Posted April 5, 200916 yr Now that's what you call Champions. 4 points clear after next week, Vs Sunderland you can fight it out with Chelsea for 2nd/3rd, now.
April 5, 200916 yr No sorry, I was washing my hair. The title race will be won and lost in the last 4 games of this season.
April 5, 200916 yr Bringing Kiko Macheda on for Nani will go down as one of Fergie's greatest tactical manoeuvres I reckon. I don't believe he was as instrumental as the pundits made out (I only saw him touch the ball about 3-4 times) prior to the goal but he pulled it out of the bag when it counted. Sublime turn & finish and a sublime ending to the match. That goal alone will give us so much confidence for Porto/Sunderland.
April 5, 200916 yr Arsenal will decide where Liverpool finish, out of 2nd/3rd THAT'S A FACT. I highly doubt it. We play them after they've just played the FA Cup semi-final and we've had a weeks break iirc. The title will be decided in the last 4 games. Both teams have some potentially tricky ties coming up. The title race is not over by a long way yet. I still don't think we'll win it and we'll have to win every single game but at the moment we have a better goal difference and we're only 1 point behind so anything is possible.
April 5, 200916 yr You're still 1 point ahead though and you won't be 4 points ahead until you beat Sunderland. I hate people (and these go for all fans btw) that make the assumption that just cos they've a game in hand it means they've got another 3 points.
April 5, 200916 yr The game in hand is Portsmouth at home and it's not for a while, I'm not even sure what it's relevance is at the moment? :s Liverpool play first next week again anyway.
April 10, 200916 yr Sunderland will probably dick Man Utd now. :mellow: Yeah, Sunderland AFC: World beaters when we've got a manager whose tactics could only be more negative if he told everyone to stand on the goal-line for 90 mins, 2 "Prem-class" strikers who aimlessly wander around the pitch looking thoroughly bored and disinterested and might as well just be paying the fucking admission price for the match, and a team who are going to get relegated back to the Championship after a season of hollow, empty, stupid promises and shooting ourselves in the feet. By our most hated local rivals. We can only hope Fergie fields his youngsters/a weakened team. We might only get beaten 5-0.
April 10, 200916 yr Liverpool can still win! And hopefully will! As I support them, and Man U should go to hell!
April 11, 200916 yr Utd's confidence will be dented after the embarrasing midweek performance against Porto that will almost certainly result in them getting knocked out of the CL so can see Sunderland getting a draw out of the game or even a win
April 11, 200916 yr Utd's confidence will be dented after the embarrasing midweek performance against Porto that will almost certainly result in them getting knocked out of the CL so can see Sunderland getting a draw out of the game or even a win ^ I absolutely love your new picture signature. I presume the use of squirrels signifies how Spurs have woken up / come out of hibernation after the winter and gone on a very decent run of form. Anyway, am I the only one who thinks SAF is losing it? On Thursday he attacked the BBC pundits Alan Hansen, Mark Lawrenson & Radio 5 Live commentator Alan Green of pro-Liverpool, anti Man U bias. Then on Friday he goes on his SIXTH verbal assault on Rafa Benitez/Liverpool FC of 2009. Any neutral would think that Rafa Benitez's notebook has got under SAF's skin? Maybe he would be better off focusing on his own side's rapid decline in form? To think Paddy Power bookies paid out on Manchester United winning the Premiership League title back in March before their unexpected dip in form; yet they are now just one point ahead of Liverpool with a game in hand with 8 Games to play. Personally I hope SAF keeps the insults coming as he is doing a great team talk in the Liverpool dressing room; and carries on ignoring the facts that: 1. Cristiano Ronaldo has reverted back to the lazy petulant child of his first season at Old Trafford and is no longer playing like the best player in the world that he was last season. 2. Like David Beckham beforehand; continues to fail to get the best out of his best player IMHO Wayne Rooney; then wonders why he always plays better for his country then he does for his club; and continues to lose his temper playing for Manchester United. 3. Continues to play the lazy statuesque Berbatov (any manager who gets rid of the brilliant Ruud Van Nisterooy to replace with the inferior Bulgarian striker needs their head read) ahead of the superior hard working Tevez. 4. Continues to play the over the hill past the sell by-date Paul Scholes and Gary Neville ahead of superior younger talent. Once Chelski got it badly wrong with their managerial appointment at the start of the season; Manchester United with the squad in depth they possess should have run away with the League title by a margin around 15 points. The very fact they they will fail to do this is down entirely to the fact that their manager is losing the plot (as can be evidenced by his recent rantings (Liverpool are only the 4th best side in the Premiership; Manchester United were much the better side in their 1-4 home defeat against Liverpool; Carrick is the best midfielder in the Premiership; he expected to meet Bayern Munich in the ECL Final :rofl:); etc. Today I fully expect Liverpool to drop points against their long-term managerial jink/nemesis Sam Allardyce (and Liverpool have an awful record playing on the eve of the Hillsborough anniversary & with Steven Gerrard's groin injury (he is not fit to start) I would be relieved if we don't lose); Whilst if Manchester United can't beat a Sunderland side in free fall very comfortably then there is something very wrong with them. So if Liverpool are still one point behind or better after today's fixtures then that would be a massive result IMHO. But the way Man Utd's fans celebrated beating a side last Sunday who had not won on their previous seven fixtures as if they had won the ECL Final suggests they are losing it as much as their manager. The bottom line is that Manchester United should (have) walk(ed) the Premiership this season. If they somehow manage to throw it away it will be the biggest collapse in Premiership history ever eclipsing Kevin Keegan's Newcastle and would suggest to me that like the greatest British manager ever Brian Clough in his final years at Nottingham Forest that their manager is finally losing the plot; like a lot of great managers in the past eventually did (Sir Matt Busby; Sir Alf Ramsey; Don Revie.....).
April 11, 200916 yr To be frank - I agree with some of the points you make. Ronaldo's attitude this season has been a joke, and whilst that's partly down to Alex's attitude it's also fuelled by constant media speculation. Meanwhile, regarding your point surrounding Rooney, I agree. Ferguson's ridiculous decisions are what led to his temper + sending off against Fulham three weeks ago. The way he is "motivating" his team at the moment is questionable. However, whoever claimed United will be dented after the "embarassing" midweek performance.. Ummm.. Yes, it was truly embarassing that we couldn't get a win against a team whose form in Europe has been superb and has always acted as a bogey team - their tactics were spot on and it was not a case of embarassing us, more defeating some of our tactical elements. By that logic, surely Rafa should be "embarrased" after his team was played off the field by a Chelsea side who blew apart his usual spot-on European tactics and has surely cost them a place in Europe?
April 11, 200916 yr Liverpool can still win! And hopefully will! As I support them, and Man U should go to hell! :rofl: Your attitude is almost as ridiculous as TCM's... you two are personifcations of the reason people hate Man United + Liverpool fans :rolleyes:
April 11, 200916 yr :rofl: Your attitude is almost as ridiculous as TCM's... you two are personifcations of the reason people hate Man United + Liverpool fans :rolleyes: I agree. I'm a Liverpool "supporter". ...... not a Liverpool "fanatic". IMHO "Fanatics" have no place in Football other than to bring the game down to the lowest, most basest, moronic tribal factors that were so common in the 1970s and 1980s that seem to be making a minor comeback in recent seasons.
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