2nd goal was pure class, again.

De Gea still looks pretty dodgy to say the least though.

Too old?

Do you guys remember that time Bale was world-class? What a crazy fortnight.

The kid needs time. I mean he's only 20 y.o, moved to foreign country and playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world. Fergie knows that and I believe will be patient with him in order to gain him lfor long term. The talent is there, he showed it in Spain.

How awful was he tonight? He was up against a 22 year old centre back playing at right back and still couldn't beat him.

I only watched the 2nd half. United did look good but I think Spurs were terrible in defense. More noticeably in the 3rd goal, Giggs walks in the area, looks up and crosses and no one even bothers to challenge him...

Nasri is officially a ManCity player.

They have 20 midfielders and forwards in their first team squad.

And about 12 defenders and 6 keepers...

Isn't he primarily a LB who had one belting game V Inter and 'Arry's decided he's a winger now?

Pretty much, that and the fact the European media deemed him World Class from that.

Barton talking to QPR about a potential move, I guess this is one of the big European clubs his agent was talking about

Best English centre midfielder.





of all time.

Official.

Quick few news bits (from fairly reliable sources):

• Fergie says he will start talking to the BBC again.
  Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson ends BBC ban
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• Chelsea are continuing in their pursuit to get Pereira / Malouda to Juve a possibility?
  Chelsea to up Alvaro Pereira offer amid Florent Malouda speculation
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• Arsenal fail in loan move for Kaka
  Arsenal fail with Kaka loan move as Real Madrid insist on permanent deal
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• De Rossi to City?
  Daniele De Rossi targeted by Man City as Mancini looks to continue spending
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• Bellamy back to Liverpool?
  Liverpool deal for Craig Bellamy hinges on pay-off from Manchester City

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A thought that went through my mind the other night was as we all know Sneijder probably is the man Fergie wants, but if that doesn't happen, what about VDV? He didn't exactly look happy on Monday night, perhaps as he's not in a CL side anymore, it could happen, and to me at least he's more inspirational than Modric.

Alex Ferguson is quite a big story. He's boycotted the BBC for years. It will be weird to see him on MOTD again after all this time.

I thought it was longer than since '04 to be honest, something makes me think it was something to do with Cantona before, or am I wrong?

No more interviews with Phelan anyway.

Fergie complaining that the FA don't treat United with the respect they deserve since the club has produced more England internationals than any other.

Wrong, Fergie, Villa have produced the most and you don't see us whinning every England game.

What an absolute bore fest that was. N'Zogbia realises he can pass yeah?!

Nah, it was because the BBC accused his son of corruption or something.

Not sure what game you were watching Ash! Great end to end stuff though we should've won fairly comfortable. Zogs back heel spin turn was a thing of absolute beauty.

Gabby superb again, defensively brilliant. Gotta give mention to Chris Herd, Jarvis in his back pocket all game.

Delph total wank again though. Can't tackle, rarely tracks back and loses the ball whenever he takes someone on, get Makoun in next to Stan please.

Maybe it was better in the stadium, on TV it was pretty painful to watch to be honest. A few chances here and there mainly for N'Zogbia who missed the target on numerous occasions. Hennessey made a couple of parries from crosses and that was really about it.

Herd did well, especially after being practically KO'd from the goal post in the 1st half.

Most of our beat chances weren't really much to do with their keeper. Heskey put one half a yard wide, Bent had him stranded with header that went just over, Dubne had one cleared off the line. Though he did have to make a decent save from a Herd header.

Disappointed should be top of the league right now. Cant complain being unbeaten in 3 with 2 clean sheets after last seasons awful defensive record though.

Liverpool live tonight, break a leg Downing.

Torquay are useless this season, getting battered, don't know how it's only 1-0.

Leeds drew Man United in the Carling Cup too, should be a decent watch. Especially after Leeds dumped them out of the FA Cup at OT a few years ago.

What was Hilario doing there?? Huge mess up

Chelsea re-take lead, Lamps penalty.

Any news on Drogba? I'm watching in some strange language so I don't know what's happening

Sky Sports haven't really said anything. Said he was down and wasn't moving then stretchered off, that's about it.

Didn't look good, hopefully nothing big.

Btw, that Lukaku kid has done more in 10 minutes that Torres has in all the games he's played since the start of the season

Mata goal on his debut.

And Wenger passed on him for Chamberlain? Hmm.

So, Torres still playing crap?

Basically

I just don't really get the feeling that Chelsea will be really in the race this season. Sometimes they just look lost

They should have signed 2-3 quality players in midfield, but what they did was only lose Essien.

Can all change, remember mid/late Sep last year? It was almost a formality Chelsea were going to win the league. I wouldn't write them off yet, in fact I'd only write Arsenal & Liverpool off, City/Chelsea/United are in it for me. I chose United at the start, and I'll stick with that but I think it will be close, closer than last year.

Got to say Suarez is incredibly impressive in this league, great signing.

He's a good player, I just wish he'd stop with the whining and diving.

What's the score?

1-0 to Liverpool, the second half jsut started.

EDIT: 2-0 Skrtel

EDIT2: 3-0 Adam

Liverpool are looking impressive this season.

Agreed, they've been one of the most impressive teams along with Manchester sides

Well yeah,look at how much they spent.They bought a whole new mifield with the exception of LUcas staying in the middle.All of this without Gerrard.They should be able to Compete for a cl place...

A very unlikable group of individuals at a very unlikable team. Let's hope they fail.

You sure you were at VP today Kurt?! Because MOTD just slated the game today too!

Each to their own I guess, I even had texts off mates who don't even support Villa/Wolves commenting on how good it was.

Though nowadays to the average football fan it's no goals = boring.

Villa match was shite. I chose petting a dog (long story) over watching that match yesterday.

Now, now! I've seen plenty of 0-0's where I didn't think it was that bad. Just yesterday's wasn't there, it didn't help the stadium seemed to be a 1/4 empty for the first half. I guess as it being a derby you'd expect it to be a bit more lively. I actually enjoy watching Villa (especially in the last few seasons) they play good football, in the main and with a good number of English players so it's good to see.

Just remember I'm a Torquay fan as well, I'm used to seeing boring football!

Anyway, 2 big games today (on TV), should be good. Hope Young gets a HT for the fantasy football!

It was more than a quarter empty.

Villa-Wolves is usually a sell out, but there's so many anti-McLeish 'fans' still around who refused to renew their season tickets. Think yesterday was 30k which is awful. 6k season ticket holders no longer there and Wolves were 2k away from selling their allocation which is poor. Then we always get a few k less when it's on tv/early kick-off. So Villa's support is going to be down around 16% this season for the most part, which is shocking really. Let's hope we start to win a few mre games or have a decent run in the Cup to bring the 'glory hunters' back.

Bale just missed from 6 yards. Very average player.

DZEKO! 1-0 Citeh.