[Norris]

That's it. I'm buying our jersey with his name on the back next season as well.

Proud to say, I already have his name on my Man Utd Jersey

Great performance from him. Considering he hasn't even played much recently, he put in a top top performance. Even in the first half, he was the only one who did not disappoint. Use him well and he will be the perfect foil to Pogba.

 

[anant]

Proud to say, I already have his name on my Man Utd Jersey

Great performance from him. Considering he hasn't even played much recently, he put in a top top performance. Even in the first half, he was the only one who did not disappoint. Use him well and he will be the perfect foil to Pogba.

Got his name on the back this season as well, but was planning JLingz or Alexis next season, but it has to be Ander next season as well

 

[roonster09]

This season:
Assist vs City

Last season:
Assist vs Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea
Goal vs Chelsea
Also assisted winner in league cup finals.


2016-17:
Scored vs Liverpool, Arsenal

2015-16:
Assist vs Liverpool
Goal vs Arsenal

For a midfielder who is primarily defensive player, his record in big games is very good.

 

[VojjE]

This season:
Assist vs City

Last season:
Assist vs Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea
Goal vs Chelsea
Also assisted winner in league cup finals.


2016-17:
Scored vs Liverpool, Arsenal

2015-16:
Assist vs Liverpool
Goal vs Arsenal

For a midfielder who is primarily defensive player, his record in big games is very good.

He assisted Martial for the FA cup semi-final winning goal too.

 

[Lam]

His attitude reminds me Evra

 

[RedStarUnited]

His attitude reminds me Evra

Yep with the added cynicism.

The image of him calling Young to stretch his leg will last forever in my head. Because our players knew, and City players knew there was nothing wrong with him.

 

[Summit]

That is so obviously meant it is funny to hear him troll saying he didn't mean it

Such an overreaction head movement to indicate his hatred too. You don't casually spit like that.

 

[SillyUsername]

Everyone is excited because he had a good game yesterday and I'm thankful to him for that. However, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I don't like his antics as a footballer and he's not the kind of man I like to see representing our team. Sly fouls all of the time, rolling around over exaggerating contact at any given opportunity, yapping away at referees every game. We've had players displaying some of these tendencies in the past, I'm not sure we've had any in recent memory who display all of them, and so regularly on top of that.

The spitting on the City crest is just disgusting and I don't know how anyone can find it funny. I dislike pretty much everything about City, their owners, what they stand for and their hypocritical public image which I won't get into now, but spitting on their crest, it's just uncalled for, entirely unprofessional and disrespectful.

 

[el3mel]

Everyone is excited because he had a good game yesterday and I'm thankful to him for that. However, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I don't like his antics as a footballer and he's not the kind of man I like to see representing our team. Sly fouls all of the time, rolling around over exaggerating contact at any given opportunity, yapping away at referees every game. We've had players displaying some of these tendencies in the past, I'm not sure we've had any in recent memory who display all of them, and so regularly on top of that.

The spitting on the City crest is just disgusting and I don't know how anyone can find it funny. I dislike pretty much everything about City, their owners, what they stand for and their hypocritical public image which I won't get into now, but spitting on their crest, it's just uncalled for, entirely unprofessional and disrespectful.

Err, Keane is one of our legends and all this was a big reason of why he was loved here and why he was one of our best Captains in modern history. I missed having such players instead of being a soft baby.

 

[SillyUsername]

Err, Keane is one of our legends and all this was a big reason of why he was loved here and why he was one of our best Captains in modern history. I missed having such players instead of being a soft baby.

Did Keane forsake all dignity and roll around on the floor every game pretending to be hurt to waste time? He'd die ashamed first.

 

[el3mel]

Did Keane forsake all dignity and roll around on the floor every game pretending to be hurt to waste time? He'd die ashamed first.

No but he did everything else you mentioned. I never had any problems with these things as long as it's coming from my player tbh. Football isn't a Utopian world.

 

[SillyUsername]

No but he did everything else you mentioned. I never had any problems with these things as long as it's coming from my player tbh. Football isn't a Utopian world.

Well, I did say:

We've had players displaying some of these tendencies in the past, I'm not sure we've had any in recent memory who display all of them, and so regularly on top of that.

Frankly, to even compare the two is an insult to our most successful captain. Keane is a hard but fair man.

He did not respond to fouls by rolling around pretending he's hurt and while he had many a conversation with referees during his time here (as was his place because he was the captain for 8 years) I highly doubt that many of them were of the nature of Herrera's who tries to get someone booked practically every game.

