The Devil In Me

Ever since Chelsea employed Frank Arnesen the Mourinho situation has been a ticking time bomb. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Ambramovich decided to get rid of Mourinho before last Christmas and has been slowly applying pressure on the guy since then.

This, not to put too fine a point on it, makes Roman a first class plonker (or possibly not a Chelsea supporter). I wrote two months ago on this page about the importance of somebody, preferably us, beating Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Now that just seems irrelevant, without Jose Chelsea will simply not be feared as a footballing force to anywhere near the same extent.

I basically despise the club, even in the eighties it was clear that the fans attending Stamford Bridge were the worst type of plankton football had to offer, and the place was a rip off for tickets back then too.But, perhaps controversially, I had time for Mourinho.  Yes because he was a character, yes because I respected that he was a winner but also because he seems to have enjoyed a decent and respectful relationship with Fergie.  Neither Whinger nor Benitez seem to have felt comfortable enough with themselves to have managed that.

So thank you Mr. Ambramovich, now that your club no longer has its redeeming feature I can go back despising them at will and, one hopes, watching United beat them more regularly.

There is nothing like a run of a few victories to put you in a good mood.

United finished last season terribly and playing some fairly dour football.  After all of the huffing and puffing about a decent summers rest and a proper pre-season for Rooney at last I suppose the continuation of that poor form into this year was not something that we expected. 

Yet continue it did and then of course Wayne and Christiano ruled themselves out from the off.  I am right in saying, however, that we have created more scoring opportunities than anybody else so far this season and even though we haven’t been putting them away yet class will tell eventually.

The last three games have seen us win one nil from headed goals, not the most complicated way to do things but its nice to know we can get the basics right too.Liverpool and Chelsea have both already faltered a touch and it could well be Christmas before we can decide who the genuine contenders are this season.  I am confident that we will be one of them. 

It is also telling that Rooney is back, incredibly, already, and I for one hadn’t even noticed that he had gone.