rags vs real

[DoomMerchant]

CHECK THIS OUT!! HAHAHA! And people say the media isn't biased:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 21823.html

jesus h fuck.

[dazby]

CHECK THIS OUT!! HAHAHA! And people say the media isn't biased:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 21823.html

jesus h fuck.

What an embarrassing article. The name of the paper is The Independant. Nothing independant about that artice.

[aaron bond]

CHECK THIS OUT!! HAHAHA! And people say the media isn't biased:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 21823.html

jesus h fuck.

What an embarrassing article. The name of the paper is The Independant. Nothing independant about that artice.

As you said Dazby - an embarrassing article. The newspaper should be ashamed to print anything like that. The headline is truly incredible.

[Tokyo Blue]

Well, being objective, when you look at the big picture...Our owners did pump significant amount of "M"word into the club.... as a fan, I demand results.

I could understand that if it were your money.

[bigblue]

CHECK THIS OUT!! HAHAHA! And people say the media isn't biased:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 21823.html

jesus h fuck.

One of the only times I actually laughed out loud at something on the internet. Probably out of shock at how blatant it is. Are you site that isn't reprinted from http://www.theonion.com/?!

[carl_feedthegoat]

JAMES LAWTON IS A FUCKIGN PARASITE , A JOKE OF A JOURNALIST AND A COMPLETE FUCKING FERGIE SUCKER....SO OBVIOUS HE DOESNT EVEN TRY TO DISGUISE HIS BIAS...................NO CREDIBILITY WHATSOEVER.....HILARIOUS.

[Cocacolajojo1]

I can't read it. Could someone paste this wonderful piece of journalism on here?

[Mase]

is that you maicon?

Hahahaha!!

[Douglas Higginbottom]

1. Vinnie was sent off against the scum when Nani threw himself in the air and shrek told the ref what to do.Apparently Vinnie wasn't in control when he took the ball cleanly.Are we really supposed to believe Nani was in control last night or was it a correct decision as it was dangerous play?
2.Irrespective of right or wrong the scum reacted really badly and handed the game to Madrid.Mourinho got immediate tactical decisions right and SAF got his wrong.Does 10 men guarantee you lose against a good team? Of course not but it's as if that's what that decision meant to everyone associated with them.
3.SAF went for the cautious defensive approach in the game.Wellbeck or Nani before Rooney! Really!It backfired big time as one missed the chances and the other got sent off.

[Scatman]

Interesting reactions from some of those involved tonight...

Bacon is a total wreck and MIA - interesting words from Phelan in the press conference... Was this his last shot at the Champions League?

Maureen has been a total kiss ass and considering what a huge result this was for Madrid has barely celebrated it. Vanishing into the tunnel before the final whistle. He almost seemed disappointed to have won?!

Tranny - didn't celebrate the goal, barely celebrated the win and did his best to not score another goal in the final 17 minutes. The few efforts he had were lame.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but tonights reactions lead me to think that this is Bacon's last season and both Tranny and Maureen will be at the swamp this summer...

Those were pretty much my thoughts exactly. Shit, isn't it?

[Blue Since 76]

CHECK THIS OUT!! HAHAHA! And people say the media isn't biased:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 21823.html

Is it just me, or can anyone else imagine the tears rolling down his cheeks as he wrote that. As he finished it, he probably burst into hysterics and took to hiding under his Giggs duvet cover for comfort.

Nani - the man who runs forever? Really? Try asking the rag fans what they think of him

They also had a forward sent off. A forward. So why did they fall apart for 10 mins and concede two goals? Surely that is a better question than bashing your keyboard whilst screaming 'It's not fair!!!!!!'

[Nigels Tackle]

I can't read it. Could someone paste this wonderful piece of journalism on here?

Sometimes you cannot control your own fate. Sometimes it is taken away from you. So what can you do? If you are a football team filled with the most remarkable competitive instincts, you do what Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United did tonight.

You fight Real Madrid with all your resources of spirit while lesser teams would collapse under the weight of their belief that the red card delivered to Nani, a potential match-winner, was a terrible assault on natural justice.

United are out of Europe and immersed in controversy, some of their own making in the matter of the dropping of Wayne Rooney, but where they remain is among the most durable fighters in all of football.

Even Jose Mourinho admitted the best team lost.

There was fierce and instant analysis of Ferguson's decision to leave Rooney on the bench but sometimes the heart of such an issue is rather more basic than any tactical calculation. It is about a manager's faith in a player's ability to deliver when the stakes and the challenge are at their highest.

