Carling Cup Tonight

[ONO]

lol, what a joke. Pathetic.

[therockbox]

"It's only a mickey mouse competition."

[Baddar]

...I for one, won't use that excuse. A competition is a competition at the end of the day, and any Utd are in, I want them to do well in. Bollocks to the "less games because we're out" theory, the more I watch Utd, the better.

[Lord Nibbler]

A shit performance from the sound of things, from some players that were quite highly thought of.

Still, the pundits who are questioning why the team didn't do as well as Chelsea or Liverpool need only look at the squads. Nani was the only player in the United starting line-up who plays at all regularly for the first team, and he's second choice behind Giggs and Ronaldo. Chelsea started or brought on nine players who featured at the weekend, and Liverpool played at least nine who make it into Rafa's rotating first team.

[therockbox]

A shit performance from the sound of things, from some players that were quite highly thought of.

Still, the pundits who are questioning why the team didn't do as well as Chelsea or Liverpool need only look at the squads. Nani was the only player in the United starting line-up who plays at all regularly for the first team, and he's second choice behind Giggs and Ronaldo. Chelsea started or brought on nine players who featured at the weekend, and Liverpool played at least nine who make it into Rafa's rotating first team.

[Baddar]

I think when you spend £30m on two players who are relatively unknown and un-tried at the highest level, unless they perform amazingly well to begin with, they're open to be called liability's. If they'd cost half as much, people would let them settle in before criticizing. £30m is alot of money, so I think they're being rightly criticized. Lets hope they come good like Evra and Vidic did...they were poor at first.

To be honest, the only Utd signing this season who has really impressed me so far is Owen "I love getting injured" Hargreaves.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Pleased with the Spurs performance. Bale and Huddlestone score, proving they should be playing ALL THE TIME. Lennon and Keane set up the goals and Defoe gets 70 minutes. Happy days...

Oh, and a CLEAN SHEET! Huzzah!

[Lord Nibbler]

"This is the beginning of the end for United. They have looked very average this season. I think Nani and Anderson were stupid buys."

ingathewinga from 606 clearly knows his stuff.

[Gazz]

People said Fergie had wasted £12m on Ronaldo a few years ago...

[therockbox]

"This is the beginning of the end for United. They have looked very average this season. I think Nani and Anderson were stupid buys."

ingathewinga from 606 clearly knows his stuff.

Still, I wish we had signed a certain Spanish forward who's adapting to the Premiership pretty well.

[Crybaby Bunting]

You sure he didn't mean Fabrigas?

[therockbox]

Yes, he's a midfielder.

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

Any idea when the draw is?

[stokeriño]

This Saturday at 12:15pm, coverage on Sky Sport's Soccer Saturday.

I had to go to the Luton Town website to find that.

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

Now, wasn't that a pleasant experience?

[stokeriño]

Full draw for the fourth round of the Carling Cup:

Luton Town v Everton

Portsmouth v Blackburn Rovers

Chelsea v Leicester City

Sheffield United v Arsenal

Tottenham Hotspur v Blackpool

Bolton Wanderers v Manchester City

Coventry City v West Ham United

Liverpool v Cardiff City

I can dig that.

[DFF]

Full draw for the fourth round of the Carling Cup:

Luton Town v Everton

Portsmouth v Blackburn Rovers

Chelsea v Leicester City

Sheffield United v Arsenal

Tottenham Hotspur v Blackpool

Bolton Wanderers v Manchester City

Coventry City v West Ham United

Liverpool v Cardiff City

I can dig that.

Cock, we've got Arsenal.

Still, it's usually a close game (we seem to have a knack for drawing them in Cup competition and we have an okay record)

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

Everton stuffed us last year in this competition, so it will be nice to have another crack at them.

[therockbox]

FOWLER RETURNS v2~!

[9 to 5]

Hmm, Pompey away will be a tough game.