Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Lazyitis

The match reports of the Wolves game are frankly rubbish. It's like the journalists reporting on it have just thought, "Man Utd Wolves? No chance of this turning into a good game, we'll save our A game for the weekend, when there's a relegation 6 pointer..."
Paul Wilson in The Guardian comes across as a proper whiny-ass-bitch, Wolves field a "weakened team" so that makes him grumble on about us:
The stylish way would have been by beating Aston Villa on Saturday, so that this victory would have taken them three points clear, but after the startling events of four days ago – when United were beaten 1-0 by Martin O'Neill's men on their own turf – this was a soporific stroll. While Sir Alex Ferguson will have no grumbles about three easy points, complaints about the Wolves line-up and attitude to the game may be remembered for quite a while longer.
Piss off. The rest of the report is an absolute waste of time - the reporting of our sublime third is stupidly brief and insulting followed by a, "but Wolves were playing a weakened team..."
United made it comfortable after 66 minutes, when Antonio Valencia finished neatly from Dimitar Berbatov's overhead flick, though in truth, against a weakened team, the home attack looked only slightly sharper that they had against Villa.
He got paid for writing such shite? He's paid to describe things and his description of our great move is "Berbatov flicked it to Valencia?"
The Independent's report is just as lazy, but less offensively so, nothing worth quoting.
Why has no one considered the pretty obvious fact that even if he'd played a "better" line-up the game would still have been pretty one sided - remember the Carling Cup, when our weakened team played 60 odd minutes with 10 men and still looked very comfortable.
Neil Custis in The Sun is also shit, description of the Valencia goal again ruined by churlishness:

The contest was over and the match was played out in a near funereal atmosphere - a silence broken only when Antonio Valencia struck on 66 minutes.

Berbatov flicked the ball up and over his shoulder for Valencia to walk on to and blast into the roof of the net.

When Berbatov does things like that you can understand why Ferguson bought him.

It's just for everyone of those moments plenty of quiet ones follow.

But Fergie said: "Only a player like Berbatov can have the imagination and skill to do that.

"Antonio is a good finisher, we see that in training all the time and today was another example of it."

OK Neil, why not amaze us with your highly original opinion about how Berba looks a bit lazy...
Henry Winter gets an honourable mention for his report, first off for not oversimplifying the Wolves fans reactions to the team selection:
Although the magnificent travelling support did chant McCarthy’s name, the 3,400 Old Gold foot soldiers also expressed disappointment at having braved the M6, plummeting temperatures and Old Trafford’s spiralling pricing scheme only to be significantly short-changed. It was like watching Led Zeppelin without Robert Plant.
And he gives Valencia's goal due respect:
The force remained with United, the champions scoring a sensational third. Paul Scholes lifted the ball down the inside-right channel for Berbatov, whose response was inspired. He hooked the ball over his head into the path of Valencia, whose half-volley disappeared in a blur past Hahnemann. “Beautiful,’’ observed Ferguson. “Only Berbatov can do something like that with his imagination and skill.’’
The upshot is - Henry Winter's is the only report worth reading. Can we have the first choice journalists for our next match please...

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