There are just 8 games to go in the Premiership, and the race for the Man Utd Blog Fantasy League (c/o the official Premier League Fantasy Football League) is hotting up.

Here are the top 10 as it stands today:

1. Govment Chedda: Chris Givens - 1803
2. Lettin on Madrid: Ger Sweeney- 1790
3. Inter Harris: tim harris - 1766
4. FC San Pedro: Tirso Ripoll - 1739
5. besy’s boys: Bea Ripoll - 1701
6. Team No$: robert norris - 1698
7. Sinners: Satya Krishna - 1696
8. Madchester Devils: Mark Saunders - 1694
9. Gerrard likes men: Paul Kennedy - 1658
10. The brother Z’s FC: Ali Abbas - 1645

Remember that the winner will receive $500 cash!! And the runner-up a “mystery prize” after letting us know which is their favourite team.

So login to your team at the Fantasy Premier League and make those last-minute dazzling substitutions that will take you past the winning post in the final straight!!

Tip: with the “big four” playing each other in upcoming games and players likely to be rested for Champions League fixtures, look for the some of the form players from other teams!

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Old Trafford
Saturday, 8 December
Kick-off: 1500 GMT
An easy win against Fulham at Old Trafford and another one coming with same conditions.Manchester United are facing Derby County this saturday at Old Trafford.No worries for Sir Alex for sure.No injuries with any players and fully fit.
The match i suppose is going to be a physical encounter so perhaps decided to rest Rooney and Ronaldo for the big test against Liverpool.United can play well with the reserves for example Eagles and Simpson can work well in the team.Fletcher has been out of touch after his injury,this one can prove him beneficial to get his confidence back.
Derby are right now rock bottom to position no 20.They haven’t lifted from their last spot after they were newly promoted.Manager Paul Jewel thinks that he still has a lot of time to gain few points and get himself out of relegation zone.A few transfers and signings in January can boost their momentum.
United have clean record in Premier league.
We have won 15 of 18 in all competitions and lost just one of 12.
Won 10 of the last 12 Premier League matches.
Kept clean sheets in eight of the last 12 league outings.

Derby may be out of race if we take a look at these facts.
Highest achievable after Saturday’s matches: 20th
Lowest could fall: 20th
Own the poorest offence in the Premier League (five goals scored, at one every 270 minutes
on average) and the weakest defence (34 goals shipped, at one every 40 minutes on average).
The only club with just one Premier League victory so far this season (from 15 attempts).

This makes even more easier on papers.
United winning this one for sure.
3-0
Rooney,Ronaldo,Tevez

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Match Report
Man. Utd 4 Dynamo Kiev 0

Manchester United qualified for the Champions League knockout stage after a comfortable win against Dynamo Kiev. Gerard Pique headed his first United goal after 31 minutes and Carlos Tevez quickly added a second after a brilliant exchange with Wayne Rooney. United continued to dominate and Rooney side-footed home Nani’s superb cross with 15 minutes left. Cristiano Ronaldo’s solo effort made it four late on and Roma’s draw with Sporting Lisbon sent United through. Continue reading »

Tags:   Champions League · kiev · Pique · Ronaldo

Match Report
Arsenal 2 Man. Utd 2

William Gallas equalised in injury-time to salvage a draw and keep Arsenal on top of the Premier League after an absorbing clash with Manchester United. Gallas turned Wayne Rooney’s half-hit effort into his own goal on the stroke of half time to give United the lead. Cesc Fabregas’ cool finish put Arsenal level two minutes after the break, but Cristiano Ronaldo slid home Patrice Evra’s cross nine minutes from time. But Gallas then scrambled in Gael Clichy’s cross to earn a point. Continue reading »

Tags:   andserson · Arsenal · gallas · hargreaves · lucky Arsenal · Man Utd will be champions again · united draw

Match Report
Man. Utd 4 Middlesborough 1

Wayne Rooney scored one goal and superbly set up another as Manchester United overwhelmed Middlesbrough to move to the top of the Premier League.

