[punky]

Didn't this Ferguson chappie criticise an injury-hit, regelgation-battling Spurs for doing the same thing as he did on sunday? Surely not. Being hypocritical would be so out of character for him.

I have to say, i'm weeing myself laughing at Man U fans being apoplyptic at Berbtoss. (I can't link because of the language but check redcafe.net for somrthing like the Berbatov scapegoat thread. We wouldn't have felt the same way over Carrick or Sheringham, but after everything that happened, I'd like to think this is a bit of football karma coming around.

At the end of the day, you paid £30m for Berbatov, and you got him. He has played exactly the same way for United as he has done for Spurs. He takes penalties exactly the same way. Just happens on this time he didn't score. Some fans I think though that Berbatov would morph into another Rooney (but with a deft touch), because he's playing for a "real" team, but that was never going to happen. Berbatov has had a couple of injuries but I don't think he's performed that much below what we'd have expected. Ferguson doesn't play him to his strengths though. He benefits from being with a solid, constant partner (in our case, Keane, which was why Defoe and Bent were completely frozen out), but with Fergies rotation, he's playing with Tevez, then Rooney, Then Welbeck etc.

Another point which hasn't been raised. There wasn't a minute's silence at the United-Everton semi despite saying there will be one in the programme. Makes me wonder if it was scrapped because Liverpool's two greatest rivals wouldn't respect it?