Man United are the best team left in the Carling Cup.
I reckon they will win it.
Sir Alex needs a trophy to keep his job.
First legs of these Carling semis can be dull.
Three of the four halves of football were dismal.
On Tuesday Wigan beat Arsenal 1-0 in a game that was tame and tepid.
On Wednesday we saw a proper game between 22 Blackburn and Man United men. Not boys, men.
The first half was exciting with two excellent goals and an Alan Smith-Robbie Savage-Wayne Rooney rumble that knocked ref Rob Styles off his feet.
Styles got up and booked all three.
Smith’s “tackle” was totally out of order.
But the melee was hilarious.
It was funny compared to the night – I think it was night- that Smith, then of Leeds, rammed his studs into Gilles Grimandi’s chest.
Giggs played a nice ball through to Saha, who deceived Andy Todd with a run infield, then swerved the other way to rifle in a low shot for 1-0.
Rio Ferdinand missed a long punt downfield, Kuqi flicked on, Pedersen killed the ball with his left foot and blasted it in with his right.
The first half was entertaining. Both sides went for it and there was so much space to play that it looked like a game from 1970
Why was that? Both defences feared pace, so they sat deeper to nullify Bellamy and Saha.
(In the Wigan-Arsenal game the players were so squashed up I could have thrown my duvet over the lot of them.)
Second half was dull and Rooney was off-form.He tried a lots of things but none came off.
But Rooney’s tackling was incredible. He takes the ball off you, and when you take it off him, he wins it back off you, quite often.
Rooney is so sharp, and has such a low centre of gravity, that he can stay on his feet when you expect him to fall over. And he can bulldoze away from opponents when he can’t beat them for skill
IF PEDERSEN is playing for Blackburn next season , I will be amazed.
And what a name MGP has : Morten Gamst Pedersen !
Pedersen would be superb at Juventus, feeding Zlatan and banging home his knockdowns .
SUPPORTERS are slagging Arsenal off at the moment.
Watching the team is not fun anymore and writing about them is not fun either.
TODAY I HAD a meeting with my agent, a Spurs fan.He says that if Spurs finish fourth it will be by default.
He reckons they’ve had the rub of the green so far this season, with many breaks, penalties, and things going their way.
If Spurs will finish fourth, Bayern and Barcelona will be quaking in their boots at the prospect of facing a team that has recently lost to Grimsby and Leicester.
Jenas looked very quick when he made three counter-attacking runs against Leicester. He must be getting fit at last.
Jenas does everything, but nothing exceptionally well.
Can he improve? Can he develop and score 12 goals a season? Would he have been a better footballer at Arsenal than he is at Spurs? Is he too lightweight?
ARSENAL should be beating Spurs for fourth place.
But Cole, Clichy and van Persie got broken toes because they all play in ballet slippers.
It’s about time somebody designed a new boot with a toecap that protects their precious little tootsies.
Three metatarsals since October is too many.
What if two more toes break sometime in February, March or April ?