1. For the past few years, we’ve beaten Arsenal pretty much every time we’ve played them, whether that be in the league, the European Cup or the FA Cup. Since the last time they beat us back in 2008, the only time we didn’t beat them was the draw penultimate game of the 08-09, when we only needed a point to win the league. We have employed the same tactics for pretty much every game and it has worked, with Arsene Wenger bizarrely not coming up with a Plan B when facing us, given that Plan A didn’t work. So, why did we change things? Why did we play like only a point would do, knowing that a win would more or less win us the league and that playing for a draw meant we were taking a big risk?
2. As has been the problem in every away game, our midfield didn’t get enough of a say. Whilst Michael Carrick has been great in our recent European games against Schalke and Chelsea, he did little to impose himself on the game. Despite his new deeper role, he only made one tackle all game and was guilty of the sideways/backwards passing which has started to limit before yesterday. If Carrick was bad, Anderson was horrendous. At least Carrick was receiving the ball and passing it on, which is more than can be said of Anderson, who was on the pitch for almost an hour and attempted just 17 passes. Compare that with Ramsey (62 passes), Song (58 passes) and Wilshere (53 passes) and you see just how atrocious that is. He shits on Fabregas? Well, Arsenal’s captain wasn’t on the park and Ando didn’t even come a close 2nd to the younger replacement.
3. For my criticism of our tactics and midfield, we would have got away with the point if not for a momentary lapse which came after the substitution of Anderson. Antonio Valencia came on to play on the right, Nani would switch to the left, which would leave Park coming in from the left to play a central role alongside Carrick. There were just 49 seconds between Anderson going off and Arsenal scoring, with Park failing to track the run. Arsenal created nothing other than this one chance but in playing for a draw, we took the risk of one lapse of concentration costing us the game.
4. After the game, Ferguson said we didn’t start playing until the goal was scored. It was clear that there was new urgency about the way we were playing but it begs the question why weren’t playing that way earlier. Surely this was under Ferguson’s instruction. I’m not suggesting we should have been gung-ho in our approach, but it was too little too late. To see us make the same mistakes we made against City just a few weeks before was desperately disappointing.
5. Chicharito didn’t get any favours from Laurent Koscielny all game. This lad is Arsenal’s 3rd choice central defender but was totally comfortable with keeping our Little Pea out of the game. I imagine the manager was just hoping for that one chance to come our way, something Chicharito excels at putting away, but it just wasn’t working. He attempted just 7 passes in his 75 minutes on the pitch, illustrating clearly just how little he got on the ball. Compare this with the weekend before, when he attempted 23 passes against Everton, or the 25 he attempted against Newcastle the game before.
6. Searching for positives, I really do love those Da Silva boys. Maybe in a few years from now they’ll be easily distinguishable for me, but for now, they are more or less the same person to me. I love how eager they are to tackle and how quick they are at going forward. Together, they tore Arsenal apart in the FA Cup game at Old Trafford a couple of months ago and it was nice to see Fabio giving it a go yesterday. Yes, they’re maybe a little too hot-headed. We’ve seen that as costly for Rafael on occasions and after Fabio was booked before the end, you wondered whether he would boil over. But he’s a little terrier, like his brother, and after coming to Old Trafford as the more highly rated, it’s nice to see him given his chance after battling with one injury after another.
7. It’s annoying that Aaron Ramsey got the goal, after turning us down for Arsenal three years ago. He’s won nothing in those three years, whilst we’ve won the league title, two League Cups and World Club Cup. I suppose I’ll be happy for him to score any number of goals for Arsenal, as long as it’s us that continues to lift the trophies in May.
8. So, where does this leave us? Three games remaining with three points between us and Chelsea on the same goal difference. Exactly six months ago, United were 3rd in the league, five points behind Chelsea, so we would have bitten the hand off anyone who offered us our current position. Frustration comes about from the knowledge we could be in a much better position but we’re not alone in being frustrated. Whilst Chelsea and Arsenal fans have the current momentum after this weekend, they will be left to rue the mistakes of their clubs too, even if they came earlier in the season. Chelsea were top of the league for every weekend from the start of the season until their draw with Newcastle in the last game of November. Arsenal then replaced them at the top of the table back at the beginning of December. Yet we’re the ones they’re both chasing. So yes, things could be better, but then they could also be a lot worse. That 19th title is in touching distance and I fancy our lads to go out and get it.
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really think we should have played 4-3-3 yesterday.
3 games e points ahead, bring it on
3 points ahead*
Keep wondering why Roo didnt fall deep more often, as in previous games. Gooners won their cupfinale of 2011, a match without trophies. We will beat rentboys by a mile. Bring them on.
United play badly and suddenly Arsenal is the best in the world and they are better without Fabregas and so on. Every time United make another side look good the muppets at that club and the media milk it.
Squeaky bum time now alright.
Disappointing result, but at the start of the season we’d have all taken a 3 point lead with 3 games to go and a 2-0 lead in a European semi-final!
Lets hope our good home form continues and we can beat Chelsea! Losing to Arsenal would make a victory on Saturday a lot more sweeter!
There’s also the scenario now, that if we beat Chelsea, we could clinch the league at around 2.30pm on the 14th May, 30 mins before the FA cup final. Talk about City fans getting pissed off because they’re always in our shadow…
Loved point number 6 re the Da Silva twins………. Love them to bits
This is a bit off topic but if you want to enrage yourself, download a podcast ‘The Game’, the current episode 39, a free download from from the Apple Store.
Listen to the first 16 mins. You’ll hear Paddy Barclay who generally thinks Vidic is the worst defender in the Premiership. He’s aided by a scouser – Tony Evans.
Together they insist that Fergie should be banned for the 3 existing games this season plus the first 4 games next season. This is because of what he apparently said about penalties in the Arsenal game?!?
WTF!
Worst Man Ure team I have seen for 20 years.
Considering how inconsistent our midfileld has been this season, I was very surprise we didn’t have any covering on the bench.
Does anybody know why Fletcherino or Scholes weren’t called up?
As a Gooner, I wud say no team has played well this season.
Arsenal’s Defence, ManUtd’s Midfield and Chelsea’s Forwards are all areas each team must improve next season. But at least it makes it interesting til the end for a change lol
Carrick what a laugh that boy is. Let`s hope he`s playing for tottenham again next year. Wonder if his car has any forward gears and indeed if he uses any of them.
Goon.One bloody game and still without even a carling cup, 6 years running .Fuck off fair.
We are Manchester United and come this sunday it will be a very different United team that will take on those lucky rentboys.The mentality will be to seize the initiative and the fact that we will be playing at Old Trafford would be immense.Lets see what Captain Mental Fuckin legend comes up with this time.Arrogant dirty money whores.
as a gooner, i expected to see some reactions to the owen penalty that wasn’t given on here. i’m glad there wasn’t, because berbatov was clearly offiside in the buildup and vidic’s handball in the first half was a clearer penalty. Vidic should have been given a red card, meaning he’d be out for the chelsea match. fergie pulled the usual and blamed the referee, but having vidic available next week is absolutely crucial for you guys. i actually think you benefited from foy’s decisions, or lack there of, rather than foy hurting you. although you certainly could make a case that marriner and his muppet linesmen surely did you no favors saturday.
9. This is the time of years where plenty of trolls will show up here slamming eveyrone wearing red if they didn’t live up to their divine right of winning the league each year. Weather the storm.
Anyway, onto your points Scott, yeah, I didn’t get the change in tactics either. Every win against them since 2004 has come with us playing 3 CMs. We should have done the same even if it meant playing Gibbo or O’Shea in there. But that’s in hindsight.
Agreed about the Da Silvas. Fabio was our best player yesterday. Says a lot about the team performance.
We are still in a position that Fergie would have gladly taken at the start of the season. Surely lighting won’t strike twice?
Goon
Not sure most here would give a shit about that comment…
The Shankill Skinhead
You sound daft with that mate…. Try following cricket or baseball, you might have a genuine opinion then
I’ll tell u why we changed our tactics because we have a manager obsessed with europe and I for one am sick of it giggs our best attacking player was rested for europe what a fucking joke the title should be number 1 always and when is he gona c what most other people c that carrick and anderson arnt good enough to wear the red shirt they were as bad as rome at least in rome they had an excuse yesterday they were up against a couple of kids If we blow the league 2 years in a row I think serious questions need to be asked about our manager and his ‘no value in the market’ bollox but we have owners who only care about money and not football so fergie will be able to do and say what he wants and us fans won’t question him either because were afraid to.
Awesome article on Chicha check it out fellas http://theunitedlegacy.blogspot.com/
The shirt is a symbol of defiance
Those who believe believe those who do not can fuck off.
The crest on your shirt is enough – we will prevail
@goon, then what does it say for arsenal that youre chasing the worst “man ure” team for 20 years in the title race?
those that live in glass houses should never throw stones, your comment is about as insightful as your trophy cabinet is full.
I am still amazed how our players fail to show up in big away matches. We lost quite a few matches, playing very badly. I know we cannot win every single match, but at least we should go down fighting. Yesterday, in the first half, it felt like our players could not be bothered. This was and Arsenal team without their best player and with two youngsters in midfield and they were tearing us apart. We should have really slaughtered them. If virtually securing the 19th title is not big enough motivation, I don’t know what will be. [I do not think that the midweek match was an excuse at all]
For quite a long time I have wondered, why we do not start away matches more positively, with real sense of desire and urgency. We used to play our game and let others think how to deal with that. Now, quite often we are adapting our tactics to the opposition. We had some very disappointing defeats this year like the ones in Wolverhampton, Liverpool, and Wembley, where the team simply did not turn up. [At Wolves, I happened to be there and could not believe what I was watching]. Some strange complacency seems to be settling from time to time in our team. We do really lack a couple of players, an attacking creative midfielder and a true leader in the mould of Roy Keane!
Referees have played a huge role this season (and last one s well). They are at an silent war with United and are punishing us, while helping Chelsea, at every given opportunity. Nevertheless we should really arise above this and put matches to bed before they can influence the end result like in matches against Chelsea, or yesterday at Arsenal.
This has been a very strange season, and I believe that a vintage United would have had it won at least a month ago!!! Yet we still have our destiny in our hands, and with our home form we should beat Chelsea. At the start of the season we would have taken this situation, a 3 point lead with 3 matches to go – two of which at home, with both hands.
If we cannot get 7 points from the last three matches, than we do not deserve the title. As simple as that.
I still believe that we are strong enough toregroup and finish the job!!!!!!!!
The Arse have won zip, yet will delight in this little blip on the way to our 19th. See your sad faces later then? Loosers. We had an off day to be sure. Onward Onwards. Comon you Reds!
Cedars – you should do mate as you’ve loads of rebuilding to do. Anderson so rubbish.
Nice to see Arsenal fans back here. For the last several weeks I thought they had vanished off the face of the earth.
Anderson didnt impose himself as usual and Carrick was brought back to reality after Schalke,the whole team was flat and the midfield poor,it should jolt us into beating the Germans and the Rents though,we can play better and need to,still3 points clear so its not all gloom and doom!
Goon
Birmingham weren’t better than Arsenal – I’d say like everyone else – yet guess what happened at Wembley?
Goodbye
Goon – we are on top of the premiere league with 1 foot on the champions league final
You’ve won FUCK ALL in 6 years….If we need to rebuild, Arsenal needs to clear out their entire squad
Think before you post mate.
Would Arsenal trade beating United and winning fuck all for having won the carling cup?
Of course they would!
Gday Costas
Its been a long time – surprised they are bothering but there you go
LOL @ Goon. You are a twat aren’t you. Admit it. Who the fuck are manure? The l’arse reserve team? You boys would kill to be in our position, serial bottlers season after season. This has to be the worst l’arse team I’ve seen since you had John Jensen playing for you! At least the team he played in managed to win stuff though. We need 1 midfielder and 1 goalie. You lot need an entire new back four, a midfielder to replace Fabregas a goalie and another 2 strikers because Bendtner and Chamakh are shit. Now focus on your own house because it need more work than you think.
