday i am excited about watching owen and Berba play together so i hope both of them start. really feel they can combine well.
I hope Gibson proves me wrong but i think his game has too many areas where he can improve and he has to improve a lot if he wants to make it at United
@Corea
Good morning. Both of us are saying we will win.
Hi Corea. You mean this hey?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1254335/EXCLUSIVE-Owen-Hargreaves-tells-England-manager-Fabio-Capello-I-wont-make-World-Cup.html
If it’s true, it’s quite depressing. I just wish that those reporters weren’t so classless and didn’t say how much Hargo cost for each game. He didn’t ask to be injured. Idiots.
Notice what Hargo says right here:
“I wanted to do well, obviously. I came with symptoms (of tendinitis) but everyone said, “Don’t worry, it will go”, so I always tried to be available. But playing on it made it worse. I wanted to play, though, so I played through it.”
By “everyone”, he wouldn’t happen to mean our brilliant medical team right?
@COSTAS
Hello mate.I agree with ur line up but i would prefer oberton ahead of park.That lad should be given chance and these games are best for a player to develope.i would expect this to be high scoring match.hope we finish in 90 minutes.
@Costas – yes. i was always possitive of Hargo’s chances but this fucking articles don’t help, that’s for sure.
But maybe when we start to be a little bit more pessimistic on the matter Owen will shock us in a positive way? Hope so.
@ash
Dont think Obertan is the right choice.He hasnt made the impact we expected. Hasnt had enough games but he has to develop a lot and is still finding his feet. Also dont think it will be a high scoring game. Not with Villa playing. They will defend for their lives throughout the 90 mins and try to hit us on the break
@AIG
Maybe if Gibson starts it will be in a 3 man midfield? I agree that he needs to improve in certain aspects of his game. I just wonder if Fergie will be despeate to make him part of the first team this season. We know how limited our midfield options are from now until the end of the season.
@Ash
Hi mate. Obertan hey? Well, I thought Goodison Park could have been the start of his comeback to the first team, so who knows? He has played a bigger part in the campaign than Park. I just wonder if Fergie’s criteria for the first XI will be putting his best team or using those who have played the most in the campaign.
LOL. Reading RoM and watching the replay of the Chelsea game during. In the first half when Fat Frank scored Ancelotti was so proud of himself chewing gum like Fergie during his best years. It was funny to look at his face when Belleti was given his marching orders
@aig
Yeah agreed he hasnt made the impact we expected but these are all the games he should feature in.Sorry to say but i am not a big fan of park,as a winger his duty should be is to score goals or to atleast give assist but he does neither. i would like to see oberton play.if he performs well its brilliant if he doesnt then sub him.
@Corea
I hope so too. No matter what the Daily Mail says, Hargo’s plan should be to return in the pre season training for the 2010-2011 season. The World Cup thing is crap. Capello should have learned to play without him by now.
@ash
Park isnt the most effective going forward but i think he will get he nod because he does play these kind of games which will be tight due to the hadr work he puts in.Obertan needs some more premeir league games against the lesser teams. After his forgettable performance against Leeds he has been missing from the team until the everton game last week.
Costas is feeding himself, aig is searching thru internet, king eric is sleeping (sleepyhead), denton davey is sweating in Mexico…
oh yes! Scott is composing another 5 blog entries.
@Corea
Lol, I ate about 2 hours ago. I am actually searching through the internet too.
I wonder if one of Scott’s entries is stats about Berba.
@Corea
i am doing some work so that i can watch the match comfortably. We celebrate a festival so i have a holiday tomorrow too.’Holi’ it is called, the festival of colours where we throw colored powder and colored water containing balloons at each other
Got to be careful though, some people also throw eggs too. Yikes
aig
Oberton performance against leeds was pathetic but park has performed like that in many matches against many teams,yet he is selected.I am not doubting in fergies selection hell no one can doubt in sir alex but what i am saying is just because oberton has performed badly in one game doesnt make him a bad player,yeah he has to improve but a player can only improve by playing at highest level and by that i mean playing in these kind of games.If nani was available then playing oberton or park wouldnt have risen because nani would have played but between park and oberton i would prefer oberton atleast in these games maybe not in champs league
Morning
Please stop sticking up for the fucking gooners. All over the radio this morning saying how they are so hard done by. Get a fucking grip. I feel for Ramsey, I really do but no need to start sticking up for Arsenal. You can rest assured they wouldn’t be for us. Under Wenger their disciplinary record has been absymal so fuck the moaning cunt.
PG – “White trash origins”? Could be perceived as being racist son.
Anyway Gibson WILL start today, Fergie has said as much. Fucking hell the lad scored two against Spurs in the quarters so think he deserves a place.
Just popped out for some cigs and listening to Talksport. You could not make it up. Mick “YSB impartial non-biased” Quinn saying he hopes Villa “smash United all over the pitch” then the cunt’s saying we are on a wobble and Villa will probably win. A wobble? One defeat or two if you include Citeh since the 3rd of January. They were saying how if Villa stop Rooney they will win the game but United need to stop Milner, Young, Petrov etc. Oh do fuck off. Its that easy innit . Stop Rooney and game over. What about Carrick, Scholes, Valencia, Fletch, Evra , Berba or Owen? Villa are a steady side and nowt more. They were awful against our ten men and united’s experience in the big occasion will see us victorious.
Obertan? Good god no ta.
Park of course.
Corea – hello mate. King Eric is not sleeping. Had to get up at 7am .
The Arsenal thing wasn’t meant to anyone here just all the London lovers on the radio.
I think Park looks to getting back to form of late. He has played well against Arsenal and the hammers. A bloody good squad player.
@ash
i see your point mate but it is a final afterall and experience does count.We have made it to the final so lets play our strongest team and win this one. Who knows it may be the only thing we will come close to winning this season? Obertan struggles to track back and against Milner that may be required so i think park should start today. the league games against Stoke is where we can go with Obertan so that he can get some experience. He needs some time and some games, cant just throw him in a final and expect him to deliver
@King Eric
Morning mate. You are right about Park. He has been on a very good run of form recently. As it’s usually the case with him at this time of the year.
We will win the 4th on the trot this season not just the league cup. We are in a great position.
@King Eric
hi mate. How are you?
Just saying that could be the case. Of course the league looks a real possiblity after yesterday and looking at Chelseas fixtures it could be between us and the gooners. Hopefully experience will count and we will prevail
@AIG, Costas : am fine mate. currently busy with my job but always in touch of RoM. hopefully we win today’s match & that will come as a boost to the players in the run in.
@AIG : have you been to the ManUtd cafe ?
@wazza (Bezi)
No, i havent gone there but It is just opposite my office in Phoenix mills in Lower parel so i will go there soon.
I am off guys for good. Good luck to us today and love you all guys.
Bye Corea. Enjoy the game. I hope you will come by to celebrat afterwards.
aig – I am ok mate, how are you? Enjoy the game lads. Wish I was going now but just cannot afford the travel and spending. your looking at 150 quid.
All the best to our team.hope to see a good game and we win it.If we win it would be a great holi for all indian man utd fan.
UNITED FOREVER.
@King Eric
I am good mate. Sorry for the late replay
How far is Wembley from your place?. have you ever been to the new Wembley to watch United?.
aig – About 4 hours mate and no I haven’t been. Not too bothered about it to be honest. Not a patch on the old Wembley.