UnitedViews

Picture of United’s Champions League medals from Edwin.11 on Flickr

OK. We’ve got 7 teams to choose from. There’s no protection from facing teams from your own country. So we could draw any of the following:

Arsenal
Barcelona
Chelsea
Fenerbahçe
Liverpool
Roma
Schalke 04

Who do we fancy for our quarter-final opponents, then? Let me know in the comments box…

Well, the weekend didn’t go as badly as it might have, after all. The three weekday protagonists from the Champion’s League all played at the weekend. United lost, Chelsea lost and Arsenal drew. If the Chelsea result had me smiling, the news from the JJB had me positively chuckling.

I’d argue that United lost the least from these results. It was deeply irritating (see my previous post for irritable musings on this) losing to Portsmouth, especially at Old Trafford, but the cup was our third priority. We’re better placed in the league than Chelsea, although I certainly don’t think [...] Continue Reading…

You know what? We can live without winning the FA Cup this year. We’ve got enough of a problem with fixture congestion without a replay and two games at Wembley. Just at the moment, though, it’s hard to see it like that.

I try not to make a big deal of refereeing mistakes. All it does is distract you from what really went wrong and makes you old and bitter. Just at the moment, though, I am feeling old and bitter.

Two simple complaints: firstly, everybody, absolutely everybody (OK, not Harry Redknapp) recognised Distin’s foul on Ronaldo should have brought [...] Continue Reading…

Well that was an odd experience. Managed to catch United’s game against Lyon last night at the One Tun pub in Goodge Street, which seems to be a fairly safe bet if you want to see a Manchester United game in the centre of London (even when the Gooners are also live on TV). Great company (JW), good seats with a good view of the giant Plasma screen, nice pub. Just the small problem that there was a pub quiz happening at the same time, meaning no sound on the TV and a lot of deeply irritating questions about [...] Continue Reading…