Anyone hear Hodgson's comments to the Norwegian journo in the press conference? What a joke this fella is.

Adebayor was dreadful and has been for a while. Along with De Jong being scared of making a tackle, we were effectively playing with 9 men for 60mins. Throw on a class player and we score 3 and hit the woodwork three times. Joe Hart made two saves, so all this talk of Blackpool playing us off the park is nonsense.

Football is about winning the battles in the two penalty boxes. Blackpool went from box-to-box very neatly, and disturbingly easy, but we were better defensively and we were more ruthless in attack. That’s all that matters. We were poor between the boxes but we won.

Ask yourself…were you happier when we battered Bolton (the time when we hit the woodwork 4 or 5 times, and Jaaskeleinen produced 4 great saves, but they scored with a pen in the 83rd minute) but lost 1-0, or would you have preferred to have had a slice of luck and won?

We were terrible for 60mins but you don’t always win points for being pretty.


As for the ‘foul’ on the centre-half? It was never a free-kick. If anything, the defender pushed Tevez before the alleged trip. Tevez’s goal was off-side but it was marginal. It was never ‘clearly’ offside.

I see there was no mention of a the blatant foul on Tevez leading up to one of their goals.




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Our two best players this season were signed buy Hughes.

Bridge and Lescott admittedly have been poor. But then neither has been fit for a sustained run of games. At the moment I would rather have Zabaleta at LB than Bridge, and Boyata at centre-half.

TBF I would rather have Bridge than Ferreira or O’Shea, and I would also rather have Lescott than Brown or Evans, I would also rather have Richards that Rafael or Neville.

We have the most talented set of players that we have had at the club for a long time, we are not in a financially perilous state, crowds are good, the club are doing much more for the supporters, ticket prices are relatively low and there is at least hope that we may actually win something for only the second time since I was born. TBH, Dave, you rarely say anything positive about the club. If we beat United 3-0, you would moan about the price of a cup of tea.

He didn't cover himself in glory yesterday.


TBF though, I thought Everton played very well yesterday. I doubt Yakubu has played better.

How many games are Utd going to throw away this season? Fulham, Everton and now West Brom, thos lost 6 points would see us top right now. Saturday's goals were joke goals but still we had another 35 mins to score again. The Rooney situation is interesting but I still think it will blow over.

As for Liverpool the most worrying thing for me would be the manager thinking that the team played well in a game that they were never in.

Blackpool were unlucky but for City winning when not playing well has to be a good sign.

No, what did he say?

It is up to point. So far this season we've taken 8 points from 5 games in which we've played poorly. Last year we'd have been lucky to scrape 3 from those matches. And to some extent there are good reasons why we've been hit miss - the new system & players and the injuries. But we still have a couple of basic weaknesses, such as the over reliance on Tevez, which will need to be addressed if we are to become a consistent team.

To say we were "played off the park" might be a slight overstatement. We scored three goals and hit the woodwork three times!

I'm positive about many of our players at the moment but Lescott, Bridge and Adebayor are very average players. Blackpool had more chances than anyone has had all season and anyone could see that Lescott and Bridge are a disaster waiting to happen and could have been punished on more than one occasion.

There's always room for constructive criticism.

£38 - £50 in the home sections seems a big increase from last season? Even the cheapest ticket at Old Trafford is £27.

£46-£48 in the away end as well. The £40 price last year according to DD was because of the increased allocation (meaning more police etc) for the league cup game. Will be interesting to see how he can blame Utd for this years prices?

Very well indeed, it was a really good all round performance and you're right that was arguably Yakubu's best game for us, it's certainly his best game since he came back from his injury, all he's lacking at the moment is a goal or two but that will come. He showed exactly why we shouldn't have even though of selling him over the summer.



I'm not sure what he said to them, although Robbie will enlighten us soon I hope, but he said this to Talksport:

“I can’t ask more of the players than they’ve given the club. I thought their workrate was outstanding, our passing was very good, our movement was good and Everton were fortunate enough to be able to defend on the back of a two-goal cushion. I think it might have been a different story had they not had the two-goal cushion
“In my opinion it’s arguably the best game we’ve played since I’ve become the manager of the club. That’s my opinion based on what I saw on the field but I’m fully aware that what you see on the field is not what people base their opinions on"