Due to a calendar malfunction, I’ll be away for this game. I forgot to add the FA Cup tie dates into my diary. I’m concentrating on the league and europe this season, ok? Anyway, hopefully I’ll be able to find a TV screen in a pub or something up in Edinburgh to watch the game. However, the omens are not good, on my previous visit to Edinburgh on a stag do, I watched Arsenal clinch the 98 title. Amongst others, Tony Adams scored a cracker against Everton and I knew it was all over for that season. Might have been earlier that 98, come to think of it, but I don’t tend to remember the seasons when Arsenal won the league. I don’t remember too much of that stag do either, but that’s another matter.
Speaking of boozing, on a completely unrelated note, honestly, it’s sad to see Bryan Robson got relieved of his duties at Sheffield United. Captain Fantastic was once down as a future United manager, but surely his career as a manager must be over now.
FA Cup 5th round and United are at home to Arsenal. After the last two poor performances, United get back to form otherwise the Gunners will knock us out. Having thought about the derby defeat, aside from missing Rooney the main problem was that United had nothing at all in midfield. Ronaldo, Nani and Giggs cannot play in the same team at the same time. Scholes and Anderson didn’t work as a central midfield pairing. Scholes and Carrick we know works. Hargreaves and Anderson works. I think Scholes and Hargreaves would work as well and that would be my first choice for the remainder of this season and long time for Anderson to replace Scholes.
Tevez needs to play alongside someone. Dunne and Richards totally bossed him, which I don’t think would be the case if Rooney had played. So we lost out in midfield and up front. Oh, and our defence had a shocker too. We were lucky it was only 2-1 in retrospect.
Let’s hope for better against Arsenal and we’ll scrape through to the 6th round and dent Arsenal’s confidence in the process.
Any other United fans have a heart attack when they read about Ronaldo being out for 9 months and possibly having a career ending injury? I breathed a lot easier when the news sites altered the headlines to “Milan’s Ronaldo ….”
And finally, what are the copycats at Liverpool up to? Only starting an AFC Liverpool. Now, forgive me if I’m wrong but didn’t the Anfield mob initially welcome their American owners with open arms? It doesn’t look good when you then say “oh, but it turns out they are shite so we’ll bugger off”. At least FC United were opposed to Glazer from the start. I used to own a piece of Manchester United, but the Glazers took it against my will.
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