Aug 26
Reds vs Spurs: 26 Aug, 2007 4pm BST
Watch this space for updates as we get match news.
Update: Nani scores. A scrappy win. But was it a pleasant sight! Anyway, still plenty of cracks to paper over. All in the report tomorrow. Sorry for not updating as promised, but I will get out a decent enough match report to make up for it.
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hay,why did you delete my comment.
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Hey lets our passions take place, am still believe we will back in the system and this will start today
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Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Heaton, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, O’Shea, Evra, Silvestre, Fletcher, Eagles, Carrick, Scholes, Hargreaves, Nani, Anderson, Giggs, Saha, Tevez
the squad, i reckon silvestre left-babk and evra left-mid, nani right mid, and its a tossup for centre mid, it will be hargreaves/carrick against anderson/carrick/scholes. upfront tevez, or anderson and tevez.
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is berbatov definately gonna play because from what ive read he is still struggling with a groin injury?
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right now its 50/50 chance.
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Henize the wanker at it again
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11667_2686535,00.html
i cant wait for a united madrid match.
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Link to the full interview:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/sport/sport2.shtml
I like the way he wanted to be the top paid player at the club on the back of being out injured for a year. Delusions of grandeur I think.
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a crap player wanting to be the highest paid, rooney ronaldo nani giggs saha vidi hargreaves ferdinand neville carrick anderson, heck fletcher!! there all better than him but he has to be paid the most.
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so when are we getting updates.
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dan
The Heinze comments shouldn’t surprise you because they are true. Say what you want about his betrayal but it is a fact that SAF was very upset with him over the decision to play in last year’s World Cup. Unfortunately Fergie does have a bug up his ass about all his players on international duty. If it was up to him, the World Cup would be an amateur affair leaving professionals to dedicate themselves 100% to their clubs without these distractions for their countries. Perhaps Fergie is bitter over the fact he was not a regular selection for Scotland but the more realistic truth is he is tired of his plans for the club getting screwed over because of player injuries brought on or worsened by their participation. Also, his feeling is that you don’t slap the ones who feed you. It’s a selfish but understandable stance. Heinze was forever in his bad book over that decision. Gabby was a great player and good servant for this club and personally I will miss his contribution. That doesn’t make his latest betrayal forgivable though. He along with Liverpool were wrong but can you hold it against a player who knows he is a first teamer to want to ensure his future with a club that would offer him that. The ironic thing is that had he gone to LiverFool, he would have fallen right smack into the Rafa Rotation Machine and thus, he would have spent just as much time on the bench. This was a mess that could and should have been averted simply by Fergie having sat down with the player over a year ago and having a heart to heart. Instead the gaffer holds his anger inside and then punishes Heinze for the season until Evra is hurt. That’s not putting the team ahead of personal grudges. Fergie is does not come out squeaky clean in this mess. Beckham, van Nistelrooy, Keane, Stam etc, the list goes on of great servants to the club getting the boot because they had the audacity to challenge the Fuehrer. Don’t get me wrong, I love and deeply respect SAF and what he has done for United, but he is not perfect and occasionally his pride and stubbornness causes friction with certain players and eventually opens the door to their departure for friendlier pastures. The old boot tosser hasn’t mellowed a bit in my opinion, he can still be nasty with players as well as former coaches and rivals. I personally think his views and hard feelings for Sven Goran Erickson are a bit unjustified. The man had a lot of pressure on him and a nation snapping at his heals. Of course he was going to select Rooney for the WC if the doctors said ok. Get over it and move on. And Dan, the football pitch is not the ring for World Wrestling. You may have a grudge against Heinze but football isn’t a sport for barbarians to go out and get justice by physically hurting a player. I know that is what you meant because beating a Madrid side with Heinze on it is shallow revenge in my books. Although playing a Madrid side with RVN, Heinze and Becks would have been interesting. Well that won’t happen now since the fashion plate moved his runway to LA. Everybody should just relax on Heinze and get over it. Wish him well. Remember, it wasn’t long ago that he was beloved. It’s not like he stole our women now is it?
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grognard no, your talking crap now, its SAF choice to pick who wants to play at left-back, and hes won more titles than anybody else so i think knows what he’s doing, unlike ruud david and keano, they didnt go to our rivals, and they didnt say they would love to beat united, at a matter of fact, there all still good friends with SAF, heinze on the other hand is a downhill player demanding 1st team football which isnt on., i stoped reading after you said they all got the boot. im sorry, but what you said is crap.
