Bahtatboy

Mentalist's question was, "Noise about what?". Dumbo's post was about finishing matches, ie Man U's coming back from 2-0 down away to Villa and 1-0 down against Bragga away in the space of 4 days, on top of winning after being down against Soton, Fulham, Liverpool, Cluj and Bragga (again) this season. If he's going to respond to a post about something (albeit not explicitly stated) re Man U, it wouldn't be unreasonable for him to consider that such comebacks in the space of 4 days were the subject.

The Dean

Ah........... you've set your pages to show the most recent at the top....... OK I get it now.............

scrubbedexpat141

Ahem

mentalist

Thoroughly enjoyed the weekend footy.

Gooners 5-2 Spurs
Citizens 5-0 Villains
Baggies 2-1 Chelski
Canaries 1-0 Rags

The Dean

Just popping in to acknowledge the 'gallows humour' of Saints manager Nigel Adkins........... he had the good grace to laugh his socks off when a reporter (pre-match) referred to QPR v Southampton as 'El Sackico"............

Bahtatboy

Bless you.

scrubbedexpat141

Thanks, was choking on my cheers for a great Saints win.

Then choking on my chuckles for Man U losing at Norwich.

Bahtatboy

Fair do's. Congrats on the win, you've now won only once less than Everton who are in 5th position, which is a bit weird.

Re Man U, I did predict pre-season that they wouldn't be top at Xmas because they have a much harder first half of the season than second half. Nevertheless, losing to Norwich...

scrubbedexpat141

Utd's issues are as follows;

Keeper's are unreliable and rotated too much.
Ferdinand
Vidic
Central Midfield

Bahtatboy

Yep, although the last one is usually cured by bringing on Scholes. Great use of the wings against Norwich, but all fizzled away to nothing.

scrubbedexpat141

Can't do that forever though.

Valencia doesn't get the praise he deserves. Blinding player.

The Dean

Scholes is one of the all-time greats as a goalscoring midfielder (think Bobby Charlton but more fluid and mobile) BUT...... definitely off the pace this season. I actually think he needs to play the full 90, week in, week out.

The Dean

......... and on a sad note, one of the unsung (unknown?) heroes who survived the Munich crash, but never really 'recovered' from it.............

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...y-Morgans.html

scrubbedexpat141

Eurgh.

Team of average players manage to win.

The Dean

City lost rather than United won, in my view........... if you follow me.