FA Cup 3rd Round

Manchester United 4:0 Reading

Old Trafford

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    top1whoisman said:
    Clattenburg has been named the ref for this. @Invictus
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    Not according to this.
    United vs Reading ref announced
    It’s Andre Marriner, who denied Valencia a penalty against Arsenal.


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    Giant Midget said:
    Anyone else slightly apathetic towards this game? I can't take my mind off of the big game against Liverpool. Just keep the key players fit and sharp and I could care less about the FA Cup.
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    Honestly, I'm tense already for the Liverpool game. That's the big one. But I'd really like to see a young, rotated team get a good result on Saturday.
     
    DomesticTadpole said:
    Not according to this.
    United vs Reading ref announced
    It’s Andre Marriner, who denied Valencia a penalty against Arsenal.


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    That's weird, they've got different names in the picture and the list.

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    It's the FA Cup. Jose won't be messing around

    Zlatan and Pogba probably be on the bench for security purposes, the usual rest will start and play. We have over two legs to knock out Hull, so i think we will see more of the reserves and squad players in that
     
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    That's weird, they've got different names in the picture and the list.

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    Likely a typo. Marriner has been put both as referee in our match, and as fourth official in Liverpool's match, while Clattenburg is not refereeing any of the matches, which doesn't make sense.

    So, I guess that Clattenburg will be the referee for our match.
     
    Revan said:
    Likely a typo. Marriner has been put both as referee in our match, and as fourth official in Liverpool's match, while Clattenburg is not refereeing any of the matches, which doesn't make sense.

    So, I guess that Clattenburg will be the referee for our match.
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    Yeah, did the same math as well.
     
    ijc said:
    REST Ibra, Pogba, Herrera, Carrick, Valencia, Mkh. Maybe also DDG... Romero deserves a game he's alright.

    Romero
    TFM, Tuanzebe, Rojo, Darmian
    Blind (Carrick role), Fellaini
    Lingard, Mata, Martial
    Rashford
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    Wishful thinking here
     
    I hope Jose gives chances to youngsters like Sean Goss in this match. No better chance than this to give young players a go.
     
    unimaginative_name said:
    I hope Jose gives chances to youngsters like Sean Goss in this match. No better chance than this to give young players a go.
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    Not going to happen. Schweinsteiger or Fosu-Mensah have had no game yet, and Goss is going to play?
     
    Right, if we don’t massacre this gormless mashed-potato sandwich of a football team all ends up then it’s nothing short of a travesty. Their first team includes Tyler Blackett, who did the world’s longest and greatest charades impersonation of 1993 American coming-of-age comedy film ‘Dazed and Confused’ during his two years of first team appearances with United, and Ali Al-Habsi, who in one game conceded goals from both Alex Büttner and Nick Powell. Also Kermorgant sounds like a villain in a Charles Dickens novel, which will eventually contribute to a subsequent point.

    Jaap Stam was by all accounts a very successful angry man in his time with us, and beneath that bald, bald head there is still certainly a lot of anger, and a lot of power in that anger. But football is not a game of anger at a Premier League level. I could see Jaap in a Premier League side’s coaching team, a sort of Joe Jordan with a touch of continental charm and probably a much more relaxed attitude to marijuana and the legalisation of the sex trade, but I can’t see his raging teeth sinking deeply into the ephemeral cheese of a Premier League side. The Championship is of course very different, and there Reading are of course, in the absence of anything else to do, accumulating points (often several at a time, but sometimes only one and occasionally none at all). But Steve Bruce accumulates points in the championship, and by all accounts accumulates them quite well. Bruce, too, once was nurtured by the twin bosoms of Old Trafford and SAF, and we fans in turn were nurtured by him. Since his departure, however, he’s grown increasingly sad and world-weary. Now, his face is soft and paunchy like a cheap sofa. Unquestionably it’s a sofa in which the Championship enjoys sitting, but almost as often as he’s proved his comfort there, he’s shown that his upholstery can’t quite hold the firmer, bonier arse of the Premier League. And Manchester United, lest we forget, should have the boniest arse of them all. We require excellent padding and fabric from our managers.

