Manchester United v Crawley Town

Calm down ladies. They're almost a League One standard club. Arsenal only beat Huddersfield 2-1. It wasn't great, in fact it was piss poor, but we made 10 changes and we're through to the quarter-finals of the Cup. Yes, there's question marks about certain players, but looking at others the future is fairly bright. I don't think many were arsed tonight, probably not too professional but we'll play so much better against Marseille and I won't give a shit about today. The abuse of the players on here is moronic. Disgrace to the shirt? Shut up and insert your tampon.
 
370 - Crawley made more passes tonight than six of the 14 sides to play against Man Utd at Old Trafford in the PL this season.
 
wonder what the attendance will be next time we play one of these "lowly" teams?

The team didn't deserve the support for that showing
 
At least I dont think we will see Obertan and Bebe in the first team again this year, maybe ever, I mean a player is not good enough if they are going to let a non league team walk over them
 
Calm down ladies. They're almost a League One standard club. Arsenal only beat Huddersfield 2-1. It wasn't great, in fact it was piss poor, but we made 10 changes and we're through to the quarter-finals of the Cup. Yes, there's question marks about certain players, but looking at others the future is fairly bright. I don't think many were arsed tonight, probably not too professional but we'll play so much better against Marseille and I won't give a shit about today. The abuse of the players on here is moronic. Disgrace to the shirt? Shut up and insert your tampon.

Damn right.
 
This is what pisses me off with football. We have played like World Champions in some games and still lost, and then we can play like THIS and win 1-0. You can go mad for less.
 
As the last minutes went on i was hoping for a replay. It would of given some of our lads a right kick up the backside.

About a good quantity of Caf members posting on this topic could play better than Bebe, Rooney and Obertan today.
 
our crowd is shit too tonight, crawley fans out-sung us......
 
Going to be a bunch of muppets crying that we didn't win 6-0, but that's just not football. The history of the FA Cup shows that. They came here, worked very hard to stop us from playing and with a team made up of players that rarely get to play together, it's not really surprising.

If we'd have played Giggs and Nani on the wings, with Berbatov and Rooney up front I'd have expected to win by 5 or 6 but we had two reserve wingers, Hernandez on his own up front and Gibson in with Carrick and Anderson who I thought were comfortable.

Our defense was rarely troubled and only in the dieing few minutes when they threw the kitchen sink at us did I feel they might get a goal.

A Cup win, while resting alot of players that needed resting and Rooney kept his fitness up with a 30 minute run out.

Job done.
 
Crawley looked more like scoring in the second half than we did, I thought Brown was excellent today and Sheasy did well despite getting shifted around twice, but in attack we offered nothing at all.

I think Rooney only came on so that Obertan wouldn't get the lowest mark in the papers tomorrow.
 
The only good thing in this game was that Bebe could at least cross properly in the first half. He crossed it into the box and not the side boards.
 
So now 4 away games in the space of 12 days. Going to be a huge disaster of a run. And Giggs will play at best 2 of them. We're well short on wing options.

Rooney will probably be on the wing now :(
 
our crowd is shit too tonight, crawley fans out-sung us......

What did you expect though? They bring 9,000 along for their biggest ever day out while our lot watch a b-team play a conference side and loads don't even bother to turn up, match didn't even sell out. Not exactly a big game to be up for, was it? It was all about Crawley.

Also, as disappointing as that was to watch, it was exactly what I expected. Just like when Exeter came the other year, except at least we scored.
 
ITV coverage is a fecking disgrace....they didn't even show the winning goal at the end!

They're only interested in the adverts.
 
This place is fecking awful. Arsenal scrapped past Huddersfield. They then beat Barcelona. This game will have no effect on the team whatsoever. We've in the hat for the next round. Mission accomplished.
 
At least I dont think we will see Obertan and Bebe in the first team again this year, maybe ever, I mean a player is not good enough if they are going to let a non league team walk over them

I think there have been moments in other games where Obtan showed some signs of why he was brought here. Tonight he was nowhere. I just don't think he has shown a high compete level. That's one thing you have to have. I'd be surprised to see him back next season.

What can you say about Bebe? He's shown nothing. Unfortunately, I think he'll be around for another year.

All it takes is two players off your 11 who performed like that and it's a no wonder the side sucked today. Two-thirds of the attack are just shit.
 
At least I dont think we will see Obertan and Bebe in the first team again this year, maybe ever, I mean a player is not good enough if they are going to let a non league team walk over them

I think there have been moments in other games where Obtan showed some signs of why he was brought here. Tonight he was nowhere. I just don't think he has shown a high compete level. That's one thing you have to have. I'd be surprised to see him back next season.

What can you say about Bebe? He's shown nothing. Unfortunately, I think he'll be around for another year.

All it takes is two players off your 11 who performed like that and it's a no wonder the side sucked today. Two-thirds of the attack are just shit.
 
This went pretty much as I feared it would. Always does when Fergie makes such drastic changes to the team.

Still, I can well understand why Fergie played the team he did - we have some massive, massive games coming up and whilst we'll get criticism for the way we played today, we remain in the FA Cup and key players will be fit and raring to go for the Marseille match.

No point criticising any of the players today, we all know who played shit and who did themselves justice. More importantly than that, Fergie will be in no doubt about it either.
 
Calm down ladies. They're almost a League One standard club. Arsenal only beat Huddersfield 2-1. It wasn't great, in fact it was piss poor, but we made 10 changes and we're through to the quarter-finals of the Cup. Yes, there's question marks about certain players, but looking at others the future is fairly bright. I don't think many were arsed tonight, probably not too professional but we'll play so much better against Marseille and I won't give a shit about today. The abuse of the players on here is moronic. Disgrace to the shirt? Shut up and insert your tampon.

Matchday thread cnuts owned :lol:
 
We won, we're through which is all that matters, especially when you see Chelsea go out at home. Hopefully we can make it all the way to Wembley, in fact two trips to Wembley would be nice!!!

Only disappointment was that we didn't have many chances from an entertainment perspective. Gibson, Rafael and then later on Smalling were probably our best players for me. Can't stand their manager, he thinks he some kind of non league SAF, proper milking the reactions for the cameras. Lets be honest here, whilst we were poor, they didn't really trouble our keeper once and it was the very top of the bar rather than bang on. Thank god I don't have to put up with him on TV any longer.

Onto the next game!!!