Arms Aloft

SAT in the car on the way to Old Trafford last Monday was the first time in a long time I had absolute confidence in Manchester United. I mean simply, I didn’t anticipate Aston Villa throwing any spanner into the works. I had a feeling Manchester United would not let them do so on this night. There were no thoughts of well if they score first we will score two, and we’ll get there eventually… last week I had a feeling we would destroy Aston Villa and enjoy doing so.

For a long time we have not been playing for title, it’s been ours, it’s just a case of when we were going to be confirmed Champions. The ‘keep ticking matches off’ mentality was beginning to do my head in if I’m honest, so I’m glad the maths got really easy and it looks like the team think so too: win this match, win the league. Sorry, Villa, you didn’t stand a chance.

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Out of Gas

IT may be me out here on this limb by myself but I think that winning the Premier League title, should we do so, may lose some of its gloss if we limp over the line like a pathetically wounded gazelle instead of striding away like a magnificent stallion. Some may be happy just to win, but it looks like we’re dragging ourselves across the finish line. Believe me, I waited to write about this, I waited through an epically painful International Week and one or two  games either side to see if the team proved me wrong and I’m sure you can guess where I am going with this; they didn’t. Two nil up against Chelsea and the collective foot comes off the gas, worst still; we’ve not been cutting edge since those goals went in.

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Dance Across the Rio Grande

You know you’re something special and you look like you’re the best…

GTS regulars will know that we don’t put much stock in the England national team here, so the inclusion of Rio Ferdinand in Woy’s squad announced yesterday didn’t raise much of an eyebrow but it’s worthy of note that Hodgson is not doing Rio a favour by ending his exclusion, Ferdinand is back in the squad because he deserves to be and there’s no English defender equalling him at the moment.

However you look at this, Rio’s form has come good because he isn’t playing for England; either as an up yours to the people who unceremoniously consigned him to the scrap-heap not so long ago OR because he has been able to get fit and concentrate on club matters, his body benefitting from the extra space in his schedule and his form returning as a result.

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