Facts about it all

It's a sign of how good we were against Spurs that, carrying on the trend from yesterday, every report has a different player to praise - we were that much better all over the pitch.
The Mail today go for Michael Carrick:

the spectre who left boss Redknapp wondering why fate was so cruel was that
talented wraith Michael Carrick, a truly stylish assassin, who denied his mentor and his former club a place in the fifth round away to either Derby or Nottingham Forest.

As does The Guardian:

there are different types of courage on a football field and Carrick's is geared to his special talents, always wanting the ball, even in tight areas, confident enough in his own ability to find a team-mate, his philosophy being that losing possession is a sin. "He's the one who makes Manchester United tick now," Redknapp, the manager who gave him his debut at West Ham, volunteered.

Redknapp's praise of Carrick is a little odd - as is the way the papers quote him unquestioningly - given other quotes he made after the game. Compare these:

Redknapp said: 'Michael is a terrific craftsman, a top player and a great lad. It’s fantastic to see him develop as he has. He’s a superb footballer.’

“I had loads of players who can pass the ball but I didn’t have anyone who could open United up and hurt them,” the manager said. “We’re not overloaded with aggressive players.”

The point being that on the one hand he praises Carrick for his craft and yet on the other he suggests that what Spurs were missing was aggression, he has loads of players who can pass a ball. I only saw that second quote in one match report today, the first was in most of them. It is a petty example of the way agendas shape reports, but all evidence adds to the picture.
Another petty example of this is the continuing campaign of little digs at Ronaldo. Look at this from The Telegraph:

Unlike the increasingly petulant Cristiano Ronaldo, ever more prone to grumble if a pass does not meet his exacting demands

This is from a passage praising Paul Scholes (another paper, another player to single out for praise), and it seems awfully unnecessary, out of place, seeing as, and to be fair nearly every other report recognises this, Ronaldo was playing with a bug. Only The Sun manages to give Ronaldo any kudos for actually making the game:

Ronaldo had to go off early on Saturday having dragged himself on to the pitch despite suffering from a bug

Enough grumbling. The Independent praises our young players, and its good to see Welbeck getting praise - he had a really good game, looked very dangerous, but yesterday seemed to get a little overlooked:

Young Brazilian Fabio da Silva filled in for Evra at left-back with such passion, and touch, that his 53 minutes before injury were quite long enough to rival the impression made by his brother Rafael in a series of remarkable performances on the other flank, and then it was the turn of Richard Eckersley to play with bite and an old-headed poise. Danny Welbeck, coltish legs not withstanding, played wide with fine touch and dangerous pace before he too was injured. Zoran Tosic, the Serbian find who has caused so much excitement in Ferguson's old talent-plundering heart, was given 18 minutes to introduce himself after the exit of Cristiano Ronaldo. He did it with the authority of a kid gunfighter wise to the world beyond his years

Actually, I've got one more grumble; both The Times and The Telegraph reports begin with really overlong digressions on how the cup is being devalued and again the agenda is clear: to somehow tie us to this trend, when I think it is unarguable that we always treat the FA Cup as a trophy to win, look at the reaction to our loss to Portsmouth last season, look at the fact that Ronaldo played with a bug on Saturday. We are certainly not the ones disrespecting the cup. It's the clubs lower down the Premiership who play weakened teams with no apologies, rather than the bigger clubs who generally play most of their top players. But the agenda means we have to be linked to anything percieved as bad in football and to hell with facts.
I'll finish with this rather pointless little story from The Sun, which I actually rather like for its very pointless invocation of Sir Alex.

ALEX FERGUSON emerged the big winner as FA Cup draws left two rivals facing a fixture nightmare.

Fergie’s Manchester United coasted past Spurs on Saturday and into a fifth-round trip to Derby or Nottingham Forest.

But Arsenal and Liverpool were both held to draws yesterday, leaving them to fit a replay into their already chaotic schedules that include vital Premier League and Champions League clashes

It's as if Sir Alex is some omnipresent being, every bit of news must flow through him. It's that agenda thing again...
Two last things, one, I'm going to start tagging my posts. I've avoided this before because it bores me typing them all in and all i'd end up with would be a list of players names, seemed a bit pointless. But now I've realised that when I'm looking for a specific post it would be a lot easier for me, given my obscure post naming system, to look via tags. So i'll use them from now on...
And, two, I'm also going to start using Twitter for updates. I'll still do the main posts here but using Twitter means that I'll be able to post quicker, on the move, breaking news, etc., might even branch out into live match updates, we'll see. So anyway, my Twitter details should be to the right somewhere, or at least they will be soon, when I've put them there...
Now, to the tagging...