That boy Ronaldo mark his come back to United’s first team with a goal. The combination of youngsters and experience players made SAF’s team more promising than ever. It’s nice to see promising youngsters Rafael Da Silva, Darron Gibson, Rodrigo Possebon and Danny Wellbeck all get their first starting line up, among experienced players like Giggs, Brown, Vidic and O Shea. The attacking display forced errors from the Boro’s back players, Giggs & Nani didn’t waste the chance and score 1 goal each to claim a 3-1 victory.

However, my mind can’t rest, as the win last night was shadowed by Rodrigo Possebon’s injury horror (Pogatetz you’re a f**king thug animal!). I hope the injury is not that serious and the talented lad can continue his career and contribute to the future of Manchester United.

All in all, i’m glad to see our side win.

Come on you reds!

So Battle of The bridge is end and both sides share exact the same points. It’s almost the same as the Moscow Final and our last meeting with the capital blue boys last year at Stamford Bridge. The difference is no penalties today. Penalties that send one side to a glory against another.

We start the game brilliantly as Park scores his first goal of the season after almost made it twice at mid week Champions League game. However, soon after the goal, Chelsea come back and dominate the game.

I think Chelsea is unlucky only to get 1 goal. Eventhough we also had our chances through Berba that only miss some inches on his pass to unmarked Park.

All in all, we are getting closer to our best performance. I just hope it’s not too late.

Come on you Reds!

It’s not overrated. It’s not just another 3 points. It’s a huge game for both sides, there are so many advantages if any side can take full point in a game like this. Anyone whom say this is just another game is rubbish.

However, to be honest i see it hard for us to get all 3 points. But who knows? Scared no one.

Battle of The Bridge? Bring it on!

Come on you reds.

I’ve said in earlier post, as an outside Manchester’s fan - a South Asian fan for that matter, i past my time as Reds hating Arsenal and lately Chelsea. However, the more i look into the games, the club and its culture, the more i feel the pressure ahead of every Liverpool games (still can’t find how and why i should hate Man City, but it doesn’t matter!).

This time is no different, the rivalries between the two has grown to top in the air this weekend. Benitez is stating a surprise comeback to Kop’s duo Gerrard and Torres, while Sir Alex on his Manager’s Press Conference stated that Hargreaves, Carrick and surprise surprise… Ronaldo is all fit for the Liverpool game at Anfield.

This is a very strange situation, as we can look back several weeks earlier that seems like our games are over, United will not top on anything this season, pundits are writing us off. However, star players are returning to our team and ready to murder everyone in the pitch. We always capable to do that to everyone as i’ve said last year (i’m sure the statement is somewhere within this blog’s archive) that the club itself is the biggest enemy. Not anyone else.

However, whatever i’m saying here in a fan internet journal, whatever haters saying our days are over (to be honest i don’t understand why they keep saying this as every logical person knows that we are super strong), and whatever football pundits say wrong things about the club, Sir Alex is starting to get his main men back.

So eat that haters, as It boost our confident ahead of one of the biggest match it (terms of rivalries) today and i happily wait on whom will make it for starters as our choice of players are growing.

Let Sir Alex do that for us, we, the fucking fans can hold our breath. Until then, at the Anfield.

Come on you Reds!

The days would have been better if there’s no international football. Don’t get me wrong, but hell, i dislike international football! Not only because my country will never get into the spolights and still have nothing good to talk about, but hey club football is where my interest goes.

I used to be an England supporter but the more i follow the game, the more i figure out that too many non football s**t has been involved and England, i’m not sure if they can go beyond qualifications, group stages, quarters and semis in all competitions. So, well, you know, what more can i say.

Apology for all biases covered here in Manchestered.com, but hey this is a Manchester United fan blog.

However, our team is build upon international footballers. Like always, our players are seen in international stages. Some roundup below:

1. Tevez was red carded at Argentina’s draw to Paraguay. Heinze helped Paraguay by smashes his own goalkeeper (more like Kaka’s goal at Old Trafford in 2006/2007’s CL when he collided with Evra) and let the ball went to their own goal.
2. Patrice Evra was featured at France’s 1-3 lost to Austria.
3. New boy Berbatov featured at Bulgaria’s draw.
4. Vidic was in the Serbian squad lead them a 2-0 win against Faroe Islands.
5. Johny Evans was in the Northern Ireland’s defeated squad in Slovakia.
6. Darren Fletcher was in the Scotland side beaten 0-1 by Macedonia.
7. Wayne was in the England winning side while Wes Brown sat on the bench and Rio was out for injury (no more news about how bad his injury is… hope he’s ready for the Scousers!).
8. John O Shea was at the center back position where his Republic of Ireland side beat Georgia 2-1.

Enough about internationals, now back to the important matters. As we all know, next week we’ll travel to Anfield, Liverpool. There’s always massive rivalries between the 2 sets of teams against each other. Liverpool has shown their lack of inconsistencies for the whole season, year by year, but not against us. Their captain ‘wishes us to die’, so we will hoping a super hostile atmosphere thrown by home supporters, as always.

