The Manchester United Thread

Terrible performance until Fergie made the change of Young and Scholes for Ando and Hernandez and those two really changed the dynamic of the team and the attacking movement that those two created was brilliant IMO. Anderson and Cleverly should be starting week in week out right now, brilliant form. Young for me is terrible and lazy and selfish. Also Evra does not deserve the captaincy, he is so inceredibly lazy when coming back to defend it's unreal and is really starting to bug me.
 
hughesman said:
Terrible performance until Fergie made the change of Young and Scholes for Ando and Hernandez and those two really changed the dynamic of the team and the attacking movement that those two created was brilliant IMO. Anderson and Cleverly should be starting week in week out right now, brilliant form. Young for me is terrible and lazy and selfish. Also Evra does not deserve the captaincy, he is so inceredibly lazy when coming back to defend it's unreal and is really starting to bug me.
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Young was a terrible buy, I still don't understand it at all when you consider the alternatives for the price we paid for him. Like why couldn't we of not bought him and got like James Rodriguez, much more creative and Young you can predict what he is going to do majority of the time.

Even if Rodriguez would be a bit more than Young I'd rather we had done that.
 
Nice to see your positive attitude as always zzeezzy..
 
Joel` said:
Anderson needs to start more.
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He should but he plays well if there's a more defensive midfield partner. It really bugs me when he passes the ball to a full back and then runs towards him to get it back. Looks like he is playing chase with himself. And those long passes from him just aren't working. Other than that he's awesome at times but as other people have said - needs to show consistency & remain injury-free.
 
Anderson and Cleverley is a soft core, though. Both are energetic, but neither are intelligent enough to cover space or runs without an anchoring partner beside them. Against teams like Wigan and so on, fine. Against City? Almost certainly not.
 
Mike. said:
his first leg goes around the player and onto the ball. there is no hard impact onto the player, scholes trailing leg is into the joint which pushes both legs in.
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What. He never touched the ball, this is easily yellow card at least. Scholes has always been a brute and a cheat, but like many brilliant players he usually gets away with it.
 
Another victory for United over City tonight. But this time in the boxing ring. The guy hatton just got beat by is a United fan and wore the shirt to the ring today
 
Tyton said:
What. He never touched the ball, this is easily yellow card at least. Scholes has always been a brute and a cheat, but like many brilliant players he usually gets away with it.
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Eh, not sure Scholes is a cheat. He never means to injure or hurt anyone, he's just utterly useless at tackling.

DarloGeorge96 said:
Another victory for United over City tonight. But this time in the boxing ring. The guy hatton just got beat by is a United fan and wore the shirt to the ring today
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I could point out all the stupidity of this statement.

But I'll just point out that City won last time, remember?
 
Jesus Christ do you not understand a joke... Its laughable that you thought I was being serious
 
DarloGeorge96 said:
Jesus Christ do you not understand a joke... Its laughable that you thought I was being serious
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That... that was a joke?

****. Well, thanks a lot. I'm allergic to bad jokes, and I'm pretty sure that one could well hospitalise me.
 
GodCubed said:
Eh, not sure Scholes is a cheat. He never means to injure or hurt anyone, he's just utterly useless at tackling.
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He's not a cheat, but I think there's more to some of his tackles than just being a bad tackler.
 
GodCubed said:
Eh, not sure Scholes is a cheat. He never means to injure or hurt anyone, he's just utterly useless at tackling.
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Intentions asisde, rough tackle is a rough tackle. If he's that bad he could just stay on his feet rather than risk someone's injury.

As for cheating there had been more than one "hand of god" incident.
 
alicwkd said:
He's not a cheat, but I think there's more to some of his tackles than just being a bad tackler.
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Oh yeah, not arguing he's slightly psychopathic at times. I see interesting parallels between him and Wilshere, actually.

Tyton said:
Intentions asisde, rough tackle is a rough tackle. If he's that bad he could just stay on his feet rather than risk someone's injury.

As for cheating there had been more than one "hand of god" incident.
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If there are many hand of god moments, they're indefensible, but I don't think you can say the former. You HAVE to attempt some tackles. It's not a case of 'well I'm a bad tackler so I'm not even going to try and win the ball' since that'll put your team in jeopardy. Likewise, being one of the best tacklers of all time didn't mean Maldini attempted more because he knew he was good at it. There's a time and a place for a challenge, but their success depends on the skill of the player performing it, and tackling rates don't go up proportionally to the tackler's skill. Sometimes you just have to attempt a challenge - if a player much quicker than you is about to round you, for example.
 
GodCubed said:
Eh, not sure Scholes is a cheat. He never means to injure or hurt anyone, he's just utterly useless at tackling.
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I remember the guys from sky sports chatting before/during/after a game in the studio. Jamie Redknapp remembering how he used to play against Scholes. He told a story asking someone from United (can't recall which one) whether Scholes tackles like that on purposes or is it by accident. And the response had been that Scholes knows definitely what he's doing.

Don't know if it's true but watching him do that in important games makes me wanna go and punch him in his face. Especially when he's already on yellow.
 
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