The single most frustrating phrase overused by footballers has to be “We’ll do our talking on the pitch.” Yes, I understand the reasoning behind it, with players not wanting to talk about the things they’re going to do, particularly when under fire, rather get out on the field and show people.
However, this cliche is repeated time and again, on what appears to be a weekly basis at times, taking away from the sentiment.
Today, Patrice Evra has claimed that our past two results are “just a little accident” whilst Darren Fletcher reckons we need to prove those type of performances are over with, rather than sit around talking about it.
Patrice Evra
“I have been at Manchester United for three years now and this is the first time I have lost two straight matches. I am sure it is just a little accident.”
Darren Fletcher
“It’s easy for me to say it’s only a blip, but we’ve got to go out on to the park and show it’s only a blip. I think it’s easy talking about it, it’s hard to go and do it. We’ll all be desperate to go out and show when we get back that it is only a blip. As I say, it’s easier talking than it is to go and produce results.”
What ever lads!! Blip or no blip I think it’s time to get ur shit together and move on. The Premier League is up for grabs now and it will be criminal if we don’t that trophy in may.
To say I am frustrated is putting it mildly. I have not been having enough sleep since we lost to dippers and the fulham game just compounded it all.
I will not even smile or get a hair cut until we get our next win.
I have a horrible feeling about the title now.
Well I’m glad the players are beginning to address the issue in their different ways. It was getting irritating to see ‘Carra’ and various ‘ Ex-Anfield Legends’ etc bigging themselves up all over the place. I don’t want bragging and boasting in reply , but it is good to see some signs of constructive thought going on among the players, and not just Giggsy, who is usually the one put forward on these occasions. No panic in these words, just an appropriate sense of purpose and determination. That’s the way.
i want us to crush villa
make an example of them
the morale of liverpool will be gone if we draw level with them on titles
cherry
March 25th, 2009 @15:26
well said …that is exactly what im goin through as well…im still not over it and it’s killin me… we need to win it this year
And on top of that,reopens the debate about whether Vida should be in contention for player of they year.Yes i know he was asked about it,but he could have skipped it.I don’t want anyone talking about individual or team awards.The season begins now,it has 16 games max and we haven’t won anything.That’s the proper approach.
I meant Rio reopens the debate.
Focus on the Premier league. Forget about quintuples. We are right in the dippers’ rear view mirror regarding titles. History could be made this year.
Not only drawing level on the number of titles but being the first club in the history of english football to win the top division title three times in a row TWICE.
Right rc7.And then onto the next target:the 09-10 title.Thye first team to do four in a row and we will finally surpass Pool’s record.Ok,getting carried away.At the moment we want 3 points.Actually,at the moment we want a goal.
Im with cherry…since the dipper defeat ive been walking round in a daze….dont want to cut my nails, dont want to eat, cant sleep, wake up in cold sweats, want to start a fight with anyone, a bath has become a chore, told mates to f off, just been grumpy moody and demoralised. Thought the fulham game would lift the old spirits and dampen and soften the blow…hence us fans and our team would enjoy the break. But the result made me EVEN WORSE MOODY GRUMPY AND READY TO KILL ANY DIPPER IN MY WAY.
IVE JUST GONE INTO ZOMBIE MODE. AND THAT WONT BE LIFTED UNTIL THE DIPPERS DIE….I MEAN UNTIL WE START PULLING AWAY AGAIN.
Rather have the game soon so wounds can start healing. But yes….blip no blip…..SAF has to get the hairdryer out…no more pussy footing about. We do lack a general a leader a warrior a fighter on the the pitch in the centre mid engine room ala robbo or keano. But we do have SAF off it….these players who will go off to international duty becum bezzy pals with thier club enemies. Need a fucking boot camp approach i say. I could never play for utd..then 2 days later eat and sleep and become pals with fuckin stevie bastard or terry cunt. Bloody hell i wouldnt be able to stand the sight of them. Off the point…but do one england…international my arse. Utd before anything and it makes me sick our players with those twats playing for the same cause. To me theyre the taliban to the american Army…..IRA to the british government…..Nazis to the jews. This shit just doesnt and SHOULDNT mix.
Back to the point. Fuck the plaudits and records or quintuple bollocks…fuck the media hype and pfa honours. Fuck the rave reviews and what the bookies say…fuck the words and empty rhetoric and claptrap and flast jibber jabber. Its time for blood guts thunder and playing fighting for the MANCHESTER SHIRT AND HONOUR. SIEGE MENTALITY….pin up the dipper big talk in the dressing room. Time for no fancy dans and prima donnas. Fuckin get out there…bloody 4-4 fuckin 2 and lets do it and do them. Bloody mike bassett england manager style.
Such a bloody shame we dont have robbo or keano anymore…cos that would happen…and fans wouldnt need to worry about the backlash and fear the players would have. Thats why someone needs to stand up. Neville in..Rio start fuckin talking…AND LETS GET THIS SHOW BACK ON THE ROAD……COS 1 MORE BLIP..AND THATS IT.
PS. PARDON MY FRENCH…JUST A TAD ANGRY.
