Monday, March 15, 2010

One man team?


One man team? Not on this evidence. Understandably, Wayne has been hogging the plaudits, but it's not like every goal has been some solo effort conjured from nowhere. Valencia and Nani have provided impeccable crosses, Carrick, Fletcher and Park have been exemplary in the middle, and yesterday, it was all about one man; everyone's favourite languid Bulgarian.
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Where is the jury currently positioned on the Berba question? Yesterday was an exquisite refutation of every lazy line trotted out by the Berba sceptics. Doesn't work hard enough? So who was that closing down and pressing the Fulham midfield? Can't play with Rooney? Watch that second goal again. And the first come to that. Doesn't finish? Goal number three.
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As one firmly in the pro-Dimitar wing of red/green & gold support, even I have to accept that for all the sublime touches and moments like the Reebok last season, Berbatov hasn't done enough to completely destroy the sceptics case. But if yesterday is anything to go by, it won't be long before he does.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Green and goldenballs


Apolgies to the Mirror for stealing their headline. And apologies to anyone who occasionally stops by on the off chance that I might have got round to actually updating this thing. Naturally, United being United, the red universe looks very different from how it did when I last posted in December. For one thing, it's not red anymore, it'd green and gold (or as I was told by a colleague this morning, 'Don't romanticise! It's yellow!').
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This comment came from someone who knows so little about football that a few weeks ago I had to explain which team Eric Cantona played for to contextualise 'Looking for Eric' for her. Now, the post-bond issue furore is being discussed on Radio 4, in no small part thanks to the picture above.
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Naturally Becks distanced himself from any insurrectionary motives, but the lad is such a canny manipulator of the media that he can't not have known that image would adorn the front pages today. Even if he was just shrewdly swiping the headlines from under Wayne's nose, it can't not help prove something of a catalyst in the bid to erase the Glazer's from the history of our club.


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