We are calm TM
What has happened to our corners and freekicks? we used to score goals from set pieces but not anymore. vidic has rarely been the attacking force he used to be. even against arsenal who are very poor at defending set pieces, we were woeful and they were defending comfirtably.
the ABU media jumps onto any loss we’ve just had and makes it sound like the united empire is crumbling every single game. and every single time they are forced to eat humble pie when united sweep the trophies come end of the season.I cant wait for the next few weeks!!Le arse and the rent boya are gonna bite the dust
Man Utd get a minimum 6 point head start each season with the favourable refereeing decisions you get eg Neville this season.
Mourinho would ask: WHY?
Goon – Thought about doing stand up?
@Devil310
Might have something to do with Fletcher still returning from the virus and Scholes being suspended!
Ok let’s face it it’s over we’ve fucked it up can the season finish now?
Wait that would mean that we are champ…
I know: we are Man U we do what we want!
@ MG you know these guys are frustrated when they stalk united blogs
leave em to their sad life. why bother even replying to such crazy fcks
Yes Goon you fucking thick fuck that’s why Arsenal are always on top of the premiership due to alphabetical order
You’ve just killed your own argument
Carry on it’s been a while – how you got plus 6 points is a fucking mystery
Goon
Yes I do, give a shit about my team that is. Why you are bothering and considering the joke of a state your club are in is bemusing and at the same time amusing
@bchilds – Thx mate. Forgot Scholes was suspended. Fletcherihno played for the reserves midweek. He could at least be on the bench, me thinks. But we had no cover….not even Gibbo
@Shankhill
You havn’t won nothing for 5 years Not even a carling cup or community Shield so don’t come on here critisising Utd when your team have Major issues.
Can’t say I thought Carrick was that bad.
@Devil310
Scholes was suspended for his Red card against the shit.
@Goon
If you read your fellow fans comments on here and take a lesson. All I have to say to you is Arshavin.
@Joelio
Yes because its no use complaining decisions swing and roundabouts. You have a fair few for and against. You can’t call Sir Alex when you have Arsene.
itsfergietime
I’m restless must get angry – ahhhhhhhhhh
Goon – who the fuck is this man u?
Never fucking heard of them – must be shit as you say
@goon dont get me started on refereeing decisions..if not for the officials’ incometence in the chelsea game we would have wrapped up the 19th by now.
Cedars – the only reason we had kids out there yesterday, average age 23, is we moved stadium. Our financial position has been weak but give it a bit more and we wil be buying big.
Arsene Wenger manager of Arsenal FC
“Manchester United will still win the title”
There you are Goon read understand and fuck off you moron
I am gutted with our performance against the gooners…i am also gutted with the way we actually approached the match..i have been saying time and time again..so many times this season we have not been playing with any urgency or zest..especially in midfield…no urgency..no drive forward..it is all sideways and backwards!!…the only person whom i said would drive us forward which he does at times…was anderson..but on sunday he was horrendous…nani also seems to be not playing with any urgency..he looks like a player who has his mind on something else…seriously!! Even rooney was trying to slow the game down at times when he could have passed the ball forward..but what he tended to do was pull the ball back and spread the passes…when he had players running in gaping holes around him through the arsenal defense…watch the replay of the game and you will see…!! They were not even pressing for the ball…this season i realised that we do not press the ball alot..we tend to sit back and allow our opponents to come at us…why?? when our opponents tend to close us down so quickly..there we have Mr. carrick who is a slow poke..who just is not able to release the ball quicker…i could just go on and on…i agree a 110% with STR as to why were we not playing like how we were until the gooners actually scored??.. i have asked this question a hundred times already this season??..why weren’t we playing with any urgency coz when we play like that, zipping passes around with authority..using speed…and driving forward we are a force to be reckoned with…but we do not do that?? why?? why?? whyyyyy???
Goon
The excuses have begun
You buy big we’ll buy bigger
Watch out people..A deluded Gooner is on the loose..Someone call 911 before he lets his delusion get the better of him..
On topic..In hindsight, SAF should have started with 4-5-1 with Rooney on top but, hey, shit happens and we move on..
@MG
Keep a
head. The Goon, lol.
Its just friggin’ frustrating and disappointing!!
United will still win the title – and deservedly so – but this made me laugh:
“Arsenal created nothing other than this one chance”
You are joking, right? They didn’t force a bunch of saves, but other than for a Vidic foul, a Vidic handball and Walcott being unable to control a sliding effort, this game could have been over by half-time. I know you’re upset and agree that United were clearly not their best, give a bit more credit where it’s due.
The CL has taken a lot out of you; normally you kick us about but were careful yesterday.
@Costas and MG I always wonder how it must feel to be an arsenal fan.Incredibly frustrating i suspect. so frustrating that everyone of em turns into a piersmorgan
The CL took a lot out of us
Have to be in it to understand that
@goon look up the stats you prick..normally you kick us about and we dont whine..this time wasnt any different
Normally we kick the fuck out of Arsenal
This time Arshavin decided to do that instead – probably leaving at the end of the season – going back to the motherland where he’ll probably win a trophy or two
@itsfergietime
That’s excatly it mate.
The worst thing I could wish on anyone is to become as bitter and deluded as him. His ratings are attrocious and the only thrill he has in life is Rio kicking his butt all over twitter. Poor gooners. MY heart goes out to them. 
Piers Morgan must have been over the moon yesterday
Just beat United and don’t worry about anything else – ala Arsenal – Liverpool – mighty have fallen for sure
@costas so true.Btw i must admit i like it when a bitter rent boy or a le arse fan comes on here.Taking turns kicking his/her ass is so therapeutic after a bad weekend
That goon fella does not sound too bad to me… Either that or I am in an extremely peaceful mood!!!
I don’t think you deluded people realise how good Barca are. CL is out of your reach; poor midfield; knackered Rio.
Wait Chelsea want us to fuck up
City are still talking about futures
‘Arry said after Christmas he’s be challenging us
We just said fuck all – maybe that’s why it hurts so much why we haven’t wrapped the title up
All good things to those who wait
cedars – i can be ‘orrible.
Barca are the best team in the universe
That is why Arsenal beat them and the ref made sure that he sent Van Persie off for nothing
Goon forgets – he must not be a proper fan if he feels that was justice
Barca beat Madrid after shamefully playacting themselves into winning
They are the best we are just fucking shit
@goon you are bitter arent you? i like that
united thrive on proving people like you wrong.so wait and watch.
But wait
Arsenal didn’t beat them Arsenal lost after beating them at home and well
A – Fabregas back passing to let Barca score and
B – Van Persie as mentioned wrongfully being sent off
Gets better
MG – if you have seen them live, not on TV, you will realise.
It’ll be a travesty if chelscum beat us to the title.it’ll be unbearable!
Goon has a thing for Cedars
Watch it Cedars or else you’ll have to go Lebanese on him
We lost to the Gooners only because of tiredness.
Excuse or not, its a fact. The only one I can find fault with was Anderson. He was really struggling with the pace of the game, even though he didnt play much midweek. Have to wonder why.
I though Carrick, Park put in a good shift. Even though concentration lapse by Park led to their goal.
Rooney looked really knackered. I hope Fergie completely rests him midweek. Along wiht Hernandez and Valencia.
Do not be nervous, depressed etc.
We all know we would have taken this position at the start of the season.
As long as the title is in our hands, BELIEVE
To quote the great MG – “This shirt is a symbol of defiance”
@MG Thanks for that, keeps me up when I am angry or depressed.
If you can’t tell the twins apart then couldn’t one serve the others suspension (if they were carrying a knock for eg). Could be useful!
Fair article imho
goon = piers morgan, sitting in new york with his very own tv show and the sad pathetic cunt is still obsessed with man utd. HATED ADORED NEVER IGNORED
Goon
So you are a Barca fan then – you see them all the time?
I have seen them live and luckily for me that night Paul Scholes scored the goal of the season.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to see them I support Manchester United
@Goon
What a shit excuse pal. Your ticket prices and your merchandicing should be bringing in the Cash. How much did you get for the Highbury site?
We have very large Debts but still in the 5 or so years you have won jack shit we have won 1 FIFA World Clubs Cup 1 Champions league 3 premier league titles 3 Carling Cups and 3 Community Shields. Take your excuses somewhere else.
@MG @costas Fellas can you give this blog a shout out on twitter? http://theunitedlegacy.blogspot.com/
cheers
good stuff.just started by me and im trying to get more people reading. Read up and gimme your opinions on my first article about chicha fellas
MG
Hahaha…. As I said I must be in an extremely good and relaxed mood…. But having said that I could snap in a second and go Lebanese on here! lol
I am talking to Piers?
Well then Piers fuck off – Larry King > Piers Morgan
Evening Cedars
Where is smartalex when you need him?
Probably shooting smartalex of Africa
MG – I have seen them twice at the Emirates and their trio of Xavi, Iniesta and messi are excellent. But like Man Utd they get all 50/50 decisions. Listen to Mourinho.
xyth @ 18:19: “I am still amazed how our players fail to show up in big away matches.”
Incredible ! After dispatching the RentBoyz at Stamford Bridge in the CL quarter final and then absolutely dominating Schalke (away !) in the semi-final, how can you put forward such utter tripe ?
Cheers lads.
itsferigietime
Wish I could help mate but I know fuck all about twitter!! lol
Will give your blog a read though
@goon wtf are you goin on and on about us getting decisions?!!!you freakin blind? chelsea are the prem league equivalent of barca that way..they get all the decisions..while Le arse are media darlings..you cant put a foot wrong..we are hated by just about everybody except ardent united fans..You’d be surprised at the stats about how many decisions have gone against us
@Cedars hehe aint a problem mate. You read it im happy
Goon be gone it cost $19.95
3 points up with 3 to play, 2 of those at home.
CL Semi’s.
SAF looking for fantasy for the club by adding 2 to 3 players.
The twins put smiles on my heart!
Smalling is proving to be a player.
Lil Pea best transfer of last summer.
Rooney finding a home in the hole.
Kids of possible world class talent on the horizon, Tunni, Pogba, Ravel, King and more.
Tom Cleverly and Wellbeck have done well and there is Kiko and Diuff .
A shake up that will raise eyebrows to us saying WHAT THE FUCK coming this summer. SAF has laid the ground work.
What a team what a club!!!
Rooney scores early on Wed and rest the second half sounds good NOW LET’S GO LADS!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah Goon
So from all the decisions to now 50/50
Keep it up even the 50/50 decision the blatant penalty on Mikey Owen wasn’t given
You keep on digging yourself a bigger hole dig on sweetheart
Scott: ” Anderson was horrendous….on the pitch for almost an hour and attempted just 17 passes.”
Errr, when Anderson was on the pitch TheArse didn’t score – that was his job. When Park replaced him he immediately lost Ramsey, who was free and open to receive a pass from van Persie. van Persie was somehow able to sell-the-dummy to both Evra and Vidic who both were deceived by RVP’s right feint and turn back onto his left side. THAT was the defensive breakdown which was compounded by Park’s loss of concentration. Anderson was already on the bench.
About Chicharito – I remember one pass from the right that was about 18 inches beyond his out-stretched neck/forehead. Otherwise there was zero service. Koscielny had nothing to do with that lack of service. If you want to point fingers then WayneBoy, Nani,,Park, and (later) Park were the culprits who couldn’t supply the ball to the poacher.
The game-plan was rope-a-dope and hit-them-on-the-counter. The rope-a-dope worked well with one exception; the hit-them-on-the-counter really only had one chance and ti was buggered up when WayneBoy and Nani got too close to one anohter in a four-on-two break that fizzled out.
Of course, the post-match analysts will all claim that TheArse were all over UTD; but the game that was watched in real time had a rather different story-line. But, then, isn’t this usually the case when UTD run out of time – and when they don’t get the (Owen) penalty call ? the difference between success and failure is a fine line, indeed. If we win on Sunday – hell, even if we draw with the RentBoyz – then Sunday’s loss will soon be forgotten and so, too, will what actually transpired as the revisionist scenarios are taken as being accurate.
Zibbie @ 19:12: “3 points up with 3 to play, 2 of those at home.
CL Semi’s.
SAF looking for fantasy for the club by adding 2 to 3 players.
