Following our 1-0 victory over Everton, Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that we won’t see Chris Smalling for the next four weeks with the 21-year-old having a broken foot.
“Smalling has a small fracture on his foot,” said Ferguson. “I think he’ll be out for a month and it’s unfortunate that one.”
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Armageddon.
Cue Costas complaining about our medical team.
But seriously, when was the last time Sir Alex had a fully fit squad to choose from (discounting Hargreaves obviously). I think we may have to go back a couple of years for that and that really is an underwhelming thought.
This could provide a chance for Rio to try to get back a first team spot and make it stick. I mean he’s such a great player but really, the form he’s been in, he’s not a natural first pick in my opinion. I’d love to see him and Vidic get themselves re-established as the greatest centre half pairing in the world. No disrespect to the young bucks, but he’s better than they are, when he’s on. When he and Vidic are on song our penalty area becomes a fortress.
Loved Sir Alex wearing a “Kick Racism Out of Football” badge today.
Just put on previous thread – Getting anxious re our injuries – every match we seem to lose a player to injury – what’s that all about?! Is the pre season too much, are our players more fragile that others, not warming up properly, other teams are dirty?
It’s a concern for sure, Warwick.
I’m interested to hear Costas’s opinions on the matter…
@ Costas (and only he will get this) It’s a conspiracy! There’s someone inside the club who doesn’t want us to have a fully fit squad!
Seriously though, agree with Warwick having one injury per game at the moment, and one serious injury per fortnight. What is going on? How did this happen to Smalling. Training exercise? Last week? Or dropping salad cream on his foot?
Regardless of current form what a fantastic player we have to replace Smalling in Rio Ferdinand. I’m more concerned about TC at the Moment. As we have already found out, losing TC is probably harder to compensate for then the loss of smalling. Job done today, we are not at our best by a long way but once again this season we have picked up points away where last season we didn’t.
It’s CRAZY!!!
Listening to Fergie post match, I think Cleverly will be alright just come back from injury played 68 minutes midweek and about an hour today. Boss says he’ll be back next week so lets wait and see. Not a major disaster him not playing Galati. As long as Carrick plays midweek we’ll turn them over.
Clevs should be ok for next week Sir Alex reckons. Its also ESSENTIAL we keep Vidic fit for the rest of the season. His International retirement couldn’t have come at a better time.
I blame Evans, everything he does goes wrong for the poor lad, he slipped and fell on Chris Biggling’s foot.
Unlucky
-Costas, Its the high fibre diet, its making me spend more time in the toilets. 1st time I had a toilet break during a match. Once in Poo Mooon
Hope Clevs is fit a trio of Him, Carrick & Park could be unstoppable.
- Zibbie – Rooney is a singer now, he just released his 1st No.1 single …. Lil Wayne_ Rooney Tunes
That’s great news on TC, feared the worst there for a minute.
Penalty for Wolves! Kompany sent off. 2 1 city. come on ye Wolves!!!!!!
Looks like Shitty are running away with the league
With the season ending soon 
Nasri is pathetic now, warms the bench for 2/3 games then only plays 1 hour, what a waste of legs, give them to Hargreaves
Lets see how City cope without Kompany?!
Having said that, do you get a ban for a red card? Evans played today?
I think we can attribute to the last 2 injuries on the boots the players are wearing. Willie made a good point about it recently.
But don’t fear. I haven’t lost my faith in the medical team’s capabilities. Smalling will be back. In 6-7 weeks.
@ Costas I’ll see your 7 and raise you to 9.
Plus, maybe we should ask how fit Tom really was when he returned this week (3 weeks later than expected may I add…). We could have lost him with an aggravated injury today.
But the medical team aside, it is a worrying trend losing players. Given the time frames, the squad should be up to full strength in a month. If no one else gets injured of course. At leasy Young isn’t out for 6 weeks as it was initially feared.
Relieved with the win and 3 points, perfect response from the lads….. My friend Willie pretty much summed up the season so far, crazy indeed!
Zibbie – Pleasure regarding your mom buddy
kompany is city’s best defender, i just hope it affects them badly in up coming games.
Cleverly will be hopefully fit for sunderland, his intelligent and precise passing has improved us and again he put in a good performance before being taken off, fergie said he’ll be ok so great.
*least*
Ebanks-Blake is on. Come on son!
@Notorious
Lol. That’s the spirit.
Don’t think its an aggrevated injury as Sir Alex said it was a tight hamstring. But its definately something the club needs to look at. City don’t seem to get half as many injuries?
I think I love Van Persie
don’t jinx it lads . . we need big smalling back soon . .
@ mikekelly12 – Tight hamstring was in reference to Welbeck mate. BBC interview said Cleverly’s ankle was tight and stiff which is why he come off. He did say neither was serious but looks like hamstrings and Welbeck will be a recurring theme. F
3-1!! WANKERS
Cedars hello mate, have a buzz filled day!
Goodnight Wolves!
NRD
Oh right, I thought you meant Cleverley earlier. Lets hope he’s back soon then.
Mikekelly
Not a game any of us expected the bitters to drop points from to be fair….. Soon they will, very soon
City’s real Premier League season starts next week.
@mike
I think Sir Alex told MUTV that Clev felt his ankle again. So maybe he wasn’t ready for more than 45 minutes today.
I think we’ve lived with this number of injuries for so long, that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to have about 4-5 injuries maximum at one time. City, Liverpool and Chelsea tend to get fewer than us. Only Arsenal get as many. In fact, I think they get more than us.
Wanker Field not full again?
Cedars
I hope you’re right. My little heart thought they might rob a point after the pen but hey ho! The real kick in the ass is in my dream team I took the captaincy off RVP and gave it to Joe Hart!! My own fault for giving it to a bitter so instead of an extra 19 points I get an extra 1 point. What a DICK!
Costas – injuries happen, you can’t do much about it, even if his time on the sidelines was extended, he still potentially could have aggravated it, fergie said he’ll be fine so not all bad.
Stop watching City games. you arse bandits.
Norwich, get in there you beauty get them Blackburn down where they belong……
Mikekelly – Ha? Talking about some sort of a game are you buddy? Never got into them to be honest, too dumb or even too lazy!
Zibbie – Seriously enjoying the buzz, just took my two pills about 30 minutes ago…. Starting to kick in
Costas
Yeah mate, my mistake, I thought NRD had said it was his hammy but he was talking about Wellbeck so could be a little too much for him today?
Cedars
Yes mate, Fantasy Football….in a league with pals with a bit of money riding on it!! You choose a captain and any points they get are doubled. RVP has been my captain for 3 weeks and for some RIDICULOUS reason I changed it to Hart! What a wanker!!
what’s the Mata CH3L5EA you look TerryFived ?
We got stuffed 6-1 at home by City six days ago mate.
How good is wee Thomas eh? Just look back at the build up to our goal and his involvement…
Mikekelly – Sorry to hear about your game buddy…. Will try and learn about this fantasy football thing
@Fred,
Saw that on another site, thought I might share. T’was creative…
Fred
We’ve been stuffed many times before buddy…. Time to move on. The pain may never go away though, I see where you are coming from
Bah humbug!
All I’m saying is that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
@Samuel
What worried me was that he didn’t even get a knock. It just happened while he was passing the ball. That’s why I was wondering how ready Tom was. Good thing we have a game against Otelul this week. He has a full week to prepare for Sunderland.
The problem I have with injuries isn’t that they happen. It’s how frequently they happen at our club and that no one seems to notice. Maybe the lads have been gutting it out without us noticing it, but when exactly did Carrick, Smalling and Young get injured? For example, I remember Fergie saying before the City game that everyone that played in Romania was fit. And 2 days later Carrick was nowhere to be seen. Still no update on him. And I don’t know what happened with Smalling. Didn’t look like he suffered a foot fracture against City.
Ha? Say it multiple times and you will feel good! Ha? Ha? Ha?
stupid fucking weirdo (me that is)
@mikekelly12
Probably, but in fairness, I understand the urge to play him today. Especially given our absences in midfield. Plus, just like us, I think Fergie was also wondering exactly how much the team has missed Cleverley.
