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Just have some faith
2007-08-20 21:11:00
We all know the result and I know that nobody can believe that we have scored just 1 point from our first three games. Our worst start since the 1992 season but don’t forget we won that season. How can fans be criticising Man United so early in the season. The season has just begun and it starts with 114 points up for grabs. United have dropped 9 points in total which leaves 107. I’m not saying that we will get 107 points but here is a quick reminder, last year we dropped 25 points in total. I’ve been listening to the BBC 606 podcast and have heard United supporters say “United have thrown away the league” and that makes my stomach churn to hear them speaking like that.Having said that I do believe that SAF has to really think deeply about what he is going to do. We have dominated the midfield in first games and we are not putting the ball into the back of the net. No Rooney, Saha and Solsjaer. Yes Tevez is world class but it has become very clear now that he needs more ga...
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A brief history of the Manchester Derby
2007-08-18 01:41:00
The first derby was played on the 12th of November 1881 when United were Newton Heath and City were West Gorton. Newton won the game 3-0. The first league game was played in the 1894/1895 Season and Newton Heath beat Manchester City 5-2.Up until the Second World War fans frequently used to go watch a City game one week and the next week go watch United. After the war supporting both teams became uncommon.The dirty 70’s Derby ’s.December 1970 - George Best broke Glyn Pardoe’s leg in harsh tackle and the defender almost lost his leg due to the injury.November 1974 – George Best and Francis Lee spent most of the Game blaming each other for diving.March 1974 - Mike Doyle (United) and Lou Macari (City) both got red cards and refused to get off the field. The Referee had to take the teams back to the change rooms and play resumed when both players accepted their dismissals."The day Denis Law back-heeled United into the Second Division".April 27, 1974 – Denis Laws was playing for ...
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How did we start in previous campaigns
2007-08-16 18:55:00
I was trying to think back today on how our 9 campaigns to win the FAPL started and couldn't remember them all. I needed to know this to see if it is time to start hitting the panic button, so I went digging and this is what I found. I'm going to post the results of the first five games with W=Win, D=Draw and L=Loss including total points1993 - L(A) L(H) D (H) W (A) W(A) Total points 7 (0 for the first two). Finished on 84 points, 10 ahead of Aston Villa.1994 - W(A) W(H) D(H) W(A) W(A) Total points 13(6 for the first two). Finished on 92 points, 8 ahead of Blackburn Rovers.1996 - L(A) W(H) W(H) W(A) W(A) Total points 12(3 for the first two). Finished on 82 points, 4 ahead of Newcastle.1997 - W(A) D(H) D(H) D(A) W(A) Total points 9(4 for the first two). Finished on 75 points, 7 ahead of Newcastle.1999 - D(H) D(A) W(H) W(H) L(A) Total points 8 (2 for the first two). Finished on 79 points, 1 ahead of Arsenal.2000 - D(A) W(H) W(H) W(A) W(A) Total points 13 (4 for the first two). F...
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Another frustrating draw.
2007-08-15 22:51:00
Not the result we were hoping for, not the start we need. These are the games we need to be winning. These are the results that led to us missing out on the title in previous campaigns. Two draws in two games and 2 points in total. This game was even more frustrating for me than the Reading game. We controlled the entire first half, all we lacked was that neat little finish which is so freaking important. Scholes scored his 96th League goal for United moving him ahead of Ruud to number 1 as Man United's top goal scorer in the Premier League. Benjani equalised from Taylor's cross in the 53rd minute. We showed signs of scoring more goals the entire game but just couldn't put the ball in the net. The last ten minutes saw Muntari getting sent off only to be followed by Ronaldo a few minutes later.The Commentator mentioned that in our treble winning year we started off the season with two draws. In today's competitive League it wont be that easy, we need to have a great string of win...
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Porstmouth V Manchester United
2007-08-15 19:09:00
Well its going to be an interesting game considering Pompeys good record against us at Fratton Park. We've only won once there in the FAPL and lost 3 times. Played 67 Competitive matches won 39 and lost 19 with 12 of them being away. That's means we've won less than half our games against them. Last year saw us leave Fratton park 2-1 losers with Mr Versatility (O'Shea) scoring.Statistics out the way, let me tell you how I feel about this game. With Rooney injured and Teves coming into play earlier than expected, I think he has something to prove and that is that Unit ed are not dependent on any one player. I was at Fratton park in 2006 and we came away 3-1 winners. Since that was the only time I have seen United in England I will always have a positive feeling about the game. Also considering we drew on the weekend we have to win just to keep the critics quiet and to shut up my annoying friends (Sergio) from Liverpool .To recap on the games I have watched up until now, I have to ...