The twins put smiles on my heart!
Smalling is proving to be a player.
Lil Pea best transfer of last summer.
Rooney finding a home in the hole.”
Like you, I’d have taken that scenario in August. Hell, I’ll take it now.
I will work on my punctuation.
@denton davey
I am talking Premier League matches: We lost regularly at the Bridge; cannot remember when we last beat Liverpool away, we drew last away matches at Spurs and Shitty.
Finally in Evra’s own words about yesterday’s defeat: “We didn’t play to the Manchester United way and when we don’t play to the Manchester United way we don’t deserve anything,”
Just because we havent won anything in 6 years doesnt mean we dont have the right to comment.
Beating ManU was an obvious mental hurdle for us for the last few years, so we are naturally delighted to put that behind us, and get a bit of belief from it.
And much as I hate to say it, Barca are that good, and you will need to be at your very best to stop them, especially with Messi on fire.
As for yesterdays match, we were the better team. Yes, we won nothing for 6 years, etc. but we were the better team yesterday.
Doesnt mean much to our season other than the removal of a mental hurdle for us. Why are you taking the defeat so badly? 3 points clear, its still yours to lose….
@denton davey
I can see his point and not one for calling the Lads. I feel priviledged at what Utd have won over the last 2 decades.
Man Shitty away 0-0 We should have won it. they were frightened to death.
Totenham away 0-0 Played for a draw, maybe should have snatched it at the end.
Chelsea away 2-1 Unfortunate.
Liverpool away 3-1 Very poor preformance and DIRK KAUYT??
FA Cup Semi 1-0 we were truly awful what I can remember, although we had our chances that should have been put away.
Arsenal away 1-0 very poor goal to concede and never really showed up.
But as you state Both Chelsea ties and Shalke were good results where the team were fantastic. We’ll see next Sunday if we can repeat the results in the Champions league.
Well said denton davey, sometimes you can turn it on to late and the time runs out. This Wed and Sunday the lads should be ready to go from the start.
our performance was super awful. the only few players that i see really in the mood to attack is Rooney and Fabio. Valencia is ineffective and Nani is pretty awful. Nani’s move is so predictable. watching him play i know when he’s gonna cross or when he’s gonna shoot. i’m surprised why some of the supporters here claimed that he was creative. what Goon said sounds a bit harsh, but i think i understand why he said so.
we deserved the lost.
GoonerDave
You did deserve the win yesterday…….. As for taking the defeat badly well, show me a good loser?
Goon so Cese is gone?
New Owners=new gaffer? next year maybe?
next year goon with Chity improving as well as the Spurs and with Liverpool’s resurrection CL footy should be the gooners goal for next year.
Fair points Scott. Just onr thing though mate. You said hernandez came on for the last fifteen against everton. He started didn’t he?
Oh priceless. Keano99. Back with his fergie out comments. Are you serious mate. Go on then replace him with who? Fucking mnourinho I bet. Cannot believe this shit. The mnan has brought us unparralled success yet some want him out. You don’t know you are born pal.
Its fergie out comments that get my back up. Tell me keanb
o99. Just how many trophies habve YOU won as United manager?
Unbe fucking lievable.
To Gunner fans well done.
To Gooners FUCK OFF AND GO TROPHIELESS!!!!!!!!!!
and please, dont let Nani takes the free kick.
ever again.
please bring in some freekick and corner kick specialist for next season. or we can stick with rooney on free kick, he’s not bad.
@Gooner dave
When Goon came on here with his comments there was no need to act like one. I don’t have a problem with the other comments from your other fans. But when your fans come on here trying to be wind up merchants we’ll give it back. You have enlightened me I hadn’t done my sums, 6 years with nothing. :p
@King Eric
How any Utd fan can come out and ask for SAF Head is way beyond me. We should feel Privilaged to still have him. FF SAKE
They may have caught Bin Laden but they will never catch us !!!
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Beating ManU was an obvious mental hurdle for us. Let me rephrase that line. We beat Man Unied because that was our cup final and the pressure was off. I see Arsenal falling out of the top 4 next season, unless Mr Magoo buys some quality.
GoonerDave
A mental block only serves its purpose if you are on the way to something
Yesterday you were the better team because you took your chances and won – but no way did I see a thrashing as everyone puts it
I personally am not talking the defeat at all badly – we lost end of story – we have destiny to complete – see you next year.
King Eric
I did miss that comment by keano99………… What a fucking idiot and clown. Like you, SAF is a red line for me, anyone crossing it should and will be bashed.
Damn, and I thought I was in a peaceful mood tonight
Cedars-
Im not talking about being a good loser, nobody is, or should be anyway.
Just the level of abuse seemed a bit OTT is all.
You have a foot in the CL final, and are 3 points clear in the league. Cant win em all!
We Arsenal fans obviously havent had too much to cheer about recently, and all we really have is the future to look forward to. We seem to get a tiny bit better each season, but never enough to compete on all fronts until the very end.
To be totally honest with you lot, (grits teeth) Id rather you won the league than Chelsea. Money is starting to ruin football and at least your success is built on a proper foundation. Chelsea are a small team with big money.
Still think United need a midfielder or two though! Anyway, Im off to get drunk and try to score with the barmaid whos chest gets bigger with each pint I drink…
GoonerDave – ‘Beating ManU was an obvious mental hurdle for us for the last few years, so we are naturally delighted to put that behind us, and get a bit of belief from it’. That comment has highlighted what a small time club you are to be delighted with that result, even more so by going out of your way to come on to this blog to make that point. And as for being upset, I don’t think so. Me, I don’t get carried away over one result as I look at the bigger picture, winning trophies, well when you have seen as much success and entertainment as I have supporting the best club in the world – in my opinion – then that is the correct approach to take. By the way, it’s ‘Manchester United’, not ‘ManU’ you fucking ignorant cunt.
@Gooner Dave
FINALLY
A rival fan who sees Chelsea as a small time club. I hate it when they are called a Big club. Shouldn’t grit your teeth I’m sure most of us would sooner fight it out with Arsenal than Chelshit.
GoonerDave – ‘You have a foot in the CL final, and are 3 points clear in the league. Cant win em all!’ I think you will find that 1999 shows that it is possible to win them all. Please remind me who achieved such a distinction in that particular year?
GoonerDave
Good luck with the barmaid, hopefully you will have more success than your team! lol
For the regulars on here, yes its really me! Just feeling over dosed with the medication I am on due to a slight lung problem….
Ah… its a nice feeling to be drugged
Goon What are you doing on here. Have Arsenal not got their own boards. Surely you should be concerning yourself with your own team rather than baiting us. Your team is very good but they do have deficiencies the same as we have. So as Arsenal are not the greatest ever do us a favour and beggar off and worry about your own club and allow us to worry about ours OK. In short mind your own business.
Kings-
Pathetic, utterly pathetic. To resort to abusive name-calling just proves you have nothing decent or worthwhile to say.
Easy to be a tough guy behind a computer.
I posted nothing offensive at all.
If youre that offended by someone typing ManU, maybe you should seek professional help.
Or at least get drunk or get laid or something!
Anyway, I really am off now, hopefully to do those two very things!
I might check the comments tomorrow, just to see how many abusive messages you can string together while Im gone! All borne out of frustration too.
I just thank God Im not you.
It must be just awful.
Cheerio.
(hope you Gooners on here have cast your RoM votes)
A goalless draw would’ve been a decent result considering Giggs was rested. I know its frustrating to see our team not hit top gear but the truth is away to Arsenal wasn’t a must win game this season. The must win games are Schalke and Chelsea. If the Gunners didn’t bottle their season we would’ve approached the game completely differently. Based on the team Alex sent out winning wasn’t top priority but I don’t think we went out for a draw. We ruled out nicking the winner ourselves by conceding a soft goal.
To say it again, Anderson for me DID put his stamp on the game. He was playing as a DM not an AM and he left the pitch at 0-0 with a good job done. Even after our mistake they played with more freedom when ANdo went off imo. Personally I think Alex subbed him for other games and expected us to win late on, its a shame Park didn’t get the shout to cover Ramsey. Arsenal played like they were up for it from the first whistle but once the dust settled they really didn’t create much at home did they? Disappointing result but no need for doom and gloom. You’d think we got knocked out of Europe or something. We’ve got a huge game tomorrow ahead of Chelsea. Different scenario different performance. Arsenal are not title contenders this year so we didn’t treat them as such and thats why we lost. Winning fuck all all year but nicking a 0-1 from our mistake is hardly anything for a self-respecting GOONER to brag about. Its easy to play when theres nothing to play for, and i’m sure that helped them “go for it”.
But Its all about Schalke now, fuck Arsenal.
james21
Nicely put mate….. when the rent boys are called a big club it pisses me off. FFS Nottingham Forrest and Villa have won the European Cup, those buggers have not.. Sunderland, Everton and Villa have more titles than them…. A joke of a club.
As you say I would rather have United fighting for the title against the likes of Arsenal and more against the dippers
And Denise-
Im perfectly entitled to comment on any blog I choose, especially when it pops up on Arsenal newsnow. And you most certainly wont stop me.
But the barmaid might. Im off.
In short – learn some manners!
Bye bye
Goon -’I don’t think you deluded people realise how good Barca are. CL is out of your reach; poor midfield; knackered Rio’. You silly deluded cunt. Please tell me how many times you have been close to winning it since your arseholes collapsed in the 2006 Final against the aforementioned team? And please remind me how many times you have won the European Cup?
Why we are hearing idiots trying to tell united what they need, obvious only a phew changes to the engine room and a GK and united are set. But for hernandez it is his first season, it is not like he had a season that was so great he could go backwards, he will get better. But yesterday sums up united’s away form, but carrick and anderson do not play well 2gether. I do believe we play giggs and carrick against chelsea, and united can dispose of chelsea
GoonerDave
Denise was referring to another poster who goes by the name of Goon and seems to be a WUM
GoonerDave – I have been blogging on here a lot longer than you have pal, and most people welcome my comments, the one’s that matter, the United fans, so whatever an outsider like you says makes no difference to me. My abuse was in respect of your derogatory reference of ManU, otherwise the whole reply would have been clean. Don’t think I’m being tough, just defending the club I love. I don’t need advice from you about getting drunk or laid you fool, when I can get pissed with the best of them and get laid by the best of them. When you get a moment, why don’t you google the name ‘Holly Halston’, before pretending to be a typical ‘cockney geezer’ and getting pissed and getting laid. I don’t need to broadcast such issues as I am not insecure about it, whereas you must be to make a point of it. Go away and post rubbish on your own site you voyeuer.
i agree with 90% of what you say scott, but critism of ando is too harsh for me.
he didnt attempt many passes, correct, and didnt have his best game, but when compared to our midfield yesterday i thought he was the best player (although i admit not hard, given the performance).
nani was poor, looked far too relaxed for me, carrick didnt dominate or pass like we know he can. park for me was the park of old, constantly out of position which left us weaker attacking on the left, half asleep for the goal, control and passing was poor. he did do lots of running, but it wasnt really needed, either running where he wasnt needed or running to get back into position. rooney had a shocker, like a different player compared to the schalke game. little pea, simply no service. ando was by far from great, but at least he attempted runs with the ball first half. for me he looked on his own. overall performance just wasnt good enough, but just feel that was too harsh on ando, when compared to the others.
FITB
I totally agree, Carrick and Sir Ryan have been our best 2 in the middle and I see them starting against the scum that is the rent boys….
By the way its ‘few’ not ‘phew’…. Been wanting to say that for a while mate, no offence. Unless you have your reasons for misspelling it?
To all the bashers on here. It all could have been much much worse. we could have lost 3-0 and our goal difference could have been worse. Have you ever heard of something called a minor setback? Three years ago. Chelsea beat us at stamford bridge 2-1 and the vibe was just like this but at the end of it all we still won the title. This is nothing but a minor setback. Avoid a loss on sunday and we’re back in business. Just stop being negative and try believing for one minute and see the wonders it can work.
