Tuesday 5 January 2010

It's off

My gut reaction is that this is good for City.

After their horrific no-show against Leeds United, it looked as if Ferguson was going to drop the kids and play their big game players - including Ryan Giggs and Darren Fletcher - instructed to take their anger out on us. And, for all our recent successes, we would not be very strong. It would only be Mancini's fourth game in charge, and his first against decent opposition. With Stephen Ireland, Roque Santa Cruz, and Nedum Onuoha all out, and with SWP and Micah Richards doubts we would not have been at full strength.

Now, Birmingham City and Burnley can bear the brunt of United's frustrations. And when we meet at Eastlands on January 19th we should have Ireland, Santa Cruz, Wright-Phillips, Richards and Onuoha all available. United do have injury problems of their own, but they seem to be over the worst of it - and I can't see long term absentees Owen Hargreaves, Rio Ferdinand and John O'Shea making either leg. And it will be Mancini's sixth game, not his fourth - with Blackburn at home and Everton away to come between the two.

So I'm disappointed for those inconvenienced by this news, naturally, but I can't honestly say that I think this is bad news for City.
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2 comments:

satis said...

You're probably right Jack but what a chinless country we've become, surrendering to the Safety Advisory Committee in case someone falls on their botty or has to walk through snow that wouldn't hide a wright-phillips.

Where's this nation's backbone, where's our once inexhaustible supplies of spunk, where are the Shackletons and the Franklins? And most importantly, where's my Daily Mail?

5 January 2010 at 18:11
Anonymous said...

trinder, I think you forget that the Manure fans would have had to battle all the way around the M25, up the M1 and M6 from Guildford and all other points south and west. With driving conditions being as dicey as they are, it would be a week today before they arrived at Eastlands.

6 January 2010 at 10:08

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