But it’s not all bad news. I hear Gibbo is fit again.
I have my own reasons to hate Albion with a special passion, older fans on here might know why…. But I hope they stuff the scousers now
I’s coz they stuffed us 5-3 at Old Trafford back in 1978, innit?
We have to get rid of some of the plodders and get in some players with a spark. Why did we end up playing Park in the middle, are we that desperate? He puts the effort in, but that’s all he brings.
Cleverly going off injured was a major blow. It’s bad when he’s not there but he needs help along side him. We were lucky to get a win today, a better team than Everton would have got a result today.
Ok ok, seeing that I am being begged to say why I hate Albion here it goes…..
It was their fans who started the Munich chants in England….
These pills are working wonders by the way
Its not just so much the injuries we get, but the frequency and the timing is hard to stomach. I have a feeling we bring some of our players back a bit early which I suppose you have to commend in this day and age however is it worth it if you go one step forward and 3 steps back? We haven’t had a fully fit squad to choose from since Feb 2003 or perhaps August 2006. The number of injuries over the last 4 yearsis the worst I’ve seen, since 1998 when we couldn’t get a midfield out.
I’m sure we’ll cope with the Smalling injury but what it does mean is more games for Evans which I can’t see the masses liking. Although they make no noise when its time to get behind the team at OT they are vicious in their disdain when criticising a player which helps nobody when players are out injured.
Twitter was abuzz with jokes at our expense that day, let me tell you. MANCH3-5TER UNITED etc.
@ Cedars – Really mate, was it them. I was under the impression it was Wolves fans that started that shit. Have to say am surprised by that.
Fred
Explanation already given my love…. No its not the 5-3, cracking match it was mind you…. Gary Bailey man of the match! hahahaha
NRD
It was them my friend, soon followed by Leeds and Liverpool scum
Looking at the results we got last season in these 10 fixtures (and replacing Blackpool with Norwich), the points tally is the same (23), but we did better in the goals department this season. 27-12 in 2011-2012 as opposed to 21-14 in 2010-2012. So yeah, City scored 5 more times at OT this season, but we also conceded 5 less goals at Merseyside
@ Cedars – Well you know sheep always follow and rats always drift towards filth. Don’t feel so bad calling West Brom Tesco FC anymore.
I think the racist will give the racists a 2-1 win over the Brom today, I’m sorry to say.
Just to think that West Brom made headlines back then for fielding an amazing THREE black players in their team!
Fast forward 33 years and Liverpool FC have no fewer than 1 black players in their huge squad. Now that’s progress!
Lets hope the Kop clowns slip up.
Anyone else has the impression that these first 2 months have been a nutshell of Nani’s entire campaign last season? He started the season on fire, but he’s fallen off the radar in recent weeks.
Match officiating in the league is going down hill very fast….. How on earth was that a penalty?
NRD – Well said, put a smile on my already smiling face! hahaha
Tesco FC? Hahahaha
Not many here may understand that but every time I read it I piss my self
Good evening Red Devils around the world,
the best news of the day – TOM CLEVERLY’S INJURY IS NOT SERIOUS..
Hello Cedars,
as expected, we grinded this result, i was expecting this,
for me defense was more disciplined today,
i m expecting more from our midfield..
somebody please explain me what position Rooney is playing?
Cedars,
well said buddy,
dont know about other leagues but EPLz refs have been screwing it up..
pathetic reffing sometimes..
@ Fello Indians on the blog,
what a proud moment today, we hosted our first ever F1 race!!!
Tom Cleverley only needs to come and read ROM to know that he has a big future at United. like someone on another thread said, at times you dont really know what it is that Clev does that brightens the whole midfield and makes it fluid or you just cant put it in words. Manchuchu i think did a good job of explaining that Clev gets the ball and its almost like he has eyes all over his skull, he knows where to pass the ball almost immediately (which is why SAF i suppose said he has a great footballing brain), he passes and runs, passes and darts, goes foward,-this in turn subconsciously tells the other players what is expected of them, then you start to see that short ball game which earlier on in the season had caused the “we have changed our style of play to barca etc” conclusions/assumptions/. Thing is, if Cleverley can get a consistent run of games, he might just tune everyone around him to a level almost akin to telepathy.
Hello Sandeep
Yes it was a vital win and congratulations on getting the F1….. Mind you I think its a stupid sport… Who on earth enjoys watching fast cars going round 50 plus times? Pathetic… And they call the drivers athletes? Hahahaha
I am getting officially fucked at the moment…. Pills kicking in rather nicely ….yum yum
Andy Carroll is seriously shit…. How the fuck is he an England international?
Oh wait, they are just as shit!
Cedars,
hello buddy,
indeed they are atheletes,
them drivers lose almost 2 to 4 KG weight after every race..
they gotta do lot of cycling, swimming, running and plenty other exercise
buddy, easy with your pills,
by the way,
why our WALL dine even jump for the Baines free kick? forget about attacking
Well I am finally back home… been out with MrsBee treating out little grandson to a afternoon out at the kiddie parks…..
you fucking lot would have pissed yourself to see me…. a 20 stone lump… climbing in and out of the kids climbing frames chasing the little darling…..
trying to listen to the fucking match on the radio which was in my earpiece…..
you ever tried climbing in and out of hoop-lets and sliding down plastic slides whilst trying to concentrate on what’s being broadcast in my ear……
well at least we won
Something else i’d like to know what it is that makes Barca players go the whole season without injuries. Is it the Cliche that La Liga is not Physical bla bla, Do Barca players get too much respect from their opponents, or are they just downright fleetfooted? Think about it, they can at times maintain a squad for months on end
CEDARS…SOME ONE HAS SLIPPED YOU SOME PILLS AND YOU’RE GETTING FUCKED…..
Date rape?
Terry Slips on Van Der Saar’s Birthday….
Some things are just meant to be!!
TonyBee
Hahahaha you old lump! Welcome back buddy (Fat fuck)
Sandeep
Athletes my ass, been driving a car for over 40 years and I am as fit as a snail! hahaha
TonyBee
You missed my posts on my latest nurse…. Nigerian babe with an ass to die for. My kidneys were fucked again and she helped me. Fucking injections did my head in and now the follow up pills are just as strong…….I feel like Santa to be honest! hahahahaha
Sandeep – wow, it must be written in the stars!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG EDWIN
So A MONTH actually means about 8 weeks
Great….More Evans bashing to come!
On a midfield note, I want to see Cleverly paired with Carrick. Fletch is playing like its 2006 again.
@Redhound
Our 98/99 team was pretty much full strength throughout the season. Its all down to luck. In fact, this showed how good Sir Alex is at managing a squad, allowing us to win so much with key players injured every now and then
Cedars to his nurse… Any chance of a kiss?
Nurse… absolutely not!!
Cedars….oh go on …. just a quick kiss
Nurse…… NO !!
Cedars….. oh go on just a little peck on the cheek then
Nurse…. Look I’ve just said no….I shouldn’t even be wanking you off !!
RedHound … that’s a very good question. Especially given the number of games their main guys play. Xavi has averaged over 50 games a season for the last 5 years. I did the sums a few months ago, during the summer break. According to their wikipedia page, last season Barca played 60 games in total. Here’s a few stats on their starts and appearances:
13 players had 40 or more appearances. 8 of those had 50 or more. 9 players had more than 40 starts, and 6 of those started more than 45 games. Out of 60. It’s pretty amazing. Nio prizes for guessing who got all those starts, either: Alves (50 starts + 4 subs), Villa (48+4), Messi (48+7), Pique (48+3), Xavi (47+3), Iniesta (46+4), Valdes (44+0), Sergio (42+4), Pedro (40+13). We were lucky to have any players with over 40 appearances, let alone starts.
I assume it must be down to the less physical nature of the game over there. Real Madrid have similar stats.
Fletch was awesome in 2006
Remember AC Milan at OT., fletch was immense BUTT…..crazy stuff, Kaka raped us, Rooney fucked them, we won the leg 3-2 and got Double penetrated 3-0 at San Siro….bad memories.
