Five years ago I think I would have cried at the final whistle on Wednesday. Beating Milan at the San Siro was incredible enough but to go on to beat them 4-0 at Old Trafford was out of this world. The fact that I was just really happy though, sharing in the happiness of David Beckham wearing the scarf and Real Madrid getting knocked out of Europe brought us, was a reminder of how fortunate we’ve been over the past few years. I was buzzing off the result and anti-Glazer protests but I wasn’t delirious.
After winning the league again in 2007 I promised myself I would appreciate every single great moment from here on in. I wouldn’t allow myself to become complacent like I had in the 90′s. Every big win, every trophy and every title would be appreciated as though it was the last.
But when you win three titles in a row, with a European Cup, World Club Cup and two League Cups along the way, you find yourself expecting the big wins, expecting the glory and expecting the trophies.
So, let’s just take a moment to get this in to perspective. We just beat AC Milan four ficking nil. However highly we rate ourselves, however much we may fancy ourselves in Europe, whatever your opinion may be of Manchester United, Milan are massive, and only Real Madrid have won more European Cups than them. Their squad is littered with household names in football, with Ronaldinho, David Beckham, Clarence Seedorf, Filippo Inzaghi, Alexandre Pato, Andrea Pirlo and Alessandro Nesta amongst the superstars that wear their shirt.
It was a brilliant result and like our victory over Barcelona a couple of years earlier, this shows just how far we’ve come in Europe. Will we be in Madrid in a few months time? Who knows. But success in the Champions League has become a possible, even probable, scenario us these days and that was epitomised on Wednesday.
We knew an early goal would put us in a great position so after seeing Wayne Rooney go narrowly wide a few minutes in after Antonio Valencia played him in, it was great to see him bury Gary Neville’s cross 13 minutes in. Neville had a crack himself not long before, striking the ball well with his left peg and seeing it fly narrowly over the bar. His cross was inch perfect though and allowed Rooney to score his seventh consecutive header.
Milan had their chances before half time, with Nani accidentally flicking the ball on to Ronaldinho, only for him to head just wide, before Pirlo struck from distance and Edwin Van der Sar failed to gather first time, which was reminiscent of the ways we conceded against Milan in 2005 with Roy Carroll and Tim Howard in goal.
We got to half-time with the scoreline at 1-0 and we looked good for the win, but it was almost as soon as the second half started that the result looked wrapped up.
Nani won the ball in our half of the pitch and raced forward. Under pressure from his opponent, his used his outstep to play the ball forward to Rooney, which curled perfectly in to his path. The goalkeeper, who had been the source of much amusement all evening, looking like an overweight referee who kicked the ball like a girl and punched the ball with limp wrists, correctly came off his line but he couldn’t reach the ball before Rooney. He grabbed his fourth goal of the tie by calmly slotting the ball past the sprawling keeper.
On the hour mark, Park Ji-Sung grabbed his second goal of the tie, with him emerging as an important player for us this season, to book our place in the quarter-finals. Paul Scholes got in on the action, playing the ball in to Park who let is roll across him before finding the bottom corner from a tight angle.
Minutes later, the moment the press had been focussed on arrived, with David Beckham coming off the bench. It was almost cruel to bring him on now, with the game obviously too far beyond Milan and Becks knowing there was little he could do about that in the last 25 minutes. He was given a standing ovation (as is every substitution and every return of a former well-liked player) and the crowd bellowed “there’s only one David Beckham”. This is by no means a unique chant, but Beckham’s place in world football certainly is. I can’t imagine even Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to Old Trafford, despite many naming him as the best in the world, would have created as much publicity. Now all we needed was a freekick just outside our box to have the press wetting themselves.
Beckham’s first few touches were greeted with light-hearted boos, which I’m sure were fairly confusing for the Italians who had just witnessed probably the best received substitution of all time.
Not long after coming on, Beckham volleyed the ball with great power from outside the box, with Van der Sar somehow managing to get his fists to it before the ball took his teeth out. Becks continued to run about and look busy, but he knew it was wasted effort, as did his team mates, who didn’t bother to share his enthusiasm.
