United On Fire

At short notice, work has sent me on a training course next week (someone else canceled).  Which means unfortunately, I’ll miss both the Middlesbrough and Roma games.  Thankfully, as the Roma game is somewhat under control what with the 2 goal advantage, I feel confident that they will manage without me.  Sometimes, life sucks.

On the bright side, the course is in Barcelona.  Life doesn’t suck that much after all.

My work colleague in the Barca office has said he will see what he can about getting me tickets for the Barca Champions League clash, but I don’t hold out much hope.  And the chance of finding a bar not showing the Barcelona game and showing United instead is even lower.

Anyway, enough about midweek.  Tomorrow we face Middlesbrough away, and it has always been a tricky fixture for some reason.  In fact, this season, Middlesbrough have made a speciality of beating the big times whilst losing to the lower placed sides.

I had a bad dream last night that United lost (but it was to Watford) and the defence consisted of Brown, O’Shea, Silvestre and myself.  Disaster as I got sent off as well.  The referee was a nightmare.  But enough about my noctural imagination.  If Fergie does go for a defence including Silvestre and O’Shea we could be quite a bit of trouble.  I just hope that Sir Alex goes for a full strength team and rests the big guns against Roma on Wednesday.

The championship race became much clearer today as Arsenal drew (5th home draw in a row) to Liverpool, making it a more or less 2 horse race with Chelsea who saw off City quite easily.  The gap is 2 points and there is all to play for.

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