As argued on RoM, Darren Fletcher has insisted that it was not the team selection which cost us points against Rangers last night.
“We were up against a resilient Rangers side and it didn’t matter who would have played,” said Fletcher. “They would have found it equally as difficult because they doubled up in the wide areas, they didn’t let us cross the ball and, even when we did cross the ball, they had three centre-halves in there to clear it. So, no matter who played against that, it was going to prove very difficult.”
The tactics needed to change and our sloppy passes in their half needed to stop.
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not a fault . he is surley going to back the manger he won to loose his place would he now. fabio park mexico kid brown all played shite gibson was the only player to tired other that nothing. if we dont beat liverpool i will be angry man and want answers why were to a world class team to a liverpool. . fergie talks about the market is to high ozil 12 million van der vart 8 million daviv silva 23 million how that no value market i am getting fed up watching that rubbish and fergie is diong my head in
Flecth can’t say a stronger team wouldn’t have beaten Rangers just like the ABU’s can’t say having Rooney starting against Everton would have meant a United win. Nobody knows what the result could have been.
However the result was due to a combination of reasons. Blaming Rangers for the way they played is a poor excuse by anyone. If United have serious aspirations of winning the Champions League come May 2011 then we are gonna have to learn to break down teams playing these sort of tactics.
Thos 11 could have beaten Rangers, but not if our only avenue to goal was Gibson’s shooting.
Resilient of Ranger can not be only reason why we haven’t get that 3 pts. if I must we used to have fluency in our team 2007 and 2008. That’s open up the defence like Ranger with diagonal run and through-passing! Another is set-pieces which we’re missing a lot! Free-kicks are no longer big threat from us, can’t remember last time we score directly from it! Face up against Team like Ranger we should have more creativity and piece of genius rather than making doggy passes! If we are still hoping them from our golden oldies.. eh..this is not good!
@ Manunited, dont mean to attack you mate but u’ve been moaning at fergie since lastnight and the performance and u need to get a grip for chris sakes man, its not the end of the world. We’re all dissapointed with the result but what can u do? Yeah Fergie maybe should not have changed the team so much but hindsight’s a wonderful thing eh? He’s certainly earned the right to get some slack on the ffew occasions he gets them wrong(tactics or selection) I remember just prior to kick off and a number of reds on here and elsewhere were confident that the team could do the job.
@Alpha, its a valid point to raise the way Rangers play as its a very difficult system to play against. Yeah, if we want to win the CL, we’re going have to learn how to break down such teams, but note that not all teams who set out to play that way will be as successful at it as ‘Gers were last night. Also we wont have to play a major? league rival immediately after every such game in the CL. Hence I’m sure SAF wont rotate as much. We must also I think take the positives from this game which include, safe comebacks for Rio, Brown frm injury, valuable playing time for most of the lads who havent been too involved this season, a clean sheet, and valuable CL experience for some of the younger lads
Team for the dippers?
VDS, Brown, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Nani, Scholes, Fletcher, Giggs, Berbatov, Rooney
PLease Fergie, i dont want to see O’Shea, Park, Evans anywhere near the starting line up
@RedevilsAdvocate if go to every honme and away ganme i am allowed to my opion we were siging on saturday at the 89 minute thinking it is in the bag then we go and leave in two stupid goals . i being following united around the country for 20 years i have never see that happen before and then pay good money last nite while your probaly shiting at honem by your fire nice and wam and i am out in the club supporting my team watching that rubbish. if you went to the last two ganmes we would feel the sanme. i spend a lot of money on saturday and tuesday and took time of work. what do me united fans get boring foorball. were allowed to opion thats what football is all about mate.other wise blogs forunms would be boring mate . i am backing fergie all the way but in the last two ganmes he had made studpuid decsions
Sayyid I see you are including Rooney in your starting line up against Liverpool. Personally on current form I do not think he is not even worthy of a place in the reserves. Last night he was an absolute liability. I hear Jamie Redknapp has condemned Torres form against Birmingham. I dread to think what he would have made of Rooney last night. Rooney should be left out until he gets his head right. Sadly though Fergie hasn’t got the guts to do it.