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JB
I have news for you my friend. I don’t know of too many millionaire athletes in todays sport that don’t suffer from delusions of grandeur. The pay scale of professional sports as well as the media’s attention and that of the fans has caused this problem, and then we expect these guys to act like humble paupers in order make us feel better about them and ourselves. Nothing wrong with a bloke trying to get as much as he can. There were plenty of players getting a lot more for a lot less worth on the pitch. Yes he was injured, but he was injured playing the role of a warrior on the pitch for United. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not defending Heinze fully but I quite often feel that we the fans lose a little perspective over the realities of pro sports. Do we complain if a major corporation gives a raise to one of their deadbeat CEO’S, or when bloody actors get millions for a movie? Not really. Yet we get a bug up our ass when an athlete expresses his right to ask for money in a free market system. Nobody would say shit if United had paid him and he was still on the club. It’s the fact that he betrayed us over his demand to move to LiverFool that has us questioning his ethics, his greed, his selfishness and for all I know, his manhood. Hell most of us would wake up early to attend his town hall beheading. I wonder if we will treat Ronaldo or Rooney this poorly when the day comes that they have outlived their usefullness in Fergie’s eyes. I doubt they will go quietly in to the night because these things don’t usually end well. Just ask Becks, Keano, Stammer and RVN. Ego’s and feeling get bruised and things are said. Then again SAF probably won’t be around then. But still, lets not transfer our envy and YES, jealousy onto a player for taking advantage of a system that has been broken for a long time. These players were all just like you and I before the system got them. To say we would never do that is to not relate to the changes in their lifestyle and the pressures that come with that. Lets not forget that Heinze had a major part in convincing his good friend Carlos Tevez to come to OT. He must of thought well of the club to do that. Can we all just forget about Gabby Heinze and move on. PLEASE!!!!
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Grognard, I had this argument with you in another comment. I provided a breakdown of playing time of Heinze when he and Evra were available from approximately October to February and the playing time of the two was comparable. So the comment in the interview that Gaby thought he would be frozen out is complete garbage as is the assessment that Fergie was punishing. It was Heinze’s own recklessness in rushing his return from injury that compromised him last season not SAF. He even suggested in the interview that he viewed recovery for the World Cup as the opportunity to score points against his club manager, utterly unprofessional. Seeing the various media articles this weekend makes me think that what has happened his that his agents wanted a last big payday so it was either a big salary increase at Utd or move on for the signing on fee. Gaby didn’t want to move to a different country, wasn’t getting a big salary hike, so what was left – that’s right a move to Liverpool.
Found it – Heinze returned from International duty and was diagnosed with degeneration in muscles around his knee due to a premature/rushed return for his International team. The first time he was available was away to Reading. Between that game and Liverpool away where Evra was injured Heinze played; 5 out of 6 CL, 2 out of 2 League Cup, 2 out of 4 FA Cup and 13 out of 24 league games. Even with the fact a few of those appearances were as sub we can see he had a comparable amount of playing time to Evra when both were available. He played against Benfica, Arsenal, Celtic and Chelsea in that time, only absent against (ironically) Liverpool of the big teams.
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Sorry just seen your last post there. I am not questioning the right of anybody to get as much as they can. However he provided ONE year of good service and expected his salary to be doubled and put on a par with Rio, Rooney and Ronaldo despite the fact his value in terms of on the pitch contributions and commercial worth was nowhere near the aforementioned three. Sounds delusional to me.
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No saha no anderson, same squad retained.
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No dan I’m not wrong. Most of what I was talking about was before Gabby’s decision to betray the team. For the betrayal I won’t forgive him either. That doesn’t mean I wish him ill. Keane and Beckham have patched up their differences with SAF and have a great deal of respect for him but they both came out and said how hurt they were by his actions. Nonetheless, RVN from what I have heard has not buried the hatchet and is still running his mouth in Madrid about SAF treatment and what he considers to be a betrayal of him. Ferguson is the man who chooses who plays but it should be based on performance level not because he’s holding a grudge. Heinze wouldn’t have played at all last season had Evra not been hurt. Where I come from there is an unwritten law that says that no player will lose his starting spot because of an injury. When they are well again, they will get it back. When Heinze got injured he was considered one of the top two or three left backs in the world. Evra wasn’t even on the map. His snub of SAF orders to not go to the WC and not his injury were the reason he never got his position back. That is a personal grudge and not a decision made for the betterment of the club. SAF is God and who am I to question the man who has done so much for the club? All I’m saying is that Heinze should never have lost his job outright over his World Cup decision. Perhaps he should have been punished for choosing his international career over the directives of his club, but I don’t think he deserved permanent banishment to the bench. And his play would not have suffered if it were not for his rustiness. SAF has made hundreds if not thousands of great and correct decisions during his tenure. However, lets not make him out to be perfect. We have all seen that the man has made mistakes along the way to. His treatment of Heinze is one of them. Heinze’s actions afterwards are another story entirely and one where I take the side of the club. I’m just saying that this all could have been prevented had SAF lived by that unwritten law that I mentioned. For example, say this week United purchase the contract of Berbatov and he starts next week. Say after three weeks he has scored seven goals and Tevez has scored five. Would you like it and how would Rooney like it if he were benched because these players were scoring so well that he was forced to sit. He’s a team player and for a while he would suck it up and tolerate the situation, but for how long? Or say SAF is still angry at Ronaldo for the red card. And his inclusion of Anderson makes the team score at a prolific rate therefore, he is benched. Now I know those are far fetched examples but my point is simple. You don’t slap your first team players in the face when they get injured or if they are suspended for nothing. Heinze’s reaction to his banishment was wrong but understandable. The man is first team for the great Argentina and a middle of the road Frenchman has taken his job. I was pissed off for months over this and I couldn’t understand why Gabby was taking it. Well, I feel the Copa and his overall performance there woke him up to the reality that he is finally fully fit and healthy as well, he needed to find employment elsewhere. Liverpool’s tampering with the player is something I will never understand, but they must have done one hell of a brainwashing job to convince him this specific move was in his best interest. This turned out to be a battle of huge ego’s and SAF won with a TKO.
