Manchester United 0-2 Coventry City

I didn't go, so i can't comment on the match, so this is the Indies take on it,
http://sport.independent.co.uk/football/news/article3001681.ece
One in the eye for the Glazers automatic ticket cup scheme, lets face it the FA cup and Champions league virtually sell out anyway, so all the bad publicity they have gained for this odious measure was for one game. Was it really worth it from their point of view, it's not turned out to be has it.
The league cup is a perfect opportunity, to blood new young fans, and give them a sniff of what it's like to be a red. Instead you get thirty, forty thousand regulars who are pretty annoyed that they have had to turn up and pay for, a game most of us know, Ferguson is not really that interested in, whatever he says to the press. So for the short term aim of trying to pay the debt of, and we all know that's not going to happen, our gimp owners who really know how to run a franchise, yeah, are seriously alienating their present fanbase ( sorry customer ), whilst depriving fans of the future from getting a glimpse of the old trafford atmosphere, and wanting to come back for some more. And that's how to run a football club is it.
It wasn't exactly the best atmosphere for the youngsters to go out and try and prove they are good enough to play for United. As for the game, i can't believe he picked Dong in front of Campbell. Febian Brandy or Welbeck have both got miles more chance of making it than he has. I hope Ferguson hasn't been told he must play, for selling shirt purposes. It is fast becoming a big joke with people who have been going years, because he is absolutely light years away from being a Manchester United player. My other thought from last night is, that this was no surprise. Since about 2003 United have produced some pretty good young players, some who have gone on to have careers in football if not at United. Yet when they are picked en masse for either league cup or FA cup matches, they unfailingly disappoint. That team last night should have been good enough to have beaten Coventry, although playing with Dong up front is a pretty big handicap. As far as the youth cup goes United have a far better record than Arsenal over the timespan i am talking about, yet when Wenger picks his youngsters for the league cup or fa cup they fare far far better. Your guess is as good as mine why this should be.
There are some talented youngsters coming through, some of whom should have some kind of career at united. I can't say i am very convinced that many will though, United seem to have lost the art of giving youngsters enough first team chances to keep their careers progressing the right way. If pique, Evans, Simpson, Gibson or Campbell aren't going to get many games, they would have been better out on loan, for the first half of the season anyway.

Becks dad in hospital
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article2541962.ece
Let's hope he recovers, a proper Manchester United fan. Old school cockney red.

Interesting article about about US internet journalist Matt Drudge
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2489217.ece