To make the humiliation complete, Park did well to keep the ball before Rafael delivered a one-touch cross to Darren Fletcher, who for some reason was waiting alone at the back post. Ol’ tubby in goal spread himself but Fletch carefully directed the ball in to the back of the net.
At this point, you had to think the night couldn’t get any better, but it did. As Becks milked the crowd, saying his last goodbye to the fans that carried him through the dark moments following the 1998 World Cup and cheered for every trophy he helped us lift, a fan threw their green and gold scarf on to the pitch. The anti-Glazer songs had been in full voice since we had gone 2-0 up, with a carefully planned operation allowing two massive LUHG banners to be dropped from the Stretford End and stewards having no way of getting to them. But Beckham’s decision to wrap the scarf around his neck was the climax to this. Our eager eyes watched him approach the scarf and massive cheers were heard from all around the ground as he put it on.
Then it was confirmed that Real Madrid had been knocked out of the Champions League by Lyon, meaning Cristiano Ronaldo wouldn’t get to complete his dream season with his “dream club” by lifting the European Cup at the Bernabeu this season. No offence to Ronnie, I am actually pretty fond of the lad now and am happy to think of him the way I did in 07-08, but of course it’s nice for us to think of him watching us thrash a European giant on the night his “dream club” crashed out at the hands of the 4th best side in France.
Regardless, our manager has called for calm, which is advice the dressing room has already seemingly taken on board. It’s great to be through the next round but the league always has to be our priority, which is why we need to have our heads straight for Fulham on Sunday.
Arsenal and Chelsea play later today and whilst we can hope for dropped points, we need to ensure that we keep doing our job. The pressure is on for these three clubs to win every game from now until the end of the season, so we need to ensure we don’t buckle.
Fulham have a fairly good record against us at their place, but they haven’t beaten us at Old Trafford since 2003. We have won all of the six games played between us at home since then, including the brilliant 5-1 win on the opening day of the 06-07 season as well as the 3-0 win last February which saw us go five points clear at the top.
They have had a pretty good season so far but this is based on their home form, which has seen them win 9 of the 14 games played there. Away from home, they have won just 1 out of 14, which obviously puts us in a very favourable position.
Bobby Zamora hit some good form for them last month, scoring some great goals and managing four in a row. But he’s gone another four games without scoring whilst Fulham have gone that time without winning either.
We’re fortunate that we could play within ourselves on Wednesday, meaning tiredness shouldn’t be much of a problem. Michael Carrick can return in place of Scholes and Dimitar Berbatov can share the work up front with Rooney. Park may be the one to lose his place, because of his brilliant work rate which may be hard to sustain, with Nani and Valencia taking place on the wings. Nani failed to engage brain too often on Wednesday, but did play a crucial part in the game when delivering the perfect ball for Rooney’s second, and maybe that’s how performances should be measured? On what you do contribute rather than what you don’t? I don’t know. It would be great to see him replicate the form before his red card at Aston Villa but we have to understand that is more difficult for him from the left wing.
Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic should get another game together under their belts, Patrice Evra will play in his 30th Premiership game of the reason, and I imagine Rafael will start at right back.
Every game is must win until the two teams near us slip up and we have to be confident our lads have what it takes to get the three points against Fulham tomorrow.
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Three points tomorrow and this week will end up as our best all season. The only way it could get any better is if the Rentboys and the Goons drop points. That too may very well happen- it’s 1-1 as I type at the Bridge.
Fingers and toes crossed.
Last Wednesday was a night of beauty. Couldn’t have written a better scipt!
Anyway, my prediction for tomorrow:
Line up:
VDS – Rafael, Evans, Vidic, Evra – Valencia, Carrick, Fletch, Nani – Rooney, Berba.
Scoreline: 2-0 to United.
Wow, I was the first to comment. I can’t believe I beat GHTT and Costas to it.