Rooney may have produced a tour-de-force on his last outing, but it was inflicted upon Norwich City. For Real, against whom he had no more distinction than that of a willing runner at the Bernabeu, there was only the angst that came with waiting for the chance to play some part in the match that Jose Mourinho said would stop the world. Wayne's World, it was safe to say, had never been quite so drained of the old certainties.

Ferguson held out the possibility that he might come on in the second half and win the match, but no-one in a red shirt seemed about to yield the ground for such an ambition – and certainly not Nani of the outrageous destiny inflicted by Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakir.

Nani, along with the man who runs for ever, Ryan Giggs, and the young one, Danny Welbeck, who suggests so often that he might well have precisely the same facility, took the game to Real with a splendid optimism. Nani looked like a man operating with the sense that he was playing as much for his own future as his team, and that such an effort should be so cruelly curtailed was something his team-mates did well to put behind them after Cakir raised his red card. Nani kept his eyes on the ball as he collided with Alvaro Arbeloa and, if he was due anything, it was no more than a yellow card.

He had played with bite and spirit and had a huge part in the moment in which United's time-honoured fighting spirit seemed to have been enshrined by the goal which came when Welbeck turned his cross against Sergio Ramos and into the net.

At that point Mourinho was a parody of the cool manipulator who had guided Real to two straight victories over Barca. He yelled and gesticulated at a team who had shown every sign of shrivelling under the force of United's effort. Angel di Maria left injured, to be replaced by the old superstar Kaka, but neither he nor Mesut Ozil had produced hardly a semblance of their usual creative impact. And where was Ronaldo? He was inhabiting the most alien terrain of near anonymity.

United, served with character at every point of their effort, had won the high ground. Michael Carrick played with solid resolution in the midfield and before the catastrophe of the red card you would have backed Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic to resist a much more familiar Real, even the one which has recently been working hard to re-define the art of counter-attack.

Vidic was, indeed, threatening to be the revelation of the night, a player winning back so much of the authority that had dwindled down the long months of injuries. Near the end he demanded a reflex save from Real goalkeeper, Diego Lopez. Had it not come, we might have had still another example of United's refusal to live comfortably with the idea of defeat, any kind of defeat.

This one, it had to be said, was marked by one central and unshakeable injustice. When Real's goals came from the substitute Luka Modric and, finally, an enlivened Ronaldo, it was hard to calculate the pain and rage of Ferguson. He had brought on Rooney in the hope of something spectacular, but that disappeared quickly enough amid the hollow chanting of Real.

Ferguson had come up with a plan – and a team – and plainly both deserved better. At the very least, they demanded an even test of a quite remarkable spirit.

That was almost casually taken away. The night of glory was, irretrievably, lost to a rage that will surely take some time to pass.

[Hazy2]

Having had a nights sleep, I am rather happy today. Glad Nani was ok after faking injury again and still got his red,Glad that Fergie has fucked up his retirement plan, and glad that the scouse c*** will be sulking like the horrible wanker he is is.

Well done to Roy Keane your still a twat but well done.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Look through his posts. Consistently slags us.

Trust me, i am a die hard City fan...my beef is with Mancini... Just cant stand the damm excuses after all the money our owners invested...
we should have atleast improved as a team this year with the players we have...sorry fir being negative fellows..but i'm frustrated..

no you are not....why mention MONEY ???

Well, being objective, when you look at the big picture...Our owners did pump significant amount of "M"word into the club.... as a fan, I demand results. The solution is not always buying more players... need to start doing what you are paid to actually do, coach & motivate. Stop complaining about " needing new players", "BUY BUY BUY"... stop tinkering with a winning formula; exploit your current resources to the max....

How much did U*d's squad cost? More or less the same as ours give or take a few million.

[london blue 2]

CHECK THIS OUT!! HAHAHA! And people say the media isn't biased:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 21823.html

Disgusting.

Thankfully the article got slated on the majority of the comments.

[john@staustell]

[Evenmydoghatesunited]

As you said Dazby - an embarrassing article. The newspaper should be ashamed to print anything like that. The headline is truly incredible.

Here's the same closet red journalist with a slightly different take on matters when it happens to concern City. What a prat

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 90162.html

[Original Dub]

Here's the same closet red journalist with a slightly different take on matters when it happens to concern City. What a prat

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 90162.html

Can u paste that article mate?

[leomcfc]

CHECK THIS OUT!! HAHAHA! And people say the media isn't biased:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 21823.html

Gobsmacked . Actually what am I on about. Expected..... Anyone remember that banner they had for mark clattenberg during chelsea league cup game after league game a few days before?? Ah karma eh...

[Lee_R]

ffs rags feel sorry for themselves today. A good team carries on playing regardless of a sending off and it was clearly a sending off. Pathetic excuses. Very strange event too.