Rooney will be back for Sunday's Tottenham clash after his, ahem, throat infection, is anybody that suprised to hear that he's trained all week. I always felt he was rested last week and that Pearce or even Capello if he had still had been in charge would have wanted to look at other striking options with Rooney missing the first two games of this summer's tournament.
I thought United did alright at Norwich without him, but it will great to have him back and hopefullt firing for this vital game.
Fergie thinks that TV scheduling will not trouble United, but will be new to City and wonders how they will react to it. I can't see the Chelsea game being re-scheduled, they might not even still be in the cup by then.
Paul Wilson had asked earlier in the week if Sir Alex Ferguson is United's biggest advantage in the title race as the pressure starts to crank up a notch as we enter March and the beginning of squeaky bum time. That and the return to an almost fit squad makes that a yes, if Vidic wasn't out for the season, i would be uber confident, but there's always that nagging doubt about us at the back. Thankfully after tomorrow there is only the game at the boo camp to really test us in that department.
Wednesday saw United compete in the quarter finals of the FA Youth cup at Old trafford against Charlton Athletic and what a game it was. United were more the more skillful outfit but with the majority of them eligible to play in next years competition as well they are always liable to be up against it physically.
Twice United took the lead, towards the end of the first half and with quarter of an hour to go and both times the lead only lasted a minute. United were unable to play Charlton off the park as they had Swansea and the away team gave as good as they got and after they had equalised the first time should have taken the lead minute later.
United had their moments of good possession and troubled Charlton with their excellent passin movements but never managed to dominate the midfield as they did against Swansea. United's goalie Sutherland needed to be on his mettle and unlike youth teams of the last few years our goalie was one of the stars of the show. The outfield to most catch my eye was Daehli. he had an excellent game in the last round, with his use of the ball and his ability to not give ti away cheaply. On Wednesday he continued that good work but added some fine runs both dribbling with it and off the ball as well. He seems to have grown a little which doesn't half help, he was pretty small the first time i saw him. He is definitely a player i will be keeping my eye on, he seems to have a bit of everything.
United were fortunate that the oppostion went down to ten men four minutes from the end through injury after they had made all the substitutions. But to be honest from that moment it was really the away team who looked like winning as players went down like flies with cramp on both teams, Charlton's big fast lad up front Sho-Silva threatened to win it on his own. But United's last great move saw them nick it three minutes from the end of the ten minutes of injury time as Wilson finished off Van Velzen's fine pull back. A 3-2 win may have flattered them but given their size and speed it was a cracking performance and even at youth level and not just this year, United never know when they are beaten.
So Chelsea over two legs in the semi final again, if they can get through that, i have no idea how good Chelsea are, they must have a great chance of adding to United's record number Youth cup wins.
Ahead of Sunday's game United's engine room gets the one over from Saturday's papers, with Guardian profiling the quiet cog in Manchester United's engine room and Mark Ogden tipping Paul Scholes to carry on next season. I can definitely see Scholes giving another season, why give up when you can give the perormances he has recently. Fergie has been going out of his way to praise Carrick recently, justly so he has been magnificent since christmas, not that he'd done anything wrong before that.
De Gea will be placed on a strengthing programme to help him bulk up similar to the programme developed for Hernandez last season in an attempt to help him adjust to the robustness of the English game.
Peter Schmeichel has been impressed with De Gea and thinks he can become as good as Joe Hart, who he believes is one of the best around. He is another who sees United's know how being a big advantage in the forthcoming title countdown.
The Mail report that United are to take up the clause in Berbatov's contract to keep him for another season meaning that he will be here next season. That could of course be interpreted as meaning that he will leave in the summer and that the Glazer's will receive some much needed wonga for him. I would lean to that, but for knowing what will happen to Owen. He must surely be on his way this time, what's the point of him, he's never fit, never mind not being good enough. Which would leave us with four fit strikers, and if we were to suffer the injury problems we have suffered everywhere else in the squad this season, they would all be needed.
