Manchester United v Arsenal - Kick Off 12:45 - SSHD2

Mickeroo

Bloody hell Giroud, I take it back, how did you miss that?

onemorechance

:eek: Phew!

Liam O

Rooney motm? He's having a laugh though I do think Rooney has done well enough.

Paul Tergat

Rooney MOM? hmmm

Anyone

Fuhrer wrote: »

Is Dean playing yellow card bingo?

He's being dishing them out all right, if you didnt see the match just the card total you would think its been a dirty game.

Kylo Ren

Holy ****, De Gea is playing?

Maximus Alexander

De Gea has one thing to do all game, you'd forgive him for losing concentration, but he does it perfectly. Great goalkeeping.

Nemanja91

Was that their first shot on target?

Owen_S

Rafael surely deserved MOM?

Pj!

Rooney has put in a lot of work but missed a penalty too. Raf had a fine game.

Big Knox

Liam O wrote: »

Rooney motm? He's having a laugh though I do think Rooney has done well enough.

It's Sky Sports. Of course Rooney is MOTM...

Charisteas

Manc-Red wrote: »

The harsh reality is that Arsenal just aint good enough.

Yep, pains me to write it but this is the worst Arsenal team in around 25 years.

Still better than Spurs though and will still finish 4th this season.

keith16

Great finish...got a bit of luck tho

_blank_

game on!

Paul Tergat

FFS United. ****ing let them get a goal here

Grayditch

Oh delicious. All my rivals had Raphael in FF and were on for a windfall.

patrickc

beauty of a goal.. thats the only arsenal positive from this game though

Fighting Irish

Drumpot wrote: »

Conspiracys about united and refs should be bannable offences.

:rolleyes:

Mickeroo

Get in, not much of a consolation but was a sweet sweet shot.

onemorechance

Kilkenny14

Good finish but that fecked up my ff team points. Still United won and thats all that matters.

keith16

Fighting Irish wrote: »

:rolleyes:

WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE!

Charisteas

Charisteas wrote: »

Yep, pains me to write it but this is the worst Arsenal team in around 25 years.

Yeah right.

robby^5

Lovely goal from Cazorla at least.

Francie Barrett

Arsene has some cheek having a go at Stoke based on the puke football that they played today. It was disgusting to watch all those balls hoofed up to Giroud.

Mr.Crinklewood

Most one sided game since i saw half a pheasant at the local butchers.

DB21

Solid, if a bit boring, game by United. Good win, good 3 points, top of the table (even if it's only for a few hours).

yabadabado

Goog win,United were poor enough.Too many sloppy passes and wrong decision making but still a win.Arsenal are toothless going forward.
Disgusted that they got a goal in the end.

Fuhrer

Even in the hammering last year, Arsenal were still threatening towards the end of the first half. They didnt even bother this time.

Worst ive ever seen play in a long while

tony1kenobi

I almost definitely heard Mike Dean call Mertersacker a Spanish monkey twat.Who do I report him to?

L'prof

Too easy for United, though Arsenal improved in the 2nd half, but it really could have been another hammering!

Mickeroo

Fuhrer wrote: »

Even in the hammering last year, Arsenal were still threatening towards the end of the first half. They didnt even bother this time.

Worst ive ever seen play in a long while

They were awful but the Norwich match was worse imho.

IvySlayer

Did anyone else see that one fan among the United supporters celebrating when Arsenal scored?

onemorechance

IvySlayer wrote: »

Did anyone else see that one fan among the United supporters celebrating when Arsenal scored?

Didn't see; maybe bet on 2-1! :pac:

keith16

IvySlayer wrote: »

Did anyone else see that one fan among the United supporters celebrating when Arsenal scored?

Yeah, must have had a few quid on 2-1 I'd say!!!

DenMan

Dismal performance from Arsenal today. Well done Utd on the win and going top of the league. Wenger get the troops ready for Schalke on Tuesday night please!

Will I Amnt

Just read over this thread. My goodness me there's some people here with serious issues.

Arsenal were gutless from the get go. There's was no way they were getting anything out of that game, even if DB10 had been officiating.
Class goal from Cazorla at the end but that's about all they did.
Credit their fans though, they were singing non stop for the last 15-20 minutes.

Easiest 3 points we've got all season even if it wasn't reflected in the scoreline.

Turtyturd

tony1kenobi wrote: »

I almost definitely heard Mike Dean call Mertersacker a Spanish monkey twat.Who do I report him to?

The 'Association of black lawyers for Germans who are mistakenly called Spanish twats' already have it under control.

doc_17

Don't think Geoff Shreeves would contradict fergie like that.

DB10

What did Shreeves say?

yabadabado

Neville saying United were excellent today,best he has seen them this season.WTF.