@dela
Lol, I never get to comment first nowdays.
I agree that we should treat every match as a must win match. The fate of the League is in our own hands so should not let it slip again.
Considering Fulham played away in Europe last Thursday night, you’d expect an easy victory but as we have seen time and time again, everybody raises it’s game against United. Would be nice if we could get a couple of early goals and settle the match as early as possible so Rooney can get some more rest.
By the way Hammers are holding Chelsea. Let’s hope they prevail.
WE BELIEVE
We can’t afford any defeat at this point of the seaso
My prediction for tomorrow line up will be:
VDS, Rafael, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra, Carrick, Fletcher, Nani, Valencia, Berba, Rooney.
I think we should start both Rio and Vida in more games now. They need to have that extra understanding between themselve before we march into the final at bernabeu as well winning the league..
Scoreline: 3-0
We do struggle after Champions league games but considering Fulham had a much difficult trip to Juventus we have no excuses if we dont win tomorrow.Hope Hull do us a favour. Dont think they will but the way this season is going you never know.
2-1 Chelsea. Can’t say I am surprised.
2 1 Rentboys.
While it stays 2-1 there’s a chance, however small, that WHU may equalise. Much like everyone else, I feel it’s unlikely but we never know!
why are people bothered about Chelsea? they may win today but given their injury problems and inconsistency they will be out of contention in some time. Arsenal are the big worry
Stop fucking worrying about the little fag cunt’s Arsenal. They will bottle it mark my words starting at the KC tonight.
@AIG
Chelsea still have a mountai to climb, but I will take them dropping points at any opportunity. Especially if they get dumped out by Inter.
I think Arsenal will win comfortably tonight but I agree with you on thinking Arsenal will end up bottling it. I still feel Chelski are the major threat to our title.
Normally I wouldn’t give Hull much of a chance, but today they can cause them a problem or two. With Fabregas missing and all…
@Costas
Dont know which way you feel about it but I think Inter will go through on tuesday. both are rubbish so it dosent matter who goes through.
I like how everyone now is saying “wow, I’m the first post”. Then they find out that 2 or 3 others have beat em to it.
Well written Scott. Surely we must beat Fulham at home
AIG
I can’t see Inter progressing through that tie, Inter usually never play well in England and I don’t expect them to do anything at the Bridge this time either.
I think it will help us if Chavski progress though as it’ll be extra games for them.
Hull are fucking rubbish. they are the kings of self destruction. Arsenals tests are Birmingham, Spurs and City but all are winnable if they play well
@AIG
Yeah, that was a bit if a shock result last night wasn’t it? Neither team is in very good form at the moment. I want Chelsea to go through and face Arsenal in the quarter finals, but right now I don’t know who has the advantage.
3-1 Chavski, game over
Ok. Onto Hull now!
@bchilds
Inter usually have this habit of pulling the rabbit out of the hat under Jose and after being rubbish in the league in the last 3-4 games its time for them to get a result. The ‘ Mourinho factor’ will and does make a difference
Well done Malouda. Has been excellent today. Chelsea will go top for 23 hours atleast
@Costas
yup. Both have been unimpressive of late. Dont think it will be an all english quarter. Think it will be Bayern or Barcelona for us.
@AIG
One thing I wanted to add about the Chelsea-Inter game. Looking at the latest English-Italian matches in the Ch.League, you will find out that English sides have the edge. It has a lot do with the tempo of the matches. Italina sides can’t match that. The question is whether Chelsea’s ageing side can do that against Inter.
@AIG
Oh and I have the same feeling that we will probably get Bayern.
@Costas
Agree. United beat AC Milan due to the fact that we have players with more energy who hassled and harried Milan.Hope both could be eliminated on tuesday itself but one rubbish side will go through.
My feeling is Chelsea may win it if they beat Inter. they have come very close in the last few years and have been unlucky a lot of times
4-1 now. They are doing their GD a favor. Until tomorrow that is.