    This leads me to José. In contrast to the aforementioned anger and paunchiness, José has fast eyes and little emotion. He is like the street-urchin protagonist of a film set in Victorian times. Steve Bruce is the wealthy factory owner, grown plump off all the kids working in the mills. He’s probably not a truly evil man, but he’s weak, led astray by an evil advisor, played here by Yann Kermorgant (told you he’d come back up). Loveable child-pickpocket Mourinho sees him as an obvious target and, though Bruce’s no-nonsense bodyguard, Jaap Stam, catches him the first couple of times and boxes his ears (or some other suitably anachronistic punishment), ultimately José is too wily, those eyes too darting, his features too unreadable.

    I’m also casting Mata as a supporting actor, the impressionable and kind-hearted homeless immigrant that José at first scorns, but then takes under his wing. After a couple of tender hugs from Juan, I think his tragic death about 60% of the way through the film would get some real pathos out of the audience (he can be replaced by the pace of Rashford). Ultimately the film culminates with Stam and Bruce outwitted, Kermorgant humiliated (nutmeg from Rashford?) and Mourinho victorious.

    And that’s why if I don’t see at least 3 rabonas from Sergio Romero against Reading I will be greatly displeased at the lack of adventure shown by this football club. Sack José, sell Giggs and bid £120 million for Anthony Le Tallec, a player with the world class potential we need.
     
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    Elastic Fish said:
    Right, if we don’t massacre this gormless mashed-potato sandwich of a football team all ends up then it’s nothing short of a travesty. Their first team includes Tyler Blackett, who did the world’s longest and greatest charades impersonation of 1993 American coming-of-age comedy film ‘Dazed and Confused’ during his two years of first team appearances with United, and Ali Al-Habsi, who in one game conceded goals from both Alex Büttner and Nick Powell. Also Kermorgant sounds like a villain in a Charles Dickens novel, which will eventually contribute to a subsequent point.

    Jaap Stam was by all accounts a very successful angry man in his time with us, and beneath that bald, bald head there is still certainly a lot of anger, and a lot of power in that anger. But football is not a game of anger at a Premier League level. I could see Jaap in a Premier League side’s coaching team, a sort of Joe Jordan with a touch of continental charm and probably a much more relaxed attitude to marijuana and the legalisation of the sex trade, but I can’t see his raging teeth sinking deeply into the ephemeral cheese of a Premier League side. The Championship is of course very different, and there Reading are of course, in the absence of anything else to do, accumulating points (often several at a time, but sometimes only one and occasionally none at all). But Steve Bruce accumulates points in the championship, and by all accounts accumulates them quite well. Bruce, too, once was nurtured by the twin bosoms of Old Trafford and SAF, and we fans in turn were nurtured by him. Since his departure, however, he’s grown increasingly sad and world-weary. Now, his face is soft and paunchy like a cheap sofa. Unquestionably it’s a sofa in which the Championship enjoys sitting, but almost as often as he’s proved his comfort there, he’s shown that his upholstery can’t quite hold the firmer, bonier arse of the Premier League. And Manchester United, lest we forget, should have the boniest arse of them all. We require excellent padding and fabric from our managers.

    This leads me to José. In contrast to the aforementioned anger and paunchiness, José has fast eyes and little emotion. He is like the street-urchin protagonist of a film set in Victorian times. Steve Bruce is the wealthy factory owner, grown plump off all the kids working in the mills. He’s probably not a truly evil man, but he’s weak, led astray by an evil advisor, played here by Yann Kermorgant (told you he’d come back up). Loveable child-pickpocket Mourinho sees him as an obvious target and, though Bruce’s no-nonsense bodyguard, Jaap Stam, catches him the first couple of times and boxes his ears (or some other suitably anachronistic punishment), ultimately José is too wily, those eyes too darting, his features too unreadable.