I still do not understand why Giggs did not play yesterday. He would have taken anderson’s place in the midfield and would have done much much better. Anderson also needs to learn how to shoot a ball. I also feel Berbatov would have been better suited to manhandle koscielny as he is much much stronger than Hernandez. Anyways i’m thankful that we didn’t lose by more than 1 goal. at least that’s something to be thankful about.
Kings
I sure do enjoy your posts here mate!
dannysoya
Again your name gives me the urge to have sushi and soy sauce… hahaha. As for Giggs starting yesterday, remember the guy is 37 mate and surely needs a rest… I did like the rest of your post mate
It is unfair to dismiss out of hand anyone who dare criticise Sir Alex.
The failure to spend on real proven quality may yet be our un-doing, I hope not, but it might.
The manager spent money on BEBE and OBERTAN and we did not spend money on OZIL or TOURE or for that matter anyone of proven pedigree to make United dominant in midfield.
I love United and I love Manchester – Sir Alex is a legend but he is not perfect and he is not bigger than the club.
If (when) we find ourselves playing Barcelona at Wembley in another CL Final I only hope our midfield can stand the test, Anderson could disappear, Carrick could hide and Valencia may or may not be good enough on the day.
Scholes, Giggs are of course proven BUT they are old timers and a great young player will out play a great old player over 90 minutes. Gibson ? Don`t even get me started. Fletcher ? believes his own hype.
Thankfully Ji-sung Park is as great as anyone on his day and it is his day everyday.
But who do we really have that can handle Barcelona`s midfield and then thread a killer pass under the age of 35?
CedarsDevil – Thanks mate. I hope this is true: http://www.trulyreds.com/20110502/van-der-sar-hints-that-one-more-year-may-be-on/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TrulyRed+%28The+Manchester+United+fans+blog+%29
its fucking painful when utd lose,get all the drama queens and trolls showing up.all the other fans blogs are shit thats why they come here,never see the cunts untill utd have a bad game.we have to start going onto their blogs problem is we’d be the only fuckers on there.
@ i am a man do you really have to reguritate the same old bollocks give it a rest mate please
I AM NOT A MAN
I would tend to disagree with most if not all your post…….. Firstly SAF IS Manchester United and whilst he is the BOSS he is beyond criticism as far as I am concerned mainly due to what he has done to our club. The same goes for Sir Matt Busby (RIP)
You are entitled to your opinion but your user name makes me chuckle I must say…. So if you are not a man what are you? lol
Norwich City promoted to the Premiership. Looking forward to hearing: ‘Where are you? Let’s be having you’ next season from that pisshead Delia Smith
Oh God we should have signed:
Buffon Alves Ozil Toure Benzema Torres Diarra Lass Diarra Silva Villa
God we should have bought so many players – blame Sir Alex
Chicharito and Smalling are shit – why the fuck did we sign fucking no hopers
Fuck me – comedy blogging to the max
Not too many positives to take from yesterday’s match but April was a very good month, in my opinion at least.
Month In Review: Manchester United ‘s April 2011
http://www.theunitedreligion.com/2011/05/month-in-review-manchester-united-s.html
Hahaha – Cedars – Looking for Eric mate – If you havent seen it there is a bit where King Eric says…
I AM NOT A MAN – I AM CANTONA ! Thats where that is from mate – never thought that I was being seen as some sort of Ladyboy Torres-type chick with a dick LOL
Kings
hahahahahaha… Nice one buddy. I remember them canaries having a go at the title back in 93, our away game at their place produced a fantastic performance and we murdered them.
As for your link re VDS I hope so buddy, but either way we need us a top notch replacement. I have forever sung the praises of Neuer, cannot see it happening but one can only hope
MG – Don’t forget Kranjcar, Modric and Sandro.
I AM NOT A MAN
Fair enough and thanks for the clarification re the user name……… But what about the post you made which was full off crap?
CedarsDevil – Mate that was a superb away performance from United on an April evening in 1993. Absolutely made light work of them, trust United old boy Robins to get the consolation though.
I agree about Neuer too mate, he was my first choice as VDS replacement, but he has his heart set on Bayern, which is a shame. But yeah, we can only hope that there is glitch in that possible deal and we are there ready to pounce. There’s not much out there in terms of quality mate.
Norwich and QPR up hopefully Forest join them. Don’t want those Welsh cunts anywhere near the premier league. Vermin the pair of them.
Some fucking stupid comments on here criticising the boss. The squad does need strengthening but not a major overhaul. You lads and do yourselves a favour and stream a reserve game. We have talent coming through some of the guys particular King Eric aren’t chatting bollocks when talking about Tuncliffe. The guy is immense. We can’t sign players who don’t want to play for the club. I would have been quite pleased if we had signed Ozil but he wanted to go Spain so fuck him.
Come on guys, there is blind faith and then there is refusing to see the bleeding obvious.
All this “no value in the market” is bollocks. The market was never too dear for us before and I cannot believe that Sir Alex has not been given a performane related incentive based on not spending BIG money in the transfer market if he can guarentee CL football +++ more money for any other success.
That way the Glazers pay less on their debts, the fans stop scrutinising their outrageous financial rape and the season ticket prices keep on rising.
Meanwhile we have to watch too many games with players like Gibson, O`Shea and Carrick stealing a living and not being worthy of a United shirt.
Or we can all just say that Gill, Ferguson and the Glazers are in no way interested in making money for themselves and are renumerated based on how little they can spend whilst maintaining the illusion of not needing to invest in world class players in order to maintain our chances of winning.
In 1999 we went and bought the best and most expensive defender in Europe because that was what we needed – a guarenteed quality proven player.
Were we really ever good enough this year or are you actually surprised that we are where we are because of other teams being shitter and not because we have destroyed teams like we have in previous seasons?
@I AM NOT A MAN..Why are you so scared of Utd meeting Barcelona?? If you mentally prepare yourself to lose then you will..Barcelona are a very good team but who says we can’t beat them with the team that we have right now??Utd haven’t exactly been dazzling in the CL but we have, by far, been the most clinical and efficient team in the CL..
MG & KIngs
What a pair both of you are…….. United need one player and one player only. I am sure you would remember me posting his name many times….
Marcus fucking Bent
Our boss is clueless, should have signed him ages ago
i was at that united v norwich game in 93 three goals from us in 1st 25mins giggs, kanchelskis and eric and mark robins pulled one back in the 2nd half.
CedarsDevil – Forgive me for my ignorance mate, how could I overlook that one. He is the final piece in jigsaw. With the injury problems Rio’s been experiencing of late, I would strongly advise a move for Jean Alain Boumsong too.
I AM NOT A MAN
In more than one way you are starting to annoy me (Not that you would give a shit)
We do love United blindly mate and YES there are red lines at our club and again I will say no mortal has any right to criticize the boss…..
To be fair to Sir Fergie, he did try and sign Benzema, Ozil, Torres, Silva and Villa. It’s not like United aren’t actively looking to strengthen the squad. I’d guess, that Sir Alex and his back room staff and global scouting network are working their backsides off, to bring quality players to the club. But? It’s not just as simple as signing big exotic sounding names. No, the club have to make sure the mentality of the players we’re signing are right for the club and have that United spine. I’ve consistently said, that the manager is no mug. He’s knows where our weaknesses are and I’m sure he’ll endeavour to bring the right sort of players to United. After all, Smalling and Hernandez haven’t been too shabby, have they?
Whoa Whoa Cedars. Can’t let you have that. Not on your nellie. I mentioned Marcus Bent ages ago, credit points to me all me. Thing is I’m not sure he wants to join, we should still sign him. Then buy Kaka and Messi. Swap Valencia for Ronaldo. Get Peter Schmeichel back in goal. We just stick someone in goal who has the same build physically then super impose his face just like McG did with Schwarzengger in Terminator Salvation.
Two founder members of the Premier League promoted – well one subject to an FA hearing of course. Another one in Forest possibly to join them.
I AM NOT A MAN
I quote:
“Come on guys, there is blind faith and then there is refusing to see the bleeding obvious.
All this “no value in the market” is bollocks”
Fuck off – you don’t support Manchester United through blind faith – you support United through a sheer passion unequalled and unparalleled
You are a fucking idiot of the highest order accusing us fans as having blind faith – wrong club mate – and as mentioned according to your theory Hernandez and Smalling have been a waste of time
According to your logic spending 125 million last summer or 75 million last January or 50 million will guarantee you winning trophies?
Fuck the fuck off and close the light on the way out – done with you
@I AM NOT A MAN..Mate, whats with all the fuss about buying top, top world class players?? I would love to see the likes of Sneijder, Neuer, Ozil, etc etc play for Utd..But do you think its so easy to sign a player?? Its very very complicated..SAF did try to sign Benzema and Villa but they had their hearts set on spain.. Maybe SAF could have outbid Real or Barcelona but he didn’t think it was worth spending another 50 mil on them..Besides I would never want us to buy a player who only plays for us because he is getting paid..I would much rather have a player who understands what this club is all about and plays as if he cares or atleast gives a shit about the club..If SAF had signed that prick Balotelli, I swear to God I would have killed myself..
NotoriousRedDevil – Vehemently disagree on Kaka, Messi and Ronaldo mate. For those please replace with the names of Sylvain Legwinski, Carl Leaburn and Steven Froggett. Also no Schmeichel but Dave Beasant.
What advantage do United have over Chelsea and Arsenal in the title chase?
The only one is the fact that United is a big club with a great history in these battles. Several of the players have been here and done this before,while the newer players have a huge desire to succeed because we know about the history of Manchester United and it doesn’t include many painful defeats.
Hernandez speaking with inside United, class this boy,here’s the rest of the link for those who haven’t or want to read the rest of it
http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Exclusive-Interviews/2011/May/Javier-Hernandez-title-dream.aspx?pageNo=1
On topic, fair and accurate analysis Scott. That said i don’t understand how anyone can say Ando was playing a defensive role, what the hell was Carrick supposed to be doing then.True his presence made a difference in that he tracked back and gave a helping hand to Carrick, but his role in the game was to link the forward players and he didn’t do it. If Park was to cover for him when he was taken off;does that mean Park was playing DM position? I think not. Someone pointed out that win or draw against the rent boyz and this game would be forgotten by everyone and he was bang on. Secondly how can anyone take the media seriously at this point, before the game they were lining up to lick our asses albeit reluctantly,now they’re only too happy to try and put us down because L’arse won the game, As if.
Beat Chelsea and they’ll be back again, Come on lads Fuck em and pay no attention these are the same guys who wet themselves every time wilshire/Fabregas/Xavi pass the ball. Top of the shit pile Greame Souness, following close behind Mr Tyler and then the shit pundits. Total waste of time hoping they’ll jerk off to us the way they do to other teams and come to think of it i don’t want them to, they’ve lost all credibility in my eyes. Let them keep trying to knock us down, it’ll make victory all the more sweeter
keano99
Value in the market bollox huh…
Well let’s look
Hernandez 6 million….19 goals… to make it fair on the other 2 since the turn of the year….12 goals.
Dzeko 27 million…. 5 goals
Torres 50 million…. 1 goal
Fucking Value
Smalling hasn’t been a bad signing either has he?
@ Kings. Good idea about Beasant but we super impose Schmeichels face on him, that way we’ll have Beasants goal keeping skills and the looks of Schmeichel. Everyones a winner. Just make sure theres no salad cream on Beasant lunch table at Carrington.
cedars – Chillax – I have the right to criticize Sir Alex Ferguson constructively because that is what he would want – You think he wants a load of people kissing his arse like Gary Cock does to Sheik Mahmoud of Stockport ? I also think he should stop sending Mike fucking Phelan out to try and give instructions because he cant be arsed or thinks it beneath him in League games or minor FA Cup games. I also think it high time he stopped his inordinately stubborn sulk with the BBC and start putting the supporters above his personal grievances.
@Utd4life – not scared mate but realistic – Barcelona will probably take the piss out of us on the biggest pitch in Europe. I hope not but I think they will because they are a better team that plays better football,
Sad – but true.
