The 2011/12 Gary Speed Memorial Thread

[Jimmy]

Hahah, Mick's great.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Oh dear.

http://yfrog.com/j1g0uz

Did he really just say COONS Park Rangers? Even for a Scotsman, wowzers.

[The Lusophone]

I'll leap on the misfortune of City all day long. Why exactly would any single United supporter not want them to lose? It's a title race, people aren't exactly going to sit there relaxed.

A few things from tonight:

Passing Stats:

Carrick 129/139/93%

Scholes 113/126/90%

Evans 96/106/91%

200 Premier League games at Old Trafford where United have scored first... 188 wins, 12 draws, 0 defeats.

Carrick proving his worth once again, he's been our best player this season by far. His passing and defensive stats are up there with the best in the league this season.

Which is funny, because he gets far too much stick from internet fans.

[Jimmy]

Carrick's got a lot better recently, but I'd say he deserved his stick. There was a lot of hype around him at one point and he just never lived up to it.

[Matt]

According to Lee Dixon, Gareth Bale's worth £300m because he can score from 20 yards out... I think that's what he was saying

[Jimmy]

How much does that make Tim Howard worth, then?

[Pettengill_Mark]

[MJB]

Andre Marriner looked happy to send off Ashley Cole.

Can't say I blame him though to be honest

[Starvinho]

Carrick's got a lot better recently, but I'd say he deserved his stick. There was a lot of hype around him at one point and he just never lived up to it.

I think alot of the stick over the years has been uncalled for, he's been an almost ever-present in our midfield since he signed and we've won 4 league titles in 5 seasons and been to 3 European finals since. The job he does for us he does to a very high level but because it's such a negative position he plays in and he's such a no frills type of player alot of the time he gets the usual stick from alot of United 'fans'.

I think this season he has stepped up his game even more and because of our lack of quality in midfield at times, people are starting to see the qualities he brings to the table each week and I think that is doing no harm to the lads confidence. I said it a couple weeks back but it wouldn't surprise me if he's back in the England squad when the next friendlies come around.

[IAceI]

I've always rated Carrick, think he's a fantastic player and very efficient at his job. He's a no thrills player for the most part which sets him up badly for the current England generation who want beautiful hollywood balls played for 90 minutes.

Xabi Alonso rates him highly, so I think that's praise enough, because while a lot of what Carrick does seems innocuous or inconsequential it's usually something such as moving the ball along or even putting it into that space between the opponents midfield and defence, and Carrick is probably one of those players that you don't realise his worth until he's not there anymore.

For me he would be a shoo-in for starting in the Euro's now, particularly with Wilshere unlikely to feature. Ideally he would be alongside Gerrard and Parker in the midfield, but ultimately he may end up lucky to even get on 'The Plane' and I imagine Barry will start ahead of him.

But it's definitely nice to see Carrick starting to get some of the praise he deserves from others, that said, one misplaced pass in his next match and he'll probably be back to being shite.

[Lineker]

Carrick was terrific for us.

It was freezing at WHL last night!! But we were never not in control. Wigan are going down for sure this year - the Championship is their level. Only negative things were BAE having an absolute shocker, me forgetting my hat/gloves/scarf on the coldest night of the year, and there being a complete bellend of a chav sat behind us (does he not realize that this is the West Upper stand?!!)

My new favourite chant:

Pays what he wants,

Pays what he wants!

Harry Redknapp, he pays what he wants!!

[Lineker]

My word, the new BBC Sport website is ghastly.

[IAceI]

My word, the new BBC Sport website is ghastly.

I agree young man, I refreshed about five times before realising it was meant to be like that.

[stokeriño]

Someone said LET THERE BE YELLOW. And it was so.

[Lineker]

I'm fine with it being yellow.

I'm not fine with it being shit.

[Colly]

Did something just think 'enough is enough and its time for a change', leading someone else to base it entirely on Owen Harts 'enough is enough and its time for a change' attire?

Also, boo Kurt Angle predicting a Blackburn win.

[MJB]

I'm sure the layout will grow on me.

As soon as they change it back.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

The new layout is shocking.

Did find it funny though that the first thing I see upon checking it out is that "Barcelona are also interested in buying Arshavin in the summer"

Edited February 1, 2012 by JohnnyPerfect

[Adam]

It is utterly terrible. Did they honestly think THIS was a good idea? I'm not the greatest advocate of change as it is, but this is just unspeakably awful. Why squash the headlines into one middle column? Why have massive 'scores' taking up half the screen? Its 12:15 on Wednesday, I'm pretty sure I don't wanna be keeping up with the non-existent scores.

For crying out loud.

[Lineker]

John Terry is to face trial on July 9th.