We don't have that much defenders at that level. Even more so now a lot of them are out on loan. Was shaky first few games, but in the last game, look pretty good.

Yeap. No.. but others do watch. He was immense they said(or something along those lines).

As long as we can maintain/pick up our form, I'm not too worried, not yet anyway. Right now we're grinding out results. But we can play far better than what we've shown so far, definitely. We're playing in 3rd gear.

Liverpool, could trouble us a bit if they hang on till the final month. If they can keep their main players fit throughout and in form, they would definitely be there. If they get a really good winger or two, then they will consistently challenge for the title.

6 months, if players didn't fit in, the managers better sold them fast if not the player's value will drop like flies. Just imagine them having Vida and Evra, or Henry.. after 6 months, all sold off.

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Added on February 3, 2009, 11:36 pmSure they have quality players, but they just don't seem to work ATM(Chelsea). Not sure Scolari is right for this league.. but he's still new and haven't had the chance to mold his own team. Liverpool are more settled and have a solid 1st 11(except the wingers) right now. But like you said, a few injuries, and they won't look so good.

We just need to maintain(improve, we can play far better regularly) our own form. If we do that we should be OK. Our squad seem to cope fine so far with injuries all happening at the same time. Now with almost all of them back, I'm hoping we would perform far better. Expecting a lot from Rooney, especially in the scoring department. Hoping he would get that scoring touch back, which seems to only happen for 1 month and a half for him every season.

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SAF should have accepted the 7m bid from Hull. Guess this is Levy's way of punishing us because of Berbatov.

Welbeck>Campbell>Manucho>(slightly)Dong.

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Added on February 4, 2009, 4:41 pmHe is their best manager, for us that is. But these stuff could really bite us back in the ass if things go wrong at the end of the season. They are really that close! But it's still funny everytime I think about them. And now Rafa wants complete control of transfers. Go for it Rafa! Real Madrid reserve players will flood the EPL. Oh yes!


Him or her?

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Talking about West Ham, I don't like playing them. They always seem to take something from us.

True. But it's still fun to watch them lose. They have provided us really good entertainment in the last month or so. Starting with that rant, the draws, the Keane stuff(pity him, going from one circus to another), and now out of the FA Cup.

But they're a threat in the league still. And now with one cup less to concentrate on, you can bet they'll be concentrating really hard on reaching their 19, and stopping our 18 in the process. You really have to salute Rafa for the work he has done, with all the players he don't want at the club, since he has no control over their transfer dealings.

Never really a 100% fan of Fletcher. More like his bodyguard. And lately there's been close to no bashing of Fletcher on here for me to write essays defending him. He went into god mode in the big games when we won the league although he struggled a bit against the other teams, and last season almost the same but doesn't struggle in the games against the smaller sides in the league as much, and this season look at home in our midfield playing consistently. Steady improvement each season. Took big steps by stepping up his level of playing in most games and not just in the big games this season. Injuries and bad form help his cause I guess since he's been almost a regular for us this season. 3 years younger than Carrick. Hopefully he'll take the same exact steps Carrick took that brought him here. Not expecting him to be as good or important as Carrick is now, but he'll still be a very good player for us, or someone else should he move on.

Ando-mania is on hold until he find his consistency back. Like Nani, ain't that impressive this season so far. Hopefully this summer he'll get a rest. No Olympics/Copa America shit going on.. right?

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Between Ronaldo and Beckham. Beckham was great for us, and a superstar outside of the pitch. But Ronaldo is our first player to be crown as the best player in the world. So it'll be Ronaldo.

Keeps Benitez in the job. Ain't that bad overall.

As for West Ham, twice they denied us winning the league before right? I don't like playing against them. They up their performance for some reason against us. Rooney on the bench hopefully.

For sure we'll concede at least 2 goals today. NO!

VDS will be sent off. So his record will still stand! Yay!

Anderson will score when Tosic fires in a really good and hard freekick in front of the GK, and Vida head it, but the ball bounce off the post and hit O'Shea's on the back of the knee and the ball roll on in front of the goal and the defender would try to clear the ball away, but hit Ronaldo's bum, and then hits Anderson on the back of his head and the ball bounce into the goal.

Use teleconferencing!

What makes you say that? Sure he doesn't impress much so far this season, but last season he was great, and this season most of the attacking players are still sleeping apart from a few!

That's a cheap bench I have to say. Don't happen very often that!

Boring boring United..

Haih. Another clean sheet, another 3 points.. can't complain too much I guess. But make us nervy till the end.

Can't say he didn't see it coming. Should be doing far better, even though he's still new. Grant followed us all the way last season. With a bit of luck, it was them that won the double and not us. Wonder who they would be looking at. Rijkaard?

Shouldn't have sack Mourinho in the first place. RA wanted them to play more exciting football, and then bought Sheva.. then he hired Grant as director of football. He tried to poke in, and now they're in this mess. Grant, a nobody who we all mocked, did great last season considering they went till the final day, on all fronts, and we just pip them. Seeing that, Scolari should be doing better than he has. But maybe on 2nd thoughts, he should maybe give till at least the end of the season, or maybe even another season to see his impact on the team.