Message to Rafa

[Rog]

Originally Posted by matt

Why would you rather win a more or less meaningless league game than progress to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League? ...

not being a supporter of either team you wouldn't understand.....and i'm not patronising you or anything, that's just the way it is.......as i said, one of my good mates who's a manc won't even answer his phone so i can take the piss i''l get him the weekend

[matt]

Originally Posted by Rog

not being a supporter of either team you wouldn't understand.....and i'm not patronising you or anything, that's just the way it is.......as i said, one of my good mates who's a manc won't even answer his phone so i can take the piss i''l get him the weekend

Well, there is the Arsenal thing, but I'd take losing to Arsenal everytime if it meant Spurs were winning League Titles and European Cups.

Plus there seems to be echoes of Welsh Rugby in that for years there was this mentality that as long as we beat the English it was a successful season, even if we lost all the other games. Thankfully we seem to have left that behind now (although there's still a minority that think that way). And while it will be great if we beat Ireland on Saturday and so win the Triple Crown I'd much rather we had put more points on Italy and so also be crowned champions if we were to win on the weekend

[big screen satellite]

Originally Posted by Rog

not being a supporter of either team you wouldn't understand.....and i'm not patronising you or anything, that's just the way it is.......as i said, one of my good mates who's a manc won't even answer his phone so i can take the piss i''l get him the weekend

i was exactly like that with my mum (who supports Liverpool) i didn't speak to her all weekend.

its more than just a game in the league for fans of these two clubs - see Rooney & (in previous years) Gary Neville's comments to the game's build up

As a United fan, i would rather win the Premier League every season, than the Champions League - i don't care what Fergie's priority is - the League to me is THE most important thing, and losing so heavily to the biggest rivals is THE worst you can get

beating Inter Milan - so what - its still just a knock out club competition, the League is a long fought out campaign which pits you against the same teams every year which you always want to beat. Simple.

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by matt

That's an absolutely ridiculous thing to say (and I've seen Liverpool fans offer similar sentiments that they'd rather have lost to Madrid if it meant they could win at Old Trafford). Why would you rather win a more or less meaningless league game than progress to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League? So you lost a game at home to one of your rivals, so what? In the big scheme of things you're still going to win the league and you're still very much in the mix for the FA Cup & Champions League and could end this season with an unprecedented Quintuple.

Sheffield Wednesday have done the double over Sheff Utd for the first time since 1914 but i'd swap that for promotion to the premier league any day. It meant a lot to beat them but theyre still the ones in the playoff positions and we're stuck in midtable. I know its not quite the same...

Liverpool have to enjoy that theyre the most successfull european team of the last 5 years and that theyve done the double over United. But United will win the league, which is something Liverpool havent done since 1990, evn though theyve managed to win everything else in the years since then.

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from my point of view, it'd be handy if the arse pulled off a surprise so you'd have to make sure of doing the job on hull...


...but i'd be surprised if you slipped up at the weekend!

[Dunwho]

Heres for a big slip up this weekend and a heroic hull win... because hull will have nothing to lose and United will not know what hit them...


..but this is only on the condition that Newcastle win their next game, otherwise United can thrash the hell outa hull and i would not give a toss