Recent content by Tom Foster

Surely we’re at the point now, where we’ve just got to pay up, and gamble on the centre-back positions. We’ve flogged this Jones/Smalling/Bailly/Rojo thing to death. Apart from the odd little period, none of them have remotely got anywhere near the levels of Ferdinand/Vidic or Stam/Johnsen.

I always thought John Motson represented the kind of football fans who supported teams like QPR, Crystal Palace, Tooting & Mitchum and a few other bohemian clubs. You can imagine him turning up in a 1950s sports car at the ground. When he was commentating on regular clubs in the 70s and 80s...

I think us getting Keane was made in heaven. The way all the potentially big clubs were lining up when we bought him, every club knew he was the game-changer and would shape the league for the next 4 or 5 years. Simply, we HAD to get him to ensure the likes of Giggs, Sharpe, Ince, Cantona...

The best thing about Scholes was that he grew up in an era where I could watch him. When I see him at Salford City watching the game, it’s difficult to envisage him doing the things he did. Awesome player.

I actually doubt whether he realises that he’s at a club called Manchester United.

I have a really unreasonable hatred of the Villa. Not that I hate them per se, as they seem a fine old club. Nope, like all weirdo irrational football fans, my VERY FIRST conscious competitive match was the 1957 FA Cup Final watched in my mate’s back yard shed in a terraced house in Salford...

Yes, they would. Because at this level, it really is about how GOOD the players really are. I always noticed, even during the Fergie years, how when we played the likes of Ajax,Anderlecht, Stuttgart etc, we only had to bring our B or C game and we’d usually get through. Then up a level against...

I thought he was perfect for United in the Latter Fergie years. Even big clubs very rarely have 4, or even 3, top-quality strikers. So provided a club has 2 proven strikers, and we always have, you can rely on a someone like Danny who brings energy and enthusiasm to the pitch, whether he was...

Ronnie 07/08 Ronnie 08/09 Schmeichel 95/96 Cole and Yorke 98/99 As a one off, how about Ray Wilkins 83/84 when he almost left us at the start of the season, outperformed Robbo and nearly got us that elusive first league for ages.

West Ham have been around ever since I started watching football in 1959 and I can never get rid of them, despite the fact that they never seem to do anything other than BE THERE. Never understood the media love-in with them, either.

Souness is the last pundit I want to disappear. From a United standpoint he’s been hilarious ever since he stopped playing and even funnier in the odd years when Liverpool looked like they could fluke the league. And then, take Utd and Liverpool out of the equation and he’s a decent pundit...

I don’t understand this current obsession with having a go at teams for having easy routes to finals. This has always happened in Cup games. You can get 2 teams in any final, and one team has had to wade through a minefield, whilst the other finalist, or semi-finalist whatever, has had an easy...

Modric is one of those players of whom you can see his brain working. He always seems to keep his team’s attacks moving in exactly the right direction, linking up beautifully with whichever of his fellow forwards are ahead of or alongside him. And to think we nearly got him on the back of our...

Having watched United since 1960, I actually think this was our golden era. I seem to recall around 2008 it actually looked like we could win any competition we entered. Even playing top sides with a rotated squad. Unlike now, player recruitment was top notch, and like all great sides worldwide...

I don’t know whether to be delighted that United’s players have been good in this WC, or worried.