Manchester United vs. Southampton

Good so far: Rooney, Welbeck, Kagawa.
Poor so far: Anderson, the pitch.

If I was Fergie I'd just take the bold move and swap Ando out for Cleverley immediately. He's been our only consistently bad player, but he's fecking up half the moves that go through him at the moment, and that might be the difference between us turning this into a comfortable win or enduring a torrid second half.

Smalling needs to stop trying long balls.
Everyone needs to take a few deep breaths, and stick to the simple pass for a bit.
 
It's easily understood, but it's still a silly a way of putting it, at least to an American ear. Most listeners easily comprehend that if Hernandez has scored two goals, he's one goal away from a hat trick. You don't need to say that Hernandez "is on a hat trick" unless you want to fill up time in the broadcast or just to get in the words "hat trick", which everyone loves to say.

Yeah, an English term coined by the English in England about an English game being played in England is silly because it sounds odd to the American ear.
 
Chelsea score.. Mata again
Boo

Cheers for the spoiler mate.

Also, some people on here continue to embarass themselves. Amazes me that there's people blaming De Gea for that goal. If Carrick doesn't make a ridiculous pass like he did then we're never in that position. De Gea either stays on his line and allows the player to have a free chance on goal, or we charges out and more than likely finds himself in massive danger because Carrick has put the ball nowhere near him, almost lose/lose for De Gea. Could of managed to get something on it, but more often than not that's simply a nightmare pass that puts any team in massive trouble. Carrick to blame, nobody else. He made a mistake, it happens.

Kagawa has been brilliant.
 
Rooney is on form today. If only Nani returns to his form before Madrid.
 
Some of Kagawa's play has been sublime, I expect a goal from him and RVP next half.
 
All those looking for a stream: the very first one on the usual website works like a charm. It's in Russian but that's gotta be better than McManaman. Picture quality is also high.
 
Our attacking play has been good but our defense has been all over the place today. We really could do with a goal or two. I'd bring Nani and Cleverley on.
 
It's easily understood, but it's still a silly a way of putting it, at least to an American ear.

Hahaha take a bit of initiative and indulge that it is british culture to coin terms such as this.

It comes from cricket. It's not alien to me 'he's on a hat-trick' has been said be me more times in my life from anything else. Just got to deal with it. It's not a stupid statement, if anything a 'hat trick' is a stupid term. What does that even have to do with 3? Apart from a 3 hat trick.
 
All those looking for a stream: the very first one on the usual website works like a charm. It's in Russian but that's gotta be better than McManaman. Picture quality is also high.

Cutting your penis off with a rusty bread knife would be better than listening to McManaman.
 
The lengths people go on this forum to defend DDG is laughable.

He was equally to blame as Carrick. Pathetic.

Ole Carrick to blame for that he hit a short pass back DDG thought he was going to get the ball flicked over him and jumped with his hands down. Have had to listen to that goat Gary Birtles slag DDG the whole first half.
 
Kagawa aside, we were absolutely woeful that half. Probably the worst we've played all season, at least at home anyways. Anderson may as well have been playing for them. I fancy Southampton to nick another as our defence looks ropey as feck.

And that first goal was an absolute balls up from both Carrick and De Gea. God knows what either was thinking.
 
There better be some amazing camera angle that justifies Carrick's decision to put his keeper in that kind of peril. Otherwise, it's all on Carrick. You fukkin roll the ball, not lob the ball, back to the keeper. Or you just boot into orbit.

But no, it will do go down as another De Gea "mistake". Bet your gonads on it.
 
Ole Carrick to blame for that he hit a short pass back DDG thought he was going to get the ball flicked over him and jumped with his hands down. Have had to listen to that goat Gary Birtles slag DDG the whole first half.

Birtles? feck me, who's he to criticise anyone?
 
Good so far: Rooney, Welbeck, Kagawa.
Poor so far: Anderson, the pitch.

If I was Fergie I'd just take the bold move and swap Ando out for Cleverley immediately. He's been our only consistently bad player, but he's fecking up half the moves that go through him at the moment, and that might be the difference between us turning this into a comfortable win or enduring a torrid second half.

Smalling needs to stop trying long balls.
Everyone needs to take a few deep breaths, and stick to the simple pass for a bit.

I agree but we know Fergie and his favourite sub time of 65-75 minutes. He likes to give players a bit of time to react to his team talk and at 2-1 getting as many minutes under Anderson's belt as possible is important.
 
Kagawa aside, we were absolutely woeful that half. Probably the worst we've played all season, at least at home anyways. Anderson may as well have been playing for them. I fancy Southampton to nick another as our defence looks ropey as feck.

And that first goal was an absolute balls up from both Carrick and De Gea. God knows what either was thinking.

Remember us having far worse performances than that at the start of the season. Can't think back to particular ones mind, but they were definitely some of the worst in recent years from memory.
 
The lengths people go on this forum to defend DDG is laughable.

He was equally to blame as Carrick. Pathetic.

Well, not equally. That backpass was horrible, De Gea basically had to manage a crisis. He seemed to be unable to actually make a decision about what he should do so ended up doing nothing...

... which is still better than a wild lunge taking out the striker, resulting in a penalty and a red card. But I think that ball could have been cleared cleanly if he had shown a little more determination.
 
Hahaha take a bit of initiative and indulge that it is british culture to coin terms such as this.

It comes from cricket. It's not alien to me 'he's on a hat-trick' has been said be me more times in my life from anything else. Just got to deal with it. It's not a stupid statement, if anything a 'hat trick' is a stupid term. What does that even have to do with 3? Apart from a 3 hat trick.

It came from cricket. A bowler took 3 wickets in a row, and a collection was held for him, as was done at the time with sporting achievements. With the proceeds he was bought a cap, or hat, to commemorate his achievement. The hat trick was born. I've heard another variation, but apparently this is the factual one.