May 11
Wigan 0-2 Man Utd: CHAMPIONEEES!
Wow! Could you script a better ending?
Ronaldo, our top scorer, scores.
Ryan Giggs, our most decorated and capped player, scores.
And Bolton snatch a late equaliser to consign Chelsea firmly in second place.
Football, bloody hell!
Rants, raving and everything else later. Over to you lads…
Update: Also, Citeh get spanked 8-1 by Boro. The day gets better.
Update 2: Trophy Presentation video | Celebration video | BBC Interview with Queiroz | Rio and Rooney | MOTD video
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- Man Utd v Wigan
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Opti (541)
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Craig Mc (348)
Moscow is my heaven (272)
Thank god for Giggs, I think I would have had a heart attack if it had stayed at 1-0 for much longer!
And RR don’t forget City took a MASSIVE beating 8-1
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BRILLIANT!!! We throughly deserve this!!!
Absolutely awesome for Giggsy to score…because as JB says, that final few minutes at the JJB would have been mayhem…
And now, for Moscow
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STAND UP FOR THE CHAMPIONS
Hey Grant you said you want play-off …yeah right…
fuck off bastard
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YESSSSS
glory glory man utd
glory glory man utd
glory glory man utd
and the reds go marching on
we love you fergie we do
we love you fergie we do
we love you fergie we do,
and the reds go marching on
full steam to moscow, im not going to celebrate tooo much, but i honestly can not wait
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Glory-glory MAN UTD…hohoho CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!
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HELL YEAH!! Now Chelsea scum can shut up, they didnt even finish on same points
GLORY GLORY MAN UTD
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Championeeeees Championeeeeees Ole Ole Ole,
Championeeeees Championeeeeees Ole Ole Ole!
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GREAT DAY….Lets focus now on Moscow!
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Finally! We are the Champions! With a 2-point lead at the top to boot…thanks to old Giggsy and Ron (and Bolton.)
Now we can rub it in Chelski’s and Abramovich’s face in Moscow!
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As JB rightly pointed out, how could you miss the hammering shitteh got?
Plus that irrepressible cunt JT is out of the moscow match
As perfect a day as could be….
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BTW could you post any links of the celebration or trophy presentation?
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http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/05/11/united_were_lucky_today_but_de.html
United may have come through, but not without some help on the day. Wigan should have had a penalty after 21 minutes with the score still 0-0. Jason Koumas’s goal-bound shot hit Rio Ferdinand high on an arm as he was moving towards the ball to make a block. Inevitably enough, United were awarded a penalty of their own 12 minutes later. This time it was a good decision as Emerson Boyce made a clumsy attempt at a blocking tackle on Wayne Rooney. By contast, Steve Bennett’s decision, three minutes later, not to give Paul Scholes a second yellow card for pulling back Wilson Palacios was scandalously lenient. A player of lesser standing would have been sent off: this alone makes Bennett’s ducking of the issue an acme of poor refereeing. We often hear you need a bit of luck to win the league. United got some today.
What a cunt. It hit his shoulder, and he conveniently forgets the no call on scholes by bramble. Do all journos in the UK love chavski?
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Haha we even had the ref on our side! I do not know if it had been different if Scholes had been sent off and we’d not been given the penalty, but I reckon we’d have won it anyway! Fair play to Wigan for putting up a decent fight. And hahah Chelsea couldn’t even beat Birmingham
One win away from two doubles in less than ten years!
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WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIEEEND
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YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Championeeeeeeeeees!!!
Glory glory Man united,
Glory glory Man united,
Glory glory Man united,
As the reds go marching UP UP UP!!!
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Just posted the celebrations video link.
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bit pedantic, but
Pos Team Pld W D L F A Diff Pts
1 Man. Utd. 38 27 6 5 80 22 58 87
2 Chelsea 38 25 10 3 65 26 39 85
take that you chelscum
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Anybody going out Celebrating in the South Shore area in Mass?
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!!!!!!!!! WE ARE CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYY!!!
the much maligned old guard did it for us… scholes got us into the final of the champs league… and now giggs seals the win for us….
10 days till another heart wrenching 90 mins and hopefully a another celebration!
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CHAMPIONNeeeSSSS!!!
MOtM: Ryan Giggs??
Hum It seems to me the celebration posts on the site have yet to reach rapturous proportions
I’d like a few friendship posts from Groggy to JB and vice versa in the heat of celebration!!!
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Giggs looked great. A perferct script. Moscow….
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Did anyone else notice no Gary Neville in sight?
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Not enough appearances for a medal?
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Don’t forget to renew your subscriptions to Sky and MUTV in time for next season
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I’m sure that Grognard will be happy that United didn’t win on goal difference, but on points…
TinManUnited: What are the rules for getting a medal? Did Saha get one? If anyone shouldn’t get one, it’s our glass-man.
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hey guys i dont know uk time , how many hours till the awards start?
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Even though Saha scored a few goals for us…
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neville was on the field during the celebrations.
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Glory Glory Man United
Glory Glory Man United
we are the champions
stand up for the champions
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Daelm, was he, I didn’t see him. ok.
Turkish. I heard the announcer mention Pique and PIG on nine league appearances so maybe thats it.
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Interesting TinManUnited, thanks for that info…
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Manchester United. BPL champions 2007-08.
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we were not lucky and the ref was not on our side, yes wigan should of had a penalty, but ours was a penalty, and in the second half we had 2 clear penalties gone the other way, all the neutrals need to get their heads out there arses and look at the match again, the ref was cunt to them AND us.
