Manchester United’s capacity for drama is certainly not on the wane. There are times when I wonder if I follow football or merely suffer from it. This still wasn’t vintage stuff from United but five goals against a resurgent Spurs is very respectable. One question that is left in hanging in air though. What on earth has happened to Howard Webb?
Not so long ago this guy was widely respected as the English game’s best referee. Mourinho would pillory for him in the big fixtures and that shiny pate had us all thinking he was our very own Pierluigi Collina. Not today. I try very hard not to criticise other people, and I think referees have an exceptionally difficult job, but that was as close to a penalty as Japan is to the Caribbean. Not very.
Nonetheless, we had our scoring boots on from that point and the more I look at the goal difference column the more I think it could turn out to be crucial. We need ten points to secure this title and I highly doubt that Middlesbrough or Manchester City will be rooting for us to claim it.
There is still a lot of work to be done. The team has looked a little tired of late but we have been able to lean on different areas of the side at different times. For so long the defence held us together but now it is the attack. If we believe the papers, then next season our attack will also include some young scamp named Kaka. Where on earth would we play him? In goal?
The next three weeks see us playing two games a week again. It seems as though we have been doing that all season. We are not there yet but I hope we can hold on. Should the drama levels stay this high then by the end of May I could be sporting the same hairstyle as Mr. Webb.
When we are bad we are really really bad. And we were for 45 minutes. The third goal was more likely to come from Spurs. So were they cheated, as some of their more backboneless fans urge? Let’s not forget that this is a club which last won the League 48 years ago. Since then it’s been won by Ipswich, Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Leeds (remember them?).
My first thought was – No Pen. But then, on the second or third slomo replay it was quite clear that Carrick nicked the ball past Gomez. Did Gomez get a touch? I’m not absolutely sure but I think he didn’t. So I disagree with our website host, excellent though his insights usually are. Penalty. Brilliant decision from a top notch referee. But now nice for United to be playing against a team which obligingly collapses when something goes against them, leaving their supporters to whinge. If we Mancs were like that we’d have gone home at half time.
All I can say is, thank you devils for a wonderful and stunning birthday day gift for me.
Yes, Happy Birthday to ME!!
At half time I was not feeling great about this (that was an understatement by the way). 2-0 down to a team we had had two 0-0 draws with. What a recovery. I think we would have won even without the pen. We would have found a goal from somewhere and Spurs would still have collapsed.
But how much more nerve-shredding can this season get??
COME ON YOU REDS!
It was not vintage i agree with that… but if Ronnie and Wayne could cooperate like they did, tevez could make those runs, and berba keeps feeding thoe throughs, we’d have on of the most if not the best, attacking line up in the world…. We need an experienced right back… dont get me wrong i love rafael and o shea has done a good job there… but looking at evra, vida and rio… theres this gut feeling the right is penetrable…. Wayne should play on the left more often… he might not like it but its where he does the most damage… on the flanks…
As for the penalty, yeah i think Gomes got a touch… but if carrick had went through he would have scored, he might have touched the ball but not strong enough and still left it in carricks path which would have led to a goal….
so any thoughts on those Kaka and Benzema rumors?