All The Other FA Cup Shite (25-27.01.2013)
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Good goal from giroud that one
He's hit a bit of a dry spell since December and the rumours of his transfer heated up, so it's good for him that he's getting his act back together.
Poor Brighton. I was hoping for the tie.
@BBCSport: BREAKING: Manchester City assistant David Platt confirms Vincent Kompany will miss QPR game & possibly visit of Liverpool with calf injury.
I guess the linesman is doing a proper job then?
Fulham are the most spineless team away from home - 3-0 down against the mancs after 52 minutes.
This piece on Berbatov in today's Times really underlines what a gutless player HE is:
There was a good reason why Ferguson played Berbatov from the start in only 26 of United’s 68 most high-profile matches during the striker’s four seasons at Old Trafford. He scored only one league goal against a team who finished in the top five of the Barclays Premier League over that period, and even that came against a faltering Chelsea side in the final weeks of Luiz Felipe Scolari’s disastrous seven-month tenure.
He also never scored in a Champions League knockout-round tie for United.
Furthermore, 36 of his 49 league goals for United came against teams who finished the season in the bottom half of table. Even in 2010-11, when he was the Premier League’s joint top scorer with 21 goals, 13 of them came against teams who finished the campaign in the bottom seven.
No wonder Ferguson elected to start Berbatov in only 18 of 40 league games against Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur and only five of 18 Champions League knockout-round ties. As such, it is easy to see why many came to regard Berbatov as little more than a flat-track bully — a player who was in his element when the team were coasting but who went missing or was overlooked when the going got tough.
This piece on Berbatov in today's Times really underlines what a gutless player HE is:
There was a good reason why Ferguson played Berbatov from the start in only 26 of United’s 68 most high-profile matches during the striker’s four seasons at Old Trafford. He scored only one league goal against a team who finished in the top five of the Barclays Premier League over that period, and even that came against a faltering Chelsea side in the final weeks of Luiz Felipe Scolari’s disastrous seven-month tenure.
He also never scored in a Champions League knockout-round tie for United.
Furthermore, 36 of his 49 league goals for United came against teams who finished the season in the bottom half of table. Even in 2010-11, when he was the Premier League’s joint top scorer with 21 goals, 13 of them came against teams who finished the campaign in the bottom seven.
No wonder Ferguson elected to start Berbatov in only 18 of 40 league games against Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur and only five of 18 Champions League knockout-round ties. As such, it is easy to see why many came to regard Berbatov as little more than a flat-track bully — a player who was in his element when the team were coasting but who went missing or was overlooked when the going got tough.
They're a training match for whoever is lucky enough to face them. You can tell Berbatov hates playing with Sidwell.
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