@Utd4life
Spot on mate, thats why we win titles more often than not, SAF is very selective of the players he gets. Fact is you won’t win shit if the players don’t believe in the shirt. As MG says the shirt is a symbol of defiance. Look at Madrid,Shitty,Chelsea. As much as Barcelona is hated on here, their players want to play for them and thats one reason why they play and dive collectively. lol . Its simple if you don’t cherish the roars of the United faithful when you score a goal or win a game, United is not the place for you
NotoriousRedDevil – I would go with that mate. But the one name I have to mention and cannot believe that I haven’t mentioned it before as a marquee signing for United and that is………….Jason Lee. A ruthless marksman.
Theres no doubt that this team needs improving in midfield.. we’ve lost at Anfield, Stamford Bridge, Emirates and to City at Wembley this season in my opinion due to a lackluster midfield.
I still firmly believe that United will be Premier League and Champions League winners this time next month… and if they don’t I’ll still be here and accept I was wrong. But the question is to all the sudden new criticizers… if United do win both cups…will you be here and do the same?
@I AM NOT A MAN..Yes, Barcelona are a very good team..But they are very much beatable..If UTD go into the match thinking they are going to be beaten then they will get slaughtered..Its all in the mind..Never approach a game with a defeatism attitude..And SAF won’t make the same mistakes that he did 2 years ago..Its gonna be a different ball game this time..
@MG
Damn MG, easy does it. You’re riled up tonite thats for sure. Then again even in your pissed of state you speak the truth
Carrick needs to step up and pass the ball with accuracy under Barcelona and other high pressure teams just like he did with Schalke.
@ Kings. That would be great we can start singing “we have a pineapple in our team”
BREAKING NEWS – Mike Phelan has legally changed his name to Mikel Phelani in order to appease fickle United fans.
I AM NOT A MAN
Chillax??? Is that the chill and relax? I hear that word from my nieces these days. Well mate I am chillaxed beyond belief especially with the pills I am on.
And NO you do NOT have the right to even mention the name of the boss in anything that is not positive…. Yes its a fucking dictatorship when it comes to him…
NRD
Really? I apologize mate, makes us both greats for thinking of the same genius of a player then!
More about The little Pea aka chicharito at http://theunitedlegacy.blogspot.com ..check it out
Kings & NRD
You clueless idiots…………. All we need is Joe Cole. He will take us to new levels of greatness
Enough with that fake face crap, get real
@slim..You know what Mate..Even if SAF doesn’t sign anyone in the coming transfer window..I will be disappointed but I sure as hell won’t be sulking over it..We have got a great set of youngsters coming through from loan and through our youth system..Hope SAF gives a chance to them next season and slowly start integrating them into the senior team..As you said a player who doesn’t cherish or understand the significance of playing at the Theater of Dreams is not at the right club..
@cedars he said chillax!!next he’s gonna say things like ‘my bad’ haha..what are you guys 5th graders?!
MORE ON THE MIKEL PHELANI STORY – He will now spend 2 hours of each day on the tanning bed in order to look more European. The club have miraculously found the tanning bed which Ron Atkinson used whilst in charge of the club. Phelani is delighted that he can work on tactics and go orange at the same time.
I do think United will still the league but we will struggle against Barcelona.
We do need a proper CM (Carrick doesn’t cut it at the very top I’m afraid) – if only we could have a young Roy Keane eh?!
Anderson – great left foot, good pace, strong, great passer and good tackler – he lacks confidence it seems and not having a prolonged run in the team can’t help either.
And I thought I would mention Nani is due a good performance – he’s been selfish lately and not like he was pre March. I would play Valencia in the middle as he does the simple things well, is quick, strong and keeps his head down.
As for the performance against Arsenal – we made them look good. We had an off day.
Now for the biggest problem – how the hell do we replace Giggs?!
@Utd4life
I pray he takes a chance on the trio of tunniclife/pogba/Morrison. I’d be a happy Red if one of those players gets a look in. I’m hope he does dip into the market though. Sir Giggsy and Scholes won’t be starters and he’ll need a spark or that extra bit of experience to add to the mix.
Beating Barcelona has come up again i see. We can beat those boys if we want to, its as simple as that. Using our poor games this season and past seasons as a yardstick is nonsense in my opinion. If anything SAF would have learnt the hard lesson after we lost to them and the boys hopefully will be ready this time. Lets get Shalke out of the way first however, complacency is a terrible thing and i pray it doesn’t creep in. With the defeat to arsenal i doubt that however because the squad will be well disappointed and be well aware that all the potential glory could be up in smoke if we let our guard down. Just want to get this week over and done with, Shalke first and then the rent boys
I cannot believe what I heard on ESPN just a moment ago. Patrick ‘Wenger Loving Cunt’ Barclay was on Live Talk of the terrace which has just finished. He was talking about Mourinho, this is what he said: ‘I have had the pleasure of meeting Jose Mourinho and he is one of the nicest guys you could wish to meet, a sweet man, but what he does on the football field is toxic, much the same as what Alex Ferguson is doing at United, with his issues with referees’. Fucking horrible son of a bitch.
We’re still in a great position so we can’t really complain. I’m sure we can get at least a draw against Chelsea and that should be enough to see us get the title. My only concern is that Chelsea will surely have learned a great deal from the champions league tie in Old Trafford and I don’t think they’ll make the same mistake again in starting Torres. How crazy is football when we are now in a situation where we want Fernando Torres to start a game against us. I’m sure we all remember how much the game changed when he was substituted for Drogba. But like I said I still expect us to get at least a draw and I’ve got visions of a 2-0 scoreline in our favour. The team should be buzzing from qualifying for the champions league final, barring a complete disaster that I dare not even contemplate. So it’s all good really, let’s stay positive, forget about yesterday and move on.
NRD
Your last post cracked me up buddy!! hahahaha
I guess you have all convinced me that you do not need to buy world class players for key positions so lets forget all that silly talk about Neuer and go and buy a goalie from Carrick Fergus to replace Van der Sar. When Scholesy retires let`s buy Charlie Adams from Blackpool – he`ll be as good. When we needto replace Ferdinand lets get that big centre half from Altrincham and when Ronaldo is sold lets pretend Valencia and Obertan have made up for it. We never missed Roy Keane when that Irish legend Gibson stepped up.
So forgive me but I think if we win this year it will be more accurate to say it is a statistic rather than a triumph.
It is true Utd have beat us quite a few times now over the past couple of years the difference is you dont have the same players in your team to hit us on the counter or score wonder strike free kicks as has been the case in the past.
Dont for one second think you can beat Arsenal playing positive football.
That is a joke and a half.
Arsenal created nothing bar the goal?
Having a laugh.
What you call that handball on vidic? Or Walcott Smashing over the bar from 3yards out?
You got embarrassed by an 18 and 19 year old in midfield.
Our time in the sun is coming.
David – First win in 7 over United and all of a sudden there is a shift in power. We beat you with 7 defenders in the FA Cup. Typical giddy comments from small time supporters.
“Arsenal created nothing other than this one chance but in playing for a draw, we took the risk of one lapse of concentration costing us the game.”
Hrm, as I see it there were numerous chances for Arsenal, one blocked by the hand of Vidic. Perhaps you should reconsider this statement?
@utd4life
“Besides I would never want us to buy a player who only plays for us because he is getting paid..I would much rather have a player who understands what this club is all about and plays as if he cares or atleast gives a shit about the club..”
So I guess you agree with me that Rooney is a cunt and should be let go ?
David – ‘Our time in the sun is coming’, is that what you have been saying for the last 6 years? While we have been winning the big prizes?
David
Do this old fucked up bloke a favor and piss off to a nice quiet and dry corner buddy
King
Stick to what you know and continue to play with 7 defenders then!
Dont for a second think you want to play real football with Arsenal.
Just go ahead and park the bus with 7 defenders like you say and let Fergie continue to provide the blue print for Allardice and the rest of them with the park the bus tactics and route 1 football.
Chitarito alone upfront!?!?
Im embarrassed for you. Was that United? Or Ipswich town?
@I AM NOT A MAN – Chill out buddy, to read your posts you’d swear we were struggling to get a Champions League spot. Don’t you think Sir Alex has earned all our trust so let’s just wait til the summer to see what he does. By the way we’ve already signed Ferdinands replacement in Smalling, and it’s impossible to replace Roy Keane but we still haven’t done too bad since hes left.
David – You’ve forgot last season already at the Emirates? Remember that swift counter attack, that resulted in Rooney’s goal? We don’t have those players no more? I thought Park, Nani and Rooney were involved in that goal. You deserved the win yesterday, but don’t think anything really changed, apart from giving Chelsea a slight chance of winning the league. Which they won’t.
David
You are a comical fuck……….. Now piss off
Barclay is a 1st class Cunt, pay no attention to what he says.
i refuse to read any newspapers this week its the end of days for fergie and manchester united.
rentboys title now so say the media & the ABUs,well fuck em all.
number 19 will arrive this season so come on for fucks sake……………………………..BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed willi
That Park has been a real terrorist for us.
Always in the right place at the right time. Whether thats down to luck or instinct i dont know but i dont forsee this team giving us any problems in the future
Until you buy a creative midfielder.
I need to go
I don’t know what to do laugh with no tears – ironic or laugh with tears – tragedy
Either way it’s bed time for the believers
Goodnight Manchester – still love you
byron1970 – You`re right mate – I guess it has been a frustrating season and the performance against Arsenal really left me feeling fucked off.
We do need a clear out though and I still think there are too many players that are keeping the likes ofnPogba and Morrison and Tunnicliffe from getting their chance – I want more youngsters being blooded instead of the likes of Carrick and Gibson just getting by too often.
David – You win for the first time in 7 and all of a sudden you’re giving it large. Funny how you had fuck all to say when we made light work of you in the previous 7 games – dismanteling you in the European Cup Semi-Final being the obvious one. The thing with supporters like you is that you are deluded. You haven’t won anything for 6 years and you mouthy manager was boasting about quadruples before you played Birmingham in the League Cup Final. You are becoming as bad as the scousers talking the talk, but not walking the walk. We have been winning trophies consistently with a manager who hasn’t gone more than a season potless since winning the FA Cup in 1990. You make us out to be a team like Bolton when you know full well that is not the case, you boast about your ‘beautiful football’ but have won fuck all for it. I would rather win trophies playing attacking football or grinding out results when we have to. Newcastle were dubbed the entertainers under Keegan’s first spell in charge and had nothing to show for it. Don’t be embarrassed for us, you should be embarrassed for yourself after mouthing off about the trophies you were going to win this season. You know full well that your arguments are nonsensical yet you still try to dress it up. I pity you.
CedarsDevil – Well said mate. These fucking gooners are deluded pricks who have nothing constructive to say.
Lmao @ David
Calm down mate bloody hell, your “time in the sun” is coming? hahaha…. You won a single game 0-1 and that was due to our mistake. Don’t read too much into it mate one victory doesn’t change anything for Arsenal. Also, just in case you hadn’t noticed United are in the middle of a European tie? we’ve also got Chelsea at the weekend in a potential title decider?
Clearly, we wasn’t focused on the game at yours so we let a soft goal in and failed to reply. End of. Now when you put it into context, your victory doesn’t seem so important now does it? Tell you what, knock us out of Europe, or beat us to the title, and you can come back and tell us all about your plans for world domination playing pretty football. But till then do yourself a favour pal. You should be ashamed of the season you’ve had, and for a so-called big club, getting one over on United SHOULDN’T be consolation. Are you Arsenal or West Ham FFS? You think United would be happy beating your lot 1-0 if we were in YOUR position and had the season YOU’VE had? Accept it, sunday was a hollow victory that means fuck all in the big scheme of things. Better luck next year mate, repeat that form when it MATTERS.
@ David “you dont have the same players in your team to hit us on the counter”
Ludicrous statement. I’ll play nice but what exactly happened in the cup at OT when the Da Silva twins combined to rape you for the first goal? Also the 3-1 win last year at your ground, Rooney and Park combined on the counter to score on of the goals. That was our defence to yours in less than 15 seconds. What do you call that tortoise attack. Same players. You l’arse fans really don’t think before you type, just a cocky arrogant bunch which is stupid because you haven’t won anything for over half a decade other than a game vs us.
lawman10 – I haven’t brought a newspaper in over 10 years because of cunts like him mate.