I think Park could be more useful on Sunday. To be honest, I wouldn’t feel too confident if we played 4-4-2 with both Scholes and Giggs in the team.
Will Sir Admit To Summer
Mistake?
There will be no Champions League
Winners and Losers column this week
but I think we can all fill in the gaps -
the biggest losers were undoubtedly
Sir Alex Ferguson and any United fans
who paid to see the borefest served
up by an ultra-defensive Rangers side
and Sir Alex’s imagination-challenged
reserves.
Even Ferguson has admitted he made
a mistake in not putting the in-form
Dimitar Berbatov on the bench, while
others might add Nani and Paul
Scholes to the list of sorely-missed
creative players who might have
provided the invention needed to
break down the stubborn Scots. Some
might say his biggest mistake was
putting all the creative pressure on
Wayne Rooney just days after not
trusting him to keep his cool against
Everton. But I would argue that his
biggest mistake came in the summer.
After their schooling at the hands of
Barcelona in the Champions League in
May 2009, it was obvious that United
needed new blood in central midfield.
After the capitulation to Bayern Munich
in April 2010 it was even more
obvious that United needed new
blood in midfield. So obvious, in fact,
that Michael Carrick has not started a
game for United since that day.
And yet, United started this season
with Owen Hargreaves, Anderson,
Michael Carrick, Darren Fletcher, Paul
Scholes and Darron Gibson as their
senior, recognised central midfielders.
That looks like a relatively long list
until you acknowledge that
Hargreaves is perma-crocked,
Anderson is temporarily crocked but a
long-term disappointment, Carrick is
out of form and favour and Paul
Scholes is 35 and cannot play twice a
week. That leaves Fletcher and Gibson
as young, fit central midfielders, and it
was that pair that started against
Rangers on Tuesday night.
Ferguson must see something in
Gibson that the rest of us miss. While
Mesut Ozil and Rafael van der Vaart
moved for pennies in football terms
this summer, Ferguson obviously had
faith in the Irishman who appears to
the neutral to offer nothing more than
the ability to hit the ball rather well
from 20-25 yards.
The statistics show that Gibson had
nine shots against Rangers. That, for
those who don’t spend an inordinate
amount of time staring at statistics, is
unusual. Very, very unusual. The rest
of the Manchester United side only had
12 shots between them. It’s good to
be confident in your own ability to
take a pot-shot, but you can’t help
thinking it smacks of a lack of
imagination. If it didn’t work the
eighth time fella, it might be best to try
something different.
Some United fans are already
bemoaning the loan of the creative
Tom Cleverley to Wigan, but what
United desperately needed was
investment in that area of the pitch.
Instead, Ferguson chose to bring in
two untried and untested strikers -
one of whom he had never seen play.
Pete Gill is fond of saying that
Ferguson will have failed in his final
years as United manager if he doesn’t
replace either Ryan Giggs or Paul
Scholes, while Ferguson himself
recently admitted he might have to
‘splash’ out soon to do exactly that.
Not soon enough, perhaps.
Sarah Winterburn
Team selection is not the problem, its just that our players are not good enough. If we have the money, why not improve the team?
@ sean well said mate
@manunited haha, nice one mate, Ilike the way you got in the fact that you go to every home and away game. I’m happy for you mate, see it as a blessing as there are literally millions of united fans who would take your place in a heartbeat if they lived in the country/could afford it. Doesnt make you a better fan man. Of course you’re entitiled to your opinion and I dont think anything in my earlier post suggested that you arent. Yeah I wasnt at the game last night but I just moved to the uk earlier this year and I’ve been to every united game United have played in london this year, Emirates, Community shield this season, and Fulham two weeks ago. I’m not a ST holder so you can guess how much I had to pay for those tickets, oh and I’m a student here! Not comparing what I’ve spent to what fans like you spend following united at OT and around the country and europe but i can also scream that I’ve spent good money and that united must win every game I attend. Like I said on another thread, we have enough haters to remind us of all they say is wrong with our club without us adding to it ourselves.