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Our bench is a fuckin embarrasent!we need a striker.dong?
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WTF happened to anderson and saha?
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Saha is apparently another week away, SAF didn’t want to risk him. Didn’t catch anything on Anderson, possibly his hamstring is still giving him grief.
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y do i feel…SAF wants to prove a point…picking up the same team…stubborn of him! seeing the game the way it is …no surprise to see a 1-0 win or a 0-0 draw….damn u SAF for lack of variety…
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i cant see where the goal is going to come we are lacking killer instinct in the final 3rd
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my question is why isnt hargreaves playing the long ball.
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the build up play is good tho
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giggs lost in the bewilderness….worst patch of form ever…
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Another fucking draw on its way
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Wat the fuck!
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Nani!!!!!!!!!!!!
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wat a hit by nani!
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we better not concede now! come on united!!!
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Oh my god!
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Yes,yes yeeeess!!
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1-0 get in!
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we needed this not the greatest performance but oh my what a goal! 3 points and we are out of the relegation zone! hehehe
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Yes!!! It’s about time. There are a few of us over here in the USA excited about our 1st win. YES!!!
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Seriously, I am relieved but I need to cool down before I comment any further. I’m so frustrated by this team.
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Talk about dodging a bullet, far to close for comfort. Easily our worst performance yet our first win, it’s a funny old world! Still scrape a win against Sunderland, get Ronaldo and Saha back and then we can get going!
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rooney could be back in no time, he is jogging in training so it is all looking good for united!
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Ronaldo should be back next match yes?
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But still something is missing.do u guys see it?or am a talking shit
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What were the sky mouthers and jol going on about? Brown clearly chested the ball. Biased scum.
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Frustrating to watch but it’s a win. Hopefully things start to get better. Is Ronaldo back for the match against sunderland?
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The replays look pretty inconclusive on the handball but I can certainly appreciate why Sky and Jol thought it was a penalty. SAF said Brown told him it only touched his side but as I said, hard to tell one way or another. Jol is right in that Spurs should have got something; they certainly deserved at least a draw.
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No, Ronaldo’ll be back the match after next, its 3 games so ManC, Spurs, and Sunderland if i got that right
yes i saw something missing, a player to take up the giggs slot. giggs was as usual at his worst today. esp the last few mins where eagles was in a brilliant position, but giggs delayed and delayed and when he finally wanted to pass, it was intercepted. WTF?!
okay, hopefully this is the game to get united going for the next couple of games if not the rest of the season. hope to see saha and anderson sooner than later.
and btw, i was secretly excited when giggs took a knock on his hamstring. heh!
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Clear chest. Straight on angle for replay. Its sympathy for spurs behind the retina thats peepin through. Go see that again.
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ah ok after the next match then Ronaldo comes back in. Rooney should be fit also, so it’s back towards the front in points we go.
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Yep giggs is clearly clearly clearly playing bad i dont give a shit wat kind of a legend he is.he is killing us now.he was a great player but its over and thats the truth he needs be left on the bench.
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didn’t Giggs take a knee to the ass or was that someone else?
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I’d expect Giggs form to pick up in the near future; he does have a contract to renegotiate. Me a cynic, never! His knock looked to be at the top of the thigh. As for the penalty I hardly think you can say it ‘clearly’ hit the chest, the replays were inconclusive.
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ok missed the game coz fucking frnds bday treat
Anyways mutv 2mmorow replay for sure
Read the bbc match report looks like it was quite an open game can some1 give me a goal link if u can find any
at the moment i dont see1 any where
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Highlights:
1st Half
2nd Half
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