First of all let me tell you that I am Manchester United fan. But sometimes it baffles me when either players or manager or CEO of Manchester United comes and boasts they are the best club. As a fan i have always hesitated in boasting this thing.
What is the criterion of being the best club? You should have the best players around. You should have the most number of audiences. You should have the highest turnover and profits. You should have the best football ground. Or above all you should play the best football possible. For me the last one is the criterion. Because many of you will argue that Manchester United has the best Manager, best players, best stadium and best turnover and profits. But the brand of football you play should be the sole criterion. And for me Manchester Uinted have lacked in there, not by far but yes no can say for sure that Manchester United plays the best football. They are there , their brand of football is better than the most but unarguably "The Best Football" , we can not say for sure.
Why I am saying this, because I am not happy the way Manchester United performed in Lyon. Based on this performance I can not say for sure that the club the club I support is the best in the world. They are near to that but they are not "The Best". I am sad to see that players and manager are satisfied with this performance. One such example.
http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=595001
I watched the match live and got the feeling that Manchester United does not want to get beaten thats all. There was no desire to win or to score. I could have accepted this attitude if it was Real Madrid , Barcelona , AC Milan or Inter Milan but Lyon. The team which has lost its last league match and when you yourself have trounced your nearest rival in your league 4-0 three days back. I like the way Manchester United play in English Premier League, Its all out attaack. But in Champions league Sir Alex Ferguson has always been defensive. I was able to digest his attitude prior to this year when we always had substandard squad with only one or two world class players. But this season you have one of the best teams possible. All the players are attack minded and then you ask them to restrain. This allows the other team no matter what their stature is to attack you and then one of your players makes mistakes ( Rio Ferdinand is good at that). Everything was going fine and then suddenly you found yourself 1-0 down. Why in the first place you allow the other team to that to you? Why don't you burry them in first 20 minutes and remind them to be in their own half or have the risk of knocked out in the first tie itself. The goal you scored was not your brilliance, it was a lucky break as the ball bounced of Lyon defender and Tevez was there to pounce but will you be lucky every time? Assume the situation when you woul dhave got the 0-0 draw you so desired and then in the home leg at old trafford against all your expectations Lyon takes lead at 60th min and then your luck runs out and Tevez doesn't get that chance. You are out of the competition. Who do you blame for that? You didn't try hard in the first 90 minutes played in Lyon and the 30 min you had here were not enough to revert the damage done. Plus when you start with negative mindset it is difficult to come all out and firing all guns suddenly when you find yourself behind. Then the manager and players will come out and say we were the better team but we were unlucky.
I have gone a bit far now. The tie is at 1-1 with one away goal advantage but please for God sake don't try to preserve this slender lead, because they just need to score one goal.
Sir Ferguson please believe in your boys and allow them to express freely. Please play Hargreeves when your ass is against the wall and your team is not able to defend. Because he contributes in negative to the attacking football. All the promising movement gets killed when some one gets the ball in midfield and instead of looking for runners he looks up to find Scholes and if he doesn't find he passes that back to Edvin Van Der Sar. With all due respect to Hargreeves he is no good when comes to attack. Preserve him to defend the 2 goal cushion whenever you have . 1 goal cushion is no cushion as Manchester United plays always for win draw is equal to defeat.
So the bottom line if you want to say that you are "The Best Club" then you should play such football that teams fear to face you and no one dares to say something like this http://www.tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=79863
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