That would mean the claims that they wouldnt just prance around in the premier league do hold weight. Messi’s career would probably be ended coz we all know these defenders wont let you make a fool out of them and just walk away.
Funny Coincidence or SAF’s genius-ism at work again You decide
Park returns to back to back games ———— Young out for a few weeks with Toe niggle
Vidic plays back to back ———————– Smalling out for a month or 2?
Clevs is slightly fit —————————Anderson + Carrick + Giggs go AWOL
Fabio stays fit ——- Rafael is now back ——– Same people I tell you —-Fabael Dada Silva
Meanwhile in other news:
Cunterry slips ——————– VDS’s birthday
I do a shit ———— Utd make subs
Me and Cedars were talking about this in the morning. A tweet from Rooney:
“Just have to say 12 o’clock kick off is no good for players. Trying to force pasta down at 9 in the morning is not nice.”
I get where he’s coming from. I can’t even imagine someone being awake at 9 in the morning.
i also noticed how the injuries seem to be perfectly synchronized. its not down to Fergie. I think God supports Manchester United
though like everyone else, he has his off days
Chico scored again, Chico smiled again
This is for you so called man utd fans, Anderson Is the 6 best premier league player http://www.premierleague.com/page/PlayerPerformanceIndex and second best midfilder in the premier league http://www.premierleague.com/page/Top10Midfielders/0,,12306,00.html and that is a FACT. stats don’t lie now do they. glory hunters fuck off.
Can someone please create a GIF of Terry’s slip against Arsenal. That’s gotta be the funniest shit I’ve seen in months.
Viva John Terry,…you cunt!
God does not love United…..we are the Red Devils
We do what we want
Papii’s right….he needs a shite! Papii’s right he needs a shite! Little pea, will do for me! We all hate Leeds scum, we all hate leeds scum, we all hate leeds scum!!
redhound . .god supports us ? i thought god manages united
Javier, Javier, Javier Hernandez! Javier, Javier, Javier Hernandez!
Who ya gonna call? Scouse buster!! 
damu and kiccha,
well said,
Baines was impressive today,
I hope Tom will be back to the next game..gutted to see him go off..these fucking injuries to the wronmg player at the wrong time
Scouse Buster
Ander’s son ….. didn’t know Lindegaards kid was playing for United
ROM is hiberbated eh?
Mancity, Mancity, How long will you laugh?
We wear the Red Scarf,
We’ll screw you again,
as the Champions we’ll reign,
We will give you wounds as deep as shallows
you will forever live in our shadows
@Devil310 – http://www.abload.de/img/terryrux4.gif
@Berbafans – http://h7.abload.de/img/berbawuaq.gif
Cheeky Evra – http://www.abload.de/img/evrne2u.gif
Gifs courtesy of “Olly” at the RedCafe forums.
RIP Jimmy Savile. Top red.
TonyBee – Cracked me up you old fool! hahaha
soren – Evening darling, how inappropriate that you make an appearance and no one greets you darling? Shame on every one here!
I can confirm that I had that discussion with Costas this morning, in case anyone is doubting it!
Have to love legal drugs
Hello my love, I miss you….. I miss you too babe, how have you been? Been well just missed you too…
Where on earth is everyone? I know unlike me most of you have a life but come on! We won today…
Need to share the buzz I am feeling right now
RedNut in the fucking house!!!!! Rocking to the little pea beat!!!!!!! Fuck all scouse bastards!!!!! We got the scouse buster in full effect!!!! Javier to the fucking Hernandez!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah finally life on the Republik …….. Welcome home Willie, our Little Pea fucked them good eh? FUCK
Easy on them !!!!!!!! thingies buddy
Some twits saying the daily mail tomorrow will have quotes from rio saying JT is a racist.
Holy Cr*p. THings will really kick on then. I personally can’t believe that a former England captain would talk publicly about anything in the team.
Any one know what was said.
Recently I have looked in the mirror and had a conversation with my self… Its so comforting as I understand me and the response is always spot on…. I think I love me
Seriously though, get in there wee Thomas…. His bones are red
No need to wonder, I am weird, of course I am ………. I am a die hard red
FletchTHEMAN
By ‘team’ are you referring to the England team? If so then they can piss off….. Rio talking about captain cunt is something that should have happened long ago
Can’t stop laughing at the Evra and Terry GIFS
Top shit fella
Gotta stop with this shit obession,yesterday I shitted out dozens of cunts on RoM, todays Its shit this & shit that, shit all over this, Man Shitty this, for shits sake im still shitting, at least it not as much shit as Terry shits verbally or as shit as shitty’s history or as shitty as the shit I shitted when Cleverley got that shitty injury that brought a stinging feeling when i next did a shit, anyways, moving on and shitting onwards, I cant stand the “shit” Evans criticism because its pure bullshit, he’s young and he’ll make shitty mistakes and he’s not shit and never was as shit as people make out or shit out to be. Its takes the piss & shit when shitty United fans shit on Evans and potty mouth him, stop the shit shithead and smoke bullshit to cool down.
Thats my shit filled response to all the shits that was shitting out their shitty disapointment at Evans starting a rather shitty game.
37 shits on 1 Comment take that Shitheads
Hello Papii
Shit! hahahaha
Gutted, missed the game today. Trying to find it somewhere on line and see what MOTD shows of the match. I’ve read most of the comments though and i have to say i’m not sure what to think. A lot of discussion about the front players yesterday and it seems the everton game has re-ignited it. Just knew Tom C would be dynamite, good to know he’ll be okay. The guy can be as good as he wants, hes still young and i fnd it funny when you hear the unevitable “he’s not our messiah” well who the fuck is then, Rooney? Nani, Fletcher? If no one want to step it up why not him. I can’t wait to see Danny play with Berbatov with Carrick and Tom C behind or even a 4-3-3 made up of Park Tom C and Carrick and Nani,Danny and Berb up top.
I’ll say it now and i welcome the challenge, Danny and The Berb could form(key word here being could,sicne we haven’t seen them together) an even deadlier partnership than Rooney and Hernandez. Both players are mind boggling brilliant – touch, speed of thought, always looking to take players on and more importantly ABLE to take players on, with Tom C behind those 2 we could have something really special on our hands. The Berb is better at playing in the hole in my opinion and i think Danny could do with another intelligent body alongside him. Not to say Rooney isn’t but in my opinion The Berb has that edge on him, if he had the pace of Roo or Welbeck we’d have a different story all together and it would be who to play with Berba. Back to reality, he doesn’t have that pace but truthfully he compensates for it with his flair vision and ball retention skills and he isn’t exactly a slouch either.
Either way i think the boss can keep his 4 main strikers happy, disappointed he hasn’t found the right balance. I hope there are no prima donnas moaning in the team about being top shot. Because with the resources we have and the ridiculous amount of rotation we’ve had at the back and in the middle, i’m surprised the gaffer hasn’t tried something different up front
Cedars Ofcourse I agree on the p*ss off point, but just think this has to be made up.
Just cant see it.
slim
Try http://www.footytube.com
Usually highlights of any game you want buddy
FletchTHEMAN
Not made up buddy just over due….. I remember Terry involved in a racist beating of an Asian kid some years ago along with Bowyer….. People like him should be locked up not idolized for God’s sake
Hello there cedars,
going to bed,
just wanted to say good night to you and other Red Devils,
by the way, pill is kicking you eh
too much love for Soren
Sandeep
Soren is our red devil angel, how can we not love her? Goodnight buddy
CedarsDevil
cool, thank man. See you’re still flying high. So jealous.
My posts are not fucking coming through!
Fuck sake eat something fella….you’re looking so slim?
ha ha ha ha, we have to love the angel buddy,
Good night to you, slim, willie, FletchTHEMAN and all true red devils,
see you all tmrw,
Manchester United – Red dreams everyone..
Thanks for the Gifs Fred!.
I swear that Berba gif will make me gay.
More like floating, not flying …….
Great feeling…. Good night my friends
Smalling is out with a moth? Strange….
Funny how all these years, Roy Carroll still has that bad habit of blocking the initial shot, only to send the ball right back to the opposition and concede on the rebound. He leaked in 2 such goals today.