So i'm not sure what will happen, i had hoped that Josh King would have a good loan season and come back to be a back up part of the squad next season because i really rated him. Bu it's not happened for him, with his injury and lack of games he hasn't progressed at all. It's hard to know where he is in the pecking order now.
It sounds like Darren Flecther must have been reading the last Red Iss as he popped up to remind the press he is still here last week and working hard to try and overcome his illness to resurrect his United career. The word on the street claimed that the Glazer's bean counters were on the case and wanted proof that they won't be paying for another passenger ala Hargreaves. I'm afraid that was what i expected to happen, i was always amazed they let the Hargreaves saga drag on to the end. Given the length of time that Flecther has been at the club and service he has given, he deserves better than this though. If they do terminate his career, we will know how tight things are financially.
Andy Mitten reckons United are losing the battle to keep Paul Pogba, i hope he's just using journalistic license to use the Vierra analogy, because i have never reall see that. He sums it up perfectly at the end though, he does owe us nothing, but that doesn't mean he's making the right decision for his career.
Michael Wolf, Rupert's biographer thinks that son James played corporate politics lost and claims that he will not be missed, he thinks that this has finished him and has once again loosened Murdoch senior's rip on News international.
Peter Oborne writes that it will only be a matter of time before the question will have to be asked if Rupert Murdoch is a fit and proper person to run a company. I'm tempted to say Micahel Gover, over to you. Paul Mason asks is Britain bent after Sue Akers statement on Monday.
Richard Flannagan asks how did such a flawed man such as Kevin Rudd ever become prime minister of Australia. James Rose describes last week as the strangest of recent Australian political history and claims that we have only just reached the first commercial break.
James Blood worth declares that the prohibition of drugs has been an abject failure with a devastating human cost in his Independent health blog.
Racehl Polonsky aks if Putin has now become a national joke as he becomes a more openly and widely mocked figure ahead of the forthcoming Russian presidential elections. You can only hope that this is the beginning of the end of the alliance between the old security service and oligarchs and their ongoing state thievery.
I suppose the ousting of that corrupt regime could be bad news for the city of London and maybe London itself, there's a lot of corrupt Russian money salted away there.
Lou Reed circa 1974
I thought United did alright at Norwich without him, but it will great to have him back and hopefullt firing for this vital game.
Fergie thinks that TV scheduling will not trouble United, but will be new to City and wonders how they will react to it. I can't see the Chelsea game being re-scheduled, they might not even still be in the cup by then.
Paul Wilson had asked earlier in the week if Sir Alex Ferguson is United's biggest advantage in the title race as the pressure starts to crank up a notch as we enter March and the beginning of squeaky bum time. That and the return to an almost fit squad makes that a yes, if Vidic wasn't out for the season, i would be uber confident, but there's always that nagging doubt about us at the back. Thankfully after tomorrow there is only the game at the boo camp to really test us in that department.
Wednesday saw United compete in the quarter finals of the FA Youth cup at Old trafford against Charlton Athletic and what a game it was. United were more the more skillful outfit but with the majority of them eligible to play in next years competition as well they are always liable to be up against it physically.
Twice United took the lead, towards the end of the first half and with quarter of an hour to go and both times the lead only lasted a minute. United were unable to play Charlton off the park as they had Swansea and the away team gave as good as they got and after they had equalised the first time should have taken the lead minute later.
United had their moments of good possession and troubled Charlton with their excellent passin movements but never managed to dominate the midfield as they did against Swansea. United's goalie Sutherland needed to be on his mettle and unlike youth teams of the last few years our goalie was one of the stars of the show. The outfield to most catch my eye was Daehli. he had an excellent game in the last round, with his use of the ball and his ability to not give ti away cheaply. On Wednesday he continued that good work but added some fine runs both dribbling with it and off the ball as well. He seems to have grown a little which doesn't half help, he was pretty small the first time i saw him. He is definitely a player i will be keeping my eye on, he seems to have a bit of everything.