One last point
David
This team is your worst motherfucking nightmare – if you think by winning a game means you have a superiority over us you are more deluded than I think you are
According to your logic then Birmingham will be a team that will be giving you all sorts of problems in the future after all they fucked you good and proper in the carling cup final
Ouch what a bitch naughty MG – hard to stomach isn’t it?
No? Then you beating us yesterday was just one of those results too
Need to fuck off – I could do this with my eyes closed – alas the thought of a sun kissed beach comes to mind..
wyth @ 19:19: “in Evra’s own words about yesterday’s defeat: “We didn’t play to the Manchester United way and when we don’t play to the Manchester United way we don’t deserve anything,”
I don’t pay any attention to what these guys (or SAF for that matter) have to say in their post-match comments – it’s always “spin, spin, spin”.
kings- i am done with the papers & sky just about had enough of em,
same goes for talkshite.
David – What kind of clown are you? Your team has be collapsing since the Carling Cup final and you’ve only managed to win a big game (note it was only a big game because it involved us going for the title) when ye’re not even in the title race anymore. Now piss off and let us all look forward to a champions league semi final and title decider against Chelsea. Oh ya enjoy your dead rubber against Stoke next week.
Like how you lot are dressing up the 7 games like they were all victories or something.
ROFL.
Dont try and act like the game at the Emirates wasnt a title decider either.
Im not going to go about and compare you to Bolton I said Ipswich read the comment ffs.
At least Bolton had the cordones to beat us and have ago.
You see a 19 year old bossing the midfield running at your defense and youre team looked really out of depth.
Keep banging on about major honors. I suppose the mickey mouse cup you won last year is something sepcial to brag about but i’ll leave it there.
Yes we won 1 game. But lets not try and act like that couldnt have been the title decider.
hear hear!
@I AM NOT A MAN..Personally, I wish SAF had sold him soon after that debacle but, hey, he agreed to stay on, apologized to his teammates and fans and since then hasn’t done that bad..
Btw, who said Arsenal play beautiful football??If making a 1000 passes in your own half without a final ball is considered beautiful then I would much rather watch stoke play..
Even Evra came out and Said “We were too nice”
Translation
We were pussies.
WillieRedNut @ 19:41:” I see Arsenal falling out of the top 4 next season, unless Mr Magoo buys some quality.”
They need to shit-or-get-off-the-pot with Fabregas; assuming that they sell him for about 25 million Euros to Barcelona (it’s a buyer’s market for the guy since he won’t go to Madrid and probably won’t go to Italy, either) they they need a proper, #9 center forward so van Persie can play as a “withdrawn striker” or #10.
They’ve got lots of midfielders but apart from Walcott they really don’t have anyone who is a winger to feed the ball to the non-existent #9. If they’re going to play an attacking game that makes use of their possession then they need to be more incisive – neither fullback is up-to-much at crossing the ball.
Then, the real problems raise their head – their central defence is a shambles: can Vermaelen return ? can Djourou continue to improve ? can they flog Squillaci – or just get rid of him ? Then Koscielny could be their back-up and they’ve probably got some kind in their reserves who can be the second, second-choice and who has to be better than Squillaci.
These are serious issues and if they don’t take them seriously then I can see that they might be worse next year. And maybe it’s time for TheWhinger to call it a day as the manager and move upstairs to become the “director of football operations” and let someone else do the hands-on, day-to-day management.
David – Here’s a shovel mate, keep digging.
David – I was talking about Bolton in reference to your ‘parking the bus’ comment ffs.
‘Keep banging on about major honors. I suppose the mickey mouse cup you won last year is something sepcial to brag about but i’ll leave it there’. You really are an idiot. It is still a trophy, the same trophy that your manager was determined to win this season, based on the full-strength sides he fielded in the competition. Can you also remind me what else we have won in the last 5 years as you seem to only mention the ‘mickey mouse cup’ from last season? Just validates my theory that all Arsenal supporters are deluded and have nothing constructive to say – always overlooking obvious facts.
David
Has been found wanting, fucked and therefore pissed off……..
No room here for dick heads, we will collectively bash you……… Ignorant fool
David – “Keep banging on about major honors. I suppose the mickey mouse cup you won last year is something sepcial to brag about but i’ll leave it there”
the game at yours wasn’t a title decider you pleb, do your math
Chelsea are still 3 points behind us, and your lot, your a whole 6 fucking points behind us mate. Ask me you wanna be more worried about City knocking you into the qualifiers, they do have a game in hand after all..
Whatever you do don’t delude yourself pal, THIS weekend is the title decider, and you will see United perform like it is. Did the team picked by Alex look like it was playing a title decider against Arsenal? Or did it look like we were happy keeping it tight and nicking a goal? Maybe if your lot had a better season yesterday might have meant more, but you haven’t, so it doesn’t. You’ve gone from the QUAD to SOD ALL, try not to fuck up a top 3 finish aye?
This is why I despise l’arse and everthing associated with them or their club. One win and they think they’re the best team in the world. First time in 3 years we’ve lost they’ve never gone on a run like that against us. They never will either. We run them into the ground we’re thugs and too harsh, they do it and we’re pussies. Okay as for the Carling Cup a trophy so meaningless Explain this Dave you cunt, why were your fans crying their eyes out in Wembley then? I mean its meanigless right then why cry about it. Bet you were one of the ones balling into his mummies bosom.
David – “Keep banging on about major honors. I suppose the mickey mouse cup you won last year is something sepcial to brag about but i’ll leave it there”
No we’d much rather brag about the 3 leagues and the European Cup we won from the previous seasons.
Christoff @ 21:28: “Nani is due a good performance – he’s been selfish lately”
He’s always “selfish” – sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t. What you call “selfish” is what I’d call “self-confidence”. As they say in the southern US of A, “the sun don’t shine on the same dog’s back every day” you know what I mean ?
Well thats the point innit?
You always play it tight and try and Nick a goal.
I saw someone say you shouldve played 4-3-3 against us.
I bumped my knee laughing.
Has there been a United game against Arsenal that Fergie didnt play 8 men behind the ball?
Glorified Bolton. Nothing more.
@ Dave. Shit Barcelona, you’re just a shit Barcelonaaa!
Evra meant we didn’t take you SERIOUSLY enough because we played like we expected to win without really trying.
BUT YOU CANT BLAME US CAN YA MATE ?
who have arsenal got left this year anyway? you obviously won’t be playing anybody bigger than Manchester United, so no wonder your on RoM.
Enjoy it while you can mate, give it another 24 hours and your “famous title deciding victory” will be forgotten as all attention turns to Wednesdays game. Its gonna be a long summer for the likes of you.
I AM NOT @ 21:41: “you do not need to buy world class players for key positions”
It used to be said that you can’t argue with success but you seem to think otherwise – let me remind you of a few things:
FIRST in the EPL by 3 points, with 3 matches to go (2 @ OT where TheLads have only lost 2 points all season long)
In CL semi-final with 2 away goals
One MartinAtkinsonMoment away from a 4-peat
90 Minutes away from 3 CL finals in 4 years.
So, yeah, let’s argue with success and buy “names” not players.
i love rom but at times it gives me headache because i can’t relate or understand to half the fans that come on here.i really believe if utd started finishing 10th and didn’t win anything for a couple of years,the fuckers would switch teams,shallowness of some makes me sick.
David
You sound pissed off mate……… Probably cannot remember the last time you won fuck all hey?
David – Right that’s it I’m done responding to you. You’re clearly just on hear trying to wind us all up cause there’s no way anyone could be that fucking stupid. Have a nice life.
Weird, l’arse on course for the quad and their fans hear, ther and everywhere over ROM. Then all of a sudden Carling Cup loss which leaves their fans and players in tears (even though the trophy means nothing) their fans disappear. They go out to Barcelona, then even less fans on here. Their title push capitulates and they disappear completely for 2 whole months. Only to reappear with their first win in 3 years. Not a thrashing, not a 3-1, not even a comfortable 2-0. Just the odd goal. If that means the sun rising please tell me what are those drugs that take you to your magical planet cos you certainly ain’t on Earth.
Rather be a shyte Barcelona than a Glorified Bolton.
United perfected thug football.
And always seem to get away with a penalty or two or a non-penalty call as was the case yesterday.
David – Clearly you have no shame posting such bad comments.
Glorified Bolton lol. He’s getting tetchy ha ha. You’re too small a club, for us to take seriously mate. The reality is, you’re our bitch lol. Out played in European cup semi final and last year at the Emirates. Proper gooners would be embarrassed by your words. I’m guessing you’re about 12, so I’ll give you a by ball.
Bad comments.
heh.
Its hilarious. People are proper deluded. You think football is about spending 35m on Princesses like Berbatov.
Barca didnt win anything for 5 years before they found a certain Messi in their youth project.
Id rather be a shyte Barcelona. Than a glorified Bolton.
willierednut – Mummy’s given him his cocoa to help him relax and go to sleep, bless him.
Looks like his mum was tripping on acid when she was carrying him 13 years ago. How else can he make such ridiculous statements.
David
I salute you but will not of course be raising my glass to you. The reason I salute you is because you are such a dumb fuck therefore bringing laughter to this place
David – ‘ You think football is about spending 35m on Princesses like Berbatov’. He has 4 medals to show for his efforts. As I said before, you obviously have no shame. Have you even read back to yourself the comments you are posting?
@David hmmmm intersting thoughts glorified bolton,might hold water if utd weren’t top scorers,so if utd are a glorified bolton and scored more goals than you tossers,what does that make the arse?.
if you want to bring smack make sure you don’t make a cunt of yourself.why would you bump your knee laughing,do you have an affiction apart from the fact you support perennial losers.
after all its all about silverware innit ?
NRD
How did that miss me mate……… Acid tripping, now that makes sense
Kings
Easy now mate, think the bugger has enough issues already to deal with….. On the other hand who gives a fuck, lets bash the fucker to bits! lol
what kind of fan admits his team is a shit barca,actually proud of it,should gets some shirts made ,arse the shit barca and proud of it.fuck me they really do breed donkeys in london.i never thought anybody could be as dumb as the bitters but being proud your team is a shit barca,you fucking sad bastard.
Dave
“suppose the mickey mouse cup you won last year is something sepcial to brag about but i’ll leave it there.”
The same competition Arsenal actually gave an effort to win this season…and still fucking lost.
“Princesses like Berbatov.”
The same princess that is the current top scorer in the league.
You think football is all about bringing up your youngsters. Well unless it’s a young team like the Busby babes it’s not. Its a mix of both.
Arsenal are going nowhere in reality. They haven’t moved from 05. How long before people like Fabregas, Van Persie and Nasri all decide that they had enough of waiting for trophies?
Unless you shit out a Messi…. and Wilshere is no fucking Messi… then your not going to be challenging for anything soon.
This is the same United team that has beaten you twice already this season. One with a severely weakened side.
Winning isn’t everything…its the will to win that counts. And your Arsenal manager said the other week 2nd place wouldn’t be so bad. Sir Alex wouldn’t say that. Which is why he’s the manager of a team on top of the league and have one foot in CL final while Arsene Wenger is a manager of a team that only found their form back when the pressure wasn’t on anymore. Had yesterdays game been one week before then I guarantee Arsenal wouldn’t have won.
Arsenal are a bunch of bottlers. And I’d rather be watching my side win trophies and make history…. then turn out like Liverpool and dwell in their History.
David says:
Well thats the point innit?
You always play it tight and try and Nick a goal.
___No your missing my point. We played like we were having a day off, like we didn’t seem too bothered to be playing you. Like we had ONE EYE on our next two games. Its not surprising every team still in Europe lost at the weekend, but Arsenal wouldn’t know much about that would ya?
But to humour you. Anderson was the more attacking of our two centre mids, but he sat deep the whole time he was on the pitch. Looked like he was told to keep it tight and not get forward, but how often do United play both centre mids in a deep role? And thats what I mean by play tight and win a goal. Its not rocket science pal.
