The Cockney Red
A London born and bred red; I have been 'following the trawler' all the way to Old Trafford since I was 10, and from the first moment he saw 'Le Roi' flick his collar, I knew that's where he belonged. I'm now a 23-year-old graduate from Queen Mary's University of London and an aspiring journalist, with my critical United blog - When the Seagull's Follow The Trawler...' (cockney-red.blogspot.com) - being featured on NewsNow, as well as being recognised as a recommended link by key Manchester United blog-site: www.Republikofmancunia.org.
Was Ferguson’s Team Selection Really At Fault?
Alot has been made about Fergie’s dramatic change in personnel from the League draw at Goodison Park on Saturday to the Champions League game against Rangers three days later. For those of you who missed it, here are the two line-ups: Everton (11th September) Van der saar Neville Evans Vidic Evra O’Shea Scholes Fletcher* Giggs…
Shhh! As Wazza and Bebe Shine on International Duty
Ahh the football international. A time where the worlds greats can showcase their talent by proudly representing their countries and putting their bitter club feuds aside as they line up alongside their rivals. Poetic, aint it? Me personally, I see the international break as a nuisance. An opportunity for the country to get carried away…
Review: Fulham 2-2 Manchester United
The thought going into yesterdays game at Craven Cottage – a place we haven’t had a League win for three seasons – was that avoiding a repeat of last season’s debacle (0-3, Scholes had a shitter etc) would have been ideal. But that naïve view would have altered immediately after a glance at the top…
Can Liverpool Do Us A Favour As ‘Squeaky Bum Time’ Goes Into Overload?
If someone said to me at the beginning of the season that we would have to rely on Liverpool to help us win the title and therefore overtake them as the most successful English team – converting into massive Liverpool fans for the penultimate weekend of the season – I would have literally thrown the…
United 1-2 Chelsea
If there is one thing the great Sir Alex knows how to do, it is to rise to the occasion and win trophies when the pressure is mounting. He’s even coined a term for it (‘squeaky bum time’ anyone?). So with that, this is, we have all been made to believe, the time of year…
United’s win only proves that Liverpool overachieved last season
Let’s face it, Liverpool, in the year (THEIR year) that they were supposed to halt United’s title no.19, have been nothing short of shocking. But given we’re talking about the team who, before Christmas, won only 2 games out of 15 (the 2 were against us and Everton), it’s also fair to say that, as…
United 3-0 Fulham – Match Report
You felt that a game like this – starting off slowly and massively frustrating us for the entirety of the first 45 minutes – would simply turn out to be ‘one of those days’. However in contrast, Fulham’s brave resilience was just not enough against the current might of in-form and in the mood United….
Wolves 0 – 1 United
1-0 up with just under 20 minutes to go; yet the way the game was ending – with Wolves pressing and United failing to convert their infrequent yet profound chances – the dying moments simply screamed the word ‘upset’. And then that inevitable golden ‘oh my god I can’t believe United dropped points at Molineux’…
United and Rooney disappoint against awesome Everton
As has regularly been the case for United this season, all eyes were on Rooney; our most important player, our most improved player and the man to seemingly save Ronaldo-less United. But as always when he visits Goodison Park, the universal gaze was fixed on Rooney more than ever. In Everton’s last league game, we…
An Emirates Masterpiece, Part II
Earlier in the week, after we gave by far our most determined, outstanding and tactically superior performance of the season, it got me a thinking. When WAS our last truly incredible performance? Well, few would disagree with me when I suggest that it was in fact at the very same venue that today’s game was…
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