Clattenburg's performance was almost as bad as Fulhams.
Manchester United vs Fulham
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Dippers v City and Arsenal v Chelsea hopefully.
Felt like a preseason friendly with the amount of pressure Fulham put us under 
Much better second half from Nani, Rooney and Hernandez who I thought had poor first halfs, good performance overall. Great having a winger like Nani back, hope he starts the next game as well. Good to see Anderson again taking his chance in the starting 11 and playing really well. Thought Kagawa looked bright when he came on as well, played with more purpose than usual.
Away to fulham will be much tougher than this though.
We need to find a way to fit in Cleverley, Carrick and Anderson in midfield, and Van Persie and Rooney up top without sacrificing our wings. Ideally I'd like to see a 4-3-3 with Nani, Van Persie and Rooney as the 3 up front, but then that leaves Kagawa on the bench.
Much better second half from Nani, Rooney and Hernandez who I thought had poor first halfs, good performance overall. Great having a winger like Nani back, hope he starts the next game as well. Good to see Anderson again taking his chance in the starting 11 and playing really well. Thought Kagawa looked bright when he came on as well, played with more purpose than usual.
Away to fulham will be much tougher than this though.
We need to find a way to fit in Cleverley, Carrick and Anderson in midfield, and Van Persie and Rooney up top without sacrificing our wings. Ideally I'd like to see a 4-3-3 with Nani, Van Persie and Rooney as the 3 up front, but then that leaves Kagawa on the bench.
Got back from the Amex (for Brighton-Arsenal) in time to catch the second half of this. Smashing win, with good performances from all the right players by the sound of it.
According to my dad (never the most reliable source), we were denied a stonewall penalty in the first half, and that ruled-out Rooney goal in the second was perfectly good, I can't see what Hernandez did wrong there.
So once again we're winning despite the referees. The Frogie Association obviously isn't doing its job.
According to my dad (never the most reliable source), we were denied a stonewall penalty in the first half, and that ruled-out Rooney goal in the second was perfectly good, I can't see what Hernandez did wrong there.
So once again we're winning despite the referees. The Frogie Association obviously isn't doing its job.
Steve Sidwell and Chris Baird.
Is that the worst central midfield pair in the Premier League?
Is that the worst central midfield pair in the Premier League?
That Maca is some laugh! Twat.
All i can think of is the duff peno?
Nah, there was also an incorrect offside when Rooney was clean through on goal at the end of the first half, Rooney's disallowed goal and another incident where Rafael was clearly fouled near the edge of the box which was given against him because he did the usual falling-down-grabbing-the-ball routine. That's off the top of my head.
That was embarrassingly easy.
Most comfortable win of the season, we played some good stuff but Fulham were absolutely terrible, no spirit or even workrate.
Glad that we picked it up after a dire first half clearly Sir Alex told the boys to come out and kill the game at half time and they did just that. Simple and sweet really.
Looked to be a great crowd marching towards the ground before the match - with banners, scarves etc. Making good noise too. Don't know where they all went in the ground because I hardly seen any flags or scarves during the match.
Was it the banner in tribute to the Busby babes?
If so, it will be unveiled before United’s game with Everton on February 10.
fecking get in! Put a bet on too. First bet in nearly 3 years. Won £30.
well comparing us to those two is a worse insult to our players....
Sir Alex Ferguson was satisfied after Manchester United cruised into the last 16 of the FA Cup with a comfortable 4-1 victory over Fulham at Old Trafford.
Javier Hernandez netted twice for the hosts, along with goals from Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney, while Aaron Hughes grabbed a late consolation for the Cottagers.
And Ferguson said: "It was a good performance. I think we respected Fulham because we played a very strong team today.
"The FA Cup's an important trophy for us this season. We haven't won it for almost 10 years, so we really need to have a big performance this year.
"Rio Ferdinand's never won an FA Cup medal - so we really need to do something about that."
