Recent content by haven

United have *one* league penalty this year. You can argue about each individual decision, but I think it's hard to argue that one is the right number. If you wanted to assign a probability to each penalty shout, it would certainly be higher. I think Rashford was pretty clearly fouled today...

Starting 11: De Gea - 8 - Arguably could have saved the free kick, but kept United in the game; bail-out sweeper keeper action out the end was quick-witted Smalling - 2 - He's too ponderous to play right back, either in attack or (against most sides) in defense Jones - 6 - I actually thought he...

Goodbye to the only manager whom I've learned to never second-guess.

Scholes remains the single best passer of the ball in the league. I can't even imagine what most other players would look like at 37, coming off retirement. To be honest, I look at his game, and I don't see why he couldn't do the same things at 40. Legend.

As several other posters have mentioned, this is the rare foul that becomes more apparent on replay. Rooney dives enough without getting blamed when he's legitimately fouled. Not even sure he could have stayed up. The only legitimate criticism is that Rooney was definitely looking for the...

Rooney Valencia Ferdinand

Berbatov Hernandez Nani

Ronaldo Giggs Macheda (honorary)

Babel is a striker playing on the wing who won't score enough goals when he does play striker. Nani is a winger who needs to learn that he's not a striker. I'll take Nani because he's better technically.

I've always wanted to know why Carrick doesn't pass better in close quarters. He can spray balls all over the pitch. He can manage slide-rule through balls to the strikers. He's better defensively than he's given credit for because he breaks up play well. But he's very mediocre in the...

When you only score 1 goal over two legs, I think the honors have to go to the goal scorer. Especially when it was a cracker. Scholes Tevez Rio/Brown

West Ham have had United's number recently. I'd have thought United would have beat them earlier this year, too. And last year.

VDS - 7 - Did poorly on the goal, flapped twice that I remember, but made several good saves. Distribution was good. Brown - 4.5 - He made some good tackles, but they don't really matter much when he gives the ball right away to the other team. At his best, Brown is a classic English CB...

At one point, didn't Sir Alex say something to the press about there being no more players on United's shopping list from when Kenyon was chairman? It was either SAF or someone else close to the club... If he actually said this, that's awfully close to an accusation of impropriety.

At times last season, quite a few Spurs fans seemed very down on Chimbonda - thought he got caught out of position far too regularly. Now that Chelsea want him, you see that sentiment expressed less frequently. Thoughts?