Postgame

Oh dear. If Nani was being judged on that game alone and we were in a different time, he’d be taken down to the old pond round the back and drowned; Fergie would count himself lucky not to be following him. The players were awful, but Fergie’s team selection and the way he set us […]

I would genuinely rather we’d lost this game, if it would have saved Martin O’Neill and therefore prevented Di Canio from getting in. We’re not really storming to the 20th title are we? More bloody minded stumbling towards the finishing line with our shoelaces tied, which I think is possibly the best analogy ever, for our […]

I didn’t see the game and only saw the highlights on MOTD2, so am in no position to comment. Lucky you. By all accounts Reading made a good fist of it and we were a tad lucky. The most important result of the weekend was at Goodison, so the three points are good enough – […]

To say we looked really, really, really, really tired would be a massive understatement (albeit in an overstated way). The two early goals were like a band-aid, covering the emotional and physical scars from Tuesday … and we almost got away with it. Carrick and Cleverley were lively to begin with and I thought Carrick […]

As the pub finally cleared on Tuesday, the Jukebox came on to this: all I could think of was the bit in Shaun of the Dead, “Aaaaaw! Who put this on?” asks Ed, to which Shaun replies through his tears, “It’s on random!” . . .

Well that result wouldn’t have been out of place in an episode of Tales of the Unexpected. Not that I didn’t expect a win, but I certainly didn’t expect a big win. Nor did I expect Kagawa (or Swagawa) to get a hat-trick. Thinking about it, I probably never expected him to get a hat-trick […]

Take that Pre-Rafaelites! Not only a goal from Rafael – an automatically good thing – but a beauty! AND it STAYED HIT! I do loves me a shot that stays hit. Fantastic that we can make relatively light work of a game of this importance. Only seen brief highlights of it myself, so can’t really comment. By […]

I think this picture taken about 200 BC (2oo days before Christmas 2011) was the last time Nani did anything any good. At least when he does do anything any good, it’s kind of worth waiting for. Providing a great cross and neat finish – that in effect won the game -, as he did, I’d still say […]

We’re inviting our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lehnert, to share some of their ‘Pre and Post Match’ thoughts with us from now on. If you want to share, get in touch! You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing, punctuation buffets below their proper good ones… Iwan (@IwanLehnert): Maybe it’s because we’ve […]

I’m a bit too excited to write this, with the Real game – Football Christmas – only hours away, but I’ll give a few things a go… Was great to see us keep a sustained level of focus, the timing with the Real game and all, was impeccable. We’re by no means setting the world […]

They say that it’s not the exciting, high-octane games that win you the titles, it’s the ones – like this – where you win the hard way. What do they know, and who are they anyway? I’d say it’s more accurate to say it’s a mix of both, unless you’re Chelsea under Mourinho, or Arsenal […]