Giggs got the ball rolling with a third-minute penalty. Twenty years and three days after his first FA Cup goal, Giggs' strike was his 12th in the competition, and the Welshman echoed his manager's view that victory in the cup is long overdue.
"It means a lot," said Giggs. "We've not done as well as we should have done in the last eight, nine years.
"There's a lot of players desperate to win it. With the history we've got in the competition, we should be there, we should be getting to finals, so hopefully this will be the year."
Ferguson also confirmed that Giggs taking United's penalties would not be a long-term thing, just that he had been given a break from his normal duties.
He added: "With Wayne missing the penalties he has, it was time to give him a break. But he will come back it.
"The one thing about Wayne is that it doesn't faze him if he misses one. He has a fantastic temperament."
Javier Hernandez netted twice for the hosts, along with goals from Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney, while Aaron Hughes grabbed a late consolation for the Cottagers.
And Ferguson said: "It was a good performance. I think we respected Fulham because we played a very strong team today.
"The FA Cup's an important trophy for us this season. We haven't won it for almost 10 years, so we really need to have a big performance this year.
"Rio Ferdinand's never won an FA Cup medal - so we really need to do something about that."
Giggs got the ball rolling with a third-minute penalty. Twenty years and three days after his first FA Cup goal, Giggs' strike was his 12th in the competition, and the Welshman echoed his manager's view that victory in the cup is long overdue.
"It means a lot," said Giggs. "We've not done as well as we should have done in the last eight, nine years.
"There's a lot of players desperate to win it. With the history we've got in the competition, we should be there, we should be getting to finals, so hopefully this will be the year."
Ferguson also confirmed that Giggs taking United's penalties would not be a long-term thing, just that he had been given a break from his normal duties.
He added: "With Wayne missing the penalties he has, it was time to give him a break. But he will come back it.
"The one thing about Wayne is that it doesn't faze him if he misses one. He has a fantastic temperament."
I know I'm a bit late, but got back from Manchester yesterday morning and was absolutely knackered for the rest of the day.
Right, Friday afternoon, I go on the United website and check out tickets for the Fulham game. There’s still quite a few on sale, and some pretty well situated in the stadium. I live in Paris and it’s pretty complicated to get to Old Trafford to see a game: the weekend games are often sold out, and when they’re not, it’s often a bit of a last minute job. It’s hard to plan in advance, and with the plane tickets prices, ideally, booking in advance is necessary.
In any case, with tickets available, and my friends telling me a few weeks back they want to get me tickets for a game as an engagement/birthday present, I feel like it could be good fun. I contact my friends, ask them if they’re up for it, and on Friday at 4pm we book tickets and arrange for the flights. We go home and all have fights with our girlfriends who aren’t happy to find out the plans we’ve made for the weekend are cancelled cos of our trip to Old Trafford (but it’s worth it!)
We meet Saturday morning, get a cab to the airport and fly over. First cultural stop in Manchester is very important: Burger King at Picadilly. A few fellow United fans sporting the Green and Gold scarves or United tops are in there too, and we’re starting to get into the feel of things. We get on the tram to Old Trafford, walk to the ground (we wanted to go into the Bishop Blaize for a drink, but we didn’t spot it, must’ve missed it), retrieve our tickets and take the compulsory tourist pictures. We have a couple of Singhas when we get in and then go to our seats.
Walking into Old Trafford, coming out of the little tunnel and seeing the pitch, the Stretford end to my right, the manager’s box across the field, was a very powerful moment for me. I’ve been supporting the team for about 15 years and have always dreamed to get to OT for a game, it was truly a dream come true.
