Sunday, May 30, 2004

MANCHESTER UNITED 2003-2004  

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Let’s try to answer a simple question. Should Manchester United and its fans be worried with a nightmare of a season? In the right mind we should; it is their worst performance since the premiere league came into existence eleven years back and not to enter the quarter finals of the Champions league since 1995.

The Devils let go of the four point lead over the gunners in the mid season to actually finish trailing fifteen points. Suddenly, last season doesn’t look all that creditable. It’s a nightmare for any Manchester United’s fan to watch the Gunners finish the season without dropping a match. The Devils had lost 8 matches in a season before, we have finished 3rd in the league before; so why this sweat? The difference is we were never submissive; never. When we lost 8 matches; six of them were in the 1st half of the season. When we finished 3rd; we had a huge goal difference better than any club in Europe that year. The most feared factor is not the place Manchester United finish or how many matches we lost, but it’s the way those matches were lost. Manchester United is always the aggressive one, the warrior, and the demolition derby. Now we surrender 4 -1 to their Siamese twins. With players, coach and the director leaving and with the meek performance this really is the season from hell.

Becks is a great ball player, He has got a fabulous right foot. He is so good in the right wing that even likes of Figo had to make way for him. Enlighten me, who else can bend it like Beckham. Man U will unquestionably miss him. All these years our strategy was pivoted on his golden right foot. And the Romanian chief is on a hundred million buying sphere; he started with buying people he liked, now just wants anyone he feels can play decent football. He does scar the life out of the all that stands in his way and he has also proved every philosopher’s preaching wrong; ‘Money can buy success’. And of course there are the Gunners; they have slowly become the force to be reckoned with. With Henry winning the EP of the year twice in a row and they look like they can go on forever without loosing a match.

After all this is asked and answered, Lets ponder deep to find salvation; the average age of the team in most of the matches was around 22. That’s future. Not many teams in Europe could have managed without their star player. Beckham with his talent-less wife left, there is noting to cry about it; after all he is just a one trick pony, very good at it but nevertheless a one trick pony. He could never get past his man. Now let’s rejoice the birth of the new wonder boy Christiano Ronaldo. He needs a few edges cut and mature in his game. Let me assure you, a time will come when the ‘other Ronaldo’ meant the Brazilian. And with him comes our new army Saha, Fletcher, Djemba, David, Kleberson. The Devils never tried to buy success; we grew it in our own backyard. Let’s go back twenty years, barely avoiding relegation a team of no names went on to make the whole world stand up and take notice. And after a few years when everyone was wondering who was to fill the shoes of the great Eric Cantona, who could captain the team and who could dawn the most curveted shirt No 7? Then came Roy, David, Ryan, Paul the teen sensations. Now it’s again time to rise from the ashes. Just give the kids some time, Sir Alex pulled it off once he can very well do it again. The future is dark and the future is misty. But in case you haven’t noticed we are the DEVILS.

by eYn

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