After Saturdays fight-back against Fulham, I now genuinely believe we can win the title. The sight of true champions is winning when you don't deserve to, and that’s what we did. United were awful, the worst I have seen us play all season (excluding champions league away games). The defence looked shaky, we couldn't string more than five passes together and we made Fulham look like Brazil. VanDerSar was the key. It was like watching Schemical back in 1990's, making save after save to keep us in the game. Then when a point looked inevitable, up stepped Ronaldo with his 16th league goal. But this was like no other, this was so important. He had been quiet all game, then out of nothing were 2-1 up in stoppage time. Picking the ball up just inside his own half, he finally decided to run at Fulham, and their defence stood no chance. The 7000 us behind the goal are going ballistic, the players are going ballistic, and Fergie is jumping up and down like an adolescent teenager. We had done what we hadn't been able to do for the last four years, be pathetic but still win. March is a key month with Champions League games against Lille, two FA cup matches (hopefully), and crucial league games against Liverpool, Bolton and Blackburn. The only down point today was the £45 tickets Fulham had charged away fans. Ridiculous considering city fans were only charged £25. This categorising of games has to stop, why should we punished just because were the best-supported club, and clubs know that could charge a £100 and United would still fill the ground. It's good to see Reading have lowered ticket prices for Tuesday replay, particularly as both teams will be weakened.
Monday 26 February 2007
This is our year
After Saturdays fight-back against Fulham, I now genuinely believe we can win the title. The sight of true champions is winning when you don't deserve to, and that’s what we did. United were awful, the worst I have seen us play all season (excluding champions league away games). The defence looked shaky, we couldn't string more than five passes together and we made Fulham look like Brazil. VanDerSar was the key. It was like watching Schemical back in 1990's, making save after save to keep us in the game. Then when a point looked inevitable, up stepped Ronaldo with his 16th league goal. But this was like no other, this was so important. He had been quiet all game, then out of nothing were 2-1 up in stoppage time. Picking the ball up just inside his own half, he finally decided to run at Fulham, and their defence stood no chance. The 7000 us behind the goal are going ballistic, the players are going ballistic, and Fergie is jumping up and down like an adolescent teenager. We had done what we hadn't been able to do for the last four years, be pathetic but still win. March is a key month with Champions League games against Lille, two FA cup matches (hopefully), and crucial league games against Liverpool, Bolton and Blackburn. The only down point today was the £45 tickets Fulham had charged away fans. Ridiculous considering city fans were only charged £25. This categorising of games has to stop, why should we punished just because were the best-supported club, and clubs know that could charge a £100 and United would still fill the ground. It's good to see Reading have lowered ticket prices for Tuesday replay, particularly as both teams will be weakened.
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