Still Following the Trawler

Reflections... The Worst United Team in Years. The amount of shite this current crop has received this season for winning the league 9 points clear, scoring more goals than any other team, producing the league's top scorer, dropping two points at home all season, beating Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Citeh at Old Trafford, and losing only four games, is thoroughly deserved. 18 wins and 1 draw at home. Yes I have just made that point, but I think for those of you not quite so savvy on the maths front, I thought I would spell out exactly what  dropping two points at home all season  equated to. Unlucky Blackpool. As a fan of one of the league's big dogs - well, THE big dog - who are owned by a bunch of greedy, sellfish wankers who couldn't give a f**k about the club, the fans or its heritage , it was somewhat poetic to see a team built out of such modesty and passion reach these dizzy heights. But unfortunately, it wasn't to be a fairy tail ending for the team who...

Arguably the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life... 

Oh hi there readers. So I'm not sure if you've heard, but United won the league the other week. Oh you did? Well in that case maybe you heard a certain heightened level of noise relating to this particularly historic title victory... I am of course talking about number 19. And to commemorate the historic event of United being officially crowned the most successful side in English domestic football, those crafty people at Nike have released this awesome commemorative t-shirt. Get your limited edition piece of history at  www.nikestore.com .

CHAMP 19 NS ...What!? F**king WHAT!!?

Courtesy of ManUtd.com

Good. Champions. For the 19th time, United are crowned champions of England. Officially the most successful side in England, we stand alone on our perch. Bottle . A point I touched upon after the Chelsea game - the game that effectively won us the league and a performance built on balls of steel - but Wazza's ability to hold his nerve the way he did after stepping up to take that penalty was incredible. With the pressure an responsibility of earning the point that would reclaim the title, he stepped forward as the bravest man on the pitch and completely f**ked that ball up until it landed into that impossible region of hapless Robinson's goal. We just about deserved the point (although, performance wise, we were an embarrassing comparison to the side that turned out against Chelsea a week earlier). But in the greater scheme of things, it was a grafter result, the same way we grafted and thoroughly earnt this title. Number 19 wasn't the most glamorous, nor the most accompli...

...or five reasons why we deserve to be Champions. 1.  Not arrogant, just better. At times this season we've certainly shown that not to be the case. In fact, as a representation of our rather inconsistent season (in terms of performances), the past week is perfect. First up came the crucial encounter against Arsenal, where we completely failed to show up; not rising to the occasion and doing little to show the 'must need' status in a acheiving the win. Against Schalke in the week however, we fielded a weakened side (I'll get to that later) yet still managed to completely embarrass Ze Germans with some incredible, game controlling displays by largely disregarded players such as Gibson and Anderson. So which United were going to turn up days later against Chelsea, in the most important game of the season? Well, if there's one thing we love doing, that's dragging the fans through the most agonising of title run-ins, giving us the false sense of failure (as we did...