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you mean like arsenal who apparently were supposed to be just making up the numbers look like they could be a contender this year??

should be out of liverpool/arsenal for the title.

chelski are definitely out, they draw/lose another 2-3 games, they will be at least 4/5 games off the pace and that is damn difficult to make back up.
Chelsea aren't a team atm. If you read the article in the Guardian, in the Mourinho thread, then I cant see them doing too much damage this season.

Liverpool were red hot earlier, but now can barely score. Arsenal definitely will be up there, can't see them making a huge fall after this start. United are starting to get their great players together on the park so we'll be making our move now.
 

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I reckon anyone writing chelsea off is as off the money as any idiot who wrote arse off pre-season. let's just think about united. the rest can sort themselves out for sloppy seconds.
Yep. From now until the Christmas/New Year fixtures, it's just sortinng out the challengers from the pretenders. Then the real race begins.

As long as your club is within 6 points of the leader after the New Years fixtures, you're in with a chance.
 

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+ Manchester United have the famous 0 point (maximum) fixture coming up.

ASTON VILLA - AWAY

pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile!!
 

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0-2 loss to Coventry City in the Liverpool Consoloation Trophy Cup Competition.

But the really amusing bit is that United got a crowd of 74,000 to watch what was effectively our reserves team as opposed to Chelsea ("We want to paint the world blue" - Peter Kenyon) barely getting one third of that crowd to watch their team play in the Champions League ("Chelsea are full of sh(t" - Peter Hill Wood from Arsenal).

Good luck to Coventry in the rest of the competition.
 

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I like the way you call it a consolation trophy after your out of the competition :D

And the Liverpool consolation trophy? No, no... thats what we call the European Cup, or the FA Cup if you will.
 

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But the really amusing bit is that United got a crowd of 74,000 to watch what was effectively our reserves team as opposed to Chelsea ("We want to paint the world blue" - Peter Kenyon) barely getting one third of that crowd to watch their team play in the Champions League ("Chelsea are full of sh(t" - Peter Hill Wood from Arsenal).
It's really amusing because United ST holders are forced to buy tickets to all cup games, a lovely move by the Glazers. For them, not going is an option, but not paying for your seat is not. :D
 

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I like the way you call it a consolation trophy after your out of the competition :D

And the Liverpool consolation trophy? No, no... thats what we call the European Cup, or the FA Cup if you will.
That didn't take long.

It seems like super-Rafa has already conceded the Premiership and decided to go all out to win the League Cup. After all, what other conclusion can you make if he rests Torres against Birmingham and starts him against Reading.

So anyway, which consolation trophy did you guys get last season?

It's really amusing because United ST holders are forced to buy tickets to all cup games, a lovely move by the Glazers. For them, not going is an option, but not paying for your seat is not. :D
True.

But this is about making a mockery of Chelsea's claims for world domination.
 

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That didn't take long.

It seems like super-Rafa has already conceded the Premiership and decided to go all out to win the League Cup. After all, what other conclusion can you make if he rests Torres against Birmingham and starts him against Reading.
Rafa confuses us all?? I understand the squad rotation. Rotate everybody bar Torres, Gerrard, Carragher and Reina. Cant be hard. But .... in Rafa we trust and all that.
 

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0-2 loss to Coventry City in the Liverpool Consoloation Trophy Cup Competition.

But the really amusing bit is that United got a crowd of 74,000 to watch what was effectively our reserves team as opposed to Chelsea ("We want to paint the world blue" - Peter Kenyon) barely getting one third of that crowd to watch their team play in the Champions League ("Chelsea are full of sh(t" - Peter Hill Wood from Arsenal).

Good luck to Coventry in the rest of the competition.
Great to see Coventy get 11k of their own to the game, I'm sure every one of them would have gone home happy.

Best of luck to them, beat a pretty decent United team.
 

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Rafa confuses us all?? I understand the squad rotation. Rotate everybody bar Torres, Gerrard, Carragher and Reina. Cant be hard. But .... in Rafa we trust and all that.
I can understand it.

Rafa expected the other players to do what was required to defeat BIRMINGHAM at HOME.

He would've seen Reading AWAY as a more difficult fixture and as such decided to rest Torres to be fit for that much.

All it shows/proves to me is that Rafa is a winner and wants to win everything. Including the League Cup. Something he's yet to win. A SF last year, a Final in his first season in charge and I'm not sure what inbetween?

Reading away is immeasurably more difficult than Birmingham at home. Regardless of what competition it's in.

Blame the players who were out on the field ie; Gerrard.
 
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