What about DDG saving a shot with his nose? Fucking rock hard this kid! So his girl says, anyway.
Can’t help but feel worried, didn’t see the game and highlights are well.. just that highlights but i have to sayi’m pretty worried. Another day and we’d be moaning here tonight. Moyes said it perfectly, you could sense the fear i hope they get it out of their system and start playing some football. teams in the league this year won’t give us the time to get our shit together.
Nobody knows that goalie position, like De Gea nose that goalie position.
this victory shows that Man United will never die. Remember that shity have not faced a top team yet exept of united so they will drop points. Keep the red flag flying high!!!!!!!! 20<3
@Slim
dont worry pal we really played some good beautiful, am currently watching the replay.
Sorry i mean good football
What about the 15 year old kid that scored for Wycombe on his debut. Went to celebrate with his family and the referee booked him? They can say it’s the rules, but we see so often, the inconsistent decisions in games. Common sense is lost on these people. Kaput!
Do any of you lads have a link to watch FC Molde tomorrow. Really proud of Ole for the job he is doing.
Sunday they try to seal 1st Eliteserien title in their 100yr history with several games to go yet as well. Love to see Ole patrolling the sidelines. Man is a class act.
Anyone here had experience with a website called Live Football Online (that’s the name; the link is actually http://www.free-football.tv/)? Thinking of signing up since I am about to lose my TV coverage but am curious about the quality of service, whether the download/bandwidth is any good, whether it’s high definition. Unfortunately, not much info on their web site and there’s no free trial. If anyone has used the service, would be good to know.
united gets beaten 6 nil in a previous game, what did you expect against everton? full of confidence? of course the team was nervous, in time hopefully they’ll regain form, everton is a difficult ground and not many teams will win there if moyes has his full team out, i’m delighted with the win. i don’t care how we got it.
I gotta reiterate, i’m glad cleverly is back, you can see the class in his style of play, he moves the ball quick and precise, he’ll be one of the quality technical young playmakers out of the club hopefully, its great that fergie said he is okay as he has been missed.
To both of you, I will say: http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/
It was natural that we were so protective of our goal today, particularly in the last half an hour. Bit more confidence, and Vidic with a good run of games…and we should be fine.
I’m surprised people haven’t really picked up on the way Fergie positioned Rooney…he was really deep. I know he drops off anyway, but he was basically an additional midfielder today.
I’m a big Welbeck fan- and thought he showed some good flashes today, created some chances. Also put in a great shift defensively. But I’m not a fan of playing him out wide though, and I thought his control, which is normally so good, let him down a few times too many as well. Probably coz playing on the flank means you’re in a really tight space….compared to up front where you have more margin for error. I suppose its part of his education though.
I suppose that’s part of his education though…coz having good close control is even more difficult on the flank, when you’re in a tight space.
Ignore the last line lol, bad edit!
Critising our medical team for a fractured foot and injuries arising in training and games is bull shit. United actually have a LOWER injury rate and FASTER recovery rate for similar injuries than most teams.
Anyone who thinks that in a contact sport which has increasingly intense training you won’t get injuries fairly regularly is completely stupid. Younger players and older players are also naturally more injury prone and some players bodies or playing style make them more susceptible to injury.
Keep things in context! Compare United’s injuries to other teams – it is much of a muchness, stop trying to ruin the reputation of our hard working medical team who are a soft target for bullshit attacks and who are rated as one of the best in the WORLD, do you really think SAF would keep around a shit team???? Get a bloody grip..
Piers Morgan really is a dick isn’t he? How and why that guy is still relevant is beyond me. Only in Britain where someone as deranged as that is allowed to write in newspapers and have TV shows to themselves. no offence brits but after all this is the same country that has The only way is essex. Nuff said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/oct/30/wigan-chairman-race-row
I always knew Dave Whelan was a bit of an opinionated twat….but is he actually being serious here?!
I know I’ll get some negative comment for this but Inter is shit this year, Sneijder might consider a move, just make an offer…
Fred…. thanks, I’ll check it out. cheers!
SNEIJDAHHHH!
Scott the Red, put your clock back FFS.
Stateside – why pay for something you can get for free? That’s what I always say!
Yeah Stateside, that link that Fred posted is the best one on the web at the moment since Myp2p went down. I ended up sending the ESPN3 feed from my pc via hdmi to the 46″ LCD in my office to watch the game today. Worked out pretty well. Alot of the feeds on footballstreaming are as good or better, aroundd 720p usually for most of the HD feeds. So we wont be completely out of luck but fuck those cunts at DTV and Fox for fucking around with my programming, just work out a deal and get it over with.
Good Morning ROM!
Stateside, I personally have been using the following link (http://www.livefootballol.com/) ever since MyP2P went down a few months ago. I also use Sopcast streams primarily since they don’t have to buffer constantly and have the best quality. Flash streams are decent but when you want to make the best use of that bandwidth you have, nothing beats Sopcast.
There is this one guy called Bloodzeed HQ (Google him) who easily has the best football stream on the Internet. For the United-City match, he had 150K viewers on his stream alone. Trust me when I say this, the quality on offer from his stream is unmatched. If you have a PC connected to your big screen TV like I do, then you won’t be able to tell the difference between an HD cable channel and his stream. It is seriously that good.
Unfortunately, he isn’t able to stream all the matches. Although I’ve seen most of our matches since the Shield game on his stream, he hasn’t streamed a couple like the home game against Basel and yesterday’s match against Everton. But you can always use the above link to find different Sopcast streams. Whenever Bloodzeed is not on, I use a Russian HD stream from ReDevils (dot) Ru. The quality is not as pristine as Bloodzeed’s but is usually as close to HD as possible. English commentary usually sucks anyway and watching a United game with an eccentric Russian commentator is way more fun.
Between both the streams, I don’t think I’ve missed a match since I came to Dubai including the more obscure Carling Cup ties. And all in HD and free as well. Ah, the wonders of technology.
Am really pissed by the blind loyalty exhibited by some fans,
damn! They’d still be singing silvestre’s praises if he was still
around. My point is this is the second season running with poor
performances from Evans, sometimes it pays to be not so
hopefull that you’ll turn a corner and see the light at the end of
the tunnel, what if all u get is a wall at the end of the tunnel?
Remember fergie almost costing us the league trying to be
hoefull about Ben foster. With Evans in the side the opposition
are already guaranteed a goal, they only need to turn up in
the box to claim it.I say Evans is a lost cause, Fergie cut him
out before he causes a disaster. Oh, and while at it you could
give a similar thought to Gibson too.
Do not usually praise opposition players but I have to admit that Van Persie is pure class, amazing ability and seems like a decent bloke as well……
Morning all
thereddevil
We are all entitled to our point of view and of course so are you…. But why are you questioning supporter loyalty? If we cannot be loyal to our players then what’s the point of supporting the team? Furthermore you say that Fergie almost cost us the league? Bemusing statement to be honest
No one critisized the medical team for players getting injured. They are critisized for how long it takes them to fiugure out how to treat an injury and how effectively the do it. Looking at the amount of injuries at this website, here’s how we’ve done compared to our rivals in the last 5 years:
http://www.physioroom.com/affiliate/setanta/epl_injury_table.php
Arsenal: 370
United: 317 injuries
Chelsea: 236 injuries
Man City: 230 injuries
Liverpool: 221 injuries
It’s not an entirely accurate website, but the difference between the clubs is telling. If anyone wants to chalk this down to bad luck, fine by me. But we are not doing better than other clubs (apart from Arsenal) and we’ve had too many injury crisis in recent years, for it to be accidental.
No one is above critisism. Even Fergie’s staff.
*Not even Fergie’s staff*
Forgot to add Tottenham’s (who’ve been in one big injury crisis for years as Notorious once said
) numbers: 316 injuries since 2006.
I may be naive, silly and dumb but in my opinion questioning Sir Alex is a big no no…. Just my thought
@Fred – You found it mate. Fuckin hilarious it is. That Evra GiF is something else. You could tell the boss has eyes behind his head….**throws his hand around his back while he still carefully watches the match
@theredderdevil
Give the lad a break. He’s put in a good performance yesterday.