In the good side i’m hoping for a Berbatov debut in Anfield and faces his former Tottenham’s hero Robbie Keane. Cannot wait for the Liverpool game, really. This is one of the most massive game in all season. More details on players should be announced in the next few days but the wait for Berba’s debut is super exciting.

Enough with the boring international weekend, exciting days is ahead of us!

The European Champions will start the campaign to retain their European title in Group E. There’s no AS Roma this year, instead we will be at the same group with Villarreal, Celtic and Aalborg.

While i don’t know much of Denmark’s Aalborg, Celtic is the champions of Scottish Premier League and Villareal was 2nd in the Spanish League last season. Celtic once beat us in the UCL campaign, while ex reds Giuseppe Rossi is the bomber at Villareal.

However, i don’t think we will face too many difficulties to pass the group stage although surprises will always a possibility. It’s the Champions League for God sake (even John Terry slips :D).

But at least now the coaching team know who the lads will face in the UCL and concentrating all efforts to get our injured players back on the field to bring back our usual winning way.

It’s time for Zenit St Petersburg in Monaco on Friday at the UEFA Super Cup, we need to get the win for our 2nd ‘trophy’ of the season.

Come on Campiones!

These are the times i really want to leave Indonesia and go elsewhere. Really.

It’s a pity. Today is our so-called Independence Day, but we’ve never independent anyway.

You know what, the retarded cable tv service, whom i subscribe, legally and pay it monthly, has suddenly retardedly announced that they won’t stream English Premiere League anymore. I just know it from the internet today and i was speechless. I subscribe to the ignorance company because they promise that they get exclusive rights to stream EPL for 3 years. And 2008/2009 is only the 2nd year.

So they lied.

I know there’s nothing i can and any other subscribers do. Suing them? Hey, you don’t do that if you live in Indonesia. You just have to pay for everything, get shit in return, shut the f**k up and get on with your pity life.

I’m a good citizen anyway, i don’t hack for a living. I pay for everything i use. So these things really really bothers me.

Anyway, sorry for the rants.

I’ve paid my legal subscription anyway, but the service can’t deliver. What should i do, wait? Till when, tomorrow? Next week? Next month? I found this link to watch it live in the internet. I’m not sure if it’s legal so you watch it with your own risk

So f**k it, here’s the link or here or here to watch Manchester United VS Newcastle United a.k.a. the Barcodes LIVE online.

Come on you Reds!

Update: I try to embed the stream below:

Watch live video from Manchester Utd v Newcastle Utd on Justin.tv

We need striker. That’s the wrapped up of the FA Community Shield 2008 in which we won by penalties to Portsmouth today.

Tevez was the man of the match but he can’t do it alone like what he did with West Ham a couple of seasons ago. However if Portsmouth won, David James should be the man of the day after keeping all shots beyond his goal line.

In other notes, Nani looks alright, it’s good to see our captain Gary back to the line up, also good to see Brown replace him, and also also good to see youngsters like Possebon & Rafael Da Silva at the bench.

The long hard season will start next week as we will face Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle United at Old Trafford. But as ever, it’s great to see we win and a good build up to the 2008/2009 season to retain the double and hope to win more.

Really hope that we can see all first team fit as the season goes, and if the club could land one more striker dude that’ll be awesome.

Come on you reds.

Some quick updates.

I don’t watch the European Cup because by far i feel i don’t have to. I do watch the France demolition of Edwin’s Orange 4-1, which i tip to beat Portugal if both team has ever meet at later stage. Dude Holland rocks. But by far that’s the only game i watch. Maybe i will watch more game later as the competition has heaten up to reach the quarter final. I don’t know, let’s see if i can find the time (it’s later night here in Bali).

Anyhow next season EPL fixtures is already out. Reds will open the game against Kevin Keegan’s Newcastle, then followed by 2 last season’s big four teams away from OT in the first 5 games.

In other news, you might want to check these news; SAF to quit Reds if The Glazers sell Ronaldo without his permission and we have the chance to lose Queiroz to Portugal national team. Then who will manage the team then? Well, Big Phil can do it if the price is right, as his appointment as being the next Chelski boss has set him to buy everyone. Also, after losing his regular left back spot at Reds to become first choice at Real Madrid, Gabriel Heinze has become unreal.

Anyway, find next season’s full fixtures here. It’s tough, we can’t afford a kind of last year’s slow start.

Come on you reds.

Since Manchester United won the Champions League in 2007/2008 season, the club’s will have extensions on their fixture list next season. This will include:

1. Uefa Super Cup
2. FIFA World Club Cup
3. Charity Shield
4. English Premiere League
5. FA Cup
6. Carling Cup
7. Champions League

Forget the treble, we have seven trophies to win.

Via ManUtdWeb.