United went ahead on three minutes when Nani drove in a cracking shot from 30 yards but Jeremie Aliadiere soon equalised with a precise header. Nani robbed Stuart Downing and played in Rooney, to smash United’s second. After the break Carlos Tevez slotted in after a sublime Rooney back-heel and he added a fourth with a deflected shot. United scored four goals in a fourth successive game - the first time in 100 years they have done so.

They knew a win would see them overtake leaders Arsenal - at least until Sunday when the Londoners play Liverpool. And the hosts, who had Owen Hargreaves in their starting line-up for only the fourth time, wasted no time in setting about their task. Continue reading »

Tags:   goals galore · tevez rooney partnership · united win · wayne rooney

Match Report
Dynamo Kiev 2 Man. United 4

Two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo helped a dominant Manchester United to a comfortable victory at Dynamo Kiev. Rio Ferdinand opened the scoring when he headed in a Ryan Giggs free-kickfrom the left before Wayne Rooney tapped in Wes Brown’s low cross. Diogo Rincon reduced the deficit with a header before Ronaldo nodded in United’s third. Ronaldo scored from the spot after Goran Gavrancic handballed before Ismael Bangoura fired in late for Kiev.

Victory gave United their third win from three Champions League games this season but never would Sir Alex Ferguson’s side have thought they would achieve the result in such a shockingly easy manner. Kiev’s defence was poor. Actually to be blunt, they were awful for much of the match. Continue reading »

Tags:   Champions League · dnamo kiev · Ronaldo · Rooney

Match Report
Aston Villa 1 Manchester United 4

Wayne Rooney struck twice and missed a penalty as Manchester United eased to victory against nine-man Aston Villa. Gabriel Agbonlahor headed Villa into an early lead, but Rooney’s two composed finishes put United in front. Craig Gardner’s own goal gave United a third before half-time, and Nigel Reo-Coker was sent off on the hour. Keeper Scott Carson followed for a foul on Carlos Tevez, and even though Stuart Taylor saved Rooney’s spot-kick, Ryan Giggs added a deflected fourth.

United boss Sir Alex Ferguson rested Cristiano Ronaldo and gave fellow countryman Nani a place in the starting line-up. Villa opened brightly and were ahead in the 11th minute when Ashley Young retrieved Gardner’s dangerous centre and crossed for Agbonlahor to flick a header beyond Edwin van der Sar. Tevez and Rooney looked a dangerous combination, and Carson did well to block the Argentine as the pressure mounted. But it took a lapse of concentration from Villa defender Zat Knight to allow United to draw level after 36 minutes.

Continue reading »

Tags:   man of the match · Tevez · united win · villa

Sorry for not having posted several days, I’ve not forgotten you!
But I must admit… last week was boring. Nothing happened and the news headlines still were the same: Tevez & Gaby, with a little Smithy.

In between all the transfer talk, we played two more games in Asia. And scored 10 times. But lets not overrate those 10 goals. Those were friendlies. Friendlies in Asia, at a total different pace. ManU were allowed time on the ball, covering was as close as Liverpool and ManUtd are and… the games were fun.
We have one more game in Asia, on Friday against Guangzhou Pharmaceutical and next Tuesday we play Inter Milan in a friendly at OT.

I can’t repeat it enough, but it’s time for the Prem to start. I’m bored of all the talk. I want to see the lads play. I want to see goals. I want action. I want England, Europe and the whole world Europe to realize whose The Best Damn Football Club in The World (TBDFCITW)! Because it’s us! ManU!

And if rumours are true, if that’s going to be our away kit… we will even have The Most Awesome Kit On The Whole Planet (TMKOTWP)! Even though the picture is blurred, that black kit totally rocks! I want one! Two actually: an Owen and a Rio shirt for me please. I’ll have a Ronaldo and a Gaby one for the home kit.

Let the Season start now please. Let whoever wants to leave leave, let everyone who’s allowed to join us join us, I don’t care anymore right now… all I want now is football.

Uncle Jose already started the stupidities and I’m looking forward to many more to come!

They are contenders for the title, of course, but I still believe Chelsea have the best players in the world.