@sir alex underestimated rangers so did the players the team selection was obviously wrong or we’d have won easily
What is fletcher talking about?
That guy shouldn’t even be in the Manchester
United starting 11 never mind mouthing
off after such a poor team performance.
Using the fact that rangers set out for a draw is
a pathetic excuse. The fact is we don’t have
anyone with creativity other than our 35 year
old scholes and it’s a depressing situation to
be honest.
We used to have keane and now we have to
put up with Darren ‘football genius’ fletcher, the
guy is not MUFC starting 11 level of recent years
but with fergie’s hands tied financially we are forced
to put up with his passing sideways and backwards
but never forwards as he doesn’t have the taken
required to do so.
He would get laughed out of the place if he asked for
a game at arsenal, Chelsea, barca, real Madrid, both
Milan clubs etc etc
Four in the midfield didn’t have dribbling capabilities last night. That’s what cost us.
Sean – You must be shattered after that mate. Typical over reaction though.
why do people keep blaming rangers? i know few teams which play modern football that would have dismantled that team. the team i saw last night had no personality no creativity no imagination the players dint have no swag no footballing arrogance except smalling fabio and ryan when he came on. i really wonder what kinda training they do at carington because i swear the under 18s have more tactical movement and creativity than the first team has, we are so predictable and too static its unbelievable
@willierednut am not overreacting what you read is an artical from football36… by sarah winterburn.. she wrote exactly how i feel about our midfield and that… this from tribalfootball about the young…Gyliano van Velzen first weeks at
Manchester United
……Gyliano van Velzen has enjoyed his
first few weeks with
Manchester United.
The Dutch teen was a controversial
summer signing from Ajax and is
currently playing for United’s U16s.
“When I heard that in all the
newspapers they were writing about
me, I was very surprised,” said Van
Velzen.
“But these things do not keep me
busy, I prefer to focus on my football.
“I always wanted to play for
Manchester United. I came here with
my eyes wide open, but I didn’t realise
how big a club it is.”….. great talent crazy footwork. i thought he was gonna play for the u18s
Creativity this creativity that. How do you lot even define creativity? Seriously give it a rest already. Our problem is that we aren’t ruthless enough, and have not been for some time now.
@Sean: Please Mr, learn to quote correctly, already some thought it was your thoughts there.
I’m getting really bored of this over reaction we get after every game United fail to win.
We are barely into the season and we are renowned for being slow at starting anyway.
Granted we were poor last night, but I doubt this result/performance will have any relevance in a couple of months.
“So, no matter who played against that, it was going to prove very difficult.”
…yes, it would still have been difficult but does that also necessarily mean that we’d have been unable to score? I’m tired of these excuses…balls were given away too easily yesterday by some players, passes were misplaced, etc, etc, so surely it’s not just the rangers?
obviously, I’m still in a bad mood, don’t tell me to get over it, I will when I want to…(and you can’t argue with a woman when it comes to this) ..
While I am not sold on Gibson by any means, the selection issue in last nights game centered around playing Park on the outside. Park is a grafter, a hard worker, and can play a part for United, but he offers no attacking threat from that position. I do not understand why in a game where everyone knew united would do the majority of the attacking you would start a defensive winger! It caused United to get stuck in the middle of the park or on the left because we had no attacking influence from the right. Park should have never started that game and we paid the price for it…simple as that
fergie should punsihed according to this sourc Comment: Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson must be punished / Champions League IMScouting.com 14:33 i rest my case
SB
What the fuck are you on about – every bloody commentator in world football noted how much United missed Fletch in the CL final – no more has to be said – the man has stood up and is pure class – you have to be fucking out of your depth to say Darren Fletcher is anything less than class – world class.
