the blog of manchester united

With the saga seems to be un-ending, here’re my thoughts on this (7 as we might have a change of number 7 next season):

1. If CR wants to leave (against the wishes of his mother and agent who have been instrumental in his life), let him go to Madrid for 100 million Euros for exchange of Wesley Sneider AND Arjen Robben plus cash.

2. Get Berbatov for a 30 million and/or possibly David Villa

3.  How could no one notice (except for Sir Alex Ferguson) the conflict of interest from Scolari who advised Ronaldo to go away from Man Utd while he is going to CHELSEA?  C’mon!

4. and interestingly, CR totally trust his coach that the train only stopped by ONCE.  Yes, if you’re a “one hit wonder” then yes the train only stopped once.

5. Yes, as a Latino it’s understandable that Madrid felt more like home rather than Manchester, but if that’s the case be CLEAR since the beginning instead of playing cat and mouse for these long

6. All the supporters are frustrated well rather fed-up with this saga …

7. So, let’s MOVE ON!

At the end of day, good luck CR!  You can go to Madrid and get all the fame as what Beckham did (although his move wasn’t his wish in the fist place), and United will still be flying high!

In a night of George Best’s birthday, a 50th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster, 40 years on after their triumph in 1968, Manchester United has once again captured the crown of Europe after beating Chelsea on penalty shoot-out in a first all English European Club Cup final.

It was a magnificent night for Ryan Giggs who broke Sir Bobby Chalrton’s record appearances for Manchester United with 759 appearances for the club.

United took the lead through Cristiano Ronaldo’s first half header but Chelsea were fortunate to come into first half 1-1 courtesy of Lampard’s equalizer after the initial Essien’s shot has bounced off both Ferdinand and Vidic and fell into Lampard who slotted past van der Sar.  Chelsea came into 2nd half with some dominating period with a couple of shots hitting the post, however the game ended 1-1 after 120 minutes with Drogba dismissed a couple of minutes prior to the end of the game, which proved decisive as he would’ve been one of the top 5 penalty takers.

The penalty drama went high as Ronaldo missed United’s third penalty while Chelsea was able to score all of them, and it went to the 5th kick where John Terry, who miracously was able to play in this game after injury sustained during the last game of Premier League against Bolton, strangely slipped and kick the ball wide touching off the post while van der Sar dived to the wrong way.  Giggs and Anderson scored on subsequent kicks for United and the stage is set for van der Sar to save Nicolas Anelka’s penalty kick and bring home the European Cup once more to Manchester.  GLORY GLORY MANCHESTER UNITED!!!

In  a few hours time, Manchester United will be squareing off with Chelsea for the biggest trophy in Europen club football.

A few thoughts:

• If Chelsea thought the pitch condition will help them win ugly, then I don’t think they’ll ever win in.  Football is not just about winning, it’s about showpiece and sportsmanship to us, supporters!
• This will possibly mark the end for many Chelsea players, namely Shevchenko, Drogba, Wright-Phillips
• Scholes will definitely start this game
• Will Giggs break Sir Bobby Charlton’s record tonight? YES, NO DOUBT.
• How will United play? 4-5-1? 4-3-3?  I think it’ll be more like 4-1-2-1-1-1 with Hargreaves playing the holding midfielder and Tevez along with Ronaldo and Rooney playing a three man upfront.
• Is Terry and Ashley Cole 100% fit to start the game?  It does NOT matter, MAN UTD will need to be on top of our game to beat Chelsea regardless of who they start with.
• Will UNITED get our DOUBLE?  TOTALLY YES!!!

blogmanutd.com predicts: MAN UTD 2 - Chelsea 0

In contrast to many pundits predicting a cagey game with Chelsea eeking out 1-0 win, I do think it’s the opposite.  Chelsea coming in wanting to eek out an ugly victory mentality will totally backfire.  United to control the tempo with Ronaldo and Hargreaves scoring the winner.  MAN UTD 2 - Chelsea 0.