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It is amazing, although the win was not so easy. Giggs always made me disappointing but not this time. He scored the safe goal. Congradulation ManU! You are always the best.
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It’s still to hit me. We are the champions again. Good show lads, and kudos to Fergal and his wonderboys. They’re going to win it Moscow.
Anyone notice that the defense was pretty much non-existent in the air?
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those were the exact feelings i had RR we winning on points and not goal diff TAKE that U MOSAAD’s Failed AGENT
And CITEH getting Spanked was icing on the CAKE
If anyone can get a Match of the Day download link share it with us here
Cant hide the feeling been dancing for a while now
CHAMPIONEEES CHAMPIONEEES OLE OLE OLE
Bring on Moscow
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i think you need to make 10 appearances to get a medal but the team also gets two extra to award to two players
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F**C YEAH!!!! UNITED
Giggs with a goal and City getting ther balls choped of! on the day the reds go maeching on on on!
Its a good day to die!
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Today is a glorious day for me ! I’m over the moon !
I played my outdoor 5×5 match and of course we won 19-13 (2 hours) after I got hit and played like a very angry footballer that wanted to win. Scored 5 goals! GREAT!
Then I got my coffe with my friends. I watched the last 20 minutes of the match and I saw my favorite Giggs scoring the second goal and clearing the champion title for our team ! Exactly as I was wishing!
Then a birthday party invitation!
God (yeah you exist) THANK YOU . I promise next morning I’ll be studying ! Plus I’ll try to save a dog that you created.
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tmu, yes he was. blazered and all. i felt bad for him. he was (seemingly) genuinely happy for the others but looked little forlorn.
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Two premier league titles in a row….we have our hold back on the league..a big two fingers up to Arsenal and Chelsea…you may have one the league a few times, but now it is back in the hands of its rightful holders!
Lessons from the campaign:
A rock solid defence and Ronaldo’s goals were the cornerstone of our success. Ronaldo cannot be expected to score so many next season (but probably will anyway!) so we need to discover other sources of goals without sacrificing Ronaldo’s free role which seems to suit him so well.
I do not imagine there will be much change, with the exception of buying a third striker so that Ronaldo will not have to play as a striker, as well as giving us a bit more physical and aerial presence up front. I’d like to see a goal scoring central midfielder, or have more goals coming from the other wing (maybe from Nani?). Tevez’s goal return was good, but Rooney can do better next year.
Our defence is the best in the world, only conceding around 26 goals in one of the toughest leagues, and I don’t think we conceded many in Europe either. We need to find EVDS’s successor…Foster is the obvious choice depending on how much he develops. A right back would be nice if not essential as Brown fills that position nicely and Hargreaves and Simpson can deputise. Silvestre can cover left back but he is a bit injury prone so a bit of cover there might be nice
Really though the only outlay I can foresee this summer is a 10-15 million pound third striker, possibly a young talent or two for under 10 million, and maybe a cheap defender. No big signings, just reinforcements
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Just watching the celebration video again, I’m surprised Saha made it through without injury. Things are looking up. haha
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Story of the season video on bbc worth a look
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/match_of_the_day/7395228.stm
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Of all the days to miss the game due to work related stuff. I just got home and found out that United did the business today. What a massive relief and was I ever happy to see Chelsea get the ultimate stab by losing Terry and having Bolton tie the game. Well AV Grant you fucking pillock, I guess there is no reason to call for a playoff now you ass clown and pathetic excuse for a manager. And prepare to eat m90re humble pie in Moscow too. I am over the moon and I am now going to sit down and watch the game. UNITED FOR LIFE!
And how about that Giggsy. I love all the guys who jumped on the Giggs bandwagon today. Just last week they were calling for the legend to retire as he was shite. The fickle nature of football fanaticism.
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[Grognard]
Regarding people jumping onto the Giggs bandwagon, I guess you ought to grant the fans that: today was a happy day so everything tends to get forgotten. For what it’s worth, much of the criticism towards Giggs has been right from a team point of view. He hasn’t had a good season. But I am sure everyone still recognises that he is a legend and will be so — shite form or not.
I see no fickleness here – just the poignancy of his goal on equalling Bobby Charlton’s record. Plus, Giggs came on as a sub much later today — apart from the goal it wasn’t much he did for anyone to feel vindicated.
That said, he’s been an outstanding servant for United, and he would always be a special player in every Red’s heart.
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[indianpunk]
Re-post the daily motion as a LINK. Don’t directly post long url’s in comments as they are. Use the link tags.
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i tried posting it using the link tag but somehow it was’nt working
anyways trying again here u go
celebration vid
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Grognard – about Giggsy: he has been truly terrible all season. Whether or not he should retire remains a point of debate, personally I’d like him to go on, but prefer that Fergie uses him more sparingly.
Fact is that the absolute majority of Giggs’ critics do love the player and would love nothing more than him to do well in his appearances, only the thing is that it was hard for us endure those recent horrendous performances given the fact that we all have fond memories of him shredding defenses…
The catchphrase being: “When Giggsy’s on fire, there’s no one better in the world”
Most probably we’ll never see that Giggs any more, but he can still come up with defense-splitting passes and good finishing in front of goal – which Park, for all his other attributes, doesn’t seem to possess.
By the way, if in dreamland the opportunity was there to obtain a 25 year old Giggs in exchange of the actual Ronaldo I would gladly accept the swop, such is my love for the our one and only no.11!
Now how about removing shirt no.11 when he retires??!!
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