http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...in-relief-following-Norwich-City-setback.html Sir Alex says "Norwich played beyond themselves". Had we beaten them last season I'd have probably agreed with him, but this is a new team, a more experienced team, a team of very good players who are very well organised and play as a unit. Sure we played very well, but players did not excel beyond their normal capabilities - they could have played much better - there is more to come from this group. I think we are due a lot more respect these days. Naturally, we aren't getting it.
Just read the article. I think from what else he says its alright but the quality of the article is awful. Too much focus on De Gea's dental treatment at the beginning, why mention it again at the end? Annoying how it focuses on the fact we've only had three league wins, so that makes it all the more surprising and worse for United. How about the fact that its now five games unbeaten for Norwich and a third consecutive clean sheet?
You shouldn´t be so touchy super, we know we played well, and we know it wasn´t a fluke, whether we get the credit we think we deserve or not, makes no difference to how we played or the result. OTBC
In fact on reading it again, it far from annoys me, as it´s quite clearly Sir A trying to cover up the deficiencies in his own team on the day, by being condescending to us. In a way it´s a sort of back-handed compliment, I´ll take it.
its the assumption that if a team like norwich beat a bigger club, its because their players are playing beyond their capabilities which annoys me. ferguson was very fair after the match with his comments and called the match correctly but those words make it sound like a total fluke, which it wasn't. i'm not losing any sleep over it...!
Agree RBF, patrionising compliments mean FA,lets just keep turning in these type of performances and we will quietly work our way up the table. "Small" clubs will always get these types of comments.WBA are getting exactly the same treatment. Sit back.and enjoy
It really fecking annoys me, as does biased reporting by the media in any domain. There is clear credit given by SAF about closing space and preventing utd getting crosses in. In other words it wasn't somply about a listless performance by Utd, it was about a well drilled, well organised team who got the tactics right on the day. WHY NOT SAY IT AND SPELL IT OUT CLEARLY. It just popped into my head and I know this is not an entirely fair comparison, but did the well drilled Chelsea defensive performance get praised in the media. or was it that Barca were ****e? Credit where credit it due. Objectivty is really not very hard to achieve, if the media ever took their blinkers off. But at the end of the day, who gives a ****, we won:
I have grown immune to the lack of positive related material regarding NCFC in the PL. Let everyone think we are cannon fodder, suits me fine as it makes it more painful for the big boys when we do beat them
Yup, the same stealth Canary that flew a sortie over Portman Road 18 months ago - they just never saw it coming
Watching Fox Sports this morning and they are discussing the Man U game. One of the yank pundits says they should stop talking about Man U's poor performance and talk about Norwich's great performance. The other three pundits completely blank him and continue to talk about Man U. I guess that wasn't in the script.
It was a performance considerably down on what United are capable of.Nevertheless Norwich were so well organised especially in defence that it wasn't just a matter of United being inept.I think we would have beaten most of the Premiership on Saturday.Has anyone noticed that QPR are next up at the Theatre of Dreams? Hope they catch the backlash.
I am not suggesting Fox Sports are blinkered in anyway (well not much) but this jogged my memory to something I heard during the interval at half time. It was an advertisement, to the American public, about Chelsea football memorabilia - "Get YOUR BLUES gear hear and show YOUR support for YOUR team!" Oh how I laughed. It is so sad that the yanks are brainwashing their already less than adequately informed football viewers that these "top" teams are all that matter. Only one solution I'm afraid, get in among them for 4 or 5 years and some notice might be taken (but only maybe).
It has not gone un-noticed Shame our game is on at the same time, would have liked to watch that game
