‘What?!’ I hear you cry. ‘He wouldn’t have gone anyway!’. That’s probably true. But that’s not why his injury damages our chances. It’s because of Rooney. Read on…
We’ve not done one of these for a while – not since the inspired selection of Abou Diaby a few weeks back. So who is our beady eye on this week?
From Futebol Finance – there are some shocking, and some laughable, inclusions…
Arsenal win, Chelsea lose, Man United draw. Are Arsenal back in the title race? Already? So soon after abject defeats to their main rivals? Really?
This comes from United’s 5-0 destruction of Portsmouth; it didn’t lead to a goal, but was pretty special…
I never thought Nani would feature here, because he’s shit. But today (and in fairness in the last couple of games) he has actually looked good. And he capped those good performances with a spectacular goal against Arsenal. Whether the finish was deliberate is debatable (actually it’s not, it wasn’t) but the turn that beat two men out wide was genuine class. A moment of genius, you could say…
Worse and worse and worse. Firstly we wrote of their inevitable decline. Then they were linked with Harry Kewell. Now the Glazers are asset stripping…
We wrote recently of of Man United as a club in decline – see here http://footballsup.com/2010/01/are-dirty-leeds-indicative-of-a-wider-malaise/. But here is real, solid evidence – coincidentally also linked to Leeds…
Was the defeat to Leeds simply one of those cup upsets? Or is it an indicator that the mighty Manchester United are a club in decline? There’s nothing like a snap judgement
I was going to write another bit about Rooney’s dive this weekend, but I bore myself with the diving dogma so no doubt any regular readers we do have are bored also. And then I saw Patrick Barclay had written a piece, and I like him, so I’ve reprinted that instead. And then I saw he’s also commented on the penalty issue (goalkeepers advancing off their lines) which was going to be my other piece – so I’ve just reprinted that too. This site is rapidly turning into reprint central – but at least the quality of writing is going up…