The two of them are simply nothing alike and that's before we even get into the huge gulf in footballing ability.

 

[el3mel]

Well, I did say:



Frankly, to even compare the two is an insult to our most successful captain. Keane is a hard but fair man.

He did not respond to fouls by rolling around pretending he's hurt and while he had many a conversation with referees during his time here (as was his place because he was the captain for 8 years) I highly doubt that many of them were of the nature of Herrera's who tries to get someone booked practically every game.

The two of them are simply nothing alike and that's before we even get into the huge gulf in footballing ability.

Each to his own liking but for me football isn't a Utopian world and never will be. I have no problem with having a cnut in our team as long as he's our cnut.

 

[RedDevil@84]

Frankly, to even compare the two is an insult to our most successful captain. Keane is a hard but fair man.

It is not a comparison as such. You put in a post saying that a person making hard tackles or picking arguments with ref was something horrifying or never seen at our club. That is not the case.
And let us not get overboard with Herrera's play acting. He does it of course. But it is not like he does it every time.

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

Frankly, to even compare the two is an insult to our most successful captain. Keane is a hard but fair man.

Keane was a cnut. Stamped on people, bullied referees, threw punches at opposition.

Loved him.

 

[breakout67]

Everyone is excited because he had a good game yesterday and I'm thankful to him for that. However, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I don't like his antics as a footballer and he's not the kind of man I like to see representing our team. Sly fouls all of the time, rolling around over exaggerating contact at any given opportunity, yapping away at referees every game. We've had players displaying some of these tendencies in the past, I'm not sure we've had any in recent memory who display all of them, and so regularly on top of that.

The spitting on the City crest is just disgusting and I don't know how anyone can find it funny. I dislike pretty much everything about City, their owners, what they stand for and their hypocritical public image which I won't get into now, but spitting on their crest, it's just uncalled for, entirely unprofessional and disrespectful.

No one cares

 

[Trophy Room]

Everyone is excited because he had a good game yesterday and I'm thankful to him for that. However, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I don't like his antics as a footballer and he's not the kind of man I like to see representing our team. Sly fouls all of the time, rolling around over exaggerating contact at any given opportunity, yapping away at referees every game. We've had players displaying some of these tendencies in the past, I'm not sure we've had any in recent memory who display all of them, and so regularly on top of that.

The spitting on the City crest is just disgusting and I don't know how anyone can find it funny. I dislike pretty much everything about City, their owners, what they stand for and their hypocritical public image which I won't get into now, but spitting on their crest, it's just uncalled for, entirely unprofessional and disrespectful.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Think somebody needs to go and support Sanctimonious United.

 

[Loublaze]

Everyone is excited because he had a good game yesterday and I'm thankful to him for that. However, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I don't like his antics as a footballer and he's not the kind of man I like to see representing our team. Sly fouls all of the time, rolling around over exaggerating contact at any given opportunity, yapping away at referees every game. We've had players displaying some of these tendencies in the past, I'm not sure we've had any in recent memory who display all of them, and so regularly on top of that.

The spitting on the City crest is just disgusting and I don't know how anyone can find it funny. I dislike pretty much everything about City, their owners, what they stand for and their hypocritical public image which I won't get into now, but spitting on their crest, it's just uncalled for, entirely unprofessional and disrespectful.

I like Herrera but I have to agree with you here except for the last part as I genuinely think he didn't notice the crest but I don't really care either way. Herrera is easily the dirtiest player we have.

 

[Andycoleno9]

As someone said in match thread after couple of his tackles and antics. " he is a prick. But he is our prick." Delighted that he found his form back. This is herrera who we need for semi against tottenham.

 

[ivaldo]

Did Keane forsake all dignity and roll around on the floor every game pretending to be hurt to waste time? He'd die ashamed first.

Nah. He just went out with the intention to break peoples legs in the name of revenge.

 

[Canagel]

Everyone is excited because he had a good game yesterday and I'm thankful to him for that. However, I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I don't like his antics as a footballer and he's not the kind of man I like to see representing our team. Sly fouls all of the time, rolling around over exaggerating contact at any given opportunity, yapping away at referees every game. We've had players displaying some of these tendencies in the past, I'm not sure we've had any in recent memory who display all of them, and so regularly on top of that.

The spitting on the City crest is just disgusting and I don't know how anyone can find it funny. I dislike pretty much everything about City, their owners, what they stand for and their hypocritical public image which I won't get into now, but spitting on their crest, it's just uncalled for, entirely unprofessional and disrespectful.

