THINGS in life as, as in football, have a habit of working themselves out, even if you can’t see that while events are unfolding. With that in mind, Fulham came to Old Trafford on the back of a stonking victory in the first week and Manchester United were on home turf after Goodison turned bad. Robin Van Persie started his first game at home, when Nani found out his services were not required he got in a taxi and went home and later that evening a certain Wayne Rooney would be hobbling home from the hospital.
Whichever way you slice it, home is very important.
In general there are a great many things to be happy with as we look over Saturday’s game but just because there’s only two games gone doesn’t mean we can gloss over everything else. The fact is that this season probably more than any other, Manchester United need to be doing things faster, cleaner and brighter than the other team’s we are facing. There isn’t the time to lose or draw too many early on, the days of losing two and drawing one in August are gone. We need to be at the races every game, and this is why we need Old Trafford to be a place where no visiting team thinks they even have a chance. Like it was when Stan Collymore ‘broke into the bank of England’ and scored against United. Nottingham Forrest and Collymore, or Chelsea and Gavin Peacock, were blips… because Old Trafford was a fortress. It needs to be again. That’s how hard it should be to take points from the theatre of dreams; if an opposing team takes a point or three away from Old Trafford then no one will care because the end of the world will be coming at 5pm.
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MANCHESTER United maintained their seven point gap but they were made to work for victory against West Brom today. We’ll get to the how and why and whether Sir Alex bollocked another official or not, but here’s the facts as we go into 2013 and our esteemed manager’s birthday on New Year’s Day;
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