Manchester united 5 - 0 Chelsea

This was some game that we could just as easily have lost 3 - 1 as we did actually win by. I suppose as good as Jones and Smalling are we will have games like this as they gain in experience and big match know how. To be fair to them they didn't really have much protection in front of them.
Fletcher needs a lot of games to get back to where he was and i have never really rated Anderson and haven't really bought into the idea that he has suddenly come of age. I was suprised Giggs didn't come on for him yesterday we didn't really keep the ball as well as we should have done in the second half as Chelsea started to boss the possession.
Chelsea came to attack us and for once this wasn't the dour tense tussle they often are. Fortunately for us this left holes at the back and this United attack doesn't need any second invitations to get forward. They will probably not be too chuffed about their defending, all three goals were poor from their point of view. Smalling's goal was simple, Young's cross, Smalling's head and bang we were one up. Chelsea were creating chances at the other end and De Gea made two excellent saves to keep United on top. The second goal was the moment of the match as Nani ran in from the right and hit an unstoppable shot that Cech could only watch fly past him.
The third saw yet another brilliant run from Jones who excites me more every time he plays, and Rooney get his obligatory goal this season. In fact Rooney didn't have one of his better games and should still have scored a hatrick. We didn't really deserve to be three up at half time, but we took our chances and they didn't.
That changed in the second half as Chelsea attacked and United played on the counter. Torres got one back in the first minute of the second half, but that was as good as it got for him as he then proceeded to miss two gold plated chances, the second of which he had actually gone round the goalie only to blast it wide. United had chances as well, Nani hitting the bar and Rooney missing the resultant penalty, doing a passable imitation of John Terry in Moscow. Rooney then hit the post when he should have buried it and then Berbatov having been forced wider than he should have been by Rooney's over hit cross had his shot cleared off the line.
It's hard to imagine us getting any dull games at Old trafford, every game so far has been something special. I suppose European games could be different, but i'm not sure about to be honest.
Cole's tackle on Hernandez should have seen him get a red, it will be interesting to see how long it's put the Mexican out for. I would have liked to have seen a raft of youngsters line up at Elland road tomorrow night, but with the amount of players such as Berbatov and Owen needing time on the picth i can't see too many getting an outing. Hopefully Pogba will get an outing, with Cleverley injured we look short of real class in the centre of the park, we really need a couple of the youngsters to start break through in this part of the squad and he looks the nearest to the first team.
Mark Ogden looks at the rivalry between United and Lids. As for his tweet to United fans asking where Leeds come on the list of rivalries, for me they would be behind the mickies and either level with City or just behind, i'm not sure. We hardly played them in the eighties and since they went down again we have hardly thought about them.

Daniel Taylor's five things we learned column states that Nani is his own man. He certainly is, it seems funny how so far this season when Young has been Outstanding, Nani has been comparitively quiet and When Nani has been outstanding Young has been quiet. I can't wait for the game when they are both on fire, that could be day when Ipswich 9-0 scoreline gets challenged. Jim White also looks at the Portugese wingers dreams of becoming one of the best players in the world. Villa-Boas gets a going over from Alan Hansen in the Telegraph.

The latest Red News has an interview with the ginger prince in, the Mirror carried some titbits in where he calls England's players "mollycoddled". I got it yesterday, and will be reading it tomorrow.
Gary Neville's book is used to show there is more to Fergie than the hairdrier treatment.

The Glazer's are looking at delaying the Singapore IPO according to Friday's Independent. It seems to be getting more and more negative comment in Singapore itself if you go to the MUST site. Meanwhile the Express report that the Glazer's will only be able to use a third of any money raised from the IPO to pay off the debt according to the terms of their loans.I wonder what they will use the rest of it for then.

Flat Jack applauds the county championship triumph calling it a great day for generation of Lancashire players. Andy Wilson talks of once in a lifetime achievement delivered without once setting foot on the Old trafford turf, oh the irony.
Michael Vaughan believes that whilst the county game has its flaws but it has become the best in the world. I never thought i'd dear anybody arguing that case. The best part of the Lancashire success is the lack of start foreign players and the reliance of home grown talent.

Real Madrid's Perez blocks La Liga's financial revolution.

Robert Harris has a new novel out based in the world of high finance and talks to the Telegraph. A man in demand, the Tinker tailor soldire spy author John Le Carre is profiled in the Indy.

Jon Snow asks when is a banker responsible after the latest UBS bank rogue trader scandal.

Paul Mason looks at the Eurozone and claims Greece is at a decision point.

Shaun Ryder has a new book to plug and is interviewed in the Guardian.