@AIG
Tough to say. I think the tournament will shape up after the quarter final and semifinal draw. I hope we will have a lucky one like last season where we got the likes of Porto, Villarreal and Arsenal. As long as Chelsea fight in all 3 fronts it will be interesting to see how they balance that.
@Costas
People may slate me for saying this but i dont want an easy draw.No point getting easy teams at this stage. If you want to win the CL you have to play the tricky tems at some stage. hence i want Barca, bayern, Inter/Chelsea or Arsenal.
Also better to go out in the quarters than in the semis of finals. it really hurts to lose so late in the competition.the defeat last season to barca still hurts
@AIG
The semi final exits are the most painful mate. I still have nightmares about Leverkusen. The final is also hard to swallow, but at least you get to say that you made it there.
One of the reasons why I would like a straight forward draw in the quarters, is the damn Chelsea game in the middle. Can you imagine playing away to Barcelona on Wednesday night and then at home with Chelsea 60 hours later? Actually this is what happened when we got Barca in the semis and we had to field a few fringe players at Stamford Bridge. But we could afford to lose that game.
Been waiting for this article! Nice one.
Lets hope we can win tomorrow. As for Nani, i still feel that the red card really destroy his momentum. I do hope he can play more often on the right as i still feel he is better there than on the left. But Valencia can only play on the right so i guess Nani had no choice but to play on left. So we can only hope if he can contribute one or two good led to goal pass and we should be content as playing out of position might be too much to ask. With your right leg as the preference leg, ring wing is the best as the left wing makes you think more than your act.
@Costas
Agree mate.It can be argued both ways but that is the excitement of the Champions League.
I Damn the FA. they try their best to screw the english teams with early games and inadequate rest after CL games. Both Chelsea and ourselves paid for it last time out.
Well Beckham has already distanced himself from the protests and Milan clearly aren’t the Milan of old.
They’re easily outplayed when the game is taken to them at pace, most of their players simply cannot live with this approach as evidenced by Inter’s domination of them in both Serie A fixtures this season.
That said still a great win – now we need our defense to stay healthy, and most importantly Wayne – in order to give it our best shot from here on out.
So much for “The Glaziers are preventing us from buying top players”
Looks like Alec, as usual, will be having the last laugh…
Apart from Obertan and Valencia, all that Ronaldo money is still there.
Meanwhile City & Real look like ending trophyless, again.
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christ….arsenal leading hull 1-0…
@Kel
Until recently I didn’t understand why Alec keeps playing him on the right, because even with Valencia’s form I think Nani deserves to start some games on the Right. But now im thinking – if Nani gets to grips with the Left Wing he’ll be a much better player and as usual I think thats what Alec is doing with him. Nani has a decent left and a good right foot, but his right is his stronger. Alec playing him on the Left means that he is able to cut INTO midfield and get the ball onto his Right Foot within shooting range. Also, when anybody crosses with a Left Foot on the Left side the ball swings AWAY from goal. Same with the Right. But when Nani cuts in from the Left and crosses with his Right Foot its always gonna be a more dangerous ball because it swings INWARDS towards the goal. All teams hate defending in-swinging crosses. So as good as Nani clearly is on the Right I think he can become an even better player on the Left. He can always run to the byline and deliver the ball with his left, BUT he also has the option to cut in and switch to his right. He can have more shooting opportunities on the Left and deliver better crosses too. He’ll also be more versatile cos we can switch him back to the right when needed.
Thats the only explanation I can think of mate, but Alec does that alot with his players to I wouldn’t be surprised if Nani is expected to make the Left his own. We’ll see how he plays at home against Fulham tomorrow, but im hoping to see him adapt his game on the Left by starting to cut in on his Right more, time will tell.
1-1….penalty to Hull…lets go Hull keep the pressure!
Come on Hull Campbell should have sent of.
fucking chelsea won oh well miracles dont happeen
Great win over Milan and i expect us to give Fulham a tonking 2morro and regain top spot.
