2006/2007 Premiership Footy Thread

United won...relieved...hard fought game. We should be more sharper now. Carrick must catch a wake up.
 
Carrick is useless. So is Fletcher. I think that goal might have won us the league.

Ref had a poor game.
 
Yeah if Carrick can play crap in midfield and United are still in front in the league, the league will be sealed up if he does well. If eventually he becomes a Keane and commands the midfield. I hope he does become like that and make his 18 mil value worthwhile.

10 more games. a draw at Stamford Bridge should be the deciding factor. We just need to win 8 more!
 
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derekc said:
Yeah if Carrick and play crap in midfield and United are still in front in the league, the league will be sealed up if he does well. If eventually he becomes a Keane and commands the midfield. I hope he does become like that and make his 18 mil value worthwhile.

10 more games. a draw at Stamford Bridge should be the deciding factor. We just need to win 8 more!
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I say get rid of Carrick and buy someone decent. He is a poor player and not worth the cash.

Draw at the bridge and then we have it wrapped up...

Liverpool next week! :eek: :D
 
All we need is to beat Liverpool. That's gonna be a huge task considering the poor performances lately, though we haven't lost, it's just not convincing.
 
derekc said:
All we need is to beat Liverpool. That's gonna be a huge task considering the poor performances lately, though we haven't lost, it's just not convincing.
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Well a win is a win and it's a true hallmark of champions to win when you play poorly :)
 
Not according to Stevie G...

Steven Gerrard insists Liverpool are determined not to allow Manchester United to 'win the title at Anfield'.

If United beat Liverpool on Saturday, it will give them a 12-point lead over current Barclays Premiership champions Chelsea and, in the Reds skipper's eyes, virtually end the race for the championship.

And although Liverpool cannot win the title themselves this term and are looking to secure Champions League qualification, Gerrard is adamant their bitterest rivals will not take their biggest step yet towards the title under the noses of the Kop.

Gerrard said on his club's official website: "They will be coming to Anfield this weekend looking for maximum points because that would virtually win them the league.

"We've got to make sure we get the points and keep the title race going for as long as possible. It's not over at the moment and that's why this is a massive game for both clubs."

He added: "It hurts to say this, but they have been playing some really good attacking football this season. They are also really hard to beat because they have some great defenders.

"The rivalry for this fixture has got bigger and bigger over the years and the games are built up more and more. As a player, these are the games you want to play in.

"But I am in the city among all the banter and I know our fans are desperate to take the three points this weekend."
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The big four's worst players...


How is he still there?' is the cry every time Kieran Richardson dons a ManYoo shirt. But he's not the only passenger being carried by a Big Four side. We've created an XI not fit to wear the shirt...

Goalkeeper: Jerzy Dudek (Liverpool)

In four inglorious days in January, Dudek let in nine goals against Arsenal. Football365 ran a poll asking how many were the Pole's fault. The consensus seemed to be that it was at least six. To continue an eye-catching start to 2007, Dudek was then reprimanded for some shenanigans on the Reds' training camp in Portugal.

"Among others, I have read, that I wanted to beat up the policeman, was handcuffed and detained by the police. Nothing of that kind happened," claims Dudek, who was reported to have declared his love for an officer of the law while slightly inebriated. We notice he didn't deny that...

Right-Back: Khalid Boulahrouz (Chelsea)

Or insert just about any Chelsea right-back here. How is it that the world's richest club cannot find a right-back of any worth at all? Paulo Ferreira, Geremi, Boulahrouz, Lassana Diarra...all mid-table right-backs in a team with Premiership ambitions. Witness Boulahrouz' performance at the Nou Camp where he single-handedly gifted Barca two goals with some horrendously slack defending. He's nicknamed 'The Cannibal' - did he eat all the decent right-backs?

Centre-Back: Philippe Senderos (Arsenal)

"He has had some good games against Drogba and he has improved a lot," said Arsene Wenger in December after being asked whether the young Swiss defender could cope with the Ivorian after being torn asunder by him in previous meetings. In the Carling Cup final he reverted to type - slow, cumbersome and awkward against one of Europe's sharpest strikers. Senderos is so snail-like he's gone backwards this season, with five yellow cards and two reds his only real contribution.

