MANCHESTER UNITED 3-0 CHELSEA
Well, Scolari must’ve worked the lads really hard on them set pieces in training. Great stuff. I mean, to be that careless, unmotivated and totally inept, you’d have to work at it surely?
It’s been a while since we’ve been totally shown up by United but we certainly done it in style yesterday.
I remember wondering at one point whether Drogba had been slung a few quid this season. How bad was he? Can you really play like he did by accident? Not that he was the only one who was utter shite out there though because a search party wouldn’t have found the majority of our players, he was just the only one I noticed laughing every time they cocked up.
I wouldn’t even know where to start with the players performances though. I thought we were going for some sort of record in bookings at one stage seeing as both our home and away one’s are gone but even they slowed down to our pace in the end.
Anyway, back to the players and obviously Didier was useless, did he get taken off though? No of course he didn’t. Why take off the worst player when you’ve got Joe Cole on the pitch? I have to say I was pretty excited about Scolari subbing Deco at half-time until we heard it was through ‘injury’. Funny how he pulled out in the warm-up before our last game against United and did the same halfway through this game as well. Then again, maybe I shouldn’t have been quite so happy to see his exit because firstly, he wasn’t the worst player out there and secondly, we got even worse after he’d gone off. We just totally lost any shape we’d had in the first half.
Bosingwa, blatantly obvious why he was taken off when Ronaldo was making such a mug of him. Mind you, even Belletti seemed to have lost his head when he came on. Such was his embarrassment when Ronaldo decided it was his turn to get the run-around, he resorted to everything but common assault to stop him. Ballack, just looks like a player in semi-retirement these days and Anelka didn’t look like he’d showed up for work either. And for all the praise I’ve ever heaped on Carvalho in the past, the bloke still insists on trying to get his opponents shirts off their backs, how he doesn’t give shedloads of penalties away in a season I’ll never know.
But the list just goes on, that’s the trouble. One or two players having bad days, we might just about cope with but unfortunately, we do it collectively. I think we’ve got this ‘sticking together’ thing a bit arse-about-face. I think the point is meant to be ‘fighting’ together, not surrendering as one.
Why even bother coming out with all the chat before the game, talking it up, if they’re just going to go out there and wave the white flag? We were a bloody shambles. No desire, no passion, no motivation, no imagination and no bloody shots on target! Not one! No creativity whatsoever, and as for an end product, that was about as likely as our title chances are now. Not that our attacking play mattered that much anyway, seeing as our defence was doing its utmost to commit footballing suicide.
I know we’re an ageing squad, I’ve been forced to agree with that already this season, but for fuck sake, they looked like they were all missing persons from the local retirement home. Talk about confused. Do they not know what the goal’s for anymore? Like, basic stuff really I’d have thought – the opposition has the ball near yours – you defend, and if you feel like putting yourself out enough to stride towards theirs, you bloody shoot. Pinging it backwards and forwards between you outside the area doesn’t constitute clinical finishing. I wonder if Scolari mentioned that to them? Come to think of it, I wonder if Scolari mentioned anything to them?
I just don’t get it. We were playing United, the same United who beat us in the Champions League final. We were playing United at Old Trafford and we didn’t even turn up.
And I used to think Avram Grant was bad??
Blue is the colour
