Great win at Villa. Really impressed me after Villa had scored. Nani and Tevezs assists for Rooney were brilliant. Starting to play the way United played last season. Still the team to beat.
Saw on the news ticker there that Scholsey is out for 3 months after damaging knee ligaments. It will be interesting to see if Carrick and Hargreaves will play in the same team or will Anderson step up like he has in recent weeks to be considered first choice.
Is Scholes still blind? http://www.thefreekick.com/board/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif
Are you still sick. 
Gary Neville finally making his return on Thursday against Stockport.
Ronaldo believes United can retain the Premiership and win the Champions League.
Still, still, still sick.
Woe is me.
The Neviller is back. Things can only get better, that includes Man Utd and myself. :sick:
Flano wrote:
Is Scholes still blind? http://www.thefreekick.com/board/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif
Blindingly good? Yes. Blinded by the beauty of the football heâs playing with United lately? Most definitely.
Blind to the comic genius of a certain Irish internet junkie who goes by the name of flange-O? Thankfully, yes.
Attn: Juhniallio and Flango
Will you two hang on til I nip out and get a packet of hunky dorys and a bottle of coke before you start a proper fight please?
Fight, fight, fight. fight.
Internet junkie? Maybe when Iâm sitting at my desk in work.
Comic genius, boo ya.
And I must say having Juneelo talk about me in this way is something of great amusement to me.
Hey Ben how was Keanos hometown this weekend?
Flano wrote:
[quote]Internet junkie? Maybe when Iâm sitting at my desk in work.
Well let any prospective employer peruse this site as a testament to your work ethic. If you only log on while working, you must put in a good 90 odd hours a week. Indeed the odd post-coppers post shows how odd the hours oft are.
I tend to log in at home aswell of course. Does it actually keep me logged in till all hours? I didnât know this. Ah well.
This is the 5th hottest thread apparently so better keep it like that.
Team vs Birmingham
Kuszczak,
Brown,
Ferdinand,
Vidic,
Evra,
Ronaldo,
Hargreaves,
Anderson,
Giggs,
Tevez,
Rooney
Bench
Heaton,
OâShea,
Fletcher,
Park,
Saha
Ferguson has to play his strongest team today after the defeat to West Ham. Birmingham are improving under McCleish and I expect them to make it tough but in the end the quality should shine through. 2.0 win for the Reds.
How often has that team played together Shan? Looks very strong on paper and Iâd be surprised if that lineup dropped many points.
With the exception of Kuszcak its the team thats been first choice since Scholes got injured. I just have a feeling the likes OâShea and Pique could get starts today. He can do that in the cup against Villa. Ferguson also serving the 2nd game of his touchline ban today. His seat on the bench shall remain empty. Quierioz wouldnt dare sit in it.
Guardian story tentatively linking Ronaldo with a move to Real Madrid:
Realâs revived Ronaldo talk sure to irritate Ferguson
Madrid president plays on wingerâs Spanish ambition
Caldern admits player is constantly monitored
Daniel Taylor
Tuesday January 1, 2008
The Guardian
Real Madrid have renewed their long-standing interest in Cristiano Ronaldo in light of his announcement that he has ambitions to play in Spain. The Primera Divisin champions have been encouraged by the remarks and in a move that will be depressingly familiar to Sir Alex Ferguson their president, Ramn Caldern, spoke publicly yesterday about his admiration for the Portuguese winger.
âWho would not want a player such as Ronaldo in their team?â Caldern replied when asked if Ronaldo might join Madrid. âHe is one of the best players in the world.â
He went on to say that Madrid had decided against trying to lure Kaka from Milan because it âwould be difficult to change the whole structure of the team to accommodate one superstarâ. Yet more alarmingly for Ferguson, Caldern is also understood to have let it be known in private that Real are constantly monitoring Ronaldoâs position, having come close to tempting him away from Old Trafford two seasons ago.
Ferguson will be comfortable in the knowledge that Ronaldo is happy in Manchester, even if the player did speak openly at the World Player of the Year gala about being attracted by the Spanish league. Nevertheless Caldernâs remarks are sure to go down badly at Old Trafford, where Ferguson has been increasingly irritated by Realâs habit of talking about their transfer targets in the media.
These are familiar tactics which have been used in the past to tempt David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy, to name but two, and once prompted Ferguson to accuse Madrid of âhaving no respect for anyone but themselvesâ. But it is a habit which Carlos Queiroz appears to have picked up, Unitedâs assistant manager confirming to Portuguese journalists yesterday that his club had identified the Porto defender Jose Bosingwa as a possible long-term replacement for Gary Neville.
Bosingwa is a fast, overlapping full-back who has broken into the Portuguese national team, winning six caps playing behind Ronaldo on the right flank. âThere are some Porto players good enough to play for Manchester United and Jose is one of them,â said Queiroz. âHe is a very good player and we are keeping an eye on him.â
Jose Mourinho, the former Porto manager, is another admirer after signing Bosingwa from Boavista in 2003, and Unitedâs information is that several of Europeâs leading clubs are monitoring the Congo-born 25-year-old.
The surprising aspect, however, is that Queiroz has chosen to publicise this interest at a time when Sporting Lisbon, one of Unitedâs official feeder clubs, have described him as âpersona non grataâ for speaking of a desire to sign their midfielder Miguel Veloso. Sporting have been so incensed that it has threatened irreparable damage to their relationship with United, and Porto likewise are understood to be unimpressed that Queiroz is speaking openly about one of their players.
Ferguson said last night that Neville, who has been sidelined since March because of persistent ankle and thigh problems, had an outside chance of making the squad for todayâs game against Birmingham City at Old Trafford. It is a match which will reunite Ferguson with Alex McLeish, who played under him when the long-time United manager was in charge at Aberdeen.
Wayne Rooney and Michael Carrick, who both missed the 2-1 defeat at West Ham United because of a virus, will have late checks to see if they can play.
If Neville makes a squad this season I will be amazed.
Regarding that Ronaldo story. He will be always be linked away. He will probbbaly go at some stage but I dont think that will happen yet. I mean Real are going to have to offer a world record transfer fee to get him.
Team Ferguson picks:
GK: Kuzscak
RB: OâShea
CB: Ferdinand
CB: Vidic
LB: Evra
RM: Park
CM: Carrick
CM: Anderson
LM: Nani
CF: Ronaldo
CF: Tevez
Tevez made a dummy out of Birmingham today. He dribbled by the defence to slot home an ice cool finish.
In all seriousness it was shocking stuff altogther and just about deserved the win. Ronaldo really had the only other decent chance with a header in the middle of the 2nd half. Just glad to have won.
Good win in the final 10 minutes for United. Villa contained United but didnt really create any chance. Bringing on Rooney changed the game. More about United up front. Ronaldo keeps on scoring. Some record. Villa Park some ground for United.
Defence was outstanding yesterday against Villa. Only big worry is that Saha still looks way off his best and doesnât seem to be coming back to form or even care. If anything happens to the genius duo of Rooney and Tevez we might be a bit fucked.
The Neviller has scored in the reserves tonight against Everton. Something like 16 years since his last goal at this level. Legend.