Tag Archives: Manchester United

Go Red Devils!

Well…sitting here watching the League Cup final between Manchester United and Newcastle with Man U up 2-0 but Newcastle is outplaying them…or were until the second goal kind of deflated them….should be a great second half if I can find a channel that is stable to watch it on…using a New Zealand Sky Sports channel right now after trying a South African and English one and both of them jumping backwards….so I’ll stay on this one for a while….

Still looking for a topic…

Well…have been reading the news since I got back from the second ride trying to find a topic but it’s all trump, all the time and I don’t want to write about that today…so I need to write about something else…not sure what the will be yet….how about sports? Manchester United won their third game in a row after losing the first two and that puts them in the top five from last place…that means I can watch them again…and I should anyway since they have changed so many players that I don’t know the team yet…and their wins have been only by one goal so they are not dominating by any means…but they did beat Liverpool so I guess that’s something….watching Michigan right now and even though they are ahead, they don’t look very good….but I guess it’s just background right now and I can’t be disappointed yet, can I? Could be…but I don’t want to be….okay, that’s it for now…I’ll try to come back later for another one if I can find a topic…more later….

Man U has become the Lions…

Well….going to talk a little sports today since I don’t have any interest in anything else right now….I think it may be possible that some of you out there are Detroit Lions fans, and if you are, you know the frustration that comes with rooting for a team that hasn’t won anything since before I was in kindergarten…and that same frustration and dread is now there when I watch Man U play…I mean, losing to Watford 4-1? And being in 7 th place in the PL already 12 points behind Chelsea and it’s not even December yet? With all of the money they’ve spent bringing in Christiano Ronaldo and many other players who were supposed to be stars and already losing 7 games in the league? I guess the normal change that happens when a team sucks has happened with the firing of OGS and appointing Michael Carrick (again) as interim manager but who can they get that is better? All the big names that have been successful in the PL are already snapped up so that leaves second tier managers who have never been in charge of a PL team before and who wants to go through that after the same thing with OGS? For a long time, you could watch Man U and expect a good performance and 90% of the time you’d get a win…but now I get the same uneasy feeling in my stomach that they are going to find some way to screw it up…just like I get when I watch the Lions…and there is no reason to subject myself to that as I have for over 60 years…just don’t have the energy for it…so, do I watch Man U play Villareal in the champions league Tuesday…yeah, probably….they haven’t sucked for 60 years yet….

Is Manchester United for real?

Well…I was going to combine all three of these sports posts into one but the first one went a little long so I decided to break them up into their component parts as I sit here and try to stay busy…I am a little confused about Man U after their start this year in the Premier League….they were mired down the table at about 15th and it appeared they could be headed to relegation which would be one of the biggest shocks in English football…or soccer…but, something happened over the past few weeks and they have climbed up to 7th, only 5 points from the top and with a good shot of making the top four to get back to the champions league in Europe in the spring. But, damn, they are becoming cardiac kids that is a little stressful to watch…like their game yesterday, they went behind 2-0 early and the score stayed that way until well into the 2nd half when I just turned it off with frustration with how they were playing…but then, like someone turned on a switch, they came back to win in the final minutes of the game 3-2 and I missed it until I saw it on the game highlights later in the day….I was shocked to say the least and maybe I’ll have to stay with them in their next match just to see if it’s a fluke or not….it would be nice to have one team that I follow do well since all of the rest of them really, really suck this year….fingers crossed…

Kind of a sucky sports day…

Well…I was really looking forward to all of the sports to watch today and it was okay until my teams started to play…both Michigan and Man U are stinking up the place and I really think I like games better where one of my teams is not playing….after all, you can’t be disappointed if you have no stake in it….and this year, it appears that every team that I root for is really bad and that just compounds the problem when you can’t say “at least the Wings are playing good” and have something to look forward to. Oh, well…so I think I’ll look for something else to watch other than those two games until the Rose Bowl starts at 5….and I’ll be back to politics tomorrow…I need to take the rest of the day off and just veg…still not feeling 100% with all of the pain I’ve been having and my lungs are still iffy so I’ll use that for an excuse….

Everone’s on vacation…

Well…it looks like a slow news day today…haven’t been able to find a topic that I want to talk about…okay, how about Manchester United? I started watching the first match of the year yesterday with some trepidation given the poor quality of the team last year and the almost constant disappointment that I felt watching them…so, I did feel a little better after they beat Chelsea 4-0 yesterday but the one thing I have to tell myself is that it is just the first game and until they put in a string of wins, I need to just try to enjoy the play and hope the youngsters they are playing will grow into the job. I still think a lot of the players are doing just enough to get by and they need to show more and work harder…and the goals that they got yesterday were all on the counter attack and not from the run of play and I’m not sure if that is sustainable over the course of the long EPL season…we’ll see…for now, I’m just going to enjoy the fact that soccer is back and that will give me something to hold back the boredom on the weekends…more later…

A good sports day…

Well…I wonder what I’m going to do on the weekends when soccer and football are over? Today started out well with Wolves and Leictester City going at it in a really good game and Wolves winning it 4-3 in the last minute of stoppage time…very entertaining….and now we have Man U playing Brighton and Man U has started out okay but no score yet…then we have Michigan trying to keep their unbeaten streak going in basketball against Wisconsin at noon…and then the NFL playoffs later in the aft…so, I’ve got a day of less boredom than normal and that really is something to look forward to…and, next weekend is the 24 hours of Daytona that I hope I have the channels to watch…so, for at least the next two weekends, I have something do…along with riding as soon as the parts get here…so, back to sports…more later…

A new day starts….Jose Mourinho is gone…

Well…as you know, I have vented my frustration with how Manchester United has been playing this year with it’s worst start in 28 years and no hope of getting to the Champions League next year. Today, though, we Red Devils fans got a Christmas gift with the sacking of Jose Mourinho as manager and I say it has been way too long coming. Under Mourinho, Man U has looked an ordinary team for more than a year even with all of the talent they have and the money they have spent…Jose turned them into a plodding, ugly team to watch and every game has left us guessing what team is going to show up…and I put that squarely on the manager…now, there is plenty of blame to go around and much of it is the players themselves who seem to be phoning it in at times and I’m not sure if it was conflict with Jose or what but maybe, just maybe we can have some hope to see our Man U team be Man U again…it will be interesting anyway….

Holy Crap!

Well…just watched one of the best games I’ve seen Man U play this year where they beat Man City 3-2 after being behind by 2-0 at the half. I even turned it off since Man U looked so crappy in the first half and it looked like they were going to be humiliated by 4 or 5 goals….but then I had to look to see how bad it had gotten and Man U had tied it in the first 10 minutes of the 2nd…and they went ahead a few minutes later with a gorgeous volley by Chris Smalling…not a goal scorer by any means since he is a defenseman. This was pretty damn cool and makes me have some hope for a championship next year…City will still win it this year, but it is so great that Man U didn’t let them win it on them….

A little sports…

Well….have been taking it quite easy today after a hard bike ride this morning…even got out in shorts for the last time this year…but, that’s not what I want to talk about…how about a little sports? Have been watching Man U’s match with Newcastle and, finally, Man U looks pretty good with getting toward the end of the match up 4-1…so that is a good thing….have had the Michigan game on the flashback channel and they have been holding their own against Wisconsin…they are even up 10-7 in the 3rd…so, I have some hope for a win still…but Michigan looks bad…again…. so I’m not sure how much more I’ll watch of this one….and there is still State and a race to watch later so I’ll have something to do the rest of the day…it would be cool to see Michigan knock off the #5 team and put a defeat on them….Wisconsin is looking pretty average today…