Sean
Seriously – what are you on about – I really don’t understand what you are trying to say – the midfield may have done with an Ozil – but seriously he didn’t want to come – players who don’t respect the value of the shirt are not welcome – as for VDV – never interested since Spurs did a deal at the last moment – so the story is dead – you are entitled to have your say
But come on I’m fucking brilliant at football manager but seriously I am not the manager of Manchester United – the man who is is good enough
man united
Seriously how the fuck can you blame the manager for Saturday?
How can you blame him for what his team did to him and all fans?
Seriously sometimes I don’t fucking understand how you can blame the gaffer. I blame the team for what they did on Saturday – period
As for yesterday whilst 10 changes were probably 4-5 players too many – that team was experienced enough to win the match – they should have done better and no one can say less about that.
However Rangers had a plan and the thing is our plan wasn’t as good as there plan – it happens – United have often done that to many teams especially in Europe and away in the past
We move on – the comments are entirely every ones right to make but fuck me the bite that goes with it is out of order
Blame the team – sometimes be angry with the manager – but to hang him dry for what his team has done to him too is pathetic and smacks of hypocrisy
Sir Alex isn’t privy to when United do not play to their strengths – neither are we – if we are left confused so is he – but whilst some of us just bitch on he is always doing something about it.
If after one CL game and 4 prem matches people are giving up hope – God save us all – whilst things haven’t gone right – in time with a fully fit squad they will click – which finally leads me to saying that now we are one man down in Valencia – all the best to him
I think people are forgetting that this was not the most important game. Beating Liverpool at the weekend is vastly more important than beating Rangers in a group game in the champions league. I’m not sure if this is necessarily a popular view, but frankly I consider the league to be our top priority, by some margin, over the Champions League. So for me resting much of the team for the Liverpool game was the smart move.
SB- You are a dickhead.
Rubish and crap players people on here have written and all i can say is piss off retards.
If a team builds a fucking brick wall in front of their net its not easy to break them down. Anyone who says the players we played with last night aren’t good enough then i expect you to take a fucking good look at yourselves before poluting us with your fucking deranged bullshit. United showed rangers to be at best a 1st division team, United dominated without expending too much energy for the entire 90 minutes. It was a bigger piece of domination Ive ever seen in a match, battle of Britain, fucking hell i know where in britain i’d rather be if that were the options. We were stone walled, Berbatov is the only one in our squad along with Scholes who could have broken down that defence but im not blaming Sir Alex for dropping the players from the Everton debacle. I like Sir Alex was expecting a game of it and without any doubt the players that were chosing to play were and are more than good enough to beat a team from Glasgow. Unfortunately for football and us on the night Rangers stonewalled us. At home they wont play the same way as their fans would not except that play on home turf and we will run out victors with i hope the same players chosen.
I’d like to wish Valencia well, hes a class player full of energy and the perfect proffessional and will be sorely missed.
Don’t worry lads all will be fine, its early in the season and some of the players are only just getting match sharpness together. Please don’t get blinded by the result, be more aware of the performances and yesterdays was very good.
MG – Good posts mate, a bit of perspective is needed sometimes.
man united – Yeah gutted we didn’t get Van Der Vaart …………………………………………………………..
Not. Typically after one game he is out with a calf strain.
Also David Fucking Silva???? Yeh cios he has looked a world beater at Citeh. Get a grip mate.
EVEN Fletcher is getting stick. Fucking sick of it all. No offence Scott as I love this blog but the last few months it has been flooded with fucking idiots as mannyunited said the other night who can barely string a sentence together or fucking spell let alone know anything about the game. There are some great posters on here and you all know who I mean but some of them. Jesus. I am out of here for a while.
Think you’ll find Rangers were in a final season before last playing exactly the same type of football and put out a lot of good teams on the way.So we are not the only team to have difficulty against them.
Before I go
SB – How many of those great teams midfieders have got the better of Fletch? Not fucking one pal.
