The Devil In Me

It must have been really awesome to be an Aston Villa fan after ten minutes of this game.  They were pinging the ball about well and recorded the honour of being the first team to score against United in ten hours.  That footballing sage Mark Lawrenson had predicted an upset and it really looked like it was in the script at that point.

Step forward Mr. Rooney, whose ability to get the better of both his marker and the linesman has been astonishing over the last couple of weeks. Goals number 3 and 4 could well resurface in a Christmas television show about comedy bloopers but that should not detract from the fact that this was a good, good victory. Villa are no mugs and I always have certain amount of respect for the character of O’neill’s teams, where has he not done a good job of being manager?

There were shades of the match against Bolton last year in the team showing that they really are rather good. It should be noted that yesterday in playing at various points O’Shea, Scholes, Giggs, Brown, Pique and Fletcher we fielded six players who have come up through the ranks. I wonder how many other Premiership clubs could say that. I’ll bet it is a rather circular number.