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Burn After Reading

United win Royals Appointment but the game was mental, plain and simple.

FOR Manchester United the aim was simple. Win against Reading and be three points clear of that lot across the city. The late kick off meant we had the extra giggle of Chelsea losing at Upton Park and Arsenal being spanked in the last few minutes at home to Swansea. Manchester United had Lindegaard in goal, David nursed a wisdom tooth, Anderson continued to ‘pick himself’ in the centre, Ashley Young started on the left, Wayne Rooney on the right in a 4-2-3-1 formation with Robin Van Persie up front. It was Wayne Rooney who made all the headlines in the build up, with the manager stating that he needed his striker to up his influence in terms of goals but by the end of the match he’d have played almost everywhere on the pitch and those watching the game would be stunned into silence by the action.

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Hungry Heart

THERE IS only one rule on GTS, after almost exactly six years of putting these ramblings out there, only one rule applies – only write something when there is something to say. Even before this started and I was writing newsletters and selling them in school or when stuff like this got emailed to a subscriber list containing about 5 people I’d never met; or when I wrote to Red News and told them I could write for them there and then, confidence was never an issue and as long as I stuck to that golden rule I’d be happy with myself. West Ham fans have been rude to me, Liverpool fans have promised to see to me, I’ve ignored more ‘hot tips’ than I’ve followed and I’ve got my voice heard. After a couple of weeks of saying we can’t keep coming from behind, eventually our luck will run out, we need to learn lessons from last season who can forget the massive hit, sing-along crowd favourite Nani- Shit or Not? I was bored, bored of predicting that we’d slip, all you have to do is watch United and have a brain to realise we’d slip eventually but the interesting things come not from predicting the slips, but watching what happens after.

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Three Points (and each one of them boring)

Forget low gears, United didn’t even need to start the car against Arsenal.

YESTERDAY was Manchester United versus Arsenal. In times gone by that fixture would have been the centre piece of television coverage but yesterday confirmed if confirmation were needed that Arsenal are a poor team and the days of this being the hot rivalry, are gone. It was emphatically stated last year when Arsenal died of embarrassment in this same fixture, this year they offered even less and should have been punished more. The visiting fans offered more imagination than their team, but even then some people missed the subtle nuances of their verbal jousting with us; as I sat underneath the Munich clock waiting for the rest of our party at the end of the game, I heard a woman ask What’s a facking cant?

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