I know exactly how you feel Cherry and Suhayl. Wife can’t understand it and keeps saying stupid things like “its only a game” and “its not the end of the world”. Well it feels like that and the worst thing is we have to wait a fuckin fortnight to put it right. I am 100 % confident we will though, as I said yesterday United have far too much class to let those chancers take the title. Come on United!
A positive coming out of the Fulham loss is that it happened now, as opposed to the last couple of games of the season. This will give the players and Sir Alex Ferguson time to “really and truly” make adjustments. The team F-ed up, but better now rather than with 3 games left.
how funny would it be if united won all there games
liverpool won all there games
robbie keane scores the winner last day against liverpool
united win by 7 points
Let me repeat myself:
Up to now – and the season is not yet over – the Berbatov experiment has been at the core of the team’s slower tempo and the marginalizing of last year’s attacking trident. Of course, time will tell but it’s now almost seven months since he was signed and played his first game; he’s been an automatic selection since then. And, sadly, there’s been little sign of improvement and, therefore, lots of cause for worry that this has been a failed experiment.
To put myself in the manager’s shoes, assuming that he give a fiddler’s fuck about my opinion, then I’d say as follows:
1) Bench Berbatov and use him as an “impact sub”
2) Play Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo in last year’s formation
3) Play Park/Nani as fourth forward as situation demands
4) Never play Giggs/Scholes together; and limit their playing time to games against the relegation-contenders in EPL – not FACup/not CL
5) Make Fletcher/Carrick first-choice in midfield, with Anderson as first-choice substitute
If UTD are going to win, win, win then they are going to have to re-locate that pressing, up-tempo, one-touch passing game that allows their class to rise above the mere dross of their opponents. Slowing down play merely plays into opponents’ hands.
I think losing 2 matches in a row has only been blown out of all reasoning by the way Liverpool have spent their last two weeks or so.
They have won 3 games against top opposition with an undeniable swagger. That’s what the daily rags will tell you.
2 red cards for their opposing teams in the last two games. 3 penalties… well, this is what the league is all about, luck! We did deserve to lose our last 2 games and to me that is what makes it easier (not easy) to take.
We have now got to deal with suspensions and injuries and all we need right now is another International break. I hope our players get some rest in between and get some time to compose and focus on what lies ahead. 2 months to go and we do have the squad for this.
If we’re lucky Gerrard and Torres will gain an injury each and that will be Liverpool done and dusted.
I think the way our lead has been cut is hard to take but we still have a game in hand and we still are in control. We don’t need to do the talking in games we need to do the telling.
An exciting road ahead, accidents are always forgotten when the title is lifted at the end of the season. As long as it’s in our hands.
As for Davey’s list:
1) I think Tevez is a better player to use as an impact sub. He has lots more energy and can grab a game by the scruff of it’s neck, where as Berbatov likes to work on the pace of the game and ease himself in to it.
2) Yes. even this season, with those 3 playing together, our football looks light years ahead of anyone else’s
3) Park
4) agree
5) agree.
I see United’s ‘real’ style of football as that which beat Roma 7-1 a couple of years back and with a Berbatov, or like a few years before Van Nistelrooy type of player, we really struggle to get going.
I have to say though, that I am 100% impressed with Berbatov and as a player and individual think he is great.
I will add, that the two players who I am least pleased with are Ronaldo and Nani, the first for his attitude and behaviour when he loses the ball and the second, because he is Nani.
Denton; you must have been reading my mind…. agree 100% with you… Berb hasn’t worked. so go back to what we do best…. Scholseys legs seem to have gone(shame)…. Park should get nod over Nani though….
come on you Fucking Reds
Also agrre with TOM F with regard to CR7 and Nani……. couldn’t we disguise Nani as CR7 and see if Madrid notice……
blip, slip, dip… whatever! Lets just get back to winning and make the others flip!
muah ha ha ha !!!! squeaky bum time ! fuck the dippers !!!
7 points ahead with 1 game in hand and when CR scored the penalty against LFC, I was jumping with joy like a mad man. A possible 13 point lead over LFC would have swatted them for good.
That high feeling had since been replaced with this terrible feeling of uncertainty (indescribable) for the last 12 days (not helped at all by the international break).
On an important note, here’s hoping that we can regain our good form back against AVFC and that if John O’Shea (United’s best backwards/sideway passer) starts, he does not get too engrossed during attack that when we lose possession, he has no time to trod back (he is slow that the word sprint cannot be used) to cover his right flank thus heaping a lot of pressures on our center-halves. Notice that most LFC’s goals against us started from the right flank and our center-halves did not get adequate support from O’ Shea.
Adrian Tan.
Adrian Tan
guys! i know what happened during the past weeks have been bad for all of us… we should have been 13-16 pts ahead of loserpool at this point, but sh*t happens and we got screwed big time… my mates who support other teams gives me the big ‘ur cracking up’ thing. but i juz dont listen to them. i believe in this club.. and that is what is important. i know at the end of the season we will have that trophy… so guys, just believe… SAF will not allow the dippers to catch up…