Hope Springs Eternal – Manchester 8th November 2014

With United not being in Europe, we can sit back and watch what happens with a detached amusement at what sometimes goes on around us. At City on Wednesday, they lost to CSKA Moscow but they weren’t happy at their treatment by UEFA. They were so incensed in fact that not only did some fans not turn up to the game in protest, one of their number even decided to paint up a protest banner which pointed away from the pitch and in a true display of mancunian rebellion (this time against Grammar) they wrongly spelt two words out of the ten on the banner

Crystal Palace have made a reasonable start to the season. Nobody was taking a win against them today for granted. There’s a different vibe around Old Trafford nowadays. One that’s not been felt on a regular basis since the early 1990’s. There’s not the same confidence pre match that this fixture would’ve enticed before Sir Alex Ferguson retired.

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Relieved United players celebrate Juan Mata’s winner in front of the F Stand (photo courtesy of Neil Meehan) 

United had a lot of possession in this game. I believe that this is the first game when Louis van Gaal’s philoshophy was actually implemented Continue reading Hope Springs Eternal – Manchester 8th November 2014