You are my Solskjaer, my Ole Solskjaer

you make me happy when skies are grey ( and they are today as usual )
oh Alan Shearer was fuckin dearer
please don't take my Solskjaer away

Well unfortunately injuries have took him away from the playing side, ironically as he was entering the best form of his career. Playing so well that he persuaded Fergie he could do without the ego and celebrity trappings of the Beckhams. But today we have one last chance to see him in a red shirt in the stadium where he is so adored. You have to be honest he wasn't a great player but he became a very good one, who could play anywhere up front and on the right hand side where in his last full season he dislodged Beckham from the side on merit, not because Ferguson had already decided to get rid of him. When you look back at the clips of him he is probably the second best finisher i have seen at the club after Ruud. He scored some absolute screamers as well as the obvious ones we all remember. But it was his commitment to the cause that really won our hearts. The type of commitment that saw him become the last defender chasing the ball back into his own half and give a penalty away after making sure Robert Lee didn't score and get a standing ovation from the crowd as he got the inevitable red card against Newcastle as United's title hopes went up in smoke in 1998. My favourite two Ole moments are the obvious one at the nou camp, but the other, from the same season is right up there alongside for me, as he scored that last minute winner to put us 2-1 up against the bindippers after we had trailed 1-0 uutil the last minute in the 3rd round of the FA cup. Oh the ecstasy of that moment, beautiful, and yet incredibly he would go one better on 26.5.99 and send United into the promised land with a second of 2 last minute goals again. That Liverpool game in any other season would have been THE highlight of the year.

I am in that motley crew to the left behind the goal somewhere, already on cloud 9 from the Sheringham goal a minute before, but now about to really go nuts.



Henry Winter gives us his appreciation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/2486627/All-football-will-miss-the-Baby-Faced-Assassin----football.html

Gary Neville has another niggling injury just as things seemed to be going so well.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/nevilles-new-calf-injury-raises-old-fears-for-united-883348.html
But he remains positive
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/manchester_united/article4446585.ece

James Lawton fears Rooney is letting his off the field activities get in the way of his on the field activities.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/james-lawton-when-all-the-camera-bulbs-stop-flashing-will-rooney-be-left-looking-back-in-anger-883338.html

Sevilla have a go at Tottenham hypocrisy, it seems they are still angry over the tapping up of Ramos. Nice to see somebody else bringing that plonker Levy to boot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/aug/02/tottenhamhotspur.premierleague