The stadium slowly fills up, we see the players warming up, RvP and Ferdinand tekkers, De Gea’s pinpoint kicking, and are excited by the lineup. Sure SAF and Evra had been going on about how important the Cup is this year, but you never know. Seeing Giggs in the starting XI, as well as Rooney, Anderson, Carrick, Evra, some of my favourite players, is great. I see the bench, and feel that if Kagawa, Scholes and RvP all come on, the day could be absolutely perfect (got a 2/3 there!). Anyway the game starts, our left wing is just in front of us during the first half, so we get to see Evra and Giggs linking up, Giggs showing his class all through the half, his penalty, etc. I guess the game has been debriefed anyway, so I won’t go into it. I just really enjoyed finally seeing a game in the flesh, you pick up on so many things (Rooney’s workrate which is already pretty impressive on TV, Giggs’ technique), the movement of players, how Chicharito is always on the shoulder of a player… It probably wasn’t a classic game that will go down into history books, sure, but it was an enjoyable game to watch, got a few goals, some class moves and a great win.
Getting back into town was a nightmare, as expected, but we got there eventually. After a quick drink in a bar serving only cocktails with gay names (though I enjoyed sending my friend who’s built like a house to order me a “woo woo”) and some food, we set off to have a drink (or a few) in town. I’d asked for some advice on here so we walked towards Shudeshill, found a street with loads of bars, but came across a bit of a mishap: we were looking for cheap pubs and a football crowd, but this was people dressed to go out, girls wearing mini extra short skirts and bouncers telling us to feck off (a group of 4 lads with no girls dressed like plebs and wearing trainers, no chance!). We carried on wandering around, found this bar next to Café Rouge where they weren’t too annoyed by us, got some drinks and started talking to an old-ish couple who gave us some advice on other pubs to go to. Got refused again at the entrance of some place called “Revolution” and managed to get into one of the saddest places ever, a pub called Mulligan’s, I think, where they let in everyone (the old couple hadn’t lied about that!).
Anyway we spent a few hours in there, had a real good laugh and a few drinks, but were starting to get really tired by 2am and decided to head back to the airport. Our flight boarded at 5.30am so the plan was always to try to get a couple of hours of sleep before flying back. After an expensive cab ride at about 200 miles per hour, we got to the airport and my friends fell asleep straight away. I’m a bit of a pussy like that, and can’t sleep in a fecking uncomfortable chair so I just wandered around the airport. It was boring. Finally at 5am, the lads wake up, we go towards our check in, get through customs (but not before a thorough search, just felt lucky to avoid a cavity search by the time it was over) and buy a couple of magazines. In the little shop, the guy sees my friend’s Utd scarf and tells us we’re 10 minutes late: Robin van Persie had just been past 5 minutes earlier on his way to Amsterdam! Now I don’t know if the guy was fecking with us or if it was true (there was indeed a flight to Amsterdam just 15 minutes before ours, and I guess it’s not implausible that he went back to spend the day there or whatever), but I was pretty gutted. Imagine how perfect it would’ve been to top off a weekend like that with a quick hi to RvP!
Anyway, flight back to Paris, trip home and a day in a comatose state thinking about how awesome the last 24 hours had been: I’d finally had my dream come true, I’d finally been to Old Trafford to see United win a game!
Right, Friday afternoon, I go on the United website and check out tickets for the Fulham game. There’s still quite a few on sale, and some pretty well situated in the stadium. I live in Paris and it’s pretty complicated to get to Old Trafford to see a game: the weekend games are often sold out, and when they’re not, it’s often a bit of a last minute job. It’s hard to plan in advance, and with the plane tickets prices, ideally, booking in advance is necessary.
In any case, with tickets available, and my friends telling me a few weeks back they want to get me tickets for a game as an engagement/birthday present, I feel like it could be good fun. I contact my friends, ask them if they’re up for it, and on Friday at 4pm we book tickets and arrange for the flights. We go home and all have fights with our girlfriends who aren’t happy to find out the plans we’ve made for the weekend are cancelled cos of our trip to Old Trafford
(but it’s worth it!)We meet Saturday morning, get a cab to the airport and fly over. First cultural stop in Manchester is very important: Burger King at Picadilly. A few fellow United fans sporting the Green and Gold scarves or United tops are in there too, and we’re starting to get into the feel of things. We get on the tram to Old Trafford, walk to the ground (we wanted to go into the Bishop Blaize for a drink, but we didn’t spot it, must’ve missed it), retrieve our tickets and take the compulsory tourist pictures. We have a couple of Singhas when we get in and then go to our seats.
