In the previous group e-mail I outlined my thoughts on the game as they pretty much still stand.  Reina was doing his best Barthez impression, Ferdinand was supreme and Masherano may possibly be in cahoots with a bookmaker somehwere.ÂÂ
My utter joy about this result has been replaced by something far more familiar for us Reds though, trepidation.  The press seem to be having a field day on this one and already we are being hailed as the new sliced bread and those in Fleet Street are headed for Premier League headquarters with engraving kit in hand at great pace.ÂÂ
Well hang on a second.  Our beloved United have a habit of making us suffer now don’t they?  We still have a very tricky run-in which from here is starting to look like it has more banana skins than a gorilla enclosure, two of the best teams in the league, a local derby against a tough old bunch and the eternal thorn in the paw that is Middlesborough.  ÂÂ
I remain optimistic about the league, but only in that ‘we ain’t won nothing yet, keep calm’ kind of way that we have been brutally taught to adopt.ÂÂ
Mr. Tevez, Mr. Saha, Mr. Rooney: the goal is the net like thing surrounded by the white sticks, please go and introduce yourselves.ÂÂ
Well the way I see it is we can afford to draw two of our remaining games as long we at least draw with Chelski. We are Champs then even if they win every other game.
So that’s Blackburn and Boro away dealt with. Arse at home?? Will they be relishing another trip to the ground where they lost 4-0 only a few weeks ago and against a team which has got their measure? Nah.
Title is ours to lose but yes we will find an unexpected banana skin somewhere. Probably tomorrow against the powder puff Brummies, by putting out a reserve team against a bunch of losers with nothing more to lose.
“They Make Us Suffer ” is copyrighted by the Crincklys, for the record!
Thanks Jono,
I will make a note of that. Yes there will be a banana skin somewhere, we are due a negative result at Villa.
Now here is a dilemma for the philosophers. All Mancunians are of course grateful to Mascherano for the diligence of his endeavours to get himself sent off. In 50+ years of Following the Boys I have never seen anyone try harder. But do we want him to get an increased ban because he plays for Liverpool, which would mean he misses the game against Arsenal, or do we want him to play, and have a stormer so that the Dippers take a couple of points off Arsenal?
PS I’ve just read Bobby’s autobiography. I don’t think he wrote a single word of it.