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Nice video clip - and the response from Highbury's loudest fan is.....deafeningly silent:D

Warning to any other clubs who feel like copying Arsenal or Chelsea - not a good idea to bring an unbeaten run to Old Trafford :D

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You should put up a sign along the lines of 'We can't win the league any more, but we can end any unbeaten runs you might be carrying'. Double thanks are due, I forgot that you also preserved our Invicibles season record until at least May 2007. Nice work Scottish flukey goal fella!

Now where's my compilation video of van Nistlerooy diving? Bit big to post, I'm afraid. Still, I'm sure there are some bitter Ipswich fans who still remember him getting them relegated the other year who could sort you out with footage.

Quite, but some are more angelic than others. Man United were 14th out of 20 last season in the FPL, just ahead of Birmingham (top three were Arsenal, Chelsea and Spurs, in fact). Indeed (since the best teams usually end up near the top) you can trace the fortunes up at OT by the decline in placing in that table.

While I dislike Mourinho intensely and hope (in vain, sadly) that he's feeling like a prat on the plane back down tonight, his teams do play pretty much in the right spirit. Perhaps if the 'Special One' had spent the week supervising training rather than mouthing off about Wenger in the media he might have actually won a game or two. Schadenfreude, I think it's called. How's the stutter going, Jose?

He turned out for the Luftwaffe, like Jens Lehmann's dad* :P

*Joke. If he's reading. Wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Mad Jens, really, look what he did to Oliver Kahn's face.

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The bitterness is strong in that one.....:D

Aren't we above Arsenal now?

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:rofl:

Got to love these United fans, they cant get an unbeaten run together them selves so criticise anyone elses :D

Still they did well today to survive the Chelski barrage of attacks for the last 20 mins.

:D

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No no no, we don't criticise them - we just end them, that's all :D

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But the FA's Fair play league doesn't show who is the cleanest team on the pitch. Norwich finished last season with the least yellow/red cards. Does this not mean they are the cleanest team?

The fair play league gives points for other stuff, like 10 points per match on the behaviour of fans.

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Hope BB didn't kick the dog too hard :erm:

I can smell the bitterness from all the way up here :PP:

I suspect that the video for Pires and Ashley Cole diving, is significantly larger than van nistelrooy :D

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As utd fan, we shouldnt get our hopes up about yesterday, great result for us as was against Arsenal last year, but don't forget same team went on last year to loose following week to portsmouth!

we have tricky away game after the break to Charlton and we will need to play exact same way again, and again and again til seasons end. also lets not get carried away smith, rio, o'shea and fletcher were fantastic but i still believe that we could and should buy in a better midfielders. one game doesn't change a player overnight.

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well going on about the diving thing which is something very close to my heart and something i absolutely hate.. i'll say this about United we do have players that dive.. Ronaldo and Ruud spring to mind as the main culprits but most of our team have prob done it at some poit this year.. i won't name anyone from any other teams as it's pointless.. the fact is it goes on about twenty times in every match.. just look at the times when a hand goes near someones face and they end up rolling on the ground.. i'll tell you when i last saw my g/f she touched my face and I didn't have the same reaction

the fair play league is a joke as you get points for fans behavour and other stuff.. if the fans were signing anti- chelsea songs we loose points if they clap when chelsea do well we get points.. the fpl should be scraped due to the fact that each team cheats and dives in every match.. if FIFA had a proper fair play league that rewarded honest decisions without diving it would be ok.. any team that has players going up to the ref waving a card saying are you going to book the player from the other team should be suspended from it..

i know i said I wouldn't name anyone for diving but go back to the pen with Boro v Man U.. i don't want to argue about whether it should have been given or not but the player had his shirt pulled.. when he went down he had a face in pain and was goign "arrrrggghhhh" like they all do.. over his shirt being pulled :confused: :confused:

going back to the game during the firat half we played well but since when has a United team come out for a second half at 1-0 up and said we will sit back and defend a slim lead.. that's not the way we play and not United .. i blame Quieroz for that.. we were lucky Chelsea weren't in top form as the amiont of ball they had they should have punished us in the second half.. o'Shea was awful for the whole match and every touch ,,, pass and cross was rubbish... he shouldn't be in the team at the moment.. Smith put in his usual 150 % but where was that against Boro ? during the second half with only Ruud playing up front why was VDS kicking long balls up to him from goal kicks ? the defenders were going to win each of those balls and just play the ball back .. then after that we had a new formation of 4-6 !!!

as Man U did against Arsenal we didn't build on the result and ATM i'm not too confident on us building on this one either

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Nov 14, on TV apparently. Oops, another embarrassment in front of a live TV audience.

Still, if it gets the ginger hoofing clown sacked, I think I can take it.

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were do utd go from here then, a win away to charlton! . . united needs to do a run like Arsenal and Chelsea have achieved.

tight in defence and scoring freely up front. christmas and new year we should pull out all stops to get players we want. glazers and chelseas money is no excuse, if we had of offered 24m for essien?? we would have got him. We still hold transfer records for foreign player, british player and teenage in rio/rooney and veron so i hate hearin this excuse we cant match chelsea in transfer market.

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Finally some sense from a man u fan, your fix is on the training pitch and tactics not buying your way out of trouble. If you can beat chelsea then lose next week that is down to been bad on the day not what players you got.

Wigan are second, have they got more resources then liverpool, man u tottenham etc.

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at the moment I can't see us going on a run.. the performance against Chelsea could have been better.. Rio still made mistakes and every touch from O'Shea was poor.. we still lacked width up front as well with no real winger on the pitch.. can see alot of the team going into comfort mode again as we beat chelsea and the performance will drop next match.. too much talk from the man u camp and not enough performances at the moment

still would like to be proved wrong as we still need a few other teams to beat or draw with chelsea to get back into the title race

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What sort of reaction did you have then ? :D