How
good are United? Good enough to beat Roma 3-0 on aggregate — with their
second team. To be fair they didn't lineup their reserves, but they did
field a very conservative, defensive side. Even so, Tevez’s 70th-minute
strike confirmed their place in the last four where they will face Frank Rijkaard's Spanish dancers.
Warming
the bench were Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Paul Scholes. That's
a pricey seat, but we'll need the lads healthy and angry to properly
demolish Arsenal this Sunday.
Giggsy
got his 100th Champions League cap, while Rio limped off after
preventing an area disaster, 3 stitches to the foot his reward.
The other semi sees our old friends Chelsea squaring off against the Scousers. Pa-leeeese. If this turns into another Ambien moment we'll know who to blame: Jose Mourinho - for not being there!
The
dream: United/Liverpool. The nightmare: the Champions League folds
because the Chelsea/Liverpool match gives off brain-numbing gamma rays
that eventually destroy the earth.
Trembling about the Liverpool Easter Massacre? Don't. I simply don't believe Rafa can convincingly conquer a big four side. It's that simple. Sure Liverpool's in good form of late, but it's not like they're the #1 ranked club in the world or anything. Who is?
How Many Tomorrow, Ronny? This should be good. Ronny's on fire. Liverpool's doing the can-can lineup number. The blue and red
teams, whose names we shall not mention, face off for a (prediction here)
nil-nil tie. Or at least some form of tie. Neither wants it like United.
The starting whistle has yet to blow at Old Trafford at the time of this post. But I can't see United losing to the down-bound Lancashire louts. The thought of it is just too tragic, especially with serious fixtures looming over the scouser horizon.
The
Red Devils can go three points clear at the top of the table with a
victory tonight. Says Fergie: "Bolton have got Kevin Davies up front -
and he'll do everything he possibly can to unsettle us." I'm sure Sir
Alex vividly remembers last November when the Trotter's Nicolas Anelka (where'd he go again?) scored the only goal of the match.
United 2 Bolton 0. Let the whistle blow. A
Lancashire Hotpot, that's what it used to be called. Perhaps it still
is (a Hotpot that is: an unpredictable mishmash of nasty, undefined
gristly bits). Whatever it is, I just don't want to rewrite this
tomorrow. So I'll stick with my prediction. Because I was right!
We never again want
to hear that United gets the calls at home (OK, sometimes it's true).
Attack attack attack. That's what the the Reds did into the second half of
Saturday's FA debacle. Total domination. But not one shot hit its
target, and there were many. Then the #### hit the Stretford End.
A
foul on Milan Baros saw Tomasz Kuszczak sent off with a straight red.
Apparently grabbing Baros' ankle in the area is against football laws,
although a sending off seemed harsh. A yellow and free kick would have
sufficed. It was truly an ugly chain of events.
No treble . No trouble. This week's team whose name we shall not speak
is the Russian cortelski from West London, no not QPR. The one
supposedly managed by Abrahm Gant: (he's old, he's glum, he's not the
special one). So no treble for their lot, for the red team whose name we shall not speak, and sadly not for our beloved United.
But there's always the Prem and the Champions League. Fingers crossed.