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Things dont always go as planned
2007-08-13 21:39:00
In the first game week I got 4 of the results correct. The important one I got wrong, and that was Man Utd v Reading. There goes the average of 3.5 goals per game between us last season. It was an interesting game as United had most of the possession and nearly all the chances of the game, even the commentator said that they should have charged Van Der Sar an admission fee because he was a spectator for most of the game. Despite what a lot of fans on forums and BBC's 606 say, I believe that Steve Coppell's tactics were spot on, he couldn't expect to come to OT and play a 4-3-3 because they would have been destroyed. They came there to defend and got 1 point out the game.Coppell said"We would have liked to have been expansive, but they smother you to death here...We designed a style of play and I'm not going to apologise for that". That's what football is about, getting the most points you can out of a game.I said in a previous post that we mustn't sell any strikers until we ha...
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Manchester United v Reading
2007-08-11 02:18:00
Last years corresponding fixture was played on December 30 with United winning 3-2, Ronaldo scoring twice and Solskjaer once. We played Reading four times in total, twice in the EPL(first time we have met in league competition) and twice in the FA Cup. Two wins (both 3-2) and two draws (both 1-1) , a total of 14 goals between the two teams, averaging 3.5 goals per game. Taking all this into consideration hopefully we are going to have a cracker of a first game.We have played reading 14 times in competitive matches losing only once to them on the 27 Jan 1927 in a FA Cup 3rd round replay at Villa Park. I recon we will win it 3-0.My predictions for the rest of this weekends games. (Its what I want to happen for the sake of my fantasy league team)Sunderland 1-2 TottenhamBolton 1-1 NewcastleDerby 0-1 PortsmouthEverton 2-0 Wigan Middlesbrough 1-2 BlackburnWest Ham 0-0 Man. CityAston Villa 1-1 LiverpoolArsenal 2-0 FulhamChelsea 1-0 Birmingham
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Here we go again
2007-08-09 21:49:00
I had trouble with the naming of this post, what could I possibly name it? The end of two boring months (It wouldn't have been so bad if there had been a World cup or Euro Cup but every two years we have to go through this). The start of the season! The start of endless debates! The start of weekends spent on the couch! The start of spending four hours on Friday doing changes to my fantasy team! The start of spending 20 minutes on Monday morning discussing the weekends football (and mistakes I made on my fantasy team)! I couldn’t think of anything.All I can say is Whoohoo, It’s the start of the English Premier League. I’ve already spent 5 hours today chopping and changing my Fantasy Team (http://fantasy.premierleague.com/) and I still haven’t finished. For the second year running we have wagered money to see who has got the managerial skills of SAF, but it’s not about the money it’s about PRIDE. Its about respect (Yes Pimpsta's I know you going to read this. Well done ...

Two Friendlies 7 Goals.
2007-08-09 00:16:00
Tonight we played two friendlies one in Scotland and one in Belfast. But have a look at the teams we took. Goals scored in brackets.Dunfermline: Van der Sar, Kuszczak; Brown, Bardsley, Pique, Silvestre, Eckersley; Hargreaves, Fletcher, Scholes, S Evans, Eikrem, Eagles(1); Giggs(1), Rooney(2).Glentoran: Heaton; Simpson, Vidic, Ferdinand, Evra(1), Lea; Carrick, O'Shea, Gibson, Martin, Nani(1), Anderson; Dong, Campbell(1).Now we still missing Saha, Solskjaer, Neville, Park and Foster. Split those five into the above two teams and we are looking good to have two teams in the EPL haha, ok maybe not to win it every year but at least to get into Europe. Hats off to SAF for committing to two friendlies in one night and also been able to entertain both capacity crowds with good football, big names and lots of goals. Ronaldo didn't play tonight because he has a slight ankle injury and it was a precautionary measure to leave it at home so we can have him fit and hungry for Sundays game. Good...
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Since Ive started this blog I have been doing in d...
