Again, I got a few things right. Someone remarked the other day that I’m fairly insightful when I set my mind to it, and if I took myself more seriously, and considered taking these things more seriously, I might develop a better reputation amongst the United online community … Pah!! As if! Sounds horrid. If you’ll pardon the cliche, that was indeed a game of two halves and understandably so. With the game won, Fergie...

We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lenhert, 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 proper good ones…   Iwan (@IwanLehnert): Hands up if you wouldn’t chastise and taunt if you were in the stands at the Stadium of Light, having just watched your side lose to a team you...

United fan, and good friend of Bifurcated, Birchy (@xbirchy) was busy mining for golden GIFs for the brilliant Beautifully Red, when his attention was grabbed by someting out the corner of his eye … it was only the Bifurcated Train Conductor cooking up his lunch in his kitchen – we’ve had words about his behaviour, it’s just all gone to his head (will be sure to bring him back down to Earth with Google Analytics...

We’re inviting some of 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. You can still enjoy my nonsensical, confusing punctuation buffets below their proper good ones…   Iwan (@IwanLehnert): Where exactly did that winner come from? For all intents and purposes, it looked as if we were going to fall victim to a strong second-half revival led by...

We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lenhert, 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 proper good ones…   Iwan (@IwanLehnert): Hands up if you’re also approaching this derby with audible caution. Both teams have great strikers, and faltering defences. Could be a cricket score, could be a scoreless draw....

Like I said, I’m not overly concerned with what happened in this game – but losing a long unbeaten record, and a long running record of scoring at OT does chafe a bit (last brain image – promise). Still, not going to dwell on it. Two things to ponder: My friend Rob remarked, as we were watching the game, “Why does Giggsy play in the most important position, if he’s “too old” for the wing?” David (the...

We’re inviting some of our Twitter friends, and now resident thought sharer Iwan Lenhert, 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 proper good ones…   Iwan (@IwanLehnert): To be honest, even if tonight is our second consecutive Champions League dead rubber, I’m still finding myself looking forward to it. Not a particularly bold statement, I know....

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 ourselves. The defence having settled for a bit, is perversely becoming unsettled by the return to fitness of all personnel....

“We got ourselves a Reading!” as Bill Hicks wouldn’t have said. You still with me? Oh, well … here goes… I’ve never really liked Reading, and the fact they are now sponsored by Waitrose brings out the inverted snob in me – I really want us to absolutely stuff ‘em, like we’ve threatened to do other teams recently. I’m not sure why it is that I dislike them so much, I just do – so...