Bloody hell Costas, how on earth do you come up with these stats? Pure genius my friend
Costas
My comment at 8:25 was in no way directed at you, I am sure you know that though….Just wrote a thought in my head with out refreshing the page
Hey Cedars. Thanks. Just had to do a lot of digging and tallying up. The lengths one has to go to in order to prove his point.
We can question anyone Cedars, even the mighty SAF……
But whether he will pay any attention is another matter….
quick gag to start the morning……
The average elephant ejaculates up to 3 points in each orgasm.
That’s a hard fact to swallow.
Costas
God help your future wife! She may never win an argument with you !! hahaha
Mind you we all know that women always win in that department
TonyBee! How is stardom treating you buddy?
Of course we CAN question him but we shouldn’t ….. Personally it makes me feel ungrateful to do so.. Just how I feel, all to their own
Nice to see that TonyBee made good use of his extra hour of sleep.
@Cedars
Not to worry. I realized the comment wasn’t directed at me. Besides, I agree that questioning Fergie is a no no. His medical and traininhg staff on the other hand…
Oh, I think I’ll let the future wife win the arguements mate. You have to look to the future and this tactic will rip benefits for me in bed.
Fergie on the Evra case:
http://networkedblogs.com/pbRav
When Big Ron was the boss I forced my self to try and like or even accept him but in reality I never did… Always thought of him as an arrogant cunt and I still do
costas….
CEDARS…..Stardom ! more like when there is a nob gag I get thought of…. autograph pictures are available at a small charge….all proceeds go to the ‘buy Sneidjer now’ campaign
Costas
You’ll make a perfect hubby for some lucky girl then! hahahaha Seems you already know the score, or how to score should I say!
TonyBee
‘buy Sneidjer now’ campaign?? Thought you were a big Tevez fan!
CedarsDevil
Morning Cedars. One good thing about big fat Ron is that he gave us Robbo.
Red Neck
Morning buddy…. True, he did indeed and that’s why I merely dislike and not hate him! hahaha
Personally, I’ve only known Sir Alex as a manager and it’s hard to imagine the club in anyone’s hands. Not for nothing, but at least in his case you can critisize knowing full well that 9 times out of 10 you’ll be wrong.
Haven’t followed Big Ron a lot, but I remember a Villa-United night game from 1993 where he won sunglasses. Arrogant you say? 
@Cedars
Ha, cheers mate. For now I try to stay clear of the damn thing. One of the flaws of marriage is arguing about whether you can watch United in action or not.
I still remember Big Ron’s post match interview when he was managing West Brom after the smashed us 5-3 at OT….
‘Who do you think were your best players today’?
Big Ron ‘ I thought the two colored kids were excellent’
WHAT???
Costas
I will share a secret with you….. I was married for over 11 years till my divorce, the one thing I did well was to educate my ex wife on United prior to our marriage…. She caught on very well and became a huge fan…. Watching games was never a problem, she even cancelled things on our behalf whenever there was a match on! I remember she even had a crush on Keane and Yorke! hahaha
Big Ron suffered from foot in mouth decease, he couldn’t help it, bless him.
yeah I am a Scarneck fan….
now he is training on his own at Shitty with no prospect of any other cunt signing him and Shitty losing all that money when they are forced to let him go on a free….
Red Neck
Just put a smile on my face that!
of course the Shake might just get someone to break both his fucking legs to put him out of football to collect on the insurance….. here’s hoping….
TonyBee
I am sure your next mission with Cyril has to involve Scarneck? Surely
just watched our game yesterday on the MOTD early morning show….spotted that cheating diving cunt who went down after barging into EVRA…..
YEAH WITH A PENIS I EXPECT……
for anyone that missed it…..
http://www.agentoffergie.com/2011/10/spoilers.html#more
will bring a smile to your face as usual
@Cedars ..That wasn’t Terry who beat up the Asian kid with Bowyer , it was Woodgate … Still a bunch of cunts though ..
SINGH7
You sure? I could be wrong but I am sure it was Terry as well…… But as you say still a cunt, his slip yesterday cracked me up…
TonyBee
Growing a reputation of being a Penis master! hahahahaha
Big day for Ole and Eikrem.
@Cedars
Nice mate. Although the Yorke crush is a bit weird. It must be his smile, lol. It’s basically what you have to do when you are married. The wife has to be aware of the credo:
http://www.mufcinfo.com/manupag/match_reports/20082009/articles/article_images/united_kids_wife_images/united_kids_wife.jpg
It’s the only way a marriage will work.
The chreating cunt that TonyBee was refering to was Magaye Gueye. My favorite name in the EPL right now.
Not every day that a match not involving United excites me or even works on any of my emotions…. for some reason this one did
http://www.footytube.com/video/chelsea-arsenal-oct29-94483?ref=hp_ozeit_mp
Not sure why on earth I was celebrating Arsenal’s 5th more than their own fans, and that goal celebration by RVP was magic
Costas
Great picture that and so true! As for Yorke, I took her to a game vs Bradford I believe on Boxing day a few years back and she actually met Yorke outside the ground and had a few words… You are right though it can only be the smile! hahaha
If anyone did watch the video I posted you could clearly see that Van Persie had an orgasm when he scored the 5th…….
Good afternoon Lovely Red Devils around the world,
catch you pals after the Indian GP
Good day mates
Kings, King Eric, smartalex….. What the fuck fellas? We all get annoyed by stupidity but let’s not run away from it….
This place is not the same without you guys…. Come back please
Cedars – nice to see you have your personal favourites lol.
Samuel – Every true red is a favorite of mine, you too my overly nervous friend! hahaha
@CedarsDevil-Van Persie is some player , i have never seen any one hit a ball harder that him . It goes like a rocket similar to Bobby Charlton .
dazbomber
Well said, fearsome strike of a ball… His third and Arsenal’s fifth flew straight past Cech… No goal keeper would have saved that…. Sort of reminded me of a goal Batistuta scored against us at OT…Different they may be but similar power
The first ever Airtel Indian GP race ends without any fuss as SACHIN TENDULKAR waves the checkered flag..
PODIUM:
Vettel (Clean sweep: Pole, fastest lap and Podium, 11th win of the season)
Button
Alonso
Force India Adrian Sutil finish on championship points..
Karthikeyan finish 17th..
150 Million watched it on TV, the most watched F1 race in the recent years..
Thanks for F1, organizers, Herman Tilke, Jaypee and everyone involved in this successful event..
Mind you Scholes could half strike a ball as well!
Would be nice to see Van Persie in a United shirt…. Why not? We did get Stapleton from them before…
Sorry to keep going on and on about the same thing but I seriously cannot get enough of watching that 5th goal by Arsenal… The way the ball swerves in the air is a joy to see…. Fucking amazing
Its no secret that King Eric has a man crush on Hernandez, Costas on Smalling and Balaji on Jones…
Think I found mine, its RVP…. Bloody awesome player
ha ha ha,
Cedars,
i think Wenger bought RVP for around 3 Million i guess..
These dutch players are classy, especially the strikers..wat u say?
@cedars, i understand why you like RVP so much, he single handedly won game for arsenal time and time again and skillful lad.
united just doesn’t have the same type of player anymore since ronaldo left – scholesy gone, giggsy almost… rooney too inconsistent and troublesome to me.
well, we all love a team game but sometimes it nice to have individual that can produce something special when we really need it…
wouldn’t mind seeing him at OT but first we in dire need of quality CM!!!
Hi Sandeep
Dutch football is all about class buddy….. They did have Cruyff after all and he is as classy as they come
Mind you we had Muhren back in the day, he oozed with class too
@Cedars, Great pick, but in a fist-fight, my guy wins hands down!
And, yeah, I would love to have RVP in the United team. Brilliant player, but if we buy one more striker without paying attention to our MF or FB slots, then I think Costas just might end up with a complete nervous breakdown.
aimaunited…
rooney inconsistent..?
for god sake
@Fred, Thanks for the Berba Gif. Its as cool as Berba himself…Thanks mate!
