Sifu

You better spend some fucking money you cunt.

Might as well have played Tulisa at RB tonight. I can still remember his peformance against Arsenal at the Emirates in the 2010/11 season, he was really good that day. From witnessing that to witnessing tonight's performance, urgh, what a fucking shame. We can do better than him and let's hope we bring a new RB in next month eh?

So just got back from the pub, a group of City fans took pity on me and bought me a couple of pints so stayed longer than I really should have. What can I say about the game then? The last 20 minutes were horrific, embarrassing and humiliating. We capitulated very badly and whilst I am one who likes to look at the positives, I can't really bring myself to do so this time round because of those 20 minutes there. It's all well and good to say that we played well for 70 minutes (which is fair enough, we more than matched them up until their 4th goal) but what we witnessed tonight was another shambolic defensive performance. We're getting there attacking-wise but our defence is progressively getting worse. If tonight doesn't prompt Ashley to spend some fucking money on a defender, then nothing will. A new CB/RB is an absolute must next month. It really is time for the Ashley/Llambias to hold their hands and admit that the transfer policy is massively flawed (I realise that such a statement is worthy of a Yao face). What a demoralising evening.

Lucky you.

It was more of a question tbf...

Many pints will be needed methinks.

The second half of the season was demoralising as fuck. There was only one direction we were going to go like (although that Middlesbrough game, like many others on here, gave me false hope).

Only just caught up with this thread, I see Lee has once again demonstrated his excellent journalistic skills. Chief football writer ftw.

Is that kind in terms of not having a witch hunt to get one of our players banned? Aye, that too

Excluding the Europa League, hasn't ESPN been kind to us this season?

Ferguson literally is a petulant little child

All signs are pointing to him leaving, hope I'm wrong like.

Had a mini-argument with my Man U supporting workmates today. Apparently every manager does what Ferguson does all the time. Urgh.

Unsurprising tbh.

Dare I be positive/optimistic about this one?

Another positive cameo from him. Long may his form continue I say. I'd probably still have him primarily as an impact sub mind.

There were a few occasions today where Ba received the ball the wings with Cisse moving inside - I'd like to see more of this interchange in the near future although we do need Ba to pass the ball a bit more.

And always has been. For all his achievements and success, he's a terrible role model.

To me, that doesn't look too bad now...we're obviously not going to hit the heights of last season but there are signs which indicate that we're in for a strong second half of the season so the complexion of that graph can improve...

It's the only thing that's keeping me sane atm

It's been 3 hours and 45 minutes since the final whistle and I'm still gutted by the result. That was the best we've played for 90 minutes in a long time. The spirit, attacking intent, possession play - they were all there but we were unfortunately let down by silly defensive mistakes. We definitely didn't deserve to lose that (as was the case with the City game too). Somehow though, the universe always favours the big sides to go that extra mile - we did ride our luck a few times at 3-3 so the score could have very well been higher than what it finished as. Think I hate Van Persie even more after today, really wish someone would give him his just desserts - definitely deserves some sort of beating. All in all though, I am proud of that performance and we just have to focus on the positives (there were a quite a few of them). Today's performance does give us a further platform to build on - we have seen quite a bit of improvement these last few weeks so we're slowly getting to where we want to be imo. Got to say that I am now more optimistic of our chances against Arsenal - play like we did today and we'll give Arsenal a good game.

Work should be fun tomorrow. Urgh.

Shola

Mint