I would like to know where these people who are claiming that ozil didn’t want to join united and that he didn’t understand the value of our shirt, are getting their information from.Did he tell you?As far as I know united never made a bid for the guy.Maybe SAF felt that he needed to give our youth a chance or that maybe he wasn’t suited to the premier league.Or maybe we really are skint,i dont know.So can we stop painting ozil as some money grabbing cunt just because he joined real.Fact remains that Real were the only team to put in an official bid,so ozil didn’t reject united or any other team for that matter.
King Eric is right. The blog has been getting flooded with a lot of morons in the last few months. We’re getting 400 odd posts everytime there is a questionable result
We played just fine. Liverpool was always the focus. I personally would not use Park on the wing. But the real problem was the poor crosses and passing from Brown and Rafael and the fact that the only shots were over the bar. I criticiszed the manager for not subing Gary and Scholes at Everton, but I really don’t have a problem with yesterday. Could of, should have won it. But Rangers played their game and deserve credit for getting it done. Think they will be more open at home and we will cream em.
Lets hope the first string really gets the game plan to click this weekend. Would love to shut Torres up. What a bunch of crap from him. Can’t wait to here Carra going on about how great we are.
Good article in the Guardian of all places. Talking about the transformation of Fletch. Makes a valid point that fans tend to be very hard on the young players as they “mature” under the bright lights. With Evans Smalling and Gibbo being the current recipients of excessive torment in my view.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/sep/15/darren-fletcher-manchester-united
King Eric – I wouldn’t blame ya mate, some ridiculous comments lately.
willierednut
It’s all the managers fault mate – what the fuck has he done for United one might ask?
Absolutely zilch zero nada – Fuck all
What a world we live in
Even when you have free speech you have complete and utter fucking thoughtless madness
King Eric Don’t go mate. Voice of reason in a sea of ignorance and bile. We need you. So says, I. So say alot of us.
@King Eric
I exoect you to come back soon mate. You know how ROM is. It’s a clean ocean, but every now and then you have to swim through shit.
With a nose peg on lol.
i guess we’ll always have this problem as long as we dont acknowledge that there is 22 man playing
a bit of credit to the opposite team wouldn’t kill anybody thats the modern game it’s not only about talent or creativity it’s mostly about tactics and match plansi really think fergie is the one to blame latyely
lately
@MG: Darren Fletcher is world class…………………………..
Thats the funniest thing I have heard in a long time, if you consider a world class midfielder as one who:
- runs about like a retard chasing people at a snails pace
-can only pass the ball sideways or backwards
-has never beat a man one on one with the ball at his feet
then yes darren fletcher is the most world class footballer the world has ever seen.
The only reason he gets any sort of recognition is because he is ‘a trier’, i.e he knows fine well he doesnt have the talent to play for a club like united and pinches himself every day to ensure it isnt all a dream, therefore when he goes out onto the pitch he makes sure to give it 110% commitment which is great but 110% of the above attributes isnt going to get us too far is it?
I didnt see too many top european clubs breaking the old trafford fax machine with offers for him over the summer did you?
No offers from real madrid or barca, no I didnt think so.
7
Manchester United is for better or worse for life
You disrespect Darren Fletcher – you have no fucking idea about his magnitude and his importance to the team – of course you think you know better – but wisdom is seldom seen from people like you who believe otherwise.
A trier? Grit Determination Passion come to mind but of course you have the football brain and knowledge otherwise
Runs about like a retard – but then in the same sentence – chasing people at a snails pace
Let me laugh at your fucking stupidity and the way you know fuck all about Fletch and football.
Can only pass the ball sideways or backwards
Let me ridicule your stupidity – how you said that is beyond me – a you a football fan – are you a United fan?
Has never beat a man one on one with the ball at his feet
Neither have Xavi – Iniesta – Essien – Mascherano – Alonso – because they are not those type of players – it seems you are fucking over your head
You didn’t see top clubs come in for Fletch?
You are a fucking disgrace – did you ever see any come for Scholes or for Giggs?