You know full well we normally go for the neck but yesterday we looked happy to defend and nick a goal while you played your football. You remember how we knocked Chelsea out of Europe, we showed a completely different shape and attitude to our game with you. Truth is you only scored from our school boy error anyway, so Alex nearly pulled the gamble off. Clearly, he thought playing you was less important than Schalke or Chelsea. All things considered losing against you wasn’t that important and it doesn’t change anything for us, we still need to win our next two games.
This is becoming really pathetic, all this shit negativity because we lost to arsenal, winning a title is now a statistic? No wonder we’re all labelled plastic fans by others. We’re the one of the major reason England is on the map and we continue to better ourselves every year. I’m out this shit is really pissing me off
@ wayne A fan who’s club Captain proudly wears a Barcelona shirt. Remember l’arse are their feeder club, Overmars, Petit, Van Bronchorst, Henry. 2 of those names before young Davids time.
CedarsDevil – I almost feel sorry for him mate and that is something I rarely say about opposing fans who insist on disrespecting our football club.
Glorified Bolton hahaha, you got some nerve typing BOLTON after last weekend mate. Your lot wanna learn how to travel up and down the M1 in one piece you twat.
CedarsDevil – Come to think of it. NO I don’t feel sorry for him.
CedarsDevil – my spelling and gramma are not the greatest, but on how ryan plays in CM that is how schneider could have an effect on united’s CM, his dribbling ability to get through midfields
Kings
Thats more like it mate, for a moment I thought you felt sorry for the cunt!
FITB
No worries mate and again I said what i said with no disrespect whatsoever, I hope you know that my friend
@Notourious of course mate forgot about that,barca let the arse do the hard work then steal them,that’s fucking funny,fabregas the next to go in the summer
FFS going back and forth with this twat “David” ? shyte barcelona my arse? They’re nothing like barcelona. So what they like passing in triangles. Does that make a winning side, fucking joke. When arsenal won trophies they were more direct than they are now. This cunt is doing my head in, talking as if he knows what its like to build a championship winning side. We lose Ruud, we contest and win, we lose ronaldo and tevez ,we’re on the cusp of glory, they’re about to lose Cesc and they’re shitting their pants.
David – HAHAHAHAHA mickey mouse compitiion that your lady’s were crying in february, try 2009 and 2010 where united outfootballed arsenal. Just look at the table and the convo ends here
notorious
Every time united lose a game, the trols are out in numbers. Scott has got to get a better moderating system to his website, because there really are some idiots on here who win 1 game, and they are on here like they are world beaters
I will tell you another thing david, 2006 was a perfect example of this cup compition what give the united side the spring board to win a avalance of trophys. A trophjy is a trophy, and your boys are not gd enough to win a trophy. The fact remains when the chips are down and the pressure is at an all time high, you lot crumle faster than a buiscut. Come back when your lot get to 3 CL finals in 4 years, 3 titles in a row 2 carling cups a world club cup. United are about trophys, your side is about statistics. Especially your 2004 league title success, was more statistic than barcelona’s passing rate
its all good lads, nothing David says can give Arsenal’s season any real meaning and he knows it.
Laters!
having watched the game it was the same as every man u arsenal game. arsenal had all the ball and tried to play football and united sat back and tried to soak up the attacks and then hit arsenal with a few quick counter attacks. the only difference this time was arsenal were a bit more incisive and their defenders stepped up a bit as well.
same old style-different result.
As far as all this 6 years without a trophy stuff, i remember united going a rather long time without the premier league until not to long ago so im sure manu fans know the feelings arsenal fans are having only too well… or maybe that is before their time..
The league was there for the taking this year and arsenal have thrown their chance away recently. I hope united dont throw it away as well…
that would suck.
any of you lads seen the documentary stupidity,theory is because of all the garbage that comes at us off tv etc people are getting dumber but actually if you don’t think about too much and are stupid it makes a person happier.look at david the dumb cunt, i assume by using bolton he’s suggesting utd are boring but have scored more goals than the arse,so thats backward smack when you make a cunt of yourself, then to use bolton as a example after just being beaten by them, proud of being a shiity barca.i’ll tell you lads bet this boy is happier than a pig in shit.
howard webb ref for chelsea game
BREAKING NEWS
HOWARD WEBB SET TO OFFICIATE VS CHELSEA
WOHOOO OMEN!
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/webb-entrusted-to-ensure-vital-game-is-free-of-controversy-2278089.html?
davids right lads..were that shit that weve been the most consistent english team for winning trophys for 2 decades now…maybe we should try arsenes aproach and just use our youth ranks and then jus sell any have decent player that we have like theyve done in the past..and then when we cant win trophies for a few years we can jus go to a BIGGER clubs fan page and post stupid comments like david…oh wait jus remembered we are UNITED there is no one bigger and weve got a manager who knows what hes doin and a team with that passion and desire to win and in may we have no.19
thats a shock..theyve actually given us a fair ref for the chelski game :O hopefully roman doesnt corrupt him before the weekend
Surely our dear Howard won’t fuck us over? I bet any money, that Chelsea and some sections of the media will question his appointment. Seems like a sop to us and the manager, after the disgrace, at the bridge in March. Any contentious decisions that go our way, will be over played in the media. Make no mistake, this is a victory for Fergie and a admission, from the authorities, they fucked up by appointing that balloon at Stamford bridge.
willierednut – its at OT so she will have to help us out big time.
The media made a big fuss over the FA Cup game vs the vermin. It was a penalty and it was a red card, the problem with the decisions is that they are not consistent enough throughout the game. What constitutes a penalty and a red card one week isn’t the following. The media are to bale for this, if they were to scrutinise every decision like they do with us then it will be a level playing field. Personally the sensible thing to have done was to announce this appointment as late as possible to avoid media controversy. Before a ball is even kicked on Sunday we’re going to have all sorts of stories run. I still think we will get screwed unless we go 3-0 up early on like the Norwich game.
@cedars devil LOL. and come to think of it i don’t really like sushi. haha.
willierednut – Oh there will be plenty of complaints about this appointment mate, especially from that rentboy cunt Beasley from the Sun. He was my choice to ref this game. Dean or Atkinson would have fucked us over big time had either of them been appointed.
Ryandunny – Great post mate. Their (Arsenal fans) arguments have no substance whatsoever.
@STR
That 19th title is in touching distance and I fancy our lads to go out and get it.
Problem is Chelsea are also saying the same…(well not 19th)…
its our league to loose…and I dont know why but I am not fancying chelsea coming to OT with our mid week CL game…everytime we play mid weeek we are too tired to turn up for the premier league games…
I really think that we took it for granted that we beat Arsenal everytime and hence didnt give the game much respect. We are still in a good position but we have given Chelsea hope and they will fancy their chances on Sunday but we need to be calm and BELIEVE
totally agree with you scott! dont know why the boss changed a winning formula agianst the arseholes,,,the talk of a point being a good result by the manager mightve played at the back of the mind of the players and as for the goal,park shdve done better,than ball watching…all is not lost though still in our own hands,but as always we always do the hard way…
I hae observed for the past few games, Rio has become very very slow and careless in possesion. He just walks around and he is easily beaten for pace. He is not even 50% of what he used to be. He is a disaster waiting to happen on the important games
Every time we play 4-4-2 against Big teams, we lose. How can Fergie not notice that pattern? The problem we have is a really poor central midfield. Only when Giggs plays there do we have a player who can accept, move with and successfully pass a ball on a consistent basis. The attacking midfield lacks compactness, which causes three shortcomings: 1) Long balls from defenders (I include Carrick) to opposing defenders; 2) Rooney dropping back, mostly ineffectually, isolating Hernandez; 3) lack of penetration from anything other than Hernandez’ pace. None of Gibson, Fletcher, Scholes, Park or Anderson have the capability to damage other teams as central midfielders. In short: we have no offensive central midfield capability except Giggs. Who is old.
Finally some good news for us in terms of refereeing decisions. I was pretty sure they would put anyone but Webb in charge given that he is perceived to be biased to United (a fair referee is deemed as such). Howard Webb should be in charge of all 6-pointers 99% of the time because he is the only person who has the balls to handle the big occassions and can actually handle the players properly (Given that he is straight up Cop in his job, this should come as little surprise.)
That is arguably the best news we’ve had in a long time. Guess there is Justice after all in this world (on a lot of accounts).
Like Hugh Laurie said when he won his first Golden Globe, “I am speechless. I am literally without speech.”
What were the F.A. thinking? They should prepare for a severe press backlash if Webb gets even one decision in favor of United. Not that I care a lot about the cunts at the F.A. or the British Press, but I am still shocked at this appointment.
Another thing, you know why I repeatedly say that we need someone like Keano or Neville who can scare the shit out of our players – It is because of games like these where the casual attitude of Nani, Anderson, Rio etc. absolutely pisses me off. Some of their passes were so laboured that I felt like punching my computer screen. That, more than anything else, is why we need someone who can take a stand and enforce our players in games like these.
Apart from that, nothing much I can add to what Scott has said or what I’ve said in the previous posts regarding why I see us not losing this title. Now that Webb has been appointed, the lady luck seems to be smiling our way. That is arguably the best start we could’ve hoped for in our most important week of the season.
Sunday 8th May
Old Trafford
Man.U 1
Chelsea 2
Webbs appointment will work AGAINST United because he will know that all opposing teams consider him to be United’s 12th man and he will be eager to prove everyone wrong.
The future cannot be written until it’s written
To the poor bastard above:
No Atkinson – oh God – fucked in the CL because of no Atkinson
Time to get fucked in the league because of no Atkinson
Have fun and enjoy your day out at the Theatre of Dreams for us Nightmare for you
Also, if and when United do end up beating Chelsea, cue every ABU press reported, fan and pundit saying that SAF pressured the F.A. into appointing Webb with his comments regarding Chelsea’s decisions and United’s penalty.
Pretty sure that if we win the 19th this weekend, Webb’s appointment would be seen as the reason for it.
Funny enough that they take notice of one fair referee being appointed in our game as compared to Atkinson’s blatant decisions against us in the previous years.
That is not going to change anything, the press, ABU media and fans are always going to satisfy their delusions by saying that we’re heavily favored by the F.A. in terms of refereeing decisions. Anything other than saying that we won it fairly and squarely (IF we do) as opposed to last season will satisfy them than saying Manchester United are the worthy champions of England.
That’s it bluebrothers
Find your fucking excuses – this time it’s you lot who that that you can’t get away with it again
You need to console yourself with different equations why you won’t get fucked
But the truth is you were lucky in March were even more luckier last Saturday and now we have a proper ref to make it fair and square – and now it’s your turn to worry a little – dearie me with all of Roman’s money couldn’t he get the FA to persuade Atkinson on board one last time
Poor chelsea – they wake up this morning and have noticed that a proper ref will be in charge of Sundays game
Beggars can’t be choosers – time for the boot to be on the blue ass
See how the fuck you lot like it 
arsenal legend
“I believe United could end the season with absolutely nothing.
“That their season could end in tears
obsessed
I see John Terry is cunting on again about the Chavs ” remarkable strike force” fucking hate that sewer rat vermin infested prick i wish nothing but the worst for that cunt
Webbs appointment means that for the first time in about over three years – Manchester United go into a league game against chelsea knowing they won’t be robbed of crucial decisions
There is a God and maybe this time he really is red
Or well let’s say neutral and isn’t owned by the FA
@bluesidiot, Webbs appointment will work AGAINST United because he will know that all opposing teams consider him to be United’s 12th man and he will be eager to prove everyone wrong.
You’ve just proved all Chelsea fans are idiots by validating that if a FAIR referee were ever to be appointed in a game between United and Chelsea you would be well and truly fucked (SEE: Champions League QF). You’re basically implying that Webb has to be biased against United to not be seen as United’s 12th man. Thus implying that if a referee gives equal importance to both United and Chelsea, we would screw you over so badly, you will have nightmares for the rest of your lives.
Now Fuck Off and Cry in your little corner and stop making an idiot out of yourself.
Yes our season could end in tears (of happiness of course!!!) – but Arsenals most definately ended in a fucking flood
Balaji
Good Morning – fire fire fire
Beautiful day to be a United fan – now chelsea fans will talk about Webb – the whole fucking ABU press will talk about Webb – yet when we were talking no one listened – because all of Atkinsons previous decisions against us were not fucking worth writing about
Oh God send me a box of heavenly tissues – these tears of fucking poetic justice and joy
Where is Costas?