2007-08-08 17:08:00
Since Ive started this blog I have been doing in depth reading about the club I love and have learnt some interesting things. Like to day for example I learned that SAF played for tonight's friendly opponents Dunfermline and he is still their fifth top goal scorer (you go Alex) scoring 91(Wikipedia says 66) including 6 in Europe for the team before he was transferred to Rangers for £60,000 a then record fee between two Scottish clubs(thanks TEAMtalk).Dunfermline chairman is grateful to SAF for taking a strong team with him tonight and that includes Paul Scholes which means he could play part of Sundays opener, at least he will be on the bench.United play two friendly tonight but Ronaldo, Tevez or Heinze will not play in either tonight.
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Manutd.com poll.
2007-08-07 22:15:00
A poll of more than 10000 United fans on manutd.com resulted in 68% wanting to win the Champions League (CL) as a priority, with this I cant agree. The EPL is the hardest and most watched league in the world no matter what other leagues try do or who they try buy (Beckham). The competition in England is tough, we had three teams in the semi-finals of the CL and Liverpool knocked out Chelsea. Does this mean that Liverpool are better than them? No way! That just mean that they played better on the day just as AC Milan did at the San Siro against us. Chelsea were going for the EPL title and F.A cup at the time of the semi finals and they didnt have the luxury of resting loads of players the weekend before as Liverpool did. Same with us we had to play Everton the weekend before came back up from 2-0 down to win, that caused tired legs. Its not an excuse its just that last year we had a choice to rest players for the Everton game and possibly give up the title or go for the win and try ...
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Heinze the traitor.
2007-08-07 10:02:00
Heinze (or "the flying elbow" as a friend mine named Harry calls him) has come out and said he wants to leave the club. This is a clear indication that he doesn't think he has what it takes to fight Evra for a first team place. If a Player wants to leave the Premiership Champions it must mean that something has obviously gone stale somewhere. What has caused him to want to go to our rivals? He said that they are the only ones that have tabled an offer! Did his agent approach them? I don't think they would have put in an offer for him out the blue, they must have gotten word that he was for sale from his agent and that means that the agent did approach Liverpool knowing that Gill told him that Heinze would not be sold to a rival. I think the panel will vote in Uniteds Favour. That cult following that Heinze got while he was at our club has now dissolved, he is a traitor.
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Yesterday was great the first "real" game of footb...
2007-08-06 17:45:00
Yesterday was great the first "real" game of football since the close of the season. We are ready for the new season and according to Ryan Giggs, Tevez fits into the team very well and he cant wait to be playing with him. Tevez's contract should get signed this week and if all goes well he should play on Sunday. I'm just as excited as Rooney for the EPL and I agree that winning the Community Shield will give the team the confidence they need to get off to a flying start this season. Last year we won the first four and losing the fifth to Arsenal on 17 September after that we drew 1-1 to this weekends opposition Reading.The Commentators during yesterdays game said that if we win the Champions League this year there is a good possibility of SAF retiring. Never, there is a great possibility of United winning the Champions league because we got the depth which we were lacking at the end of the season. I think SAF wont retire until there is a suitable replacement in line.Ronaldo said t...
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Wish we could swap today's game for the FA Cup fi...
2007-08-05 23:10:00
Wish we could swap today's game for the FA Cup final not only because we won but because it was a fair bit more exciting. Both the teams were missing some key players and both had good chances of winning it during normal time. The game started off with United looking shaky but from the 20th minute we pulled our socks up and showed why we are the champions. We pulled off some good moves and slick passing at times. Ronaldos great run on the left around the 25 minute mark showed why its going to be hard to knock him of the top podium as the EPL's best player.Evra's play by passing the ball back to Ronaldo and moving two defenders off him was key in the lead up to Giggs' goal. Giggs' goal was cancelled out by Malouda after a good run while keeping Ferdinand off him and then placing his shot beyond Van Der Sar's reach. I think that Ferdinand could have done a bit better to prevent that goal.Carrick had a very good moment and a bad one. His good moment was his shot just off goal whi...
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Doncaster Rovers 0 - 2 Manchester United.Scorers -...
