themanupstairs

Defensively he's average tbh.

50 from Suarez, Sissoko, Santon, Cameron and Morrison. Howard, Coleman, Lampard, Barkley, Ramsey and Giroud to come. Accidentally benched Rooney so i'm hoping Lampard doesn't play (unlikely away at Arsenal).

good

Rooney, Giroud in. Aguero and Khal Drogo out.

Game over IMO. Spurs will not score unless they get a penalty.

That's shoulder to back, not shoulder to shoulder. BTW how shit is that Naughton? Looks like a homophobe dear in gay strobe lights.

Spurs are dogshit

When does he ever say anything other than one or two? It's the bog standard line every window.

That's foul.

Do your intuitions have a past history of coming to fruition? Yes except I never follow my intuition and end up opting for the more sensible captain. And regretting it.

Drafted Khal Drogo, Sissoko and Howard in for Giroud, Shelvey and Jaaskalainen for this week and took the points hit. My intuition says to captain Coleman or Barkley, as I have the feeling one of them will hit a couple of goals in their match against Fulham.

Well at least he's recognised that the direct football route will only take you so far, but the worry remains for me that it's not his natural instinct like it was for Keegan, so we'll have to see how it will hold up under pressure. Also he needs to work out how to translate harmless possession in your own half to passing that will actually hurt the opposition. Swansea for example pushed men very aggressively into our half and we found that hard to cope with. Will Pardew be able to do that against the lesser teams? In theory if he has the right personnel on the pitch, then it shouldn't be a problem. Attack minded and/or progressive minded players such as Cabaye, Anita, Ben Arfa, Remy, Gouffran, Sissoko, and even Vuckic, Sammy, as well as our two starting fullbacks have more than enough in their locker to hurt teams.

That's some serious money laundering. Absolute filth how these cunts are allowed to take charge of clubs and splash money around like it's nothing while billions around the world live in poverty. It's fucking shameful. The human race at its very worst.

Would be nice to win this and put a bit of daylight between us and them. No use getting this far only to get complacent. We are away to Palace and home to Stoke after this, and I reckon 7 points from 12 would be a decent way to end the year

Agreed. I'd even go as far saying he's one of the best defenders in the league on current form.

Throughout the match, and with all of Man U's futile attempt at getting an equalizer, I always thought if there was going to be a second goal in the match it would be us getting it. Never looked in doubt tbh. I didn't feel as nervous as I did in the last few minutes against Norwich or WBA, the reason being the point you make in the bolded paragraph.

Wednesday night, for example, there was like 8 games. It would be absolutely impossible so I don't know why, week on week, they try and pass it off that they've seen all the games. That's showbiz

Yup. I think there's more to his crap performances when he first joined than just him being shit at the time.