    I’m also casting Mata as a supporting actor, the impressionable and kind-hearted homeless immigrant that José at first scorns, but then takes under his wing. After a couple of tender hugs from Juan, I think his tragic death about 60% of the way through the film would get some real pathos out of the audience (he can be replaced by the pace of Rashford). Ultimately the film culminates with Stam and Bruce outwitted, Kermorgant humiliated (nutmeg from Rashford?) and Mourinho victorious.

    And that’s why if I don’t see at least 3 rabonas from Sergio Romero against Reading I will be greatly displeased at the lack of adventure shown by this football club. Sack José, sell Giggs and bid £120 million for Anthony Le Tallec, a player with the world class potential we need.
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    :lol: Well done.
     
    Please rest Ander, valencia, Carrick, Pogba, Zlatan. All matters is we win and rest players who have played a lot of football.

    Romero
    Darmian - Small - Rojo - Blind
    Schweini - TFM
    Mata - Lingard - Depay
    Rashford
     
    Elastic Fish said:
    Right, if we don’t massacre this gormless mashed-potato sandwich of a football team...
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    :lol:

    I genuinely was trying to envisage the Championship and the Premier League sitting on Bruce-the-Sofa. Excellent descriptions.
     
    it will be nice to rest zlatan, pogba, herrera, carrick and valencia.

    unfortunately because jose will not consider schneiderlin and BFS is still lacking match fitness one of herrera or pogba is going to start.

    don't think jose will give tuanzebe a start at CB too. smalling will come in and with either one of jones or rojo to be rested.

    btw is shaw fit and available for this game?
     
    Reading manager Jaap Stam has confessed that he still loves Manchester United.

    Stam was a cult hero at United during his three-year stay at Old Trafford but the Dutchman was unceremoniously sold by the Red Devils in 2001 after he made derogatory comments regarding manager Sir Alex Ferguson in his autobiography.

    Now the Dutchman prepares to return to United as manager of Reading for their FA Cup third-round clash on Saturday and ahead of the encounter, the 44-year-old has stated that he still has a special place in his heart for the Red Devils as well as the club's supporters.

    Stam told Reading's official website: "It'll be good to be back in Manchester. I still love the club, I love the fans, I had a great time over there and it's going to be good to be going back in this way, as Reading manager for this cup tie.

    "We're facing a great team, a great manager - I like how he works and what he does for his team, how we gets things going...and the career that he has made, the trophies that he has won - I admire that.

    "So it's not going to be easy. But we'll give it our best shot. And we'll see. We're not saying we don't have a chance. Everybody has a chance. But it's important that we prepare well for the game and hopefully we can do well and enjoy it.

    "We're looking forward to it. It's a great draw, not only for me, but also for the players. To play at Old Trafford in front of 80,000 people, against quality players in the FA Cup - a competition everyone wants to do well in, a trophy everybody wants to win, it's going to be nice."
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    http://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...campaign=Feed-Latest+Articles+for+Manchester%
     
    Rest Ibra,Pogba,Carrick,Valencia and Herrera. Hope to see Rooney back for this if fit, and Shaw.
     
    Camy89 said:
    Is that good or bad for us? I'm guessing bad due to the general standard of refereeing lately.
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    At the moment, I don’t really think it matters who’s the referee in our matches, or any other matches really. The quality has been abysmal and I hope this’ll quicken the process of tech aid. The challenge is the same everywhere, not just England. I was a bit surprised Clattenburg got the United vs Burnley match so soon after that Manchester derby - That went well. So it could’ve been okay to have him in this, relatively easy game rather than say Pool in a week...
     
    Sergio
    TFM Smalling Rojo Blind
    Carrick Fellaini
    Lingard Mata Young
    Rashford

    I'm purely guessing here but I think he'll play Carrick Saturday and then rest him against Hull, giving him a full 8 days to get ready for Liverpool. I can't see him making too many changes at the back, Jose takes every competition very seriously and he knows if we suffered a big upset here it could completely derail our momentum at a crucial time of the season.
     