Unrelated, but interesting nonetheless.
http://www.tribalfootball.com/arsenal-ace-arshavin-press-are-destroying-england-world-cup-hopes-699711
The UK Media Machine must seem strange as fuck to foreign players, but the majority of the population see nothing wrong with it. I’ve been saying for years that the Murdoch Klan are the real England Managers. They decide who plays, whose dropped, who our hopes rest with, who we can beat, etc. Bringing in Capello was the smartest thing those dumb cunts at the FA have ever done in my lifetime. He is their best chance of winning anything. Thats another reason why the Media hates United, not just because of our success, but because Alec doesn’t give a flying fuck about what the papers say. He never has because he doesn’t play the “Media Game”, and that has played a big part in our success. How many times have the press written of Giggs/Scholes only to praise them, write them off and then praise them again? Ain’t we supposed to be fighting for fourth after Ronaldo left? Isn’t Rio, who was fantastic against AC Milan, supposed to be past it? Wasn’t Valencia and Owen supposed to be flop tranfers? Didn’t they say we couldn’t do it with Kids?
So whoever replaces Alec, its imperative they share his complete and utter disregard and disgust for the Bastards that run our Media.
if hull keep playing like this they will get nothing. they are shit and one or two sending off
Hull down to 10 men.
hull are not even trying….they are trying to mimic stoke’s physical play, but cant even do that well. the only hope for the second half is to weather the arsenal attack, dont even try to score, it aint happening today. play for the 1-1!
They don’t say for nothing lucky, lucky Arsenal!
If I were a Arsenal fan, i wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry. On the one hand, other teams give them red cards on a platter and therefore a one man advantage; on the other, they seem hell bent on leaving Arsenal with no squad to talk of by the end of the season.
united.george – Hull must force red card for the Arsenal player.
Parker apparently scored a beauty against Chelsea… I hoped for a draw but surprise surprise DROGBA saved the day, again. Im telling you, the footballing force that is “Chelsea FC” has been a one man team since Drogba arrived. Keep Lampard and Terry and Cech and Essien but remove Drogba from the equation and they wouldn’t have won all those titles. They played shite today against West Ham and it was 1-1 at half time, but Drogba retook the lead and Chelsea flooded the midfield to keep it. Had he not played today we’d still be top – He really hides how shit they actually are.
can they hold arsenal for 45m? if they play like the first half they will conceed more goals.
4-0 Tomorrow
I’d be surprised if Arsenal didn’t win today. I can see them coming close to their first silverware in ages this year, and if Arsene buys the right players in the Summer (preferably somebody post-puberty weighing more than 10kg) they will give Chelsea a run for their money and finish second behind us next season. If they bought Yaya Toure, for instance, they’d be a dangerous team. The Pensioners on the other hand need to buy a completely new squad asap.
wow. So Chelsea can beat West Ham at home and Arsenal can beat Hull. Fuckin congratulations. We win tomorow and back top. Job done.
We will beat Chelsea I m 95% sure of that. Birmingham and Spurs will beat Arsenal.
Frank LeBeouf is a cunt.
I didn’t know Welbeck needed an Operation?
http://www.tribalfootball.com/man-utd-striker-welbeck-facing-knee-surgery-698411
we’ve just got Macheda back, so hopefully we’ll have all three of our young strikers available next Season (Kiko Welbeck and Diouf)
Hull almost got Sol Campbell red carded.
Watching the Bayern game. how good is Arjen Robben?. Another screamer from a free kick today to add to the goal of the Champions league season so far against fiorentina. Will be a threat if we get bayern.
Just got back from watching matt James for Preston he scored an absolute screamer and was man if the match in a 3-2 win this lad is the future of our midfield!!
@Paul Parker he had been struggling for the last few weeks has been back at united getting treatment! The united staff ok’d his return to Preston then in his first session his knee flared up again! Yet another example of our wonderful fitness team!!
aig – He is a cunt mate. Try praising United lads for a change instead of Barca, Arsenal and Inter.
6 mins added time at the kc?! WTF????? fuckin gooners…
aaaaaarrgh :@:@:@:@:@ bendtner scores in injury time.
