Nani Magic Downs Spurs (Manchester United 1 - Tottenham 0)

We were awful, uninspired and for a good portion of the game, you felt this was going to be one of those days. Today's performance was by far the worst we've played since the season began. Yet thru the sheer individual brilliance of Nani, we chalked up our first win. Undeserved? Probably, but luck has a way of evening itself up.

There's really nothing much to say about today's game. With the exception of Evra, the entire defense was caught napping far too many times for my liking. Rio, Vidic, Van der Sar and Brown were all guilty of crimes of giving the ball away cheaply and not marking their men. This is probably in poor taste if you're of Jewish decent, but they all need to be sent to concentration camp.

Carrick was disastrous. Maybe he was trying too hard against his old team, but it certainly was no excuse for a piss poor performance. I don't expect him to shed the Invisible Man tag and suddenly turn into Superman, but today he was Dr Doom. He's passes were off and his tackles were half-hearted. Thankfully Fergie took him off at the hour mark before he caused some real problems.

While this was a dull performance, we could still take away the fact that Nani and Hargreaves are awesome. Both displayed a high workrate (even by our standards), chasing every loose ball and staying in front of their man. The reason why Spurs couldn't really get a foothold on the game was because Hargreaves was literally in their face everytime their midfield got the ball. And more importantly, he was there whenever Carrick lost the ball.

Nani's just plain impressive for someone who's only played 4 games for us. He's not Ronaldo-impressive yet, but you can already tell the difference between the two. Nani just works so much harder. He's going to be a crowd favourite. And today we needed a Nani wonder strike to win a game which we never looked like winning.

Despite a poor display, we finally won a game. Let's hope it gives us the much needed confidence from here on in. Next week we face Keano's black pussies. Given the way they were convincingly dominated by Pool, I'm expecting nothing less than a win.