We’re a weird and fickle bunch aren’t we? and by ‘we’, I don’t mean ‘us’, I mean ‘you lot’, not ‘me’. The point I was making in my pre-match thing-me-bob rang true. Fans want everything, all the time and they’re not happy unless they’ve got it, unless they win in the last minute. When they’ve got it, they don’t appreciate it.
I’m not suggesting we’re playing brilliantly, but there wasn’t really an awful lot wrong with that performance to my mind. Okay, Vidic and Buttner were poor, but they’re both standards. In possession we were snappy with our passes in the first half and when we went 0-1 up, thanks to a scorcher from Cleverley, I thought we were going to walk it. Unfortunately, individual errors in picking up and marking let them back in to it and then similarly for the second. Not similarly, actually identically. Then came the inevitable shut up shop/hit them on the break tactics that any team in West Ham’s situation would engage in. We weren’t that bad. Maybe I was watching a different game? Anyway, there’s more important stuff to talk about…
I can’t believe I’ve come this far without mentioning it. It was literally unbelievable. That first touch was an anomaly in the space time continuum, the second couldn’t have been any other kind of touch and then the finish, with his swinger(!), UNBELIEVABLE! (Giggsy’s assist not half bad either.)
The magic of the FA Cup. SWEET DRVPMS <3
MOTM: RVP (duh!)
