: Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:22 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

Which brings me on to another issue:
5Live - always seem to have stupid debates and calls from the hand-wringing and guilt-ridden when I am cooking - are seemingly trying to encourage top-flight footballers and clubs to put their hands in their pockets to pay-off the debts of those lower league clubs close to financial ruin. Is it just me who has no sympathy for those clubs facing financial ruin?

Can I assume you're listening to 'The Monday Night Club' with Mark 'Sanctimonious t**t' Saggers and his band of cronies? It's a good listen but only because of some of the crap they spout.

As for moribund clubs - I'm with Keith. I have some sympathy for the followers but not for the idiots in charge.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:05 pm  

PAUL M wrote:

I'd go with:-

VDS
O'Shea
Rio
Vidic
Evra
Ronaldo
Scholes
Carrick
Park
Rooney
Tevez

The front two looked great on Saturday and should start together although I think SAF will leave Tevez on the bench and look to being him on if we are stuggling to break them down.

ferdinand set to play

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:12 pm  

Ian [77] wrote:

Can I assume you're listening to 'The Monday Night Club' with Mark 'Sanctimonious t**t' Saggers and his band of cronies? It's a good listen but only because of some of the crap they spout.

I think it was last Thursday. Pretty much the same thing though. I actually quite like the football programmes on 5Live, especially when they have the more intelligent guests - Graham Taylor and Gab Marcotti. But you're right, there is a lot of nonsense spouted. I cannot listen to the programmes when Ian McGarry is a guest. To refer to him as my "least favourite journalist" would be flattering.

Saggers annoys me. He's a terrible interviewer. He interviewed Rodney Marsh at the time when we were linked to Kaka. His style of questioning and bias was a disgrace to journalism.

As for moribund clubs - I'm with Keith. I have some sympathy for the followers but not for the idiots in charge.

I'm with you and Keith. It's only the fans I sympathise with, although it wouldn't apply to Leeds.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:29 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

I'm with you and Keith. It's only the fans I sympathise with, although it wouldn't apply to Leeds.

Agree on both counts.

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:38 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

I think United will cruise through to the next round. Inter haven't got the defenders to keep United goalless at Old Trafford. I can see United winning by two clear goals.

I'd say that Chelsea have the toughest job. I actually think Juve are better equipped for CL than Inter.

My dad, who supports United, told me something the other day and it depressed me. He said that United haven't even played anywhere near the level that they can play. Yet they won the CC, are walking away with the Prem and are handily placed in the CL and FAC. I agree with him.

Managers should take note: you won't win the league unless the team works hard as a unit (with and without the ball). That to me is the key ingredient to United doing so well. I don't have access to all those Prozone stats but it wouldn't surprise me if United players cover more ground than any other team every weekend. It sickens me. The only team who get close to them for workrate is Chelsea.

I work with a Liverpool fan who said last week that Manchester United didn't deserve to win anything this season because they haven't even been playing well. Lets just hope he finally gets to see us play well on saturday

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:55 pm  

36/1 for all the english teams to win their champions league games today/tomorrow? Worth a couple of quid?

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:58 pm  

Karlos13 wrote:

36/1 for all the english teams to win their champions league games today/tomorrow? Worth a couple of quid?

thats good odds that

arsenal will spoil it tho

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:02 pm  

Well fooook me! 3 pages of sensible, interesting discussion. Here's what I think.

United and Liverpool players do work extremely hard. I think Liverpool players more so without the ball and United players with it. United hit teams hard by scoring a lot of goals (granted this season has been a little different). They do this by getting plenty of men forward into the box, quickly. Liverpool struggle in this department and consequently do not score as many as they should. Next subject.....


I can't remember who posted it but somebody said if United scored early against Inter it would force them to change their game plan......
I don't agree. Inter know they have to go to Old Trafford and score a goal at some point. If United score early, that scenario does not change. Inter still need to score a solitary goal. However, If Inter score early and United need to score 2 to win the tie, it should be a fantastic game to watch for the neutral.

As for the other ties, I can see Liverpool scoring again at home and I feel that will be enough. I also think Chelsea will score again and hang on to go through. Arsenal mmmmmmm........I think they may come unstuck in Rome.....not sure though.

As for your friend Mutt1, he obviously has his head up his butt!! Manchester United have played well enough to get to within touching distance of the league title before the end of March. If they can do that by not playing well then so be it

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:18 pm  

airliebird9 wrote:

As for your friend Mutt1, he obviously has his head up his butt!! Manchester United have played well enough to get to within touching distance of the league title before the end of March. If they can do that by not playing well then so be it

I didn't say anything about him being my friend the guys a class A to$$er

Our main problem is that we're everyones cup final so teams are happy to come to O/T park the bus to try and get one point from the champions. Only Hull, Stoke and West Brom have come to O/T and had a go this season but look at those three scorelines. Do you attack and leave space at the back for the likes of Ronaldo, Rooney to run at or do you park the bus and let 10 outfield players run at you for 90 minutes and just hope you don't concied

: Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:40 pm  

Nemanja wrote:

Agree on both counts.

Counts, did you say...?