Stats and Kits

Stats are good. They’re not everything, but they are good things.
Football Club History Database has an exhaustive collection of stats. Here’s the page that compiles all of United’s performances League, FA Cup, League Cup and European competitions. There is also the Association of Football Statisticians offers a paid service for the mad statistician in you. [...]

Alan Hansen (part 2)

After the fun of the previous post, I decided to trawl the BBC archives to find more gems from our favourite ex-lfe Scouse, Alan Hansen.
There, in black and white and web-compliant html, I found several remarks which cheered me no end.
In the 27th October column, just days prior to lfc’s first defeat away to Spurs, [...]

Carling Cup

United lined up as follows last night:
Foster; O’Shea, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra; Ronaldo, Gibson, Scholes, Nani; Welbeck, Tevez.
Subs: Kuszczak, Anderson, Giggs, Park, Vidic, Possebon, Eckersley.
When I saw the line-up before kick-off, I felt a certain sympathy for Ji-Sung Park. Having been omitted from the match squad for the Moscow showdown, I half expected him to be [...]

That game, that man

I missed the entire game this morning, bar the final 30 seconds and Ronaldo’s free kick that didn’t go in.
It would have been sweet revenge had it did, as it would have redressed an injustice for the last time United faced Jose in the competition. That morning, four years ago, I dragged myself awake and [...]

Now, what I want is, Facts

Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which [...]

Extraordinary! It’s deja vu all over again

In anticipation of their UEFA game vs citeh, Stale Solbakken, manager of  FC Copenhagen, declared the following:
The amounts of money that have been mentioned are incredible. I think that such incredible sums will take part in destroying football. They are creating too big a mental distance between what we call reality and then Manchester City.
Warming [...]

Peter Kenyon

A fantastic clip for your listening pleasure.

Peter Kenyon, you are a tool.

Glenn Hoddle Academy

The always excellent United Youth site has an article about a former Red, Christy Fagan, and his call up to the Republic of Ireland’s Under-21 side.
It’s always great to keep track of former Reds, however minor or trivial their contribution to the history of the Club.
Re. the United Youth article, it seems to me that [...]

Kaka Saves Football

That’s right: Kaka has spoken.
This is a transcript of a mobile phone conversation between the aforementioned Brasillian and his father, Bosco Leite:
Papa, they say these heathens are offering £500,000 a week. That is plenty of money, no?
Yes, my son.
£500,000 a week is a lot of money, Papa.With this money, we can build many churches, no?
Yes, [...]

A bit of philosophy today

This is an example of a syllogism:

£100 million transfer fee for a football player (Major premise)
A salary of £500,000 per week for a human being (Minor premise)
The Apocalypse is upon us (Conclusion)

(OK, so it’s not really an example of a syllogism, but it’s kinda funny)