Nov 24
Jonny Evans: on Manchester United, Northern Ireland, Ferguson…
The BBC have a wonderful little feature on Jonny Evans. [video link here] If you haven’t watched it I suggest you do.
Evans talks about his family’s move to Manchester from Belfast, his relationship with the manager and his team mates. There is some high praise from the likes of Giggs and Solskjaer. Giggs, says how “we’ve hardly missed” our first choice centre backs whenever he’s slotted into the side in the absence of either Ferdinand or Vidic.
But more than that, it presents us a small window in to the player, the man — he looks every bit the part of a United player. Yet, he looks to shun the flash lifestyle associated with footballers these days. There are signs that he’s obviously surrounded by a good circle of people to guide him through that.
I know a lot of footballers these days say the same old stuff in interviews, but there seems to be an air of sincerity about Evans that isn’t there in say, Rio perhaps [no disrespect to him.] He also seems in awe of the club and that he feels genuinely privileged to play for the club. Now that’s the sort of thing that would leave a lump in the throat in these cynical times.
Other reads worth your while:
RoM, on replacing Ronaldo’s goals
In case you missed it, and since there isn’t much to be talking about right now, try the Soccerlens podcast.
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- NI Milk Cup 2011 – Fixtures & Dates
- Will A Temporary Move Away From Manchester United Restore Jonny Evans’ Confidence?
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@Grognard: Thats the problem isn’t it GROGY… The only thing that I am pointing out since yesterday was that we have that weird biased towards Barca even though we are SO CALLED Man UTD fan. I mean when I pointed out that Ref messed it other wise we would have rather I say we should have won that game. But, then you had problem with that as you said we were poor and all that things but, when someone point out that this SO CALLED best team in the world reached final just on the basis of not one, two three but 4 wrong decision then you seem to be ok with that and you just deflect the point towards soem thing else.
I mean the Fact remain that and it will forever that Referee ROBBED CHELSEA TO ALLOW PASSAGE FOR BARCA TO THE FINAL. And the CL trophy that they have won against the below par Man UTD performance has not 1,2 but 4 dents on it…. They definitely didn’t deserve it no matter what all the Barca Obsessed fan here feel….
We got what we deserved I agree we were shit on that day but Barca definitely did not get What they DESERVED AS WELL THAT IS EXIT FROM CL AT SEMI FINAL STAGE. And No one and I repeat no one can deny that…
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@Onkar: *The only thing that I am pointing out since yesterday was that we have that weird biased towards Barca even though we are SO CALLED Man UTD fan. I mean when I pointed out that Ref messed it other wise we would have rather I say we should have won that game.
Regd CHELSEA GAME
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@Onkar: You are missing my point though mate. I don’t give a rat’s ass about Barca. I don’t care if they got in thanks to a terrible ref or that Chelsea got screwed. In fact, I’m glad Chelsea got screwed. My point is that we throw excuses around like I use toilet paper (I use a lot). As Barca is not the team we all support as our number #1 team, then what they do or how they do it does not concern me. But when we point a finger at them and make excuses for how they got to the final, all we are really doing is making an even bigger excuse for ourselves or making United look the worser of the two because they lost badly to that sad bunch of Spaniards who didn’t deserve to be in the final. Hell, we had our lucky breaks along the way and we didn’t play well against Porto but got through. Moral to my story is never insult a team that beats you soundly as it just paints a bad light on the team you support.
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Good article, are you seling links from your website? I’m interested…
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