Walking into Old Trafford, coming out of the little tunnel and seeing the pitch, the Stretford end to my right, the manager’s box across the field, was a very powerful moment for me. I’ve been supporting the team for about 15 years and have always dreamed to get to OT for a game, it was truly a dream come true.
The stadium slowly fills up, we see the players warming up, RvP and Ferdinand tekkers, De Gea’s pinpoint kicking, and are excited by the lineup. Sure SAF and Evra had been going on about how important the Cup is this year, but you never know. Seeing Giggs in the starting XI, as well as Rooney, Anderson, Carrick, Evra, some of my favourite players, is great. I see the bench, and feel that if Kagawa, Scholes and RvP all come on, the day could be absolutely perfect (got a 2/3 there!). Anyway the game starts, our left wing is just in front of us during the first half, so we get to see Evra and Giggs linking up, Giggs showing his class all through the half, his penalty, etc. I guess the game has been debriefed anyway, so I won’t go into it. I just really enjoyed finally seeing a game in the flesh, you pick up on so many things (Rooney’s workrate which is already pretty impressive on TV, Giggs’ technique), the movement of players, how Chicharito is always on the shoulder of a player… It probably wasn’t a classic game that will go down into history books, sure, but it was an enjoyable game to watch, got a few goals, some class moves and a great win.
Getting back into town was a nightmare, as expected, but we got there eventually. After a quick drink in a bar serving only cocktails with gay names (though I enjoyed sending my friend who’s built like a house to order me a “woo woo”) and some food, we set off to have a drink (or a few) in town. I’d asked for some advice on here so we walked towards Shudeshill, found a street with loads of bars, but came across a bit of a mishap: we were looking for cheap pubs and a football crowd, but this was people dressed to go out, girls wearing mini extra short skirts and bouncers telling us to feck off (a group of 4 lads with no girls dressed like plebs and wearing trainers, no chance!). We carried on wandering around, found this bar next to Café Rouge where they weren’t too annoyed by us, got some drinks and started talking to an old-ish couple who gave us some advice on other pubs to go to. Got refused again at the entrance of some place called “Revolution” and managed to get into one of the saddest places ever, a pub called Mulligan’s, I think, where they let in everyone (the old couple hadn’t lied about that!).
Anyway we spent a few hours in there, had a real good laugh and a few drinks, but were starting to get really tired by 2am and decided to head back to the airport. Our flight boarded at 5.30am so the plan was always to try to get a couple of hours of sleep before flying back. After an expensive cab ride at about 200 miles per hour, we got to the airport and my friends fell asleep straight away. I’m a bit of a pussy like that, and can’t sleep in a fecking uncomfortable chair so I just wandered around the airport. It was boring. Finally at 5am, the lads wake up, we go towards our check in, get through customs (but not before a thorough search, just felt lucky to avoid a cavity search by the time it was over) and buy a couple of magazines. In the little shop, the guy sees my friend’s Utd scarf and tells us we’re 10 minutes late: Robin van Persie had just been past 5 minutes earlier on his way to Amsterdam! Now I don’t know if the guy was fecking with us or if it was true (there was indeed a flight to Amsterdam just 15 minutes before ours, and I guess it’s not implausible that he went back to spend the day there or whatever), but I was pretty gutted. Imagine how perfect it would’ve been to top off a weekend like that with a quick hi to RvP!
Anyway, flight back to Paris, trip home and a day in a comatose state thinking about how awesome the last 24 hours had been: I’d finally had my dream come true, I’d finally been to Old Trafford to see United win a game!
Nice post RIP (shame about the acronym). Glad you enjoyed it mate.
Good Stuff Rooney In Paris.