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FUCKIN ELL

Good goal by Jones, the latest in a long line of United defenders who look stronger going forwards than defending.

Re: heartbreaking 3-2 comebacks - the FA Cup game in 2002 springs to mind, can't think of any others off the top of my head.

Re: 'do managers have to name their formations?' - of course not! How on earth could that be enforced?

Must be about 7 or 8 minutes injury time in this half already.

I was at that FA Cup game. There were definitely no other 3-2s, ever.

I wish I'd been there. I was in Italy, following the game by text message (from a Villa-supporting mate and United-supporting Dad).

mick mccarthy has to name formations or risk a fine, ferguson obv not tho

I'd rather have been in Italy xp - the first half was terrible, it was freezing, and I had to get up at five to be back in time for work next day. Being a Utd fan looked most fun though.

Hate to say it, but Hernandez goes off and Utd play better than they have in an age. Although it could just be playing Villa

it is, villa are rank and i hope mcleish gets the sack before full-time

Villa looking every inch a Big Eck team. Bent must be bored out of his mind up there.

they are terrible, what is mcleish good for if he can't even instill a bit of spirit in them, he appears to actively demoralize his own teams

Big Eck's Sexy Football

Martin O'Neill perfect for Sunderland - Alan Hansen

bet this is an imaginative and well-reasoned argument about why Alan Hansen's friend will be really good at a job

o'neill will do well in getting a squad of squad players playing i'd say

Is this villa performance worse than against Spurs last week? Because that was shameful.

eh it's hard to say, i mean utd don't really attack in waves like we do, for a start.

This is at villa tho

There are certain managers who, when they are not in a job, have the track record that ensures they will be linked with big vacancies and Martin falls right into that category because of his previous work.

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Martin, even though he has been out of the game, will have kept his finger on the pulse and will know what is required. He is a charismatic guy who will go straight in and lift the fans. Gloom and doom will be instantly replaced by optimism.

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I think Sunderland chairman Short and all the supporters on Wearside can be delighted about Martin O'Neill's arrival. During the course of a season many high-profile jobs can come up and you could bank on him being linked with every one, such is his standing in the game.

Alan Hansen was talking to BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty

"500 words will this do? Thx, Alan"

Reads like Nult was going "do you think Martin will have been x?" and Hansen was lazily agreeing.

did the black pele dive too?

O'Neill would be perfect for pretty much any job except maybe the handful of elite clubs with swashbuckling traditions. Hansen's probably just c&p'ed that article from last time.

Chris Waddle sure hates past participles

snob

Ooh, you didn't ought to of went there IK

shouldent of gave me the opportunity then

heskey heskey heskey

commentator listing utd's dog ownership

Are managers obliged to detail dog ownership when announcing the starting XI?

mccarthy has to prove bkc registration but ferguson just needs to show a name tag obvs

Despite having done fuck all for 83 minutes, Villa are annoyingly still just one stroke of luck away from a draw.

pfft utd no stroke of luck away from a win on the same grounds tbph

Welbeck and Rooney should first choice. They'll have to be by necessity now but i've been saying it all along. Ashley Young needs a kick up the arse

That was a one-sided as a game can be where the dominant team rarely looks like scoring

As a measure of how shit Villa were, Carrick was spotted on the edge of their box a couple of times

has mccleish ever been as good at 'organising' his teams as the tv folk say? cos his birmingham and villa teams have been fucking shite.

birmingham were v well organised for a good while, scotland and rangers likewise, but like trap he's not fit for managing decent teams with decent players- and i might be being harsh on scotland and rangers there

His main talent seems to be for hitting the ground running - I think at all his clubs he's started well then faded sharply after about 12/18 months. He left Scotland before the rot set in. At Villa this seems to have happened early.

birmingham were v well organised for a good while, scotland and rangers likewise, but like trap he's not fit for managing decent teams with decent players- and i might be being harsh on scotland and rangers there

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are you implying that ireland are the best trapp has ever managed or worst, i can't tell?

ah sure look either way trap out

Balotelli fans won't want to miss his goal today

Inter-Udinese was fun. sendings off, saved penalties, one of the worst missed penalties I've ever seen, and Udinese win away. Fun.

Everybody loves a bad missed penalty, what happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0u4lTUl39I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZyQrKPEiSM

brings out the best in commentators too

Ok as someone who works Saturday nights this is my first time watching motd as opposed to random youtube clips and...

Close-up HD Lawro is NAGLx10000000

As if I wasn't stinking ill already.

EWWWWWW WHAT THE FUCK WAS LAWRO DOING WITH HIS TONGUE THERE?

did Cahill sleep w/ dudes wife or summin?

jussi's beard is a+, not enough beards in football

thinking of a thread where we figure out a team of players everybody LOVES.

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