Category: Sir Alex Ferguson

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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The Nani State: What is happening with him? Is Fergie prepared to lose him? Is there a a future for the man some call ‘United’s enigma’?

The United winger has always lived with a lot of expectation, being another Portuguese winger at a club where Cristiano Ronaldo lit up the stage, it was always going to be hard, but this is Manchester United and hopes are always high. It would be fair to say that when Ronaldo moved on, the space was there for Nani to become his own player, no longer in his shadow, some are still waiting for that to happen. At some points it has seemed Nani’s biggest fault was not being Ronaldo but not being as good as one of the best players in the world is hardly a lynching offence, in his defence you have to point out that all he can be is the best he can do, expecting a copy will not help anyone.

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