Crewe v United

The evening kick-off wrecked havoc on my sleep, but I nonetheless managed to catch the second half (and extra-time) of an exciting Cup tie.
United were well and truly tested by Dario Gradi’s team and it took some fine goal-keeping by the erroroneously spelt “Zuszczak” to keep the Reds in the frame. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer [...]

I lurve citeh

citeh make me laugh. Here’s John Wardle, their Chairman, after the 4 goal trouncing at Wigan:
This football club is not used to this type of performance and will not accept it.
Funny that, as I seem to recall plenty of inept performances.

Crewe v United (preview)

With over a dozen fringe players on loan, United begin their defence of the League Cup – is that what it’s called now? – with a formidable squad for the game versus Crewe.
The squad announced for tomorrow’s 3rd Round tie is anything but modest:
Kuszczak, Heaton, Lee, Shawcross, Brown, Silvestre, Heinze, Gray, Solskjaer, Marsh, D Jones, [...]

He scores goals

It probably wasn’t a big deal for him, but it was probably quite a a big deal for the United fans at Old Trafford yesterday. Paul Scholes’ 500th appearance for Manchester United was capped with a typical Scholesy goal – drifting unmarked into unguarded space – to send the Scousers back to Merseyside pointless [...]

United v FC Copenhagen

Hello one and all. It seems the international break has knocked me from my United blogging ways; or could it be the anticipation of this weekend’s game versus the Murdering Scum.
Anyway, here’s my report for yesterday’s Champions League match which, by the way, is more gripping than the match itself.
A second string United side defeated [...]

The Rooney fest continues as James Lawton gives us his 2 cents’ worth

Not wanting to raise the stakes, or inject much needless hyperbole, James Lawton wrote the following the day before the Croatia game:
Pray, for England’s sake, that Rooney can prove sturdier than Gascoigne and Best .
Lawton peers into the soul of the youngster and declares, [...]

Danny Webber

I’m still a Red, and a season ticket holder at Manchester United
Good lad. He was a good potential in his time at United, and though he didn’t quite make it at the very top, he’ll have a key role to play in Sheffield United’s season.

A theory about Rooney

Much has been said and written about the form of “our Wayne” and the reason(s), beyond the usual dip in form inherent in sport, for his subdued performances thus far this season. Sir Alex’s take on this is Rooney’s recent lack of games, while some hacks – gleefully jumping on the ABU band-wagon – [...]

Lovely bunch of lads, eh?

Don’t you just love the reticent, softly spoken Dutch? To recall: barely a week ago, the joint 4th top-scorer in La Liga shared his thoughts on Marco van Basten -
It is a shame that the coach is not led only by the footballing qualities of players but also other things. I call it his [...]

Ronaldo on Leadership

Leadership and responsibility are not terms normally associated with Cristiano Ronaldo, but he displayed these very traits in another match winning performance against Newcastle United yesterday.
His 4th successive Man of the Match performance included more trickery and thrusting runs than I could count, and three shots that came back off the woodwork. At this rate, [...]