Manchester United v Arsenal

Kraftwerker said:
Ah, I remember it now. Shit defending from us for those goals, but I remember we played well, but only managed to pull one back too late. Big game performance from Nasri - there haven't been many of those. :nervous:
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It was a very good game, both teams played very well. I believe Andy Gray picked it as the best game of the 2000-2009 decade.
 
kietotheworld said:
It was a very good game, both teams played very well. I believe Andy Gray picked it as the best game of the 2000-2009 decade.
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Mental. I could honestly name around 50+ matches better than that. Cant be fecked though.
 
and then Viera in turn shat himself. Some classic lines out of Keane in the tunnel that night, I think Rio needs some lessons on how to really put some-one down on that twitter lark.
 
phelans shorts said:
Or as all of the evidence points to Viera fecked off once Keane turned up.
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Cutch said:
Yeah poor lad nearly burst into tears, if Bergkamp hadnt been there to console him
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He scored the game's first goal after seven minutes and was pretty instrumental in Arsenal leading 2-1 at half-time to be fair...until United got a swerve on in the second half and Giggs and Ronaldo battered them on both flanks.
 
peterstorey said:
No he was completely indifferent having said his piece to Neville, who was quite pathetic being called seven kinds of cnut and not saying 'boo' back. The great fanny.
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He was definitely shook up, all big man until somebody showed up who could actually handle him.
 
Seriously but, its a shame the edge has been taken off these games a bit in the last few years with a lack of characters/cnuts like Keane, Vieira, Keown, Schmeichal, Wright etc. Nowadays the Arsenal lads are more worried about their snoods than engaging in a physical battle.
 
peterstorey said:
What's a black guy like you doing playing for France?
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He says that to him in the video, does he?

Bollocks...

He once criticised him for playing for France rather than Senegal to which Vieira responded by saying seeing as though he walked out on his national team, he had no right to comment but there's hardly racism and also it wasn't at this moment in time or specifically in this video so don't pretend that it is, jog-on....
 
Yep, they were definitely the most entertaining game to watch and the one to look out for when I was growing up, there was a real hatred. Certainly has lost it's edge but maybe it has started to com back into it?
 
peterstorey said:
No one on our side is mythologising a video pre-amble to a game we lost you daft twat. It's all you lot putting the bits that suit the miff up on Youtube.
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So where are you getting this alleged information from then! Share the love brother or otherwise we'll have to assume what most of us know already; you're full of shit...
 
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Looking back on the infamous Keane-Vieira tunnel incident, it was all a bit embarrassing and poncey from all involved. Sure, I thought it was amazing when I was 16, but looking back now, if everyone was so angry, why didn't someone just lay an opposition player out? Ruggerby players know how to deal with such situations. Footballers just embarrassingly posture and jostle for a bit before continuing to play.

Fighting fail.
 
Some observations.

Firstly, Fletcher will start, form or not, this is exactly the type of game he will play in. He either starts ahead of Anderson or Berbatov IMO depending on how Fergie wants to line up. His track record against Arsenal is excellent.

Secondly, and as a follow on to the above, I reckon Fergie will pick close to the same side as last year's win at the Emirates, with Anderson in for Scholes and go like for like with Arsenal who will only play one striker. Tough on Berbatov but the formula has an excellent track record and it's the result which matters tonight.

I'd be tempted to then try the Berba/Roo combo against Chelsea next week in the formation which is carrying favour on here(Park coming in from the left) but against Arsenal the solution is very much a tried and tested one.
 
Feed Me said:
Looking back on the infamous Keane-Vieira tunnel incident, it was all a bit embarrassing and poncey from all involved. Sure, I thought it was amazing when I was 16, but looking back now, if everyone was so angry, why didn't someone just lay an opposition player out? Ruggerby players know how to deal with such situations. Footballers just embarrassingly posture and jostle for a bit before continuing to play.

Fighting fail.
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That's what you think because you grew up? that you should lay people out?
 
IhabX7 said:
That's what you think because you grew up? that you should lay people out?
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That's not what I said now, is it. Well, actually, it is, but that's not what I was trying to get at. Let me elaborate:

As an impressionable kid, I thought, wow look at this commotion! But looking back, it was just a bunch of grown men acting like silly buggers. In rugby, punches would have been thrown and the problem resolved immediately.

So yes, I suppose what I'm trying to say is that if Keane felt so strongly, he should have just laid Vieira out. None of this poncing around in the tunnel.

I've seen better fights in my Sunday League.
 
You watching top tier football bro, when have you ever seen them have proper fights recently? It's a sport full of bitch sportsmen who look beyond silly too often, but it's part of the enjoyment for me.

You know where to go if you want fighting, in football terms, that Keane/Vieira stuff is still classic, just like the stuff with Drogba-Lahmann is still legendary.
 
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