I have to agree with what you're saying. Herrera goes over the top with his antics and doesn't need to resort to that kind of stuff. If you're a top footballer you don't need to get the ref on your side. You go out there and dominate your area of the pitch. The best players don't do what Herrera regularly does. My theory is that Herrera knows he hasn't got the quality so has to find different ways of being a nuisance to the opposition. It's clever. He recognises his weaknesses but makes up for them by being a specialist in the dark arts if you like. Like you said I'd rather not be associated with these kind of things. But of course he had a good game on Saturday. And I'll continue to support him whilst he's representing the club but if you asked me whether I want another midfielder to replace him than the answer is yes. On the spitting thing though there's no way of proving whether it was deliberate or not so I'm not going to add anything there. Only Herrera himself knows whether it was deliberate or not. There's no point on speculating further than that.

 

[ROFLUTION]

You need pricks to win games. Is not afraid of going into tackles neither. Viva Herrera!

 

[ROFLUTION]

Matic really is built like a beast when you see him next to Herrera.

 

[TsuWave]

If you're a top footballer you don't need to get the ref on your side. You go out there and dominate your area of the pitch. The best players don't do what Herrera regularly does.

this is just like...not true at all. say you don't like the antics or whatever but no need to write fanfiction. the best players do this type of shit all the time from exaggerating contact to trying to get the ref on their side or get him to card opposition players. regularly.

 

[izec]

Beautiful. Love it.

To be fair it happened at HT i guess, conpletely understandable. fecking cnuts that they are

 

[DomesticTadpole]

this is just like...not true at all. say you don't like the antics or whatever but no need to write fanfiction. the best players do this type of shit all the time from exaggerating contact to trying to get the ref on their side or get him to card opposition players. regularly.

Some of the shrinking violets on here seem to have forgotten that the whole day was about humiliating United. City, their fans, the media everyone were geared up for it. If it took a bit of dirty work to prevent it then fine with me. These people want to watch a City game and look at their antics, their rolling about, their dirty fouls, their preventing an attack by fouling. We actually scored three pretty good goals.

They seem to think that we never, ever made a tactical foul in the past, that our players didn't stay down to take the sting out of a game, that players never rolled around a bit. Give over.

We have been saying for ages that we are soft at times, some keep harping back to past teams. Well more of the play like Saturday for me.

 

[clarkydaz]

He is Jose's little lap dog on the pitch

 

[Ed9]

Jesus hates just 2 people from the beginning of time. Judas and Ander Herrera. Our little biblical hero.

 

[criticalanalysis]

This season:
Assist vs City

Last season:
Assist vs Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea
Goal vs Chelsea
Also assisted winner in league cup finals.


2016-17:
Scored vs Liverpool, Arsenal

2015-16:
Assist vs Liverpool
Goal vs Arsenal

For a midfielder who is primarily defensive player, his record in big games is very good.

He assisted Martial for the FA cup semi-final winning goal too.

Motm at Anfield last year.

Motm in Europa League Final and of course pushed Mhiki to get in the box, who scored the decisive 2nd goal.

I'm sure there are more.

He is absolutely a big game player.

I have to agree with what you're saying. Herrera goes over the top with his antics and doesn't need to resort to that kind of stuff. If you're a top footballer you don't need to get the ref on your side. You go out there and dominate your area of the pitch. The best players don't do what Herrera regularly does. My theory is that Herrera knows he hasn't got the quality so has to find different ways of being a nuisance to the opposition. It's clever. He recognises his weaknesses but makes up for them by being a specialist in the dark arts if you like. Like you said I'd rather not be associated with these kind of things. But of course he had a good game on Saturday. And I'll continue to support him whilst he's representing the club but if you asked me whether I want another midfielder to replace him than the answer is yes. On the spitting thing though there's no way of proving whether it was deliberate or not so I'm not going to add anything there. Only Herrera himself knows whether it was deliberate or not. There's no point on speculating further than that.

Watching Barcalona, Madrid, Atletico, Juve, Bayern etc says otherwise...

As everyone has said, it's tiresome to watch and fecking annoying but he's doing it for the shirt and the will to win. Can't fault that.

 

[Foxbatt]

Last season Ander today. He's been shit this season but today he showed up. He should have wummed the shit out of Jesus and got him sent off at the end

Good Heavens. Now you want him to wumm the shit out of Jesus? Is this after he crucifies him or before that?