@King Eric
United players are praised plenty by others on here. I am saying with respect to our future opponents possibly in the CL .
A good player is a good player. Whether he dives or moans matters least to me.
Yeah Arsenal scoring is pretty disappointing BUT from the moment we have our destiny in our hands we should not be too gutted when the Arse and Chelsea get a result. We have nine games left and if we do what we need to do, come the end of the season we will be champions again.
wow. That arsenal win makes things even closer. Pressure on us now.
Bendtner can only score in that type of situation. The hatrick he made against Porto could not be compared with Rooney.
The Arsenal jizzfest will go into overdrive. Group hugs, “we have the easiest run in”, praise for their newfound maturity…
I just hope we shut the fuckers up by going on and winning the title. I’m seriously sick of hearing about Arsenal.
Shit happens. Stupid goalkeeper.
@Che Guevarist – winning at Shity won’t be easy, and Chelsea won’t necessarily lose at OT just because it’s our home game.
If we win all of the 9 games left i would be really surprised.
Last season when we destroyed fulham I ticked them off as shite.
In the FA cup that season 4-0 was victory and i said their even more shite
But 2-0 and 3-0 defeats make me scared of fulham now..
fuck me but if the arse play like this every game were going to be champions with 3 or 4 games to go! they really missed FAGregARSE
@TheRadLegion
A hat trick is a hat trick. Whether you score from 2 yards or 20 yards dosent matter. As a striker your job is to put the ball in the back of the net.
AIG
Sorry to poke my nose, but good players are not just players with skill. In a team sport, skill matters less than a lot of other factors, like camaraderie, work ethic, commitment, leadership qualities etc. Robben stinks in almost all those departments. Players like that are bad for a team atmosphere. Just look at Ronlado, Kaka and Higuain at Madrid, Terry at Cheksea, Gallas at Arsenal. I would rather have a mediocerly talented bloke in my side that any of these ego maniacs (probably bar Ronnie) coz they take away far more than they contribute, which results in all the above teams’ bad performances. Is it any wonder that none of these teams have been successful in league and CL over the past few years?
Thanks Myhil you fucking clown.
In the end AIG was right. Hull self destructed. Pity that Sol Campbell didn’t get a red as he should have.
Arsenal will probably win their next 2-3 games now. We had better not drop more than 2 points in that time period.
Well I’m just saying. That’s the only way he could score the goal.. we’re talking about a player who claimed that he would be the best player in the world. What a shame.
@Anon
Its just as the case with Ronaldo. You need players who do the hard work and others who have quality though they may not necessarily be players who work hard. SAF said himself, Ronaldo may not have tracked back but what he gave us going forward was something no one else did. I have never heard Robben being a disruptive influence on the team. he does dive but many top player do that. the problem with Ronaldo was his ego swelled a lot in his final season. Now that can affect a team. Never seen that happen with robben mate.
Cant say anything about gallas or terry.they are cunts of the highest order
Arsenal score the most goals in the last minutes, Hull concede the most.
Self dectruct ? Clarify. Hull defended pretty well with sense and Arsenal didn’t create much of the opportunities. It WAS a game that hull deserved to end in a draw.
@Costas
The keeper self destructed, the rest of the Hull players were brillant.
@TheRadLegion
are you serious. did he say that?. never heard of that
That’s what I mean. Hull through Myhill self destructed in the end. Myhill was pretty solid up until that point as well. But it only takes 1 second for someone to throw all their hard work out of the window.
@corea
exactly. Thats the problem. Hull do well throughout the game and then one bad mistake from a player and they lose it. take the example of their win at Spurs. Myhill was excellent. next game against us he was poor and made some basic errors
@aig:
I couldn’t find the article but I found this instead.. good reading btw hehe considering this is Arsenal’s Paul Merson himself who said it.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/126198/Paul-Merson-Bendtner-needs-to-shut-his-gob/
@Corea
I know mate, I highly doubt we are going to win all our remaining games either;it’s not just about City, Liverpool and Chelsea but we also have some tough away trips. I’m just saying that although I’m disappointed that Arsenal did win today the fact that it’s in our hands means we can just focus on our task as in the end it could depend only on us. It would be worse if we NEEDED Arsenal to slip up, but for the moment we don’t. Still I understand what you’re saying.
