May 20
Scholes Article. Rio Ferdinand. Rooney Video
One more day before the lads march onto the Luzhniki stadium. Strangely I am not yet all that excited. Well, I am, but I’m not crapping my pants as much as I did prior to the second leg semi against Barcelona.
It is our biggest night since ’99, I know. But, perhaps, the moment and the magnitude of the occasion might get to me tomorrow? Maybe it’s because we’ve already won the league? I don’t know. But I find myself surprisingly calm.
Moving to articles and news stories of interest, today, in transfer news, there is this report that Miguel Veloso might be interested in making a move to England. There isn’t mention of any club, but you can bet on other tabloids picking this up and reporting it as Manchester United making a move for Veloso. I think we have a surfeit of central midfielders and I can’t see why we would want another.
There is a good article in the Guardian on Rio Ferdinand, and how he’s managed to turn fan opinion favourably towards him after being barracked in the past. It would be truly deserving of Rio when he leads the side into the stadium. (If Giggs is benched, that is.) At the risk of jinxing him, his defending this season has been almost flawless and the captaincy, both for England and United has seen him mature — I will stop here because I have written a lot on Rio this season, already.
Meanwhile Kevin McCarra has set about with his words of praise for the Ginger Prince and is definitely a good read, even though we know almost everything that’s written on there.
There is an interesting case made in Times Online on the Glazers being the ‘least hated’ of the foreign owners in the Big Four. There are few interesting anecdotes like the one on the Glazers still coming to Manchester with bodyguards, and on their predicament after United sealed the title at Wigan.
And there’s this Nike video titled “What Rooney Knows” where El Blanco Pele talks about his strengths, aspects of football training, work on improving his attributes like heading, and his left foot and so forth. Do watch it.
I will get the match preview later in the day.
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- Moscow, we’re going to Moscow!
Tags: Manchester United News
Craig Mc (195)
RedDevilEddy (170)
Opti (135)
Moscow is my heaven (96)
Ian (95)
Craig mc -
How about -
He’s black, he’s white,
he’s a michael Jackson lookalike
thats Nani, thats Nani
Haha quite like that you know! I think it could catch on….
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Ryan – hahaha – that’s good mate!. Do they sing that at OT then, cos I haven’t heard them chant for Little man Nani very much, although he has had a fairly good season. And although he had that sending off because of idiocy, he has still done good the rest of the time. There may be some United fans who will relish and delight if Fergie leaves him out, but I am not one of them!. I know the lad has never faced anything as big as United before, and I think he is just so desperate to come good!. I hope he does come good Ryan – so keep those songs coming mate!.
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Nah I just made it up. Never heard a Nani song or even a Carrick song for that matter.
I like Nani alot, and over the next few years I think he will develop into a top top player and will be recognised by the fans alot more. Lets be honest he is gonna be the one to take over from Ronaldo when the genius eventually leaves us so he needs all the love and support we can give him!
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Ryan, couldn’t agree more mate!. I know Colver and Fred the Red like Nani, but I am not sure who else is a Nani fan on this blog. Bet there are a few though lol!.
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I’m a Nani fan. But I am aware he has weaknesses as well as strengths and is far from the finished article. However unlike Giggs and Park he can run at defenders and his crossing and corner taking is really good.
Having said that my Moscow team has Park starting as he is a safer bet, more consistent, has big game experience etc. If we go behind Id be happy to throw Nani on to shake things up a little.
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Awww – Colver, you’d have Park before Nani???. Shame mate!. Not that I dislike little Parky by the way, but I prefer Nani before him. I respect your choice though Colver. I actually think Nani can do more damage though with crosses into the box than Park. Yet I agree that Park does run his arse off in the teams cause. Difficult choice for Fergie, but I just hope Nani makes the 18 or I will be shit upset – haha!.
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I think we will go with the usual back five….
VDS
BROWN, FERDINAND, VIDIC, EVRA.
HARGREAVES, CARRICK, SCHOLES, RONALDO
ROONEY, TEVEZ
Midfield I think will flow from a 4 to a 5, with rooney dropping to the wing when defending, making it a tough tackling three in the middle. HARGO has a brilliant crossing ability going forward, and can drop into the middle when we have to defend. TEVEZ will hassle EVERYONE at all opportunities. ROONEY has had some success in Europe playing wide, and RONALDO can pretty much play any forward position.
