This Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

SOON we won’t be able to say it’s the start of the season, we’ll sort ourselves out…  At a certain point November falls into December and you have to be there or thereabouts when it does because that’s when the season starts to count. Whisper it though, while we’ve been bemoaning the defence, the fact that we have to be scared into scoring, or whether the word groundbreaking can apply to a Manchester United formation without wingers, United are within one point of the leaders and in a healthy position in Europe. It was like this last season, largely awful, it was almost as if we were playing a joke on the rest of the footballing world and they took some time to wake up to it, but remember when they did? Out of Europe, nudged into second in the league, we stretched that elastic band to the moon at points last season, rode our luck so many times we had money off coupons.

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The Nani State

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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Electric Geordieland

No fog on the tyne. No Charity. United clear and to the point against Newcastle.

Sports TV channels have loved Newcastle United v Manchester United since the mid nineties when the Geordie nation found themselves following a team that had a chance of winning the league. They would have loved it, LOVED it, if they beat us then… and many a pundit would have loved it loved it if they had beaten us yesterday, many said they would.

Newcastle legend Alan Shearer took to his soap box to tell everyone Manchester United had no chance of winning the league without Vidic (The Sun, 2nd October), Jamie Redknapp took to his to predict a Newcastle victory, “what a statement of intent that would be from Alan Pardew “ (Sky Sports, 4th October) and Sky Sports were all over the stats, Manchester United’s record against Newcastle and that performance and loss last year which now was seen as the crucial one (Sunday Mirror, 7th October) in the title leaving Old Trafford for council accommodation.

“I can see a second successive defeat  when they make the trip to Newcastle Of course Sir Alex has made a living out of proving people wrong. If he does so again then I will have no defence. “-

Alan Shearer (he’s the manager that got Newcastle United relegated)

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