***Official Manchester United Thread***

[manureid]

Would feel more confident to beat the scum, but would be less depressed to lose to Chavski. Tough call who I would rather we play......

 

[Jolldo87]

we're playing Chelsea

 

[Hawthorn United]

Was glad that tie went into Extra Time. That was the one thing I was going for. Couldn't decide who I wanted to win. If Liverpool qualified, then they had the luxury of resting stars for the final, but Chelsea would also be devastated which could've hurt them in the Newcastle game.

 

[Juddyzthebest]

____ing chelsea.

Bring em on!

 

[Hawthorn United]

On to EPL mode, looks like Rooney will be fit for Saturday.

Vidic is still doubtful and Evra should play. Think he just had a flying boot to the head. Stretcher made it look like a serious injury. Stretchers come out way too often and for simple injuries in soccer.

 

[Crimson King]

That was just to kill time. A common tactic. The ref didnt buy any of it though.

 

[belfast_bomber]

Altogether now, folks...

Follow, follow, follow
Because United are going to Moscow
There'll be thousands of reds
Who'll be pissed out of their heads
Because United are going to Moscow!

Follow, follow, follow
Because the scousers aren't going to Moscow
There'll be nobody dead
With a slab on their head
Because the scousers aren't going to Moscow!

 

[Shinboners]

Was glad that tie went into Extra Time. That was the one thing I was going for. Couldn't decide who I wanted to win. If Liverpool qualified, then they had the luxury of resting stars for the final, but Chelsea would also be devastated which could've hurt them in the Newcastle game.

I felt the same. I would have loved to have seen Liverpool overrun us for 89 minutes in Moscow only to lose to a Darren Fletcher deflected goal in the 90th minute. The filth would NEVER have lived that down.

But Manchester United vs Chelsea is the final that the competition needed. But for tiredness and injury, that should have been last season's final. In terms of performance, us and Chelsea have probably been the two best club sides in Europe for the past two or three years, so it's fitting that we'll be playing against each other. Liverpool are a rubbish side, and for them to have made 3 finals in 4 years would have been a sick joke.

 

[NMFCMUFC]

Altogether now, folks...

Follow, follow, follow
Because United are going to Moscow
There'll be thousands of reds
Who'll be pissed out of their heads
Because United are going to Moscow!

Follow, follow, follow
Because the scousers aren't going to Moscow
There'll be nobody dead
With a slab on their head
Because the scousers aren't going to Moscow!

"With no tickets or beds" for the first song is also accepted.

 

[Thewlis Dish]

"With no tickets or beds" for the first song is also accepted.

Or "'cept for the one who used his head."

 

[apollo_creed]

I've just spoken to Curbs and by his logic it would be a travesty if Manchester United were to win the final.

How many 1-0 wins in the competition can one team have?

I'd be very surprised if your team hadn't set a record in this seasons tournament.

Not that it matters or anything.

4 or 5 at least. And you have to take into account the rubbish teams played earlier in the tournament against who it's very hard not to score > 1.

Two 1-0's v Roma, 1 goal over two legs against Barcelona, a scrappy 1-0 to go through at home against Lyon.

The knockout stages have just been a collection of boring 1-0 victories.

Curbishley wouldn't be too happy.

 

[Thewlis Dish]

The Champions League is decided on goal difference now?

 

[ashley12]

The Champions League is decided on goal difference now?

ROFL

 

[apollo_creed]

The Champions League is decided on goal difference now?

You understood my point and you're pretending not to.

my point was - all this stuff about Manchester United deserving to win the Premier League because of their free flowing and supposedly adventorous football.
fair enough - if that fits your serving.
my system for calculating the appropriate winner is quite different.
(keeping in mind that alot of the time against good sides, Manchester United don't play free flowing football and are often outpassed and outplayed. people ignore that though.)

the champions league is comparable because Curbs was talking about Manchester United being superior in their style and football in the premier league. Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal have all played far better, less restricted football than Manchester United in the Champions League. no less successful football but connecting to what Curbs was stupidly saying and using his logic, it wouldn't be good for football if Manchester United were to win the Champions League. especially considering they've basically adopted/copied Liverpool's European tactics from about three years ago. and aren't weren't Liverpool roundly criticised?
A team reliant and built on their ridiculously superior defence in Europe this season. Nothing wrong with that at all but it's fact.

I don't think anyone deserves to win the Premier League or Champions League at this point. Just trying to tap that unquestionably unlimited managerial and philosophical mind of Alan 'Curbs' Curbishley.

 

[Juddyzthebest]

I've just spoken to Curbs and by his logic it would be a travesty if Manchester United were to win the final.

How many 1-0 wins in the competition can one team have?

I'd be very surprised if your team hadn't set a record in this seasons tournament.

Not that it matters or anything.

4 or 5 at least. And you have to take into account the rubbish teams played earlier in the tournament against who it's very hard not to score > 1.

Two 1-0's v Roma, 1 goal over two legs against Barcelona, a scrappy 1-0 to go through at home against Lyon.

The knockout stages have just been a collection of boring 1-0 victories.

Curbishley wouldn't be too happy.

Pftt i stopped reading after the first line.

 

[A Bit High]

Pftt i stopped reading after the first line.

Agree....

to smug most times for me, but at least he is entertaining me

 

[Shinboners]

my system for calculating the appropriate winner is quite different.
.

Isn't your system based on "If the team's name is Chelsea, then they deserve to win"?

 

[Lach72]

Wife's watching flippin' Doc Martin...what's happening v West Ham?

 

[Shinboners]

Manchester United 1 (Ronaldo, 3rd minute)
West Ham 0

About 15 minutes gone.

 

[Shinboners]

The teams are:

Manchester United: Van der Sar, Hargreaves, Brown, Ferdinand, Evra, Nani, Carrick, Scholes, Park, Ronaldo, Tevez.
Subs: Anderson, Giggs, O'Shea, Fletcher, Kuszczak.

West Ham: Green, Pantsil, Tomkins, Neill, McCartney, Noble, Parker, Mullins, Boa Morte, Ashton, Zamora.
Subs: Cole, Solano, Walker, Collison, Sears.

 

[Lach72]

Ronaldo...

 

[Shinboners]

Manchester United 3 (Ronaldo 3, 23, Tevez 25)
West Ham 0

25 minutes gone.

 

[davey_magik]

****ing parents wouldn't get off the computer, now I start watching the game and it is ****ing 3-0 already.

This could get really ugly for us.

Then Ashton

 

[Shinboners]

Manchester United 3
West Ham 1

Nani gets sent off.

FFS - why do we always make things hard for ourselves?

 

[Lach72]

Nani

What a ____ stick