A grim Sunday to follow a grim Monday, City's victory, barring a miracle should be enough to land them the title, that all those petro dollars demanded. You have to hand it to them, that was a good result to come away with at any stage of the season but even more so given the stakes. It's not them landing the title hurts as much as the way we have thrown it away. I think most of us had come to terms with the fact that if we didn't win the title then they would, earlier in the season. But for us to go on that run and end up with an 8 point lead and a title run in to die for, and then well and truly bottle it, is what really hurts.
It's hard for the atmosphere to be any flatter than it already is, but the result from geordieland well and truly managed the feat as we all knew that the title had probably gone. To be fair to the players, they managed to get themselves up for the only thing the day still had going for it, trying to claw that goal difference back, even though we all know that was mission impossible. It was good to see Valencia back, its still annoying as fuck that he was dropped for Park last Monday night. When we went 2-0 up i thought United might actually make a fist of cutting the goal difference but half time allowed them to go in and re-organise and re-compose themselves and they imposed themselves on the game better and United ran out of ideas and even when we did create a gilt edged chance near the end Rooney managed to miss the target.
It was nice to see Scholes back on the scoresheet, especially when you'e got him for first goal. Young gave what i have come expect, some good things and some bad but at least he manages to get on the scorsheet. If i was Fergie i would stick with Jones at right back next week, he seems to be going through a bad time, confidence wise, hopefully he will come good, and he'll only do that by playing. Smalling defended decently enough but his passing seems to have a gone a bit this season. When he came to us last season, that was the part of his game that really impressed. The injuries seem to have kncked his game back a bit as well, he'll only get it back by playing, i would play him next week, whatever the state of our injury list. Whatever happens next week, it will be character building for a lot of our younger players, one way or the other.
I don't know what to say about Hernandez's performance, he wasn't particularly poor, he was just completely ineffective. For whatever reason you give, his last game at Old trafford, the goals we needed or his ability to make things happen outside the box as well as in it, Berbatov should really have started the game. When he actually came on, he didn't look particularly interested, whatever your thoughts on the player, he should have gone out on a better note than that. I don't know where we go with Hernandez, his game outside the area just isn't good enough. He is just an out and out goalscorer, but United have never really played with a front man that doesn't offer anything other than his finishing prowess. Of course the paucity of our creativity in midfield has hardly helped his cause this season either, but Rooney has managed to bang the goals in without ever to my mind really playing anywhere near his best.
Well lets hope miracles really do happen, because that's the only way, we will be above Sunday, come next Sunday evening. In all honestly i'm expecting City to do something akin to what Chelsea did the last time they won the title when they trounced Wigan 8-0 on the last day of the season.
Daniel Taylor pointed out in yesterday's Observer that Wayne Rooney had a point about United's Manchester United's spending power, or should that be ambition last season. Let's face the next time a 16 Wayne Rooney ytpe prodigy bursts on to the scene, unless he is a died in the wool red, he won't be ending up in a red shirt for the best years of his career. All this bollocks about not being able to compete is utter, utter bollocks, we all know that if the gimps had never landed us with all this debt, we could compete with anybody. We are fighting City, Chelski and all the rest with one arm forcibly tied behind our backs.
Jim White argues that even if the impossible happens and United retained the title, the evidence is clear that United are a team in decline rather than transition. This summer is going to be very interesting, to say the least.
Glenn Moore thinks Bayern's success in the champions league this season proves that the Bundesliga is Europe's best league, it certainly is the best fan friendly league, hands down the best. I hope they do the business against Abramovitch's boys in blue. Glad to see Chelski do the scouse on Saturday, but even more cheered by the way they seemed to run out of steam in the last twenty minutes. I'm just imagining Robben getting at that Chelsea rearguard.
As Guardiola says his farewells' to Barca, Jonathan Wilson asks why do great teams come to an end.
Alistair Campbell thinks it's game on for Labour's chances at the next election after the coalition's drubbing at last week's local elections, especially if the tories think that their problems stem from poor communication.
Interesting article from Jonathan Portes who believes David Cameron didn't learn from his former boss Norman Lamont that early short cuts hurt. Martin Wolf reminds the coalition that flexibilty is no sin when your policy is failing, in other words there's nothing wrong with a plan B.
