Unbvelievable, you just couldn't write this script, Sky must be creaming themselves. All those, myslef included who thought the league was a done deal might have a lot of egg on our faces after next Monday night. One thing is for sure if we defend like that at the boo camp, we'll come away with nothing and deserve to come away with nothing.
Almost every team that has decided to give it a real go against us this season has joy, i won't say Everton came all guns blazing, but they competed right from the word go. In fact they set the template for the game right for the kick off keeping the ball and keeping it in our half for the first five minutes. Jelavic was a handful for our defenders as time and again he kept on finding himself in oceans of space. For some reason United were unable to deal with Fellaini yesterday, i'm no fan of his, but we just couldn't handle him yesterday.
It was another of those flat lethargic performances from United that i was hoping we had kicked out of our systems last week. It took that opening goal from Jelavic for United to get any rythm and puropse into the game. We looked shaky at the back, weren't controlling the game, Valencia wouldn't take his man on and only Nani was playing anywhere near his best. And it was from a superb Nani cross that Rooney headed his first of the game to send us in at the break all square.
United didn't really begin the second half much better than the first, but then Welbeck popped up with a stunning goal that seemed to spark him and the rest of the front line into life. Five minutes later Welbeck turned provider and Nani hit athird goal which we hoped would kill Everton's challenge off. No such luck, United went to sleep on our left hand side and Hibbert was given a free pass to put a cross in which Fellaini unmarker vollied home. It was apoor goal to give away whichever way you looked at it. United still looked the business going foward and when Rooney and Welbeck combined a la Cole and York at Barca in 99 for the fourth you hoped that this time we had sealed the three points. We weren't to know it at the time but Evra's header that hit the upright was to turn out to be crucial as United completely went to pieces at the back and Everton got a third and then two minutes later carved us open again to get an equaliser.
United went in search of a fifth and almost got it but for a magnificent save made by Howard from Ferdinand's left footed shot. So where are we now, well i have read the reports that put City as favourites and say it's in their hands. Obviously it tilts there way if they win, but it's also still in our hands, if we go there and get a result. Only a fool would predict anything ahead of next Monday night, the way this season has gone. And of course if the worst does happen next week, City have still got to go to St. James park to face a Necastle side fighting for a champions league. A city win would still not be the end of the title chase. How on earth have we got to this point after the City defeat at Arsenal. I suppose as was intimated in the latest issue of Red Iss United are probably in a false position, but we shouldn't have looked a gift horse in the mouth.
The crazy thing for me is that we have looked as good going forward in the last two weeks as at any time at any stage in the season. But yesterday we just went to pieces at the back, we never looked safe all game long and even at 4-2 i wanted a fifth because we needed that much insurance. Fergie has bigged up Rio's consistency over the second half of the season, but the fact remains he can't run and if a team really go at us we look vulnerable. Getting Vidic back next season must surely mean fare fewer performances for a man approaching 34 with a bad back who some games is barely mobile.
Fergie was not a happy bunny after the game, we threw the game away, he said and told the press that next week will be the biggest derby he has been involved with. I'd love to know what tactics he will be taking into the match and what personnel. I would have expected us to either play a real 4-3-3 with Rooney up front on his own or a 4-4-2 with Rooney so deep he is almost in midfield. But after yesterday's defensive lapses i'm not sure how he will go.
A decent interview with Dani Alves in last week's Guardian. One of the most interesting snippet's is his description of Gareth Bale which i would completely agree with. If we had no debt and could compete at the top end of the market i would be attempting to buy him to replace Evra at left back. I find it hard to see Tottenham regaining form in time to reclaim a champions league spot, though the way this season has gone, who knows. If that did happen they will have a few unhappy players on their hands though, a second consecutive season without champions league football.
Will more follow the lead shown by the Danish government with the news that it has fired Moody's and was supported by the countries leading investors. It seems that the world's financier's are finally starting to be taken to task for the mess they landed us all in after the 2008 debacle. Barclays are leading the way in teir spat with pension funds over the renumeration policies.
David Blanchflower does a hatchet job on Mervyn King's time as a governor of the Bank of England and a couple of his minions along the way. He has to be right, he can't go down as a success in the job. Simon Nixon is equally critical of the Bank of England's performance over the last few years though he lumps that in with the rest of the econmics profession.
Larry Elliott argues that George Osborne's Friday bragging about austerity and the British economy is baloney. Robert Skidelsky says down with debt, calling for debt forgiveness, i don't think the Germans will buy that argument. William Keegan wonders why with recession and economic despair some commentators still fixate on an inflation rate rise of 0.1 % to 3.5%.
Will Hutton is not suprised by Argentina's oil grab and warns that it may become more common. He makes an interesting analogy between that and any Russian attempt by Gazprom to buy Centrica, not being in our national interest. I have thought for a few years now that our energy providers will be re-nationalised one day.