Centre-Back: Gabriel Paletta (Liverpool)

Only the second Argentine to play for Liverpool after Mauricio Pellegrino, and he's doing a very good job of stepping in Pellegrino's shoes. Frankly, he's been awful. When you make Jeremie Aliadiere look good you know you're in trouble. Heralded as "more like Jamie Carragher than Sami Hyypiä" by Rafa Benitez when he signed, we suspect that Carragher has since had a quiet word with his boss. Expect him to wing his way to Spain on loan this summer because he's certainly not ready for the Premiership.

Left-Back: Mikael Silvestre (ManYoo)

This time last year we'd probably be talking Patrice Evra, but such is the improvement in his form and also the emergence of Nemanja Vidic, that Mikael Silvestre has been shunted out to the scrapheap where he belongs. The Frenchman has played only 583 Premiership minutes this season - that puts him in the SWP bit-part bracket. When he does play, you understand why...though we're yet to grasp why he's somehow clocked up almost eight years at one of Europe's biggest clubs.

Right Midfield: Jermaine Pennant (Liverpool)

The best player in a truly rotten Birmingham side last season, Pennant was bought for ridiculous money to add some much-needed width to Liverpool. The result? At times - with him on one wing and Mark Gonzales on the other - it's looked like Liverpool are playing with nine men. Steve Finnan, playing behind him, has created more goals for Benitez' side this season. Yes, he's getting better. But oh how Liverpool needed him back in September...

Central Midfield: Darren Fletcher (ManYoo)

Football365 is often accused of picking on Darren Fletcher. We plead guilty. He's so ridiculously average it's untrue. Is he really any better than Luke Chadwick? Would he still be at Old Trafford if he weren't Scottish? The central midfield partnership between him and John O'Shea adds new meaning to the phrase 'out of their depth'. Watching him against Reading was painful - is he capable of riding a tackle, passing more than five yards or making an interception? No, no and thrice no.

Central Midfield: Mikel John Obi (Chelsea)

Could the sale of the Nigerian be the best piece of business Sir Alex Ferguson will ever do? He cost peanuts, did not play a single game, and then was sold for £12m. And he's been nothing but trouble for Chelsea. Warned by the FA after being sent off against Reading, he was fined by the club three times for turning up late for training as he embraced the London party scene with a vigour he's yet to show on the pitch. "I don't know why he is behaving like this and we are not happy about it," said his father in November. He probably wasn't over the moon about him being sent off in the Carling Cup final either. Bad boy.

Left Midfield: Kieran Richardson (ManYoo)

It's up there with the disappearance of Lord Lucan and the Bermuda Triangle - how the 22-year-old Richardson is still at Old Trafford when the likes of David Jones have been moved on. Add into the mix the inexplicable case of Richardson's eight England caps and try not to look rather puzzled. He's a one-trick pony with a particularly poor trick and caused my father to use the word 'wa*ker' whilst watching the Reading game. I have never, ever heard him swear before.

Striker: Salomon Kalou (Chelsea)

"Chelsea need big players and need the best young talent in the world and in Salomon we are getting that," said Jose Mourinho on signing the young Ivorian from Feyenoord. The problem is, though, that if you're paying close to £10m you want more than potential, more than promise - and that's all Kalou has shown. In short bursts. The rest of the time he's looked a bit lost and a bit rubbish really. Mind you, that still makes him about as good as Andrei Shevchenko.

Striker: Jeremie Aliadiere (Arsenal)

They say that 'Arsene knows'. Well, perhaps he can explain how his second longest-serving player (after Freddie Ljungberg) is a striker so poor that he's only currently fifth choice. The 24-year-old Frenchman has made only five Premiership starts in almost eight years with Arsenal and his only Premiership goal was scored almost five years ago. And yet he's still there. How has that been allowed to happen by the man who discovered Cesc Fabregas? Arsene knows nowt in this case.

Sarah Winterburn
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Very good article. I agree with all of it. :)
 
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