Match Day Thread West Bromwich Albion on 12/9/15 (15.00 )

Hopefully Manè can continue his form against the bigger sides.
You look at the potential weakness in Uniteds defence and you do think if Pelle can attach himself to Blind he can get some joy

 

Anyone else doing the match thread for United as my lucky charm fizzled out rather too quickly.

 

Its written. Sadio double and Shaw and Morgan both sent off

 

'Fraid not Fran. You didn't lose, so it's down to you again. Post it up late Tuesday evening, Ta.

 

Love to

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ex-celtic-star-virgil-van-6438053

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/13/saido-berahino-west-brom-virgil-van-dijk-Southampton

Guardian called this game insipid, so agrees with a lot of you. Second half of article quotes from Virgil.

 

If it is any help
16:00 Southampton v Man Utd Referee:- Mark Clattenburg - Assistants - S Beck & J Collin 4th Official K Friend

 

Excellent we've got the best. Let's hope Clattenburg doesn't get injured though.

 

Happy with that ref, he's not scared of the top four. Also, he's a pretty good character judge, hey Adam.

 

Blimey, I'll say. Marked [oops] his card very early on.

 

The OS has put up '60 second highlights' from the WBA game. They must have a lot of slo mo replays to get 60 seconds of highlights

 

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The Guardian is getting awfully academic these days when explaining a mere football match. Here's a few apposite quotes from Virgil:

"They succeed, because they think they can."

"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance."

and lastly...

"We have a great team here but for us the most important thing was to keep a clean sheet."

 

Virgil was a Roman poet wasn't he? So its only right for a footballer named after a poet to be a bit of a thinker.

 

Just in case you weren't aware, the first two quotes were from Virgil the poet.

 

I just assumed our new CB was a philosopher poet. Bit disappointed now.

 

I was very impressed that Virgil the Roman poet knew so much about football. Bit disappointed too.

 

I've often thought my humour went over several people's heads. Thankfully, a few trusted souls get it.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34249318

Fonte made the BBC Stats team of the week.

Other stats related to this game and the weekends football;

James Ward-Prowse was second in terms of yards covered this weekend. Watching him certainly felt like that as he didn't stop.

West Brom as a collective covered the 2nd most yards behind Spurs. We got them moving around if nothing else!