Up In The Air?

Manchester United 4 – 4  Everton (Premier League, Old Trafford, 22nd April 2012)

WHAT just happened? Seriously, what just happened? Answers on the back of a postcard please. In the past Given to Score has been at the front of those who preach that Manchester United forever choose the hard road; sometimes I’m sure we’d all love for that not to be the case. Let’s not dwell on what this means for the title race, I’m sure a few red tops are already preparing hyperbolic headlines to show that United bottled the league in our own back yard; we can be equally sure that a few people in red tops might well agree with them.

Let’s get the maths out of the way now then; it’s most likely going to be a three point gap, no-one really gives Wolves a snowball’s chance in hell of gaining anything against City. So, that being the case, we go to the Council House and we win, we win at ours against Swansea and we fucking win against Sunderland on the last day of the season if we bloody need to. No more arsing around, we just have to do it. The eight point gap and their stumble at Swansea was nice but deep down, didn’t you think it was too comfortable? Not so deep down, you knew it was going to come down to that game against City.

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Man of the Hour

Has Mark Hughes put the playing career in his rearviewmirror to become a manager that could take the OT hotseat?

SOMETHING became very apparent to me when watching United versus QPR recently, and no it wasn’t how ridiculously awesome I looked in the steward like bright yellow jacket…it was this, Mark Hughes is becoming quite the manager on the quiet (and loud sometimes too, admittedly). He seems to be gathering up experience like a managerial kleptomaniac.

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The New Pencil Case

WASN’T it nice to see Manchester United turn up on Sunday? If they continue to do so, we will win the league. Sir Alex isn’t about to fall for the ‘it’s over’ songs being sung over at the Council House across town; even if Mancini was right about the gap being back to five points on Sunday night (pissing Alex McLeish off in the process). Aston Villa didn’t offer a lot in the way of resistance and enough of our players were having a good day.

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