Don’t forget our Fantasy League and I’ll do my best, but don’t guarantee anything, not to sound as a cheerboy anymore, like I do in this entry.

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Does it really surprise anyone that Carlos Tevez is being closely linked with a move to the Theater of Dreams, Old Trafford for a reported 20 million? Sir Alex always has been of a fan of the Argentinian worker, master deliverer and striker.

I guess the only real surprise we could call is the attitude of the Glazer family. Daily more and more Malcolm and Family seem to become a group of angel investors putting Russian playboy Roman in the shadow lights.
50 Million Pound Sterling so far, for only 3 players and the spending spree goes on. 20 Million for Carlos Tevez. Another talented youngster. That would nothing less than 70 (seventy!) Million in only 5 weeks.

I’ll admit that I was happy when the Glazers took over. Happy because they were American.
Not that I particularly love Americans, they are nice people as long as they don’t discuss politics, which they sadly do way too often. But when it comes to sports, only Americans could have fitted Manchester United, because Americans understand exactly what the deonthology of ManU is.

To entertain.

And who could better word our spirit than the club director Sir Bobby Charlton, remembering the words of the legendary Sir Matt Busby?

People often ask me what it is that makes Manchester United so special. When I played for the club Sir Matt Busby always used to say that the lad who works on the factory shop floor, but finds it boring, wants excitement in his free time… that when he goes to football at the weekend he wants excitement. He therefore used to tell us that we therefore had a responsibility to entertain. It is a philosophy that has continued right through until today and that has made the club popular the world over.

And entertainment is one thing that Americans understand. And the Glazers show that they understand entertainment.

Entertainment at the Theatre of Dreams, entertainment at Old Trafford. And the new signings will surely add to the ManU Entertainment level, it’ll be Red Devil Samba!

Roman, you’ll have to spend more if you want to enjoy real entertainment. Other than entertainer Jose that is, I mean entertainment on the pitch, because we’ll show you what it is.
It’s part of the ManUnited History, it’s our spirit. ManU is Entertainment!

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Dutch, and Chelsea, scout Piet De Visser said in an interview with the Dutch TV Channel Tien TV, that United paid too much for Nani.

He is a talent, but if you look at the European Championship in Portugal and the current tournament in the Netherlands - Nani has not shown any progress.

Therefore I think Manchester United have paid too much money for a player who has talent, but has not developed since last year.

But what De Visser seems to forget is that there’s a huge difference between Chelsea and ManU. Chelsea buys stars and they perform or don’t perform. No matter if they are over paid or not. Look at the best performing players at Chelsea : except for Lamps and Terry, they all have been very expensive players, in the range of 20million and above.
Others are highly under performing. Just to mention some, SWP, Robben, Ballack, Sheva. Chelsea doesn’t grow players. They perform or they don’t.

But here at ManU, we buy talents and then Sir Alex and Queiroz start working them. Turn them in to world class players. We know how to get the best out of players. Examples are numerous.

Becks.
Rio has grown into a world class player.
Rooney, who gets better every season. And always learns to do more, more than just score. He’ll become deadly in the box, but most of all he’s growing in to the role of a player who can cover the whole pitch wisely. Not like in his first 2 years at Old Trafford when he ran over the whole ground and one wondered why he was at that spot now.
Cristiano. Cristiano was a talent. Nothing more. An expensive talent. Fergie made one of the world’s best players out of him.
Ruud was a talent. He became world’s deadliest striker at Old Trafford. Performing well in The Netherlands doesn’t make you a worldwide fear, just look at Kezman’s performance at Chelsea.
Giggs was a talent.
Both Neville brothers were.
No one knew who Vidic was, today he’s among the world’s defensive elite, together with Rio and Neville.

I could go on for hours with more examples. Fact is, we buy young talents and grow them, turn them in to world’s elite. And then one day, they move on. That’s when Roman, Jose and Chelsea come in play : they want to buy the best players. We make them. Young talents at Chelsea fail.
I’m sure Robben would perform a lot better if he were managed by Fergie.

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