Wigan are the perfect neighbours. They live inoffensively near by and have never complained when we have had a party, even if we are doing so at their expense. They were even polite enough to roll over in a cup final for us a couple of years ago. Splendid, splendid chaps.
The one nil to United result was becoming eerily familiar and yet that run comes to an end with a scoreline we have seen twice before in recent years against the same club. But these are not the numbers games that concern me the most at the moment. At half time we had precisely ten players out injured. That is a hefty tally whoever you are and to carry on and win well deserves some credit.
Now I don’t want to be disparaging here but it almost seems as if the Wigan players are trained to lose four nil to us before they even arrive. Therefore I don’t feel inclined to shower plaudits on Rooney and Ronaldo for their performances, they were just doing their jobs.
On his debut and again against Coventry Anderson played good through balls that nobody go onto which I though would start paying off soon. One did against Wigan and suddenly he is a hero, let’s hope it starts to happen more regularly. What I like is that he seems to have put in his best performance so far a week after Fergie has gone public saying he doesn’t know if he will make it or not. Master man management again? I like to think so.
Far more encouraging for me was the quality of the cross that Simpson put in for the first goal, it reminded me of seeing Lee Sharpe put in that cutback against Norwich some 19 years ago in making me think ‘he’s one to keep an eye on’.
Ferdinand for PM.