Besides I doubt Chelsea and Arsenal will win all their remaining matches either. It’s gonna be very interesting.
I don’t want to sound too optimistic but just to know that Rio and Vidic are back and Giggsy is close to returning too, and looking at Scholes’ recent performances, you just feel that we could be on the verge of another great ending to the season (and I didn’t even mention Rooney here).
I understand pals. This really is the case. But not in every case. Thanks Hull for holding off Chelsea.
Che Guevarist – i am pretty much tired of this nervy endings of the season when you hope other teams will lose points. But there is nothing one can do about it.
Thinking of what you said about the return of some injuried players it’s only 50/50 truth because one’s are back the others might well be off.
@TheRadLegion
You are right it seems. Wenger said after his hat trick against Porto ‘I hope he dosent get carried away like a few times in the past and continues scoring’. Thanks for that. he is million miles behind rooney but has time on his side if he wants to do well.
To be honest I am not upset at Hull or anything. They did better than I thought and in the last 30 minutes the ball was in their box all the time. At the moment, apart from their good football, Arsenal get the breaks. It’s something we will have to deal with in the next few weeks. Shame for the Hull players who fought like lions. And as Corea said, thanks for the Chelsea result.
All we’re gonna here now is this late goal for Arsenal could be a big goal in the title race, but they said the same thing when Liverpoo won with a late goal at Fulham last year and still United went on and won it.
Interesting. Looking at our last 2 fixtures and Arsenal’s.
Arsenal
Blackburn A (9th)
Fulham H (13th)
United
Sunderland A (12th)
Stoke H (9th)
We must be ahead of them at that point otherwise…
You know, if Arsenal get through to the CL semis i think they might blow it. As always.
@Aig: hehe yeah
Its useless trying to see in which games l’arse will drop points. They will drop them when you least expect them too. We have to get our own house in order and just hope for no more injuries. We have to make sure we win the next 4 games.
Also anyone know when John O’Shea is back, we could do with him right now in midfield for certain games in the run in.
Let’s concentrate on winning all our games, fuck everyone else.
A cracking blog. Cheers.
I am so pissed off arsenal won today especially they scored in stoppage time, yes we do our own job but we still like to have others drop points, I just realised we are going to have to win this title our selves cant arsenal and chelsea just lay down and die, we will win this we have to, united are at a point of no return they have to win this league fuck europe the premiership is the big one and the biggest since 93 99 and 2007
Notorious Red Devil – Exactly. I thought they may today but then they may well go and drop points at home. Its a funny old game. We just need to concentrate on United and the rest will take care of itself. It certainly makes it more exciting being closer and when we DO win it imagine how good it will be!
NRD – In the next couple of weeks I think Sheasy is back.
aig
Rooney does a job up front, just like Ronaldo did in 08-09, maybe does it better than Ronnie, don’t see him showboating?
Robben is a big time sulker. Frankly, anyone dumb enough to join RM is someone I would never want in my team. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we have never bought a player from that sickward of a team.
@corea interesting indeed! blackburn away may be tricky for le arse and fulham also. sunderland may be a wee bit difficult but brucie may decide to do us a favour. stoke at home should be ok
Hi all tru reds, my candid opinion is that we should put in a gladiators fight in the remainin of our games, cuz come may that’s what will count. Seein how closely the three contender are. Am very optimistic that if our players play every match as if it’s the finale glory, then the league will be were it rightly belong. Am 4rm nigeria, only death can do me path with manutd.
Lucky Gooners again, anyhoo i fancy a 3 0 win today Rooney, berba and Valencia to get the goals. ps love what you’ve done with ROM Scott