Balaji
hahahaha With out a new full back our friend Costas would indeed break down!
Add a new medical team to that list too!
So now its about your guy vs my guy eh? Bugger
Lets see who will win in a one on one vs Robbo or Keano oh and feel free to throw in them idiots from WWE or WWF or whatever the fuck they call that fake sport
Great reaction from our players yesterday. First 20-30 minutes were brilliant. Then Everton took some of the control of the game but it’s still 3 points for the first time since 2007.
We’ll never die.
Magnificent hattrick were the words of the commentator (Won’t mention his name as I dislike him, first name starts with an M)
Come home son, you know it makes sense
@Cedars
You’re a jerk! What else does Berbalove have to do for you to fall in love with him, huh???
Choosing RVP over Berba…PAH!
tFor clarification, Berba is still my first love. Smalling is like the hotter girlfriend a married man has on the side.
@Balaji, Cedars
New medical team? Bring it on! Our current one is so bright, you tell them your foot hurts and they check your pulse.
Yeah got suspicious when smalling broke his foot and went home with his arm in a sling.
TBH i don’t think there’s much wrong with Smalling and Young, especially the latter. i mean i don’t get to see training or anything, just a feeling. A bit of rest without all the prying eyes and busy body mouths asking why one of England’s new “saviour” is on the bench or hasn’t made the team
@Cedars
King Eric is having a baby, due in about 6 weeks or so, so you may have to be a bit patient
Smartalex is just being well, a smart ass,
dunno if it has been posted, but mirror is reporting that rio is considering to quit Ingurland.
Is the best he can do if he wants to keep playing for us.
In regards to Van Persie, more than his ability, what I like is that he’s the leader of that team. Nowdays it’s a rare phenomenon for an attacking player (and especially a striker) to be a captain of his team. Very few thrive on the responsibility. Just look at Tevez, Torres, Drogba, and even Rooney and Berba. They don’t strike you as captains.
@Zelh
About time. At least he’ll leave on his own terms. Unfortunately, the damage is done imo. I don’t know if that can prolong his career anymore. Over the last few months, he’s rarely featured for England, yet he still deals with niggles or softness out on the pitch. It would have been ideal if he retired once his back gave out the first time 3 years ago.
response to rooney being “inconsistent” Rooney is one of the most versatile players in the premier league. He can play absolutely ANYWHERE from defensive mid up the pitch. Wings, as a CAM as a SS as the main striker, He can play as a RB he can defend better than any striker in the premier lge. Heck this dude can even keep if he is allowed to. Just because he’s not banging in two goals every game does not mean he is inconsistent. He is sent out there to do a job by Fergie. he does his job very well. Yesterday his job was to help out the midfield and crowd it out for Everton. He did that very very well and guess what we kept a clean sheet. If rooney decides to Bang in goals and not help out with much else then he can do it but the lad is just not like that. He always wants the ball and if you don’t give it to him he’ll come and take it from ya.
An out and out striker Rooney is not. We had one in RVN so nobody expected any more from him. Rooney is versatile ,Mark Hughes was similar in that he could play in midfield and hold up the ball and play in other strikers. Sometimes Rooney’s selflessness will effect his goal tally but that doesn’t been his contribution to the team is any less.
Mean
Wow Rooney is 26 ! How time has flown and Ronaldo turns 27 in febuary WoW.
We signed Rooney at 18, Ronaldo at 18.
I expected Rooney to be our captain at this age and be our Denis Law.
I expected Ronaldo to leave at age 26 & not 24. I thought he would be our George Best.
Both have disapointed me, One became Mr Ambition, the other Mr Galactico. Taught ne to appreciate our true reds in the side.
Hope when SAF retires a statue is put up of him standing with Ryan Giggs to his left side, Gary Neville & Scholes on the right.
Cheers to Fred, Balaji and JC and maybe others for the advice about streaming the footy. I have used streams before, including Sopcast, and still do for things like cricket. But I haven’t had to use it for United matches for a long time now. The things that pissed me off (apart from bandwidth/buffering) are (a) having to hunt around to find a stream before each match, which I shoud be able to avoid or minimize with those links you guys provided, and (b) not being to set it up in advance and record the match, because the time difference is sometimes impossible. Anyway, I will check it out. Won’t have a fucking choice, anyway. Cheers lads!
…
You can say that again.
Fergie will definitely get a statue next to Busby not so sure about erecting 4 statues though? this club has seen far too many great players over the years. if we decide to give them all statues we might Cram up England with statues.
Afternoon all.
I think United are brilliant!
@Mikekelly12- So do I
Oh yes indeed united are grrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaat.
Wow… With so many like minded individuals we could really drum up some support for this fantastic club.
Good evening lovely Red Devils around the world.
i heard some shit about Villa planning to bid 8 mil for Carrick?
stateaiseAussie,
sometimes try this,
firstrowsports.tv
on few occassions i got sky sports HD and to top it all the RedNev was the commentator
one more for low speed streaming,
atdhenet.tv
Feel like supporters are feeling Oblivious to happenings, so little discussion going on not just ROM, maybe twitter sphere is the place where its happening at these days.
Sandeep1878
i hope thats just more nonsense, never been a huge fan but can’t help but feel he could come good and i’m sure the last thing Fergie wants to do is lose a midfielder, we may have them in numbers but the quality isn’t quite there, sure its a BS story
Maybe fergie was saving Ferdinand for galati
Lindegaard
Jones Ferdinand Evans fabio
Valencia carrick Anderson nani
Berbatov owen
how all of you missed it Red Devils? (or somebody mentioned it?)..
Chicharito scored after 18 Minutes and 19 Seconds and at MERSEYSIDE
incredible innit?
somethings are meant to be..
cedarsdevil. Sorry didn’t get time to respond to your comment on mine. All i meant is we are loyal to the team not individuals. If an individual is the proverbial rotten apple, does it become disloyalty to criticize them personally? And for christ”s sake Fergie is a mortal not a God so he is bound to make mistakes like the rest of us. Only his are fewer and far between, Insisting on playing Evans is one of them,so was his team selection for the manshitty mauling.
@ Slim,
thats right mate,
Sir Alex said he is happy with the squad, but you never know, we might go for someone in the Jan window..
someone we have never heard of before, just like Chicharito except from Mexican Red Devils..
is Carrick injured?
i think he will start the UCL game, may be that was the plan,
we need to be sharp and consistent in midfield,
the arrival of Tom is great but someone has to start a partnership there,
also i m feared for Rio Ferdinand,
read somewhere that he is thinking to retire from international duties,
looks like Vidic is the future,
i m hoping the signing of de Gea will open up for few Spanish players..
Anderson and Tom have to start it all over again..
we goota be patient, this is a transition again
I think Carrick’s injured atm. Coz usually he’s at least on the bench, but lately he’s not even made that…yesterday we had no centre mids on the bench.
Will be interesting to see what happens with Ando. Left out of the squad altogether yesterday, which I actually said might happen after the derby….he’s been off the boil for too long and needs a kick up the backside. If I had my way, he’d sit out the next 2 games as well…leave him to stew for a bit, so he spends the international break training extra hard….and then comes back hungry and raring to go. THEN we can reunite him with Cleverley.
However, with Cleverley out of Wednesday’s game, and if Carrick is still injured…then I suppose he’ll be back in the side?
have to say spurs shows 4-4-2 is system that still has credit, they do it so well and they hardly get torn apart or turned inside out. key seems to be drum roll……………………. possession. they never flap on the ball
@Slim- tbf, they’re playing against QPR. 4-4-2 still works against these sides. In the big games you need something different….an example was when Spurs played Arsenal a few weeks ago. Arsenal had an extra midfielder and dominated that area. Spurs got their first goal against the run of play, and the second when Sandro came on to stiffen it up a bit.
thereddevil – Cheers for the response, point taken buddy…
Mikekelly – I think I agree!
