VIEW: United vs Wigan. 2-0

Good.

Best. Weekend. Ever! (part II). I exclaimed rather excitedly, after the first week of November served up a juicy dose of awesomeness, that it was in footballing terms the best ever (Chelsea lost, Arsenal lost and we won thanks to Park's injury time winner, in case you've forgotten). But clearly, thanks to the falling standards of football that our once ultra competitive League is producing (harsh, but what else can explain it?) perhaps a weekend where our rivals drop points shouldn't be deemed so unrealistic.

For Chelsea to lose two on the trot - or win 3 points from a possible 12...whatever gives you a bigger hard-on! - was once a thing of wonderment and impossibility. But now, maybe it's really not as big a surprise as we think. Maybe we just think 'shock' results are shocking because we accept them as such, based on expectations, and the quality levels of the past.



...But either way, WE'RE JOINT TOP!!!



Rooney's return. I debated whether to put this in 'Good' or 'Bad', and it only just edged its way in here because of the lack of genuine 'Good' from the game! But seriously, having any player as gifted as Rooney back in the team is a bonus...

Bad.



Rooney's return. Ok, so it takes it's place here as well! But only for the reaction by the fans when he came on. Alongside him, as subtle, subdued and with minimal fuss as always, was the player I was cheering for. Paul Scholes, one of the greatest and most loyal players this club will ever be so lucky to produce, walks in and out of contract negotiations in 10 minutes apparently. No fuss, just the logic of 'well 'course I wanna play for United. Where do I sign?' Not 'I have been given no reassurance about the future of the club so I'm going to leave...' only to miraculously take it all back once your salary's been doubled. Thankfully there were a few sensible fans sat in front of me who joined in with chant's of 'Scholesy!', rather than 'Rooney!', as the pair came on. But only a few. It's dissapointing, I didn't know United fans could be so fickle.



How did we manage to score only two goals at home to Wigan...



...And only 1 when they were down to nine men?? Sorry Wigan, but I refuse to credit your 'resilience', 'defensive prowess' and whatever other glorified ways are used to call a team who park their bus in front of the goal. Because you didn't even do that. Against a better side, we could've been seriously punished. The two didn't do our goal-difference a whole lot of good, especialyl when you bare in mind the battering Chelski's has taken lately. But hopefully, once we go top at Christmas and stay, trivialities such as goal-difference won't mean anything!



Our 44 goals this season have been scored by 18 different players. Yeh, great that our goals our coming from everywhere and we're so far detached from the 'one man player' we were this time last season when Rooney had already scored 8 of our 38 goals after the same amount of games last season. But now with Evra getting on the score sheet - his first time since 2007 - that's 10 different players on only one goal. So what happens after Carrick, O'Shea, Rio, Rafael and Fabio score (in my reckoning the only outfield players left to score)? The pressure is seriously on for the front players to really start converting.