It’s time to be
Balaji. We’ll see!
Not forgetting that the linesmen are on Webbs side!
I heard Osama was an Arsenal fan. I’m sure he regretted running out into the yard screaming “COME ON YOU GUNNERS”
Title is won by team that wants it most. Given our performances when we were >8 points ahead and could have finished it (Newcastle away, Bin Dippers away, Rent Boys first half PL) the true question is: DO WE WANT THIS?
Necastle away and Arsenal away only LACK OF INTEREST is a proper description of our performance.
Is it lack of interest because we know we will pull this off in the end?
Here’s to a win on Sunday.
Osama was actually a chelsea fan
Having realised through FA intelligence that Howard Webb was going to referee the chelsea match he was about to commit suicide when the American seals did him a favour and killed him instead
No matter how much Webb is up Fergie’s arse, he won’t be able to rule out a perfectly good Didier Drogba brace!
Poor bluesbrothers
Drogba won’t be scoring a fucking 1 million mile offside goal this time will he?
Also bluesbrothers
I quote: he says earlier
Webbs appointment will work AGAINST United because he will know that all opposing teams consider him to be United’s 12th man and he will be eager to prove everyone wrong
He now says I quote:
No matter how much Webb is up Fergie’s arse, he won’t be able to rule out a perfectly good Didier Drogba brace!
Which one is it? – you are fucking confused already – fucking brilliant!
@MG, Good morning Mate! I hate it that I’m always asleep when some sort of drama unfolds at ROM. Time differences suck.
@dk, I wouldn’t call it lack of interest mate. The only real reasoning that explains anything is that psychologically the team has found it difficult to perform away from home. I would never accuse a United side of not wanting something but I am really surprised that we’ve been psychologically behind our real self for most of the road this season. Of course, nothing doing about it now given that 18 games are already done on the road.
Of course, at Old Trafford, it is different altogether and after a long time, OT feels like the fortress it should. I am not going to go through all my points again as to why I feel the game at OT should be highly different than last week or last season becaue I’ve already said it a lot of times. Nobody is saying United are going to get an easy win this week, but that when we are expected to do a job and when there are no external factors involved, we usually end up doing it.
Osama should’ve consulted United before building his safehouse in Pakistan. He would probably have escaped without a scratch.
Morning Balaji
Hows your day? Lovely here in sunny England
– Well in the north anyway – I bet in the south the fucking ABU press and poor ikcle chelsea are shitting themselves knowing Howard Webb is going to be ref at OT 
@MG, Day’s treating me good so far here in Dubai. Of course, when you support United, almost every day feels lke sunny California.
As opposed to Chelsea where you have to hope that Roman’s money does the talking it is supposed to. Unfortunately for them, the F.A. lost the balls to take the money from Roman on this one fully remembering last week’s decisions.
Hi guys,
Nice write up, although I was expecting the typical United moaning about penalties not given and Vidic’s elevator hand ‘was not a penalty’ thing., but I’m still wondering that it’s only United fans who count 6 year trophy drought and such stat, while their club is making loads of debts year-in-year out.
Anyway, I’m curiously waiting the next weekend when everybody and their mother slug off their own players after your manager hand the trophy back to Chelsea. I would rather have Shitty and Chel$ea win it anyday instead of Norwich City… Erm… I mean Manchester United.
bluesbrothers – Fuck off you no history smalltime club supporting cunt. Thats how you Rentboys operate isnt it? Seeing who the ref is so you can work out if you will be gifted games and points. Mug.
Tackl – Well thats typical of cunts like you. Rather see Nouveau Riche no history clubs win it than a “proper ” football club. Take it you are a dipper or Arsenal fan. Hilarious.
Tackl – By the way pal, tell me who the richest club in the world is? Debt. Is that all you have to beat us with?
bluesbrothers – Like Atkinson is your 12th man you idiotic rentboy cunt – Letting British Bulldog cunt Terry get away with a blatant handball in the penalty area and letting that Gene Wilder Look-a-like cunt David Luiz get away with countless fouls before getting a booking. Fuck off you cocksucking loser.
Tacklr – Another cunt throwing in shit comments. Piss off.
Kings – Morning mate. “Gene Wilder look a like cunt”. Superb fella.
King Eric – Morning mate. Saw Stir Crazy last night and thought of him! I do love it when these opposing supporters come on here with their shit comments – bunch of cunts.
bluesbrothers – ‘No matter how much Webb is up Fergie’s arse, he won’t be able to rule out a perfectly good Didier Drogba brace!’ How many hissy fits will that cunt have before getting his ‘brace’? Fucking twat
@King Eric – Richest? Your club is behind Real Madrid and Barcelona is not that far behind you. Even Arsenal’s financial status was growing since their move to the Emirates. Now I’m not writing Manchester United off and I didn’t mean to say that your club is poor and such thing…
But what really irks me is that it’s only Manchester United fans who always talk about stats, 6 years trophy-less club, Manchester City not winning anything since the Cold War, Chelsea buying the title and bribing the refs, Steven Gerrard being the most cheating player alive, Howard Webb being the best ref in the world, a player getting killed if he joins Manchester City, their club being the best on Earth, even better than the current Barcelona…
Everybody knows that Manchester United is successful club and their manager is one of the best, but they are not close to the success of Liverpool, AC Milan, Real Madrid and Barcelona. They’re the same as Chelsea and Man City. They got lots of money and they bought their success on their way. Everybody knows that how miserable club they were before 1992.
It’s only Manchester United fans who think that they own everything. They think that it’s only the ref’s fault to lose to Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool or Everton. They think that their manager is the only one who can mouth off the officials and they think that they own the internet and nobody can comment on their blogs.
Tackir
They have two things – the euro and a faltering tv rights deal which will soon have to be negotiated
United are not worried – Real Madrid are still behind United as far as the biggest team on earth is concerned – try Forbes
Anyway – this is all nonsense – it’s what counts in the trophy cabinet and you cannot compare Spain to England – you can however compare United to Arsenal and we beat you in everything hands down
So now do us al a favour and fuck the fuck off
We’re the same as Chelsea and Man City lol. United are one of the biggest clubs in the world, if not the biggest. Barcelona have won 3 European cups, same as United. So, by your logic, they’re the same as Chelsea and City. Of course, we’ve won 18 league titles and 10/11 FA cups. On the cusp of winning another league title, which would be our 19th and move us ahead of the really only other serious big club in English football, that compares with our record. I forgot, another European cup on the cards as well. The point about United pre 92 has been made by clowns like yourself. We had our bad times and went 26 years without winning the league title. Still, through those times United remained a big club and still attracted players just because of the aura of the club. Liverpool have now went 20 years without a league title. Are you saying they weren’t a big club?
Of course they’re were a big club. They have went through some bad times, like United done before that. No mate, Chelsea and City aren’t even comparable with Nottingham Forest, who won the European cup twice under Brian Clough. If you don’t believe me, go ask the candy coloured clown, called the sandman. He represents your soul, but I own It.
Chelsea fans and ABUs please fuck off back to Narnia.
As far as number 19 goes it is simple really. Letting those rats back into the race is either
a) a pathetic lack of interest in grafting results and killing weak oppositions that may now hugely and big style backfire
b) a touch of pure genius in squad/result management and a total confidence in the brand of football we play at Old Trafford
Sunday will tell us what our team is made of. A) or B).
There is no middle ground.
Tackir
Yes Manchester United buy themselves everything
Well Barcelona have spent around 160 m euros in the last two years – no they don’t buy themselves nothing
Real Madrid have spent over 400 million euros – only have one trophy to show for it over the last few years
Milan have spent money and have won nothing much since CL win – only this year they may win the league.
Liverpool have spent whatever they have spent – and they have won fuck all
City have spent 400 million in the last 4 seasons – won fuck all as of yet
Arsenal have spent some money too from 6 years ago – won fuck all
Manchester United have spent money within 05-11 but not as much as Real Milan Barca Liverpool City and still won the premiership 3 times CL 1 World club cup – in fact everything apart from the FA Cup United have won
I haven’t got time to do the maths I’m sure since you are so desperate to show only United buy themselves trophies and no one else does – well I’ve just shown you we get outspent by other teams who don’t win as much
So do yourself a favour and fuck off retard
@ tackir can you really be that thick, another donkey from london.a little bit of advice if you want to come onto opposing fans blogs do a little homework first instead of showing everyone that you’re just a thick cunt,forbes list of 2011 which was published just a couple of weeks ago.
1.utd
2.real
3.arse
4.bayern
5.barca
rentboys are 7th and hey nimrod chelsea did buy titles here’s a newsflash once the fair play rules come in chelsea won’t be allowed into europe they are so broke,having a rich owner who loses money every year and overspends just to stroke his ego doesn’t make rentboys a rich club.
you get irked because utd fans tell the truth about arse and bitters sucking shit year after year,wow a fucking gunner who won’t face the fact he supports a prennial loser what a surprise.
i’m not even going to debate the history because every football fan knows the history of utd, your last 2 paragraphs are utter dribble and not worth a response
if a poll was done on rom you just might be the dumbest fuck ever to come on here.
Criticising the Manager is completely pointless at this juncture. The boys on the field did not deliver what was asked of them on the day. However, there are other days and I believe these boys have the maturity and the ability to pick themselves up and take the title.
What counts is what the manager and the players deliver over a season.
This Manchester United team, regardless of comparisons with others seasons and eras, have both the Champions League and domestic title within their grasp.
Believe!
Tacklr – Stop lying son. As published by Forbes last week United are THE richest club in the world. 300 million more than madrid and a hell of a lot more than Barca. Don’t let facts get in the way of your figures though you fucking idiot.
Tacklr – ‘Everybody knows that how miserable club they were before 1992.’ We was still winning trophies prior to 1992, although not as frequent, and we was still the best supported club then as we are now. Please think before you post a comment.
Kings
Idiots cannot think, hence we call them idiots
I don’t read whole comments but Ireally start to think post-CL away game is too difficult to cope very well. Simply, team is under no physical condition to play game very well. All 4 teams get beat after CL match.
CedarsDevil – Not thick cunts?
swede – “United play badly and suddenly Arsenal is the best in the world and they are better without Fabregas and so on. Every time United make another side look good the muppets at that club and the media milk it.”
You actually think we played good?! We played intelligently, not bombing forward and leaving gaping holes at the back for your one dimensional players to expose. If Ramsey and Wilshire can run rings around your midfield of Carrick, Anderson, Nani and Park, then you have bigger problems than us.
One thing that can be summised by your lot’s meetings with us this season is that you have no imagination. If we can start playing like we did on Sunday when it counts, then no way will your turgid side be guaranteed a win when you play us.
@ the plonker who posted above. You’ve been waiting 3 years to be saying that. One things certain our manager won’t wait 3 years to change the tactics vs yours. About time these games got closer, although will never reach the heights of when you had Viera, Henry, Bergkamp etc.
east end gooner – Shock……another gooner posting a nonsensical comment.
Arsenal were full of imagination at the Camp Nou.
Kings
Have to agree buddy…. Thick cunts is much more definitive
So in mathematical equation terms
Wilshere plus Ramsey = Fabregas not needed can fuck off back to Barcelona
That’s what the Gooners are saying now right ?
@NotoriousRedDevil
I suppose you have a point, but in reality Wenger was never under any pressure until now as a new chairman has come in. Your lot will compromise your “principles” of good football in order to beat us – thankfully we now think the same.
@Kings
Watch the game mate, plus the one at Anfield and Chelsea. Despite being so good at home, your tactics have gone to pot away. We used to be be dubbed “no plan B” – your side have taken the baton based on the displays shown at the above.
@CedarsDevil
You sound like a good educated person. Your parents must be so proud!
@MG
It was just a point that a midfield pairing of a teenager in his first season and a 21 year old back from a broken leg can do that to your midfield. We prefer to have Fabregas, but are not under any pressure from having to pay £40m each year in interest on a leveraged buyout (ring a bell?)