Red Neck
Afternoon my friend…. Mark Hughes was the equivalent of a bulldozer as a player. I do not think I ever saw a more powerful striker play the game in my lifetime
Saad
Hahaha, but I do love the Berb, in fact I love him with a passion…. The RVP thing is just a crush, could be temporary
Dear Father Christmas/Sir Alex Ferguson
The only thing I want for Crimbo, is Luka Modric.
Yours United forever, WillieRedNut
Willie – Ha? No, I mean ha? wee Luka?
CedarsDevil
Hello Cedars, your right Hughes was as strong as an ox. Players used to bounce of him.
Not many football commentators I enjoy listening to, Peter Drury is very good, John Champion is a dick…
However when it comes to co commentary I honestly like David Pleat, as much as he seems like a dumb fuck he is quite knowledgeable and I like how he always refers to us as ‘Manchester’
Dear Santa/SAF
All I want for crimbo, is Gareth Bale.
‘Players used to bounce off him’
I honestly love your comments and choice of words Red Neck…. Brilliant
Evening all
Sparky Hughes, the bulldozer!
WillieRedNut
Have you been a good boy this year?
Willie
Was just thinking about that buddy….. Sure to be the media darling again! Make mine an RVP any day of the week
Mikekelly
Indeed!
Fuck Modric. We’ve got Gibson.
Crapello at the Lane….. No doubt having a look at Parker to lead the way for England next summer..
God help us all
Red Neck – Only at Christmas mate.
@Cedars
You like he way he talks?
Cedars
no, he was watching old man Redknapp
Willie
He way he talks? Been spending too much time around Costas buddy…. He is the king of typos after all!
Well I am the crown prince I suppose! hahaha
Where is Gibson? He’s not even warming the bench these days.
Red Neck & Mikekelly
You guys have a knack of making me feel nostalgic and I like that! Enjoy this fellas….(Everyone else as well of course!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivVhuFn0uns
CedarsDevil
You’re very kind. Hope you are well pal. I thought your bulldozer description was spot on. Great player for us was old sparky.
I think he’s back to full fitness now willie. Can’t wait to see Ando and Gibson play together.
Cedars – No typos! You love his accent lol.
Sorry, that video has no audio by the way…. Still worth a watch
@ Slim,
you make a good point about spurs formation,
off late they have hit the form and its because of their midfield,
Parker has been key when it comes to tackling and defending,
Modric always on the forward and Van der vart has got skills and that bit magic to fool the defenders..
these 3 have been simply brilliant for spurs at least in the last 4-5 games..
i was watching them play qpr, Parker is all over the midfield, though Warnock’s men are playing better in 2nd half..
got office at 5:30 AM and i hate it,
off to bed fellow Red Devils,
take care, good night,
Manchester United
When do we play, Tuesday, or Wednesday?
Red Neck
Cheers buddy……. I am feeling great thanks
An old quote for Sir Alex on Sparky ‘Always took 2 players to mark him and at least 5 to knock him over’
Willie
Piss off, that was a typo of the highest order…. Just admit it…. No shame, just ask Costas! hahaha
Wednesday.
Speaking of which, anyone remembers the last season where United played at least one league game on every day of the week?
Cedars – It was not. Stop telling lies.
Costas
Ha? I remember us playing on a Friday, not sure about Thursdays, every other day of the week for sure… Could have been Boxing day or New Year’s day but with all my powerful intelligence I cannot remember
Modest me of course
Willie
I do not tell lies, I spread love and happiness……
CedarsDevil
Really enjoyed that clip mate, brought back some great memories. Cheers
Another international break coming up! England have a double header in fucking friendlies!
Don’t know if anyones mentioned it earlier, but Ole is only less than 45 mins from clinching the Norwegian title in his first season! ( i hope)
Probably clinch it in injury time!
Oh oh oh I remember, we played Blackburn in a cup tie ages ago on a Friday, they were in the second tier….. Damn I am a genius
Red Neck – You’re welcome my friend….. This club has given us so many good memories eh?
It’s in my blood
Only way that Ole knows how to clinch it! Come ON Molde
Cedars
Great link mate. Fuck me Sparky could hit them. I remember him being sent off once (Think it was a Liverpool match) for booting someone up the ass!!
I remember we played Chelsea on a Friday night? 2 2, it finished. Becks and Giggs got the goals. O’Shea had a cracking game. Got motm.
@Cedars
I was waiting to see if anyone else tried to answer, lol. With United playing on Boxing Day, it’s quite possible that we would play on Thursday or Friday. However United it hasn’t happened often. We did it in 08-09, but the games on Thursday and Friday were for the European Super cup and Club world championship. The last season where we played league games on all 7 days was 02-03. The Thursday game was a Boxing Day loss at the Riverside and the Friday game was a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge. Giggs scored his 100th for the club on the day.
Its in the blood
Do Molde need a win as Stromsgodset have equalised!
1-0 Ole!
@willie
Well you got the season right.
CedarsDevil
Yes, wouldn’t mind a fiver on it.
Tried looking for a link/stream but i guess there isn’t much worldwide demand for Norways finest!
It’ll be some achievement though.
Damn, spoke too soon.
Van Persie
You are wearing the wrong red my friend…. If you would have scored for United like your third at the Bridge then you would have my love forever……. Its just a mild crush at the moment but lets make it true love…. Travel North buddy and join the real deal
Costas
You’re a statistical machine buddy! Very impressive.
the sooner Gibson is fit the sooner we can get a few pounds for hin in january from villa
mikekelly12
I think they probably need just a point and then they can only be caught by others getting maximum points from all remaining games, but a win for Molde or dropped points by the rest will do it.
Or Euros, if he’s sold abroad.
Costas
Like me you are also a genius ! hahaha So you were testing us? Cheeky bugger
Mikekelly
He did kick a few up the ass, fucker was as tough as they come
It’s in my blood
Molde will prevail eventually, would take a miracle not to….
Ole – We love you
Molde 2-1 Ekram……that would be fitting if it was the winner!
Yeah a point will mean that Molde need a point in their next 2. Provided that Rosenborg win their next 3. It’s really Ole’s title to lose at this point.
@Cedars, mikekelly12
Thanks guys. Yeah, it was a quiz. I was wondering about this recently because I was trying to remember us playing games on Thursday.
Wow, everytime I comment on a game’s proiceedings, another goal gets scored..
Get in Eikrem!
MikeKelly12
It wasn’t Sammy Lee was it Sparky kicked up the ass?Probably mistook him for the ball the little fat fuck.
Jay searing is Sammy Lees love child.
Red Neck
HA HA! He was a little fat fuck! But no, wasn’t Sammy Lee…Costas, maybe you can help. Can’t remember exactly, think it was Liverpool. The player was shephearding the ball in the corner of the pitch. Time was running out and Sparky couldn’t get to the ball so he just booted him up the arse and walked off!!
Fuck me, who is his mother then Emlyn Hughes? Yuck
Molde finished 2-2, there was a late goal but sadly it went the other way, just seconds after Ole took Eikram off!
Rosenberg need to drop points later and then its Ole’s!
Last minute goal….but not for Ole….2-2, what a bummer!
@mikekelly12
Haha, no sorry mate., I don’t recall the incident. It probably happened before I started following the team. I did try to look for the incident on google but I couldn’t find anything. It sounds like typical Hughes though.
Costas
Ha Ha, no worries pal. I couldn’t find it either.
Cedars
Do you recall the incident?
The pressure probably got to Molde. But he surely can’t lose this title. A point will be enough. If Rosenborg don’t drop points first.
I think the player in question was David Tuttle. It was an FA cup match between manchester united and Shefield united. Sparky scored the only goal of the game but was later sent off for kicking Tuttle up the ass.
Costas
Yeah, probably.
When Ole does it though, he’ll manage a truly remarkable feat taking a small unfashionable club to the title.
It’s something that really could mark him as worthy to follow the Great One in due course.
goal for Brann!
Emlyn Hughes crazy horse! He was decent for dipper. RIP
2-0 brann!
surely ole will win the title tonight
Shit I genuinely had forgotten Emlyn Hughes had died. feel really bad now, no malice intended in my previous comment sorry.
3-0 brann!!