For that matter Neville or Maldini or Raul (until Madrid themselves fucked him off)
You are a just another nobody – bereft of any understanding of the game – your players – and your team – are you a fucking city boy in disguise
Go get a fucking life
MG, Good lad. Your our own rottweiler!
Love ya! Here’s a nice bone !)
FletchTHEMAN
Mate you know I never heat up on these posts but fuck me common sense on so called United fans just goes out the window
At the moment the way I feel reading some of this shit – I could do with more than a bone
lol
: )
7, Don’t think there are any offers for Rooney either mate. The virus can talk, but that doesn’t mean s#0t.
Besides, the guts of a team needs to be home grown IMO. When you are playing Burnley in February, lady boys like David Silva and Rafael Van der Vaart are likely to go missing. Won’t happen in our midfield, thankfully. Also, we would be sitting with 4 Champions league trophies IF Fletch hadn’t been suspended. That was a disgrace.
fletch could been wurld glass if he played where redondo used to play
What a stupid comment from Fletcher. I’m sorry but theres players in our squad that would have stopped being so one dimensional in that game. We would have won but unfortunately for us our play in the final 3rd especially Rooneys decision making was a shambles. So as good as he can be on the pitch I’m not buying into this comment. Does this mean now that any team that plays 3 at the back will stop United. Of course it fucking doesn’t.
Well, I hope I didn’t offend anyone with my comments…I wasn’t trashing Fletch…in fact, I’ve always supported him when other fans were trashing him several years ago as I have said in a previous post..
Alex has to buy. We are becoming like liverpool. Weak!
I think it’s Berbatov’s fault. For being named Berbatov.
Or perhaps it’s the 104,387th blade of grass, counting from the left corner of whichever end you prefer, because they are twins and both at fault.
2009 – 2010: Berbatov gets blamed for every single thing.
2010 – 2011: Berbatov gets the nod as the possible saviour in every draw/loss.
Talk about a turn around in fortunes. Or fickle fans.
@MG
Half of you reply wasn’t even written properly but
so I am struggling for a reply if I am honest.
What I was able to understand did give me a
good laugh once again tho.
The sheer fact that you appear to be holding
Darren Fletcher in the same regard as players
such as Xavi and Andres Iniesta merely highlights
either your view of our team through rose tinted
spectacles or a serious lack of knowledge in
terms of football.
I don’t think another person on the planet
could honestly argue that Darren ‘football
genius’ Fletcher be described as world class.
A good indicator of a players’ calibre is when
a fellow world class footballer or any world class
sports person for that matter talks about another
player etc. For example, zidane constantly talking
about scholes, ronnie talking about messi and vice
versa, Sampras talking about federer and
so on. I don’t hear too many truly world class players
talking about fletcher, do you?
Regarding your ‘nobody has tried to sign Rooney’
argument well that’s a worthless observation
to say the least. Rooney’s quality isn’t in doubt.
Furthermore, I think you will find that there have
been plenty of offers for giggs/scholes over the years.
Have you forgotten about giggsy to inter?
I understand that we should support our team
through thick and thin but things are extremely
thin at the minute and as a supporter I have
every right to voice concern at the state of
our team.
A good indicator of the quality of your team
is to ask ‘how many of our first 11 would get into
the first 11 of our top rivals, both at home and
in Europe?’.
In years gone past the answer could have been
maybe 6 or 7, now I would say 3 at the most. Please
enlighten me as to the scenario whereby Darren
Fletcher turns up at the nou camp for a game, he
would get laughed out of the place yet we have to
put up with his mediocre level of
talent every week.
The bottom line is that the quality of our midfield
has taken a rapid nose dive in recent years. Young
players have failed. to develop into the quality we
need and as a result we are clinging onto WORLD
CLASS players in the form of giggs and scholes
who are too old to play 90 minutes week in week out.
Fletcher, Gibson, Carrick, Anderson are not the answer
and never will be.