Steve Richards reckons David Cameron's problems stem from his government trying to do much, not too little, he doesn't buy the line that he is a dilettante prime minister as described by Anthony King a couple of weeks back. Peter Oborne points out a few home truths about the present governmenst predicaments to his critics on the right.
Almost every team that has decided to give it a real go against us this season has joy, i won't say Everton came all guns blazing, but they competed right from the word go. In fact they set the template for the game right for the kick off keeping the ball and keeping it in our half for the first five minutes. Jelavic was a handful for our defenders as time and again he kept on finding himself in oceans of space. For some reason United were unable to deal with Fellaini yesterday, i'm no fan of his, but we just couldn't handle him yesterday.
It was another of those flat lethargic performances from United that i was hoping we had kicked out of our systems last week. It took that opening goal from Jelavic for United to get any rythm and puropse into the game. We looked shaky at the back, weren't controlling the game, Valencia wouldn't take his man on and only Nani was playing anywhere near his best. And it was from a superb Nani cross that Rooney headed his first of the game to send us in at the break all square.
United didn't really begin the second half much better than the first, but then Welbeck popped up with a stunning goal that seemed to spark him and the rest of the front line into life. Five minutes later Welbeck turned provider and Nani hit athird goal which we hoped would kill Everton's challenge off. No such luck, United went to sleep on our left hand side and Hibbert was given a free pass to put a cross in which Fellaini unmarker vollied home. It was apoor goal to give away whichever way you looked at it. United still looked the business going foward and when Rooney and Welbeck combined a la Cole and York at Barca in 99 for the fourth you hoped that this time we had sealed the three points. We weren't to know it at the time but Evra's header that hit the upright was to turn out to be crucial as United completely went to pieces at the back and Everton got a third and then two minutes later carved us open again to get an equaliser.
United went in search of a fifth and almost got it but for a magnificent save made by Howard from Ferdinand's left footed shot. So where are we now, well i have read the reports that put City as favourites and say it's in their hands. Obviously it tilts there way if they win, but it's also still in our hands, if we go there and get a result. Only a fool would predict anything ahead of next Monday night, the way this season has gone. And of course if the worst does happen next week, City have still got to go to St. James park to face a Necastle side fighting for a champions league. A city win would still not be the end of the title chase. How on earth have we got to this point after the City defeat at Arsenal. I suppose as was intimated in the latest issue of Red Iss United are probably in a false position, but we shouldn't have looked a gift horse in the mouth.
The crazy thing for me is that we have looked as good going forward in the last two weeks as at any time at any stage in the season. But yesterday we just went to pieces at the back, we never looked safe all game long and even at 4-2 i wanted a fifth because we needed that much insurance. Fergie has bigged up Rio's consistency over the second half of the season, but the fact remains he can't run and if a team really go at us we look vulnerable. Getting Vidic back next season must surely mean fare fewer performances for a man approaching 34 with a bad back who some games is barely mobile.
Fergie was not a happy bunny after the game, we threw the game away, he said and told the press that next week will be the biggest derby he has been involved with. I'd love to know what tactics he will be taking into the match and what personnel. I would have expected us to either play a real 4-3-3 with Rooney up front on his own or a 4-4-2 with Rooney so deep he is almost in midfield. But after yesterday's defensive lapses i'm not sure how he will go.
A decent interview with Dani Alves in last week's Guardian. One of the most interesting snippet's is his description of Gareth Bale which i would completely agree with. If we had no debt and could compete at the top end of the market i would be attempting to buy him to replace Evra at left back. I find it hard to see Tottenham regaining form in time to reclaim a champions league spot, though the way this season has gone, who knows. If that did happen they will have a few unhappy players on their hands though, a second consecutive season without champions league football.
Will more follow the lead shown by the Danish government with the news that it has fired Moody's and was supported by the countries leading investors. It seems that the world's financier's are finally starting to be taken to task for the mess they landed us all in after the 2008 debacle. Barclays are leading the way in teir spat with pension funds over the renumeration policies.
David Blanchflower does a hatchet job on Mervyn King's time as a governor of the Bank of England and a couple of his minions along the way. He has to be right, he can't go down as a success in the job. Simon Nixon is equally critical of the Bank of England's performance over the last few years though he lumps that in with the rest of the econmics profession.
Larry Elliott argues that George Osborne's Friday bragging about austerity and the British economy is baloney. Robert Skidelsky says down with debt, calling for debt forgiveness, i don't think the Germans will buy that argument. William Keegan wonders why with recession and economic despair some commentators still fixate on an inflation rate rise of 0.1 % to 3.5%.
Will Hutton is not suprised by Argentina's oil grab and warns that it may become more common. He makes an interesting analogy between that and any Russian attempt by Gazprom to buy Centrica, not being in our national interest. I have thought for a few years now that our energy providers will be re-nationalised one day.
Steve Richards reckons David Cameron's problems stem from his government trying to do much, not too little, he doesn't buy the line that he is a dilettante prime minister as described by Anthony King a couple of weeks back. Peter Oborne points out a few home truths about the present governmenst predicaments to his critics on the right.
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