Wigan 1-2 Manchester United

Well that was a much harder game than i had expected, in fact that was probably as tough, if not tougher than the two semi finals against the gooners. Wigan defended well and made life hard for us and in addition they got forward when they could and had a real go at us. In fact the game was only a couple of minutes old when they caught our defence cold and Valencia was put through on goal only to fluff his lines trying to chip Van Der Sar and missing the target.
United picked a pretty strong line up, stronger than i had expected, it was probably a good job the amount of effort the home team put into it. After the wobbly first couple of minutes, United got into the game and though Wigan were harrying and trying to close down everything they could, we did create a couple of great openings. The first followed a piece of great play by Berbatov on the right that saw him skin his man and cross only for Rooney to horribly misjudge his header to send it well wide. The next chance followed a super piece of movement and passing that saw Ronaldo put a lovely cross in for Carrick, but his effort went just over the bar. Whilst we were playing nice football Wigan were causing us a few anxious moments at the other end. But when Wigan did get their goal it was a bit soft from our point of view really. Vidic was outmuscled to a long punt into the box by Rodallega and when the ball broke the Columbian was the first to react and fired it past Van Der Sar.
United seemed to wobble a bit for the next ten minutes or so, blaming the ref for everything instead of getting on with it. The composure seemed to come back for the final few minutes and they created another really good chance that Rooney hit too high under pressure from the Wigan defence.
The second half saw no substitutions and the game continued in the same way until the introduction of Tevez on the hour. All of a sudden United's players seemed to have more time, whether that was tactical or them tiring after putting in so much effort i don't know. In no time at all United were level and it was that man Tevez with the equaliser. Carrick made use of the space now available to make a run and unleash the shot that was going well wide across the face of the goal when Tevez pulled of a superb flick to deflect it into the back of the net. Cue a mixture of relief and jubilation knowing we only needed 4 points from our last 3 games. Now it was all United, but it was only 4 minutes from time when the winner finally came. It was another cracker, but, more conventional this time. O'Shea made a great run and threaded the ball back to Carrick at the edge of the box who took his time and picked his spot and thumped it into the corner of the net to really get the red hordes and the players alike doing cart wheels, knowing this probably means we will be able to lift the trophy aloft at Old trafford on Saturday.

I think we can probably see by this why United are having a hard time over Carlos Tevez and why i still think he won't be hear next season.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8042344.stm

Fergie wary of Arsenal, it depends i suppose, if we score early they could easily fall apart again because that defence is not up to much.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/5322766/Manchester-United-wary-of-Arsenal-threat-says-Sir-Alex-Ferguson.html

Nationalise the premier league?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/may/14/nationalise-premier-league-steven-wells

As in every proffesion, business or whatever it may be self regulation doesn't work. Vernon Bogdanor in the Times argues ousiders must be involved in sorting out the current mess.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6282598.ece

Anatole Kaletsky on the prospects for deflation and inflation
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article6282701.ece

Henry Porter on liberty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/may/14/privacy-internet-government-database