The Glazers are bleeding us dry but without
investment in the team we are going to continue
to go backwards. Talk of united fans saying we can
win the champions league this year is hugely
dillusioned at best, Barcelona made us look like
2nd division boys yet went out and added David Villa
and Mascherano with fabregas to follow suit, proven
top top quality players, we on the other hand signed
a youngster with potential. Net effect = united falling
further behind.
Rant over
#7,
fletcher may not grab the attention as like your xavi and iniesta, but he is very important in Man Utd. Furthermore he plays in a different mould to ur Xavi’s or Iniesta’s. hes a box to box midfielder, and probably the only comparable player to fletcher in that role is Essien. you dont see xavi or iniesta doing too much defending as the same as u dont see busquets doing much attacking, so i dun see the point of comparing fletcher to these players.
@#7
Mate I have nothing against you but your reasons for calling fletcher mediocre are absolutely ludicrous..
Just because zidane doesn talk about fletch does not mean he’s not world class..i mean, we dont need zidane to tell us that scholesy is world class..we all know that..similarly we know how valuable fletch is to our team..we dont need some x & y to tell us how good he is..
and please do enlighten me as to how fletch,gibbo,ando,carrick are not upto the mark as you suggest??these players were the backbone of our team just a year ago before injuries and a lack of form got to them..
you are making this ridiculous assumption on the basis of 5 games..it simply amazes me as to how fickle our fans are..it’s a long season mate..we have to learn to live with poor results..i accept that we are not as strong as we used to be but that does not mean we are on the decline..
7
The thing is others have spoken so I have no need to speak no more of the concerned subject.
A lot of people know me on here for something – sometimes I may not be right all the times but most of the times what I say stands not just for me but for every one that is connected to United
I choose to ignore you now because if I respond to you I will fall to your level – if I fall to your level I will become you – and if I become you I lose everything i have built up on here
You are wrong those that follow your warped point of view are wrong – those that believe you can buy yourselves to success are wrong
You are confusing what the Glazer’s are doing to the club to what Sir Alex are doing. When Barcelona beat United in the CL final – United never turned up – let alone Fletcher not being there.
Barcelona can do what they want as can city as can real as can anyone – we the real fans do not have time to care for them – we only care for United
Manchester United were are and will forever be built on something much more poetic and passionate than all other clubs
United have a fundamental philosophy of youth which is deeply rooted within the ethical and moral fabric of the club
Not every United fan understands that and most of us that know me know what I mean when I say that.
When people like you and those that speak like you come across the way you do – not only do you disrespect yourselves you do so the club that you go out of your way to ridicule by the stupidity and choice of your words
I have not come across you neither have I sean nor SB – Man United etc – but you have not come across me either.
You can ridicule me all you want – I need not your respect on here – trust me when I say to you that I am pretty humbled that a lot of great United fans on here give the respect that maybe I don’t deserve through what I write.
But that’s all I need – all I need is those that matter – because some of us actually care about United enough to never give up even when things are not going right – the true measure of any fan
When fans like you turn up shouting screaming making pathetic remarks it’s a shame that real fans like King Eric decide upon leaving.
They do not deserve that for they are Manchester United through and through for better or for worse – the first thing I told you which you should have paid attention to.
In closing I say to you This shirt is a symbol of defiance – those that do not believe that defiance or choose to question it United fans or non United fans can fuck off – and close the door on the way out.
This club will never die.
@ MG – Has King Eric left? When did that happen? Regarding Fletcher if he had a consistent partner week in week out I really think we would see the best of him. As it is he ends up doing more than his fair share of work and that is priceless.
I saw the most ridiculous poll on skysports.com today, asking if Fergie was right regarding his team selection against Rangers on Tuesday. Well it’s bloody easy to comment with the benefit of hindsight isn’t it?! They should have asked the question before the match, I’m sure the results will have been much different. My only criticism is bringing on Owen and not having Berbatov on the bench, he’d be much better at finding a way through such a resolute defence.