It has been a bad week for the reputation of the governor of the bank of England Sir Mervyn King as the court of King Mervyn comes under scrutiny from the F.T.'s economics editor Chris Giles. Will Hutton joined in yesterday arguing that King didn't grasp the crisis then and he doesn't now .
James Galbraith, son J.K tells the Washington Post how economists have misunderstood inequality.
It's hard for the atmosphere to be any flatter than it already is, but the result from geordieland well and truly managed the feat as we all knew that the title had probably gone. To be fair to the players, they managed to get themselves up for the only thing the day still had going for it, trying to claw that goal difference back, even though we all know that was mission impossible. It was good to see Valencia back, its still annoying as fuck that he was dropped for Park last Monday night. When we went 2-0 up i thought United might actually make a fist of cutting the goal difference but half time allowed them to go in and re-organise and re-compose themselves and they imposed themselves on the game better and United ran out of ideas and even when we did create a gilt edged chance near the end Rooney managed to miss the target.
It was nice to see Scholes back on the scoresheet, especially when you'e got him for first goal. Young gave what i have come expect, some good things and some bad but at least he manages to get on the scorsheet. If i was Fergie i would stick with Jones at right back next week, he seems to be going through a bad time, confidence wise, hopefully he will come good, and he'll only do that by playing. Smalling defended decently enough but his passing seems to have a gone a bit this season. When he came to us last season, that was the part of his game that really impressed. The injuries seem to have kncked his game back a bit as well, he'll only get it back by playing, i would play him next week, whatever the state of our injury list. Whatever happens next week, it will be character building for a lot of our younger players, one way or the other.
I don't know what to say about Hernandez's performance, he wasn't particularly poor, he was just completely ineffective. For whatever reason you give, his last game at Old trafford, the goals we needed or his ability to make things happen outside the box as well as in it, Berbatov should really have started the game. When he actually came on, he didn't look particularly interested, whatever your thoughts on the player, he should have gone out on a better note than that. I don't know where we go with Hernandez, his game outside the area just isn't good enough. He is just an out and out goalscorer, but United have never really played with a front man that doesn't offer anything other than his finishing prowess. Of course the paucity of our creativity in midfield has hardly helped his cause this season either, but Rooney has managed to bang the goals in without ever to my mind really playing anywhere near his best.
Well lets hope miracles really do happen, because that's the only way, we will be above Sunday, come next Sunday evening. In all honestly i'm expecting City to do something akin to what Chelsea did the last time they won the title when they trounced Wigan 8-0 on the last day of the season.
Daniel Taylor pointed out in yesterday's Observer that Wayne Rooney had a point about United's Manchester United's spending power, or should that be ambition last season. Let's face the next time a 16 Wayne Rooney ytpe prodigy bursts on to the scene, unless he is a died in the wool red, he won't be ending up in a red shirt for the best years of his career. All this bollocks about not being able to compete is utter, utter bollocks, we all know that if the gimps had never landed us with all this debt, we could compete with anybody. We are fighting City, Chelski and all the rest with one arm forcibly tied behind our backs.
Jim White argues that even if the impossible happens and United retained the title, the evidence is clear that United are a team in decline rather than transition. This summer is going to be very interesting, to say the least.
Glenn Moore thinks Bayern's success in the champions league this season proves that the Bundesliga is Europe's best league, it certainly is the best fan friendly league, hands down the best. I hope they do the business against Abramovitch's boys in blue. Glad to see Chelski do the scouse on Saturday, but even more cheered by the way they seemed to run out of steam in the last twenty minutes. I'm just imagining Robben getting at that Chelsea rearguard.
As Guardiola says his farewells' to Barca, Jonathan Wilson asks why do great teams come to an end.
Alistair Campbell thinks it's game on for Labour's chances at the next election after the coalition's drubbing at last week's local elections, especially if the tories think that their problems stem from poor communication.
Interesting article from Jonathan Portes who believes David Cameron didn't learn from his former boss Norman Lamont that early short cuts hurt. Martin Wolf reminds the coalition that flexibilty is no sin when your policy is failing, in other words there's nothing wrong with a plan B.
It has been a bad week for the reputation of the governor of the bank of England Sir Mervyn King as the court of King Mervyn comes under scrutiny from the F.T.'s economics editor Chris Giles. Will Hutton joined in yesterday arguing that King didn't grasp the crisis then and he doesn't now .
James Galbraith, son J.K tells the Washington Post how economists have misunderstood inequality.
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