Red Neck
You’re a genius. Here’s the highlights. The kick os around 10.03. But the Hughes goal is well worth a look, quality quality goal. Build up starts at 6.30.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyj8yonT1Fs
@mikekelly
If Red Neck is right and the guy in question is Tuttle, here’s the video mate. The kick is at 10:07.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyj8yonT1Fs
That’s nasty!
Zelh
Wow, Rosenberg are getting humped! Good luck Ole, you could be popping the champagne tonight!!
Zelh
Blimey!
Have you got a stream?
Your link is pretty rapid, mines still showing 1-0!
3-1 now.
Ah, didn’t look like you needed me mike.
@It’s in my blood
Looks like Ole will be celebrating tonight then! Come on Brann!
It’s really a brilliant achievement. And it justifies Fergie’s opinion that Ole always scored off the bench because he stidied the game well. Hopefully he will carry on like this. Lets remember that Keano also made a promising start to his career as a manager.
Costas
Ha ha, just posted it. I think this must be the one. How about the goal? Quality!
Rosenberg have pulled one back!
Sparky, Robbo, Keano, Brucie and Ince all in the same team? Bloody hell!
Costas
Not sure Keano did really mate.
Got his signed shirt hanging beside me, brilliant player, but management?
Nah!
He aint got it.
Ole looks like he just might……
MikeKelly and Costas
Well done for finding that clip. Bloody great goal and what a great side that was.
Red Neck
Would never have found it without your super memory powers!! Where did you pluck that from? Very impressed. I’d forgotten how good that goal actually was!
Keane was managing in the premier league. No disrespect to Ole, but a big difference. Good to see him doing well at Molde. We’ll see how he progresses in the next few years. We’ve had a few false dawns with old players who could’ve been seen as Fergie’s heir apparent. Brucie, Keano and Hughes all were touted for the big job. Lets not forget Larry White either?
MikeKelly
I would love to claim that I pulled that one from memory but the truth is I can’t remember what happened yesterday half the time. I just managed to find it on google.
WillieRedNut
Hi mate, granted theres a huge difference between the leagues, but you can only win whatever your in so to speak.
He did manage rather well with our reserves before Molde.
As for Larry, he’s got “it” as well!
Wille – Dont forget Robbo.
Red Neck – Fair play. It was better than I could do, I couldn’t find it anywhere!
It’s in my blood – Hello mate! Give us that Keane shirt? Lol. I don’t see Ole walking straight into Fergie’s seat. Now, maybe as a number 2, to a more experienced man. I could see that school of thought. Larry White is a dark horse imo. A Blanc/Ole axis, is one that would intrigue me.
People talk about Leonidas’ 300. They never met Fergie’s team from 93-94.
Badass!
In regards to the Ole/Keane comparison, Roy’s first very succesful season wasn’t in the EPL either. However, Keane went from player to manager straight away. Ole has been preparing himself for 4 years. Plus his temperament is more player friendly. So big things could be in store.
5-1 Brann 30mins to go….. game over!! Pop the champers Ole!!
Congratulations to Ole and Molde for winning their first league title.
Congratulations to Molde FK and to Ole Gunnar Solskaer! 6-1 final score puts them with an unassalable lead in points with only a couple games to pla. Champ1one. This is the first division, or “Eliteserien” in Norway. First top division title for Molde in their 100yr history. Thats like Fulham winning the prem.
Cheers Ole!
New thread folks
And Solskaer has won it ! Congratulations to Ole.
Yeah, but has he scored the winner in a European cup final?
Top man, our Ole. Well done my old son. Even though, you still look 12 years old! 
Olay Olay Olay Olay —-my favourite face cream
Ole Ole Ole Ole Ole – My favourite baby faced assasin , Chico is 2nd.
Tense stuff on the x-factor
@ Costas
Mate, the stats you put up for the medical team relate to injuries to players NOT recovery time for similar injuries and you have agreed with me that the medical team is not responsible for injuries. They don’t do training sessions or advise players how to play in games. Have you considered that the training may account for injuries?
So if you can provide stats proving that for similar injuries our medical team has a worse record, then you have an argument, otherwise you don’t.
@NBI
I don’t believe the the training staff is innocent in this either. If players are getting injured too easily, that might have to do with the fact that they are not prepared well. However, the number of injuries has to do with the medical team as well. Some of these injuries are recurring. That means that maybe they couldn’t find the root of the problem. A good example of that was Evans who injured his ankle about 3 different times in 2009 alone. Or maybe we should wonder why someone like Saha had 22 injuries in his 4 years at the club and just 10 in 3 years at Everton. Imo if you treat one injury right the first or second time, it won’t come back to haunt you time and time again.
That website doesn’t reflect on how long it took for each player to get fit, so it’s hard to compare the recovery times at our club compared to other clubs However, how many times has Sir Alex been proven wrong in the timeframes he set for players to return at? Vidic and Cleverley the two recent examples. And in some cases, he has even admitted that they couldn’t get to the bottom of a problem. For example, Edwin’s knee injury, O’Shea’s thigh strain and Vidic’s calf injury in 09-10. Three injuries that proved costly that season.
Don’t know mate. Fergie seems pretty pleased with the staff he’s surrounded himself with. I think he could do a lot better. Looking at Arsenal’s amount of injuries and how costly they’ve been, we’ve done remarkably well in these last 5 years given the circumstances.
Costas and others … I think it’s pretty easy to point the finger at the fitness and medical staff, but let’s face it, the diagnosis and treatment of injuries is not an exact science. And we are talking about athletes whose job requires them to push the envelope in every respect, physically. Also, let’s not forget that sportsmen themselves are often prone to painting a rosy picture; they try to minimize or hide injuries as much as possible, because no one wants to be on the sidelines, but this doen’t help the medical staff. I’m not against the use of stats generally — lord knows, I’ve put a few on this site myself — but I think this is one area where stats can be extremely misleading. I know it is frustrating, but I think we have to assume that our medical and fitness staff are at least as good as those at any other club, otherwise the club would do something about it.
I see Stevie Me is out for a while … with an infected ankle. How the fuck does one get an infected ankle? Apparently, it started with an “innocuous cut” suffered in training last week, which has “inexplicably” gotten much worse. If this happened at our club, I would be among the first to speak up, because it seems incredible to me that something like that could be allowed to happen. Obviously, the cut was not looked after properly — there really is no excuse for this, not in today’s world, with all the expertise and facilities to a club like ours or theirs. Of course, I don’t give a fuck about Stevie Me or his rotten loserpool club, I am just using it as an example for comparison.
On a related note, though: Giggs seems to have done very well since he started his yoga exercises some years ago, and it makes sense that something like that could benefit players, reducing muscle, ligament and soft tissue injuries by keeping them properly stretched and limber. The yoga trainer is employed by the club but from the way Giggsy has described it, the decision to use or not is basically left up to each individual. Does anyone know if that’s true? And if it is, I think that’s wrong. It ought to be required (contractually required, if necessary). Players already have to use ice baths and all the other things the club requires, why not this too? At the very least, they could implement a trial program — put a bunch of players on it and monitor how they go over time.
@Stateside
Like I said, don’t expect complete accuracy from this or any other website in regards to injuries. However, the difference in numbers is significant. So it’s not just about stats. It’s about comparing the situation to that of other clubs, as well as our club in the past. I remember the injury crisis in 97-98 and how everyone said how rare it was. Well it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that we’ve gone through a similar situation at least once in 6 out of the 7 past seasons. 07-08 being the only exception. And I realize that players like to extend themselves and gut it out, but surely that’s not just the case at out club.
HIHIHI Arsenal 5:3 Chelsea
Like it…but dont like Citeh 25 points 
i know, they gonna lose points…
DOh!! smalling being injured too often i think, the meds need to have a good look at him to be fair before he’s brought back in action. I believe that we still need a quality defender and midfielder in January, unless the young lads impress and impose themselves in the squad, like Pogba and Morrison. Else I would be happy to see whether we could for a start get Subotic and Sniejder in Jan to strengthen the squad, and pull down the noisy neighbours from top to third or fourth
Stateside – Turns out it wasn’t the yoga that was putting a spring in Giggsy’s step!