2007-08-04 01:21:00
Doncaster Rove rs 0 - 2 Manchester United .Scorers - Gibson, S.Evans. Anderson Played 45 minutes and was running around and show some impressive passing skills.Tevez will be playing his first game in one of the friendlies on Wednesday.What happened today in the history of Manchester United 1975 Jim Holton was sent off in United's 3-0 pre-season win over Danish side Halskov. Lou Macari scored two goals, Gerry Daly grabbed the other.
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Tevez Saga Over.
2007-08-03 16:35:00
Its Finally over. West Ham have finally agreed to let Tevez go, they have accepted a settlement offer of £2million. Tevez's agent has said that he has passed a medical at OT and the paperwork will be completed next week. He will be training with the team over the weekend apparently. United's Strike force next year will be ROONEY, TEVEZ, SAHA, SOLSKJAER and DONG. Can you imagine the look on Carragher's face when he sees Rooney and Tevez running towards him, he wont know what to do. Remember nothing is 100% until the paperwork is signed but as far far as im concerned he is a United player now.
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Rhain Davis the Whiz Kids join Manchester United
2007-08-03 11:03:00
Thanks to Rhain's grandfather for sending in the DVD this kid has joined the MUFC Acadamy according to various sources.Rhain told The Times newspaper, "Being here has been brilliant so far. The best part has been meeting lots of the players, like Wayne Rooney." A Spokesman for the club played down any expectations for the kid and pointed out that they(MUFC) recruit 30 nine year old kids a year "The number of United academy graduates going into professional football is quite high. But of the current United first-team squad, only one English player (Danny Simpson) came from the academy."
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Some websites say that the Tevez saga has reached ...
2007-08-03 10:22:00
Some websites say that the Tevez saga has reached an agreement and it will be announced on today. I'm not gonna go on about this story...enough already.SAF says that Hargreaves was worth the wait. OK so our midfield is sorted out and our defense, but with Rossi and Smith(Hasn't agreed personal terms with the magpies but will soon i suspect) our front line doesn't look very stable. Tevez should join the club but doesn't have any preseason game time with our squad. Saha is always getting injured and at any minute he could be out for a couple of months. OLE is a UNITED legend but he is old now he doesn't have the legs anymore. It gives me confidence that our top goal scorer of last season was from the midfield but i get worried when we strengthen one part of our squad and another part get weakened. This transfer period we have bought 3 midfielders(Nani, Hargreaves and Anderson) and sold one(Richardson). On our front line we have sold 2(Rossi and Smith) and probably bought 1(Tevez)...
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Man United 2 - 1 Inter Milan
2007-08-02 14:47:00
Scorers for Man United Rooney. Scorers for Inter David Suazo(2), Zlatan Ibrahimovic.I didn't get to watch the game because the broadcasters didn't show it because of live local football(South Africa). What I have read though is that our defense needs to tighten up. Rooney showed that he is in fine form and Evra needs to stop attacking so often. Ferdinand missed a sitter at the end apparently but what more can you expect from a defender.Hargreaves and Anderson to get some game time this weekend."Owen Hargreaves and Anderson will be involved over the next couple of games." said SAF.Now this kid I wanna see play, I'll post the clip of him from Youtube. He looks very promising but lets just see, he is young and needs to show that he can make it in the EPL.Hargreaves was England's best player of last years World Cup so there is not much to say about him except that we have a world class defensive midfielder.Heinze recons that the he will know which club he will be playing for by the ...
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So tonight's friendly could be the first glimpse o...
2007-08-01 10:49:00
So tonight's friendly could be the first glimpse of what we are capable of this season (charity shield been a clearer indication). Well this is what i found regarding tonight's game. Just note that I wont be guessing who will be playing or not I'm just gonna post what i can gather off the net."Nani got a little injury in his ankle in training on Monday," said the boss(SAF). "He's a bit of a doubt for Wednesday's game."Neville, Saha and Solskjaer are still all out due to surgery.Hargreaves and Anderson have been in training since Monday so should make their debuts soon either tonight(unlikely though) or against Peterborough.Not much news to be found online regarding Inter's injuries or rested players.Mancini did have this to say though "I've never played in Old Trafford, nor against United...So I'm delighted to come to a venue which has played a such an important part in the history of football." News.Rossi to join Villa Real. A club spokesman said "The transfer is subject to...
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Manchester United New Kit - 2007/2008
2007-07-31 16:44:00
New Blog. New Season. New Kit.
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