KUSZCZAK
O’SHEA
ANDERSON
FLETCHER
GIGGS
NANI
SAHA
will be the bench…
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In case you are interested, here are the pics of Man Utd in Moscow courtesy of Getty Images.
Pics of team getting onto the plane:
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=81128168#1
Pics of team training – I can’t see Saha. Anyone spot him? He did get onto the plane…
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=1&language=en-US&family=editorial&p=Manchester%20moscow%20training&src=standard#
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There’d be a Carrick song if anything rhymed with Carrick. He’s amazing, he’s been one of our best players since Christmas.
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I’m to sick to do anything. The anxiety is killing me. I just wish it would come and be over with. The closer it comes to kickoff the more Chelsea looks like the Antichrist to me. I just hope good prevails and that the team who represents all that is good in the game wins.
Prediction; I want to say 1-0 United (Ronaldo Penalty) but I have a feeling Essien is going to break our hearts tomorrow. Sorry for the pessimism. I’ll make it up to all if we win the game. Keep your fingers crossed. Chelsea is evil and they do have the evil Drogba up front and Bela Lugosi calling all the shots from the bench. God they are EVIL!!!!!
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RR was right, yesterday even I was calm and coool, on game day its all nerves and anxiety! Perhaps a bit of a dampener to the excitement was that we are facing chelshit for gods sake… those brutish defenders from hell who play anti-football. My mates who are chelshit fans were winding me up yesterday saying a Lampard penalty and a Ballack header will sink United. Even their fans can’t come up with a joga bonito way of winning the game! Headers, penalties and 6feet tall gorillas…thats all there is to their game!
I think Fergie will surprise us as he so often has over this season. The formation that I would go with will be a 4-3-3 which can switch to a 4-5-1 quickly.
*Park and Ronaldo on the wings and coming in to support Rooney.
*Midfield of Hargo, Scholes and Carrick, with Hargo being the midfield general. A lot of the Chelsea attacks will need to be broken up by him.
VivA UnITed!
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Today I am feeling nervous as a man waitin for his vasectomi! I hope that is an expression, cause I didnt come up with anything right now. But hopefully United will win. We stand beneeth Heaven and hell lads. I for one will be dissapointed and pissed off this whole summer if welose, but I will be really joyful and happy if we win. I go for a 3-0 win to United. Some people may think it is to much, but something tells me that it will be such a big win.
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Saha didn’t take part in training. Probably broke a fingernail on board the plane!!!
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fergie is gonna tinker to cop up with their physical strenth in midfield
—————vds———
–brown—-rio—-vidic—-evra
hargo–andy–carrick–scholes–rooney
————–Ronaldo—————
bring on tevez and nani if we are chasing/draw else bring on fletcher and giggs
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well well, here we are, us and the cash mercenaries head to head for the european cup. This game will be bossed from midfield, this is where i wonder will sentimentality fuck us up? imagine a second yellow card for Scholes for taking out lampsoft, oh the nightmare! Got to stay positive! i’m a Nani fan, i think the young lad will be awesome in a year or 2. what he offers on the left wing is exactly what united need, penitration and supply, as he gains more confidence he’ll cut inside more. So my dream midfield would be Nani, Scholes/Carrick, Hargo, Ronaldo, with Teves, Rooney up front. If its a 3 man mid then Scholes, Carrick, Hargo, with Rooney Teves and Ronaldo mixing it up front. Oh i’m very nervous now! fuck! We need a huge game from Owen Hargreaves tonight, and i’m sure we’ll get one! i’ve full confidence in our defence, the best defence in Europe, and remember we attack from defence, Evra and Brown on the overlap helping our attack. i forsee a very tight game with United winning 3-1 with a late goal from Rooney to seal it. we’re gonna fuckin have these cunts, come on you reds! Follow follow, we’re the Busby Boys, and we all follow UNITED
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were gonna do it lads. Cant fuckin wait for this celebration….positive thoughts only lads.
Good luck
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a post from the past, a comment from the future, or is that present
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