(Oh, how foolish of me, I appear to have attached the wrong photo.)
For a United team that was, according to SAF, set up to attack, it looked suspiciously like a team doing an impression of a team set up to park the bus.
I can go along with SAF’s periodical megalomaniacal team selections, but to leave T.V out was something I couldn’t get behind, or really see any sense in. The main fault (reason we lost) lies with the team and formation selection.
Park, who I have always thought of as a very strong squad player, has unfortunately become nothing more than a parody of himself.
(This next bit is just copied and adjusted piecemeal from my prediction, cus I’m lazy, but also cus I got it right, apart from the result the wrong way around)
So, the game that at various points of the season wasn’t sure whether it was going to be the title decider or not, has ended up being just that and then some, almost.
This effed up season has been so inappropriately and unabashedly wonderful at points, that soon the universe will run out of superlatives and we’ll have to resort to simply coming up with the most convoluted puns imagined to describe what on earth is going on … oh.
I always felt that whatever happened on Monday, the season, especially in light of what’s been going on up to this point, could take another turn. As much as many football scripts will have pre-empted a Tevez inspired victory over us (which was far from the reality of what happened, I think even he was surprised to see pictures of himself playing in the game in the press, such was his lack of presence). I’m still going with QPR shocking City on the last day. Whether we can get six points is another question (and one I’ve just asked).
It was by no means a boring 1-0, but what happened is, as sometime does, the game that everyone expects to be an earth-shattering humdinger is nothing more than the tetchy maneuverings of a terrified bunch of ill-fated corpses, more afraid to make the first mistake than force it from the opposition. It was still enjoyably tense.
Still, despite the result, we’re really spoilt with games like this. It’s what it’s all about.
