by bigmick » Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:09 pm
I didn't see the game, (was a bit knackered and in bed) but it's a great result and by all accounts a very good peformance.
It seems only fair to point out that had I been around when the team was selected, i would definately have slagged it. I would definately have questioned the central midfield pairing, I would have questioned the decision to unecessarily rotate one of the fullbacks, and I would have bemoaned the absense of Crouch. That I didn't, and in so doing denied people the opportunity to quite rightly tell me to stick it up my erse is the result only of time difference and not of any forsight on my part.
Given though the unbelieveable result for man Utd, it becomes a really huge win. It also means of course that Arsenal are now disappearing over the horizon from them also, which means that when they go to Anfield in acouple of weeks they are going to be going all out for a win. That match is now huge for both teams.
Hope fully from here, now it's pretty much official that we've got some momentum again we can hold onto it for a bit longer than we did at the start of the season. The best way of doing that in my opinion obviously is to make the minimum changes to the team which you can get away with, none if possible. Whether we do that, and whether I'm right remains to be seen, but most importantly this was a great win and those of us (well there's actually only me to be totally truthful) who wrote off our title chances totally are at least another week closer to admitting that we did launch a proper challenge. Well done to the team and the manager for producing the goods under less than ideal circumstances.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".