 

[Foxbatt]

Pretty sure if he had five minutes more then he'd wound up Jesus so much that he'd gotten a red card

The referee would have crucified him then?

 

[EricaNo7]

Some of the shrinking violets on here seem to have forgotten that the whole day was about humiliating United. City, their fans, the media everyone were geared up for it. If it took a bit of dirty work to prevent it then fine with me. These people want to watch a City game and look at their antics, their rolling about, their dirty fouls, their preventing an attack by fouling. We actually scored three pretty good goals.

They seem to think that we never, ever made a tactical foul in the past, that our players didn't stay down to take the sting out of a game, that players never rolled around a bit. Give over.

We have been saying for ages that we are soft at times, some keep harping back to past teams. Well more of the play like Saturday for me.

Couldn't agree more. City looked like pathetic little crybabies in the second half. Ander was brilliant I thought and showed how much United meant to him

 

[Di Maria's angel]

Did Keane forsake all dignity and roll around on the floor every game pretending to be hurt to waste time? He'd die ashamed first.

Nah Keane used to just do this:



and this:



I assume on your really high horse punching opposition players is acceptable?

I loved what Ander did to waste time. I remember how City embarrassed us at OT earlier in the year during added time. Sterling kept winning corners of Young, so it was nice to induce petty fouls from City and see the anger in their eyes.

 

[Ish]

Nah. He just went out with the intention to break peoples legs in the name of revenge.

Aye, you get those double standards, always.

Only if Herrera was world class, I bet you'd get less and less of the "...sorry, I am ashamed of his antics and don't want him representing our club" posts. Not many cared that Ronaldo was a bit of a diver. Or indeed, that Keane was a hard man who crossed the line quite a few times.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Nah Keane used to just do this:



and this:



I assume on your really high horse punching opposition players is acceptable?

I loved what Ander did to waste time. I remember how City embarrassed us at OT earlier in the year during added time. Sterling kept winning corners of Young, so it was nice to induce petty fouls from City and see the anger in their eyes.

Picking out a handful of isolated incidents is kind of missing the point. Generally, Keane played the game hard but fair. Generally, Hererra is prone to gamesmanship. I don't really see how anyone can argue against these two statements (but no doubt they will!)

Some people have an issue with players who are generally prone to play the game the way that Hererra does. Some people don't mind at all. That's all down to personal opinion. However, trying to pretend that Keane was somehow morally equivalent in his usual approach to playing football is clearly wrong and an obvious straw man.

 

[breakout67]

To be honest, taking a moral stance on how a player plays football is a bit strange. It becomes even stranger when a comparison is made to a player who actually did cross moral boundaries by being violent to other players.

I think that any moral stance is much stronger against Keane, who actually broke the law on the pitch. Hererra does a bit of play acting and rough tackling.

 

[Di Maria's angel]

Picking out a handful of isolated incidents is kind of missing the point. Generally, Keane played the game hard but fair. Generally, Hererra is prone to gamesmanship. I don't really see how anyone can argue against these two statements (but no doubt they will!)

Some people have an issue with players who are generally prone to play the game the way that Hererra does. Some people don't mind at all. That's all down to personal opinion. However, trying to pretend that Keane was somehow morally equivalent in his usual approach to playing football is clearly wrong and an obvious straw man.

I can't agree. There's nothing fair about punching opponents, breaking legs etc. that we witnessed from our former legendary captain. I don't really like the play acting from Herrera - not necessarily what we saw on Saturday but he is guilty of rolling around and making a big deal out of nothing. But I won't sit here an act as if it's unacceptable when we've had a fair share of absolute nutters who've supported through thick and thin.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I can't agree. There's nothing fair about punching opponents, breaking legs etc. that we witnessed from our former legendary captain. I don't really like the play acting from Herrera - not necessarily what we saw on Saturday but he is guilty of rolling around and making a big deal out of nothing. But I won't sit here an act as if it's unacceptable when we've had a fair share of absolute nutters who've supported through thick and thin.

I said "generally". He played 326 matches for the club. How many times did he punch someone or break somebody's leg?

 

[Still ill]

Good grief, what has this turned in to? I thought Herrera was great on Saturday but I will never like the playacting. If it was a special performance just to wind City up it would be one thing but it wasn't. He has it in his locker and I wish he didn't. I don't think it's controversial for people to voice that opinion. It's also ok to love Roy Keane and what he represented for this club and hate one or two incidents from his canon of work.