I thought they were poor enough today and arsenal basically let them have a free ride.

yabadabado

DB10 wrote: »

What did Shreeves say?

He said he saw SAF give Mike Dean a brown envelope in the car park before the game.The cops are going to open an investigation once they are finished with Clattenburg.

Mr.Crinklewood

yabadabado wrote: »

He said he saw SAF give Mike Dean a brown envelope in the car park before the game.The cops are going to open an investigation once they are finished with Clattenburg.

Chelsea have also accused Clattenburg of racially abusing the brown envelope.

keith16

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Chelsea have also accused Clattenburg of racially abusing the brown envelope.

The envelope didn't hear anything however, and was reportedly told by a colleague.

PhlegmyMoses

_blank_ wrote: »

no, but when idiots start talking about corrupt referees, conspiracy theories and other general mentalness, it should be stopped.

Don't worry, Niallo doesn't believe it's a conspiracy to do with corrupt referees. He believes that it is a complex psychological issue in which referees on an unquantifiable subconscious level give Manchester United more decisions because they are afraid of upsetting a manager who has received more bans than anyone else in the past few years for comments about referees. He's Freud, you see.

niallo27

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Don't worry, Niallo doesn't believe it's a conspiracy to do with corrupt referees. He believes that it is a complex psychological issue in which referees on an unquantifiable subconscious level give Manchester United more decisions because they are afraid of upsetting a manager who has received more bans than anyone else in the past few years for comments about referees. He's Freud, you see.

What difference does it make how many times he was banned, just like how people freely admit refs could be influenced by suarezs past why can't they be influenced by one of the most powerful men in football. I genuinely think refs are afraid of ferguson and they would prefer not to be involved in controversial decisions involving him, is it impossible to think they might favour utd in a 50/50. I don't think it's a conspiracy I just think ferguson holds a lot of power.

PhlegmyMoses

niallo27 wrote: »

What difference does it make how many times he was banned, just like how people freely admit refs could be influenced by suarezs past why can't they be influenced by one of the most powerful men in football. I genuinely think refs are afraid of ferguson and they would prefer not to be involved in controversial decisions involving him, is it impossible to think they might favour utd in a 50/50. I don't think it's a conspiracy I just think ferguson holds a lot of power.

Of course blud. Anything to soothe the pain of seeing your biggest rivals piss all over you for 25 years is fine by me. Anything to make their success seem slightly tainted.

If Ferguson holds so much power, why are they banning him more than others? How come Martinez and Bruce and Hughes and all other managers who whinge about refs after every game against a big club get away with their comments?

And again, as I've asked you before, can you please provide some stats to back up your idea that Ferguson's Derren Brown-like psychological influence has benefited United? You know, like take the last 5 years of matches for all PL teams, work out number of penalties given relative to fouls, relative to time spent in the opposing half, number of red cards for and against relative to number of fouls etc. We'll start off quantitative and then get all qualitative up in here afterwards.

But then, you're not really going to do that. You're going to just post nonsense like the above after every decision United get for the rest of the season and ignore everything else. This is called soap-boxing and it's generally considered to be a ****ty way of posting on forums.

niallo27

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Of course blud. Anything to soothe the pain of seeing your biggest rivals piss all over you for 25 years is fine by me. Anything to make their success seem slightly tainted.

If Ferguson holds so much power, why are they banning him more than others? How come Martinez and Bruce and Hughes and all other managers who whinge about refs after every game against a big club get away with their comments?

And again, as I've asked you before, can you please provide some stats to back up your idea that Ferguson's Derren Brown-like psychological influence has benefited United? You know, like take the last 5 years of matches for all PL teams, work out number of penalties given relative to fouls, relative to time spent in the opposing half, number of red cards for and against relative to number of fouls etc. We'll start off quantitative and then get all qualitative up in here afterwards.

But then, you're not really going to do that. You're going to just post nonsense like the above after every decision United get for the rest of the season and ignore everything else. This is called soap-boxing and it's generally considered to be a ****ty way of posting on forums.

I'm not ignoring everything else, we discussed big decisions that went against utd as well, we had to go back a few years mind you. Opr posted a few articles about it but the only response he got was the usual tin foil or 9/11 pictures. Wasn't Martinez charged for his comments as well.

Pj!

What about Santos getting Van Persie's jersey at half time!!!


Can you imagine a United player coming into Fergie at half time at 1-0 down with an opposition jersey!!! :eek::eek:

batistuta9

Pj! wrote: »

What about Santos getting Van Persie's jersey at half time!!!


Can you imagine a United player coming into Fergie at half time at 1-0 down with an opposition jersey!!! :eek::eek:

mountain out of a molehill here

what difference does it matter, probably goes on all the time in the tunnel

& what if they go in with an opposition jersey after they've been beat, what would fergie do then?

there's a scause in that post