Postgame

I had something really meaningful and poignant to say, but I’ve forgotten what it was, so you’ll have settle for the usual babbling. I never said I knew anything about football, so there was no need to believe me when I said that Reading posed no threat – in truth, the only threat came from […]

Anderson passed the test – only a couple of months of this kind of form and we can start to think about thinking his United career could have turned a corner. There’s been too many false dawns to get too excited just yet. He can be very brilliant though, and I’d love him to grow […]

Typical, I’m away for a few days and not only does Jonny Evans return, but he goes and scores and I miss two golden opportunities to unveil my Jonny picture. There were a few minutes where some of you may have been crossing your fingers, hoping QPR would keep their lead so, – as promised […]

Well, that wasn’t so bad. Of course, it’s never great to lose, and even in “meaningless” games it does impact the moral of the squad to a degree. However, I think there’ll be a lot of positives taken from this game. Brilliant to see Phil Jones back in the team, Nick Powell continues to show […]

I was spending the evening after this game, with a couple of friends – one a united fan, and the other very much not. The second friend didn’t support United, because Rooney looks like a pig. In a strange way that put the game into perspective. Sometimes you win when you haven’t played well. Sometimes […]

As GNev said on Twitter “you just knew”. There’s a dichotomy of sorts with regards to how United (especially this season) go about winning games. We would all love it if we could keep it tight at the back and dominate games in a technically and tactically preficient way, but don’t you just love the drama and […]

Was lovely to see Rooney celebrating his best mate (and 5-a-side team captain) Obama’s news, in style, by “dispatching” a very valuable penalty. Not to put a dampener on it (that sentence introduction is only heading one way) BUT still not confident in his penalty taking and would much rather ORVP was handed the task. We weren’t great […]

Football’s weird isn’t it? I mean, who’d have thought RVP would be scoring for US in this fixture this season? Weird and wonderful. My silly non-prediction of a repeat of the 8-2 scoreline form last year, as it turns out, wasn’t too far from the reality. I thought Arsenal were guilty of approaching the game with a similar ‘psychosis’ […]

Well, the residual tensions from Sunday were all but consigned to the distant memory banks by the sheer amazingness of this game. Unfortunately, claims of comments aimed at Danny will again elbow their way way into the headlines – as has to happen if football is taking tackling racism seriously. The game… After Giggsy’s outrageous (in a bad way) display against […]

It was almost incomprehensible that this game would pass by without a sharp intake of breath at a controversial decision or two – little did we know we’d be left gasping for air. The game has been overshadowed entirely by the refereeing decisions and alleged comments by Mark Clattenburg, but I’d just like to acknowledge […]

We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends to share some of their ‘Pre’ and ‘Post Match’ thoughts with us from now on. You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing punctuation buffets, below their personal views on the game… Iwan: (@Iwanlehnert) That was probably as routine as a come-from-behind victory gets, to be honest. Braga started […]