    I imagine Jose will make 3/4 changes for this game and then a remaining 3/4 against Hull in midweek - that way the bulk of the XI will get a rest ahead of Liverpool.

    Herrera, MKH, Ibra, Pogba, Carrick, Martial, Rashford and De Gea will all be presumably be rotated during the course of the next two games.

    There's no sense in making wholesale changes, it risks momentum and when players are in form, the last thing they want is to spend the best part of two weeks out of action.
     
    This isn't on tv in Norway because no one has bought the FA cup rights.

    EDIT: TV2 Norway buying the rights for the next 2 years so we get to see games this weekend.
     
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    Elastic Fish said:
    Right, if we don’t massacre this gormless mashed-potato sandwich of a football team all ends up then it’s nothing short of a travesty. Their first team includes Tyler Blackett, who did the world’s longest and greatest charades impersonation of 1993 American coming-of-age comedy film ‘Dazed and Confused’ during his two years of first team appearances with United, and Ali Al-Habsi, who in one game conceded goals from both Alex Büttner and Nick Powell. Also Kermorgant sounds like a villain in a Charles Dickens novel, which will eventually contribute to a subsequent point.

    Jaap Stam was by all accounts a very successful angry man in his time with us, and beneath that bald, bald head there is still certainly a lot of anger, and a lot of power in that anger. But football is not a game of anger at a Premier League level. I could see Jaap in a Premier League side’s coaching team, a sort of Joe Jordan with a touch of continental charm and probably a much more relaxed attitude to marijuana and the legalisation of the sex trade, but I can’t see his raging teeth sinking deeply into the ephemeral cheese of a Premier League side. The Championship is of course very different, and there Reading are of course, in the absence of anything else to do, accumulating points (often several at a time, but sometimes only one and occasionally none at all). But Steve Bruce accumulates points in the championship, and by all accounts accumulates them quite well. Bruce, too, once was nurtured by the twin bosoms of Old Trafford and SAF, and we fans in turn were nurtured by him. Since his departure, however, he’s grown increasingly sad and world-weary. Now, his face is soft and paunchy like a cheap sofa. Unquestionably it’s a sofa in which the Championship enjoys sitting, but almost as often as he’s proved his comfort there, he’s shown that his upholstery can’t quite hold the firmer, bonier arse of the Premier League. And Manchester United, lest we forget, should have the boniest arse of them all. We require excellent padding and fabric from our managers.

    This leads me to José. In contrast to the aforementioned anger and paunchiness, José has fast eyes and little emotion. He is like the street-urchin protagonist of a film set in Victorian times. Steve Bruce is the wealthy factory owner, grown plump off all the kids working in the mills. He’s probably not a truly evil man, but he’s weak, led astray by an evil advisor, played here by Yann Kermorgant (told you he’d come back up). Loveable child-pickpocket Mourinho sees him as an obvious target and, though Bruce’s no-nonsense bodyguard, Jaap Stam, catches him the first couple of times and boxes his ears (or some other suitably anachronistic punishment), ultimately José is too wily, those eyes too darting, his features too unreadable.

    I’m also casting Mata as a supporting actor, the impressionable and kind-hearted homeless immigrant that José at first scorns, but then takes under his wing. After a couple of tender hugs from Juan, I think his tragic death about 60% of the way through the film would get some real pathos out of the audience (he can be replaced by the pace of Rashford). Ultimately the film culminates with Stam and Bruce outwitted, Kermorgant humiliated (nutmeg from Rashford?) and Mourinho victorious.

    And that’s why if I don’t see at least 3 rabonas from Sergio Romero against Reading I will be greatly displeased at the lack of adventure shown by this football club. Sack José, sell Giggs and bid £120 million for Anthony Le Tallec, a player with the world class potential we need.
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    I checked some of your other posts and was disappointed they're not all like this.
     
    Noggies, Tv2 just bought the rights for the FA cup, they will show all FA cup matches on Tv2 Premium now bundled in with the PL package :drool:

    About fecking time we got it back.
     
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