Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Glazer get out......

"Warning! Using MUFC may result in serious damage to your health!"
This is the message sent out to Malcolm Glazer in early February after a guy fawkes model was left hanging from the Sir Matt Busby monument.
Although the sentiment expresses violent connotations that cannot be condoned it does clearly state the position of many United fans; He is not wanted.

Unlike Chelski we don't need a sugar daddy who knows nothing about football, especially one who would raise ticket prices and especially one who happens to be a Yank- they call the game 'Soccer.' This alone is a massive insult- why corrupt the name of our national sport? Stick to what you know Glazer- Burgers and Tampa Bay.

“If Glazer were to come here, we would lose everything.” These are the words of the man voted best ever foreign player in the premiership, the king, Eric Cantona.

Tragic......

What a tragedy! Poor old Southampton suffered a monumental set-back in their fight for survival.
Harry Redknapps Saints played Aston Villa at St Marys on saturday and after going two goals ahead looked set to leapfrog West Brom and get out of the relegation zone.
Kevin Phillips pounced in the fourth minute to score the first and the ever improving Peter Crouch slotted home his eleventh goal of the campaign against his former club on thirteen minutes.
It would have been a wonderful story- Crouch, a player signed by Villa for £4million but totally disregarded by manager O'leary pops up to rub salt into the wounds of the midlands club.
Alas it wasn't to be. In a dark eighteen minute spell starting in the fifty fifth minute Southampton threw it all away.
Carlton Cole, Nobby Solano and Steven Davis all scored to put Southampton firmly back into the relegation zone.
But this team has never been relegated from the premiership and with wheeler-dealer Harry Redknapp in charge they have every chance of staying up.

Forget the premiership...........

Forget the premiership, the championship is the most intriguing league in the country.
The three legged race for the premiership crown dwindled into mediocrity a long time ago.
Chelsea will win the title. Arsenal and Man Utd will take the two of the champions league places despite both having comparitively dissapointing seasons-wow, no-one would have thought it.
The championship on the other hand is a hive of activity and excitement every week. Sunderland look to have done enough to secure promotion, but with Wigan only three points behind them and five games to play it could go right down to the wire.
The real battle in this division is between Reading and West Ham. The Royals looked like a team fit for relegation after christmas. They went ten games without a win and after watching them lose 3-1 to Coventry at the Madejski stadium I would have put a lot of money on them not making the play-offs. It was lucky I didn't. A Dave Kitson hat-trick secured the points against the Hammers and a scrappy 1-0 victory over Nottingham Forrest this weekend, courtesy of James Harper means they now stand in sixth place. West Ham on the other hand are a team under serious pressure, and it starts at the top. Alan Pardew ironically left the Royals at the start of the season for the greener pastures of Upton Park-oh dear. He now finds himself managing a team that trail his former club by four points and has had to endure supporters calling for his job- after a match they won (3-1 versus Coventry). But, this is football so he could still be managing his team in the premiership next season-well, mathematically.