ah, non-stop football action for me then. Manchester derby follow by Liverpool-Wigan. I'm still learning to understand KD's method of pass and move though.

really? so far i still haven't quite catch up. maybe i will concentrate more during this weekend match.

Interesting you should post this. Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend some time back. Whilst its nice to see your team score spectacular goals, it is at the some time discerning that we had to rely on the spectacular to win games. I'm sure goals like Riise's freekick against the mancs, Gerrard's against Olympiacos/West Ham or Xabi's against Luton provide good talking points but I'd much rather we work out how to score simple ones, because this means the team played well, not the individual. Its good to know we can score 30 yard screamers but its more important to know that we can create opportunities for simple tap-ins. Look at how the team attacks now. Often you see players attacking in triangles, or 3's, passing the ball about and running into space. When you have players playing ahead of the one in possession, you give him options to move the ball forward. Not long ago, we struggled to get past average sides because they had more men behind the ball, and we were afraid to over commit men forward, hence our forward players were always outnumbered. Quite often we played the ball up to their penalty box and either lost possession or had to pass it back to a deeper player coming from midfield to belt it towards goal. Nowadays, we play the ball into the opposition box, to feet more often.

Also, judging by Lucas' tweets, he is a genuinely nice, down to earth kinda chap.

I doubt anyone hires a PR firm to write one's tweets

Let's not poke fun at Chelsea or belittle Torres anymore. We have our own troubles to sort out.
And honestly, so does Torres it seems.

My take on Ngog is that he's still quite raw and its more of an issue of mental development rather than technical. He has one of the best first touches in this team, he looks so comfortable with the ball at his feet - contrast that to say Babel and Kuyt. He needs to toughen up mentally - be more confident and ruthless, and not smile all the time haha. It's pretty early to say what kind of striker he will become but i would like to see he plays the role of a deep lying striker like Anelka. Despite the obvious limitations, I still think he's a very decent back up. He's twice the player Babel was and a major improvement to our previous back ups like Mellor etc.

No matter what Pepe said in his interview, I still love that guy ... See how he came out to diffuse the near-fracas involving Nani ...

Goals, dribbles, tackles, play acting and handbags. Good game so far. Get to see all the good, the bad and ugly of football derby. Cmon you reds!

i think the MU-Liv rivalry has been long there before SAF joins. the rivalry started mainly due to non-football reasons actually, both cities being port cities. Liverpool was the dominant port city, before the Manchester canal opened and since then the citizens from both cities are taking the mickey over each other. And for English, what better way to bring this city rivalry to be "decided" other than football!

Oh, and there's no press conference by SAF or any other MU team is that they have called for an indefinite close-door policy after the FA charge over the Chelsea comments. there's not even a pre-match interview the day before the match. just FYI.