Welcome to Double Maths & Soothsaying For Beginners.
If we rake through what may or may not be going through the minds of our coaching staff for one more blog we’re more liable to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act than to find inner peace or enlightenment.
And so there are still 9 games to go.
Can that one sentence can offer restore the perspective that we’ve had systematically battered beaten out of us since Arry became England’s number one in waiting?
Here are the fixtures and my take is based upon us playing good football, players in their correct positions. If Arry plays Friedel as a lone striker at any stage, all bets are off.
Stoke H Anti football has barely kept them in the top half of the table. Consistently mediocre all season. That said, they did us 2-1. 3 points
Chelsea A This ‘orrible lot are less reliable than us. With a bit of luck Mata will get hit by a bus driven by John Terry before we meet them. 1 point
Swansea H What a season. Premiership fresh meat has rarely been fresher and meatier. With a no frills, no nonsense typemanager 3 points
Sunderland A Rejuvenated under the reserved auspices of the man with the cheapest spectacles working in show business today. 1 point
Norwich H I’m glad this isn’t at Carrow Road, our little cherubs need to play sides who can ‘get messy’ indoors on a proper pitch 3 points
Bolton A Dire all season 3 points
QPR A By the time this game comes round Mark Hughes will have hit DefCon4. Expect a particularly ugly card fest 1 point
Blackburn H Whilst they sensationally beat Marnchesta Yanited they’ve achieved little else this term and if we screw this one up… 3 points
Aston Villa A If the our luxury coach can get past the burning effigies of McLiesh their lack of firepower should just about sink ’em 3 points
Fulham H If the Dutch Napolean’s Russian maintains his current form they will cause everyone problems including little ol’ us 1 point
So I say 22 points. What say you?
Im going on about this now but I simply dont get it to be honest. Man united started with three recognized strikers against west brom.
welbeck, rooney and hernandez. Fergie isnt afraid to bench the likes of nani, giggs and berba.
harry seems to insist that the same players need to start every week and complains that he has to leave someone out. always making an excuse.
he doesn’t know how to set up a team against a specific opposition and seems to afraid to drop Ade or Bale for that matter.
What is the use of saying its a strong squad if you dont effing use them?
Then when you do, all of a sudden they’re expected to work miracles after not playing the whole season..?
If we dont sort this out we’re gonna end up 5th or 6th…
22 points? No defeats? Dream on!
17-19 points max and i`m being optimistic, on current form only 8. Will HR finally find a tactical brain ? I don`t think so, almost every contributer to this blog has better tactical awareness than HR. Not another season with him at the helm please, two years in a row we`ve put ourselves in a good position only to capitulate immediately the Jan window closes and we cannot strengthen. Other teams play a 9 month season, we play 5 months, then hibernate. Sick as a parrot.
I can see us winning all the home games, 15 points.
Away,3 points from Bolton, QPR and Villa.
Prob a point from the two tricky away games combined, Chelsea and Sunderland.
Anything more from these 2 will be a bonus.
Gives us 25 points from 30, should be enough for 3rd?
The problem may come from the cup, semi final on the day of the bolton away game, (so that game is definately off either way) and final (should we get there) the day of Villa away.
Could possibly find ourselves with 3 games still to play after lifting the cup!
My team against Bolton should be :
Cuddles
Modric
Ade
Saha
Rafa
Bale
Bale
Bale
Bale
Parker
Dos Santos
Think we`ve got a squeak there !