United were fortunate that the oppostion went down to ten men four minutes from the end through injury after they had made all the substitutions. But to be honest from that moment it was really the away team who looked like winning as players went down like flies with cramp on both teams, Charlton's big fast lad up front Sho-Silva threatened to win it on his own. But United's last great move saw them nick it three minutes from the end of the ten minutes of injury time as Wilson finished off Van Velzen's fine pull back. A 3-2 win may have flattered them but given their size and speed it was a cracking performance and even at youth level and not just this year, United never know when they are beaten.
So Chelsea over two legs in the semi final again, if they can get through that, i have no idea how good Chelsea are, they must have a great chance of adding to United's record number Youth cup wins.
Ahead of Sunday's game United's engine room gets the one over from Saturday's papers, with Guardian profiling the quiet cog in Manchester United's engine room and Mark Ogden tipping Paul Scholes to carry on next season. I can definitely see Scholes giving another season, why give up when you can give the perormances he has recently. Fergie has been going out of his way to praise Carrick recently, justly so he has been magnificent since christmas, not that he'd done anything wrong before that.
De Gea will be placed on a strengthing programme to help him bulk up similar to the programme developed for Hernandez last season in an attempt to help him adjust to the robustness of the English game.
Peter Schmeichel has been impressed with De Gea and thinks he can become as good as Joe Hart, who he believes is one of the best around. He is another who sees United's know how being a big advantage in the forthcoming title countdown.
The Mail report that United are to take up the clause in Berbatov's contract to keep him for another season meaning that he will be here next season. That could of course be interpreted as meaning that he will leave in the summer and that the Glazer's will receive some much needed wonga for him. I would lean to that, but for knowing what will happen to Owen. He must surely be on his way this time, what's the point of him, he's never fit, never mind not being good enough. Which would leave us with four fit strikers, and if we were to suffer the injury problems we have suffered everywhere else in the squad this season, they would all be needed.
So i'm not sure what will happen, i had hoped that Josh King would have a good loan season and come back to be a back up part of the squad next season because i really rated him. Bu it's not happened for him, with his injury and lack of games he hasn't progressed at all. It's hard to know where he is in the pecking order now.
It sounds like Darren Flecther must have been reading the last Red Iss as he popped up to remind the press he is still here last week and working hard to try and overcome his illness to resurrect his United career. The word on the street claimed that the Glazer's bean counters were on the case and wanted proof that they won't be paying for another passenger ala Hargreaves. I'm afraid that was what i expected to happen, i was always amazed they let the Hargreaves saga drag on to the end. Given the length of time that Flecther has been at the club and service he has given, he deserves better than this though. If they do terminate his career, we will know how tight things are financially.
Andy Mitten reckons United are losing the battle to keep Paul Pogba, i hope he's just using journalistic license to use the Vierra analogy, because i have never reall see that. He sums it up perfectly at the end though, he does owe us nothing, but that doesn't mean he's making the right decision for his career.
Michael Wolf, Rupert's biographer thinks that son James played corporate politics lost and claims that he will not be missed, he thinks that this has finished him and has once again loosened Murdoch senior's rip on News international.
Peter Oborne writes that it will only be a matter of time before the question will have to be asked if Rupert Murdoch is a fit and proper person to run a company. I'm tempted to say Micahel Gover, over to you. Paul Mason asks is Britain bent after Sue Akers statement on Monday.
Richard Flannagan asks how did such a flawed man such as Kevin Rudd ever become prime minister of Australia. James Rose describes last week as the strangest of recent Australian political history and claims that we have only just reached the first commercial break.
James Blood worth declares that the prohibition of drugs has been an abject failure with a devastating human cost in his Independent health blog.
Racehl Polonsky aks if Putin has now become a national joke as he becomes a more openly and widely mocked figure ahead of the forthcoming Russian presidential elections. You can only hope that this is the beginning of the end of the alliance between the old security service and oligarchs and their ongoing state thievery.
I suppose the ousting of that corrupt regime could be bad news for the city of London and maybe London itself, there's a lot of corrupt Russian money salted away there.
Lou Reed circa 1974
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