What A Comeback!

Manchester United 5 - Tottenham 2
Scorers
Manchester United: Ronaldo (pen 57, 68), Rooney (67,71), Berbatov (79)
Tottenham: Bent (29), Modric (32)

Team: Van der Sar, Rio, Vidic, Rafael (O'Shea 70), Evra, Fletcher (Scholes 62), Carrick, Nani (Tevez 46), Ronaldo, Rooney, Berbatov

Thanks for all the concerned smses and emails. I was down with a terrible flu and at the moment still in the long process of recovery. With the swine pandemic spreading and causing fear around the world, my overly concerned and easily excitable doctor even suggested I took a blood test just in case. A suggestion which I rejected. The only pigs I've been around the past couple of weeks were my girlfriend and that swine, Kentona.

As bad as my flu was over the weekend, I stll managed to catch the game while drooping off to sleep as the coughing took every ounce of energy. Enduring a putrid first half just made it excruciatingly worse.

It's not to say we played that badly. We just played without any intensity whatsoever. With every missed chance, we just shrugged our shoulders and continued with the game. There was no desire or urgency. I'm beginning to feel why Ronaldo whines so much. Flanked by teammates who don't care, I'll want to leave too.

After an unwatchable half hour, Lennon struck. He's been a constant threat down the left and everytime he got the ball, he made Evra look like a schoolboy. Evra's dip in form recently has been alarming to put it nicely.

Before we knew it, Spurs were two up with goals from Bent and Modric. We were staring down a barrel of a loaded gun.

We did try to pull one back before the break, but there was a distinct lack of urgency in the way we went about our business. The half time and the throwing of teacups from the locker room couldn't come soon enough.

Ferguson decided to unleash Tevez in the second half in place of Nani and that possibly made all the difference in the game. Tevez injected some life and desire into the game. Perhaps playing for his United life, he went about trying to murder everyone foolish enough to cross his path.

Fergie's second substitution brought on even more agression from Scholesy. We were taking no prisoners and playing with reckless abandon. Both Scholes and Tevez soon found their way into the referee's book for being overly aggressive. And at the way the game was played, it was apparent more swashbuckling action was on the way. Rooney, Ronaldo and a couple more were already hacking away and it was just a matter of time before we were going to end up with 9 or fewer men as the scoreline continued.

Referee Howard Webb probably had the same feeling as I did, when he awarded a soft penalty when Carrick was taken down in the box. It threw us a lifeline which Ronaldo grabbed to give the score some respectability.

The complexion of the game completely changed from that goal. It gave us hope and Tevez's unique style of play rubbed on on everyone. Everyone, including the much maligned Berbatov, pulled up their socks and chased for every ball. There was a whole lot of game to play and we were finally getting the upper hand.

In quick succession, Rooney and Ronaldo scored 3 more goals between themselves to overhaul the deficit. We were running amok and Spurs, who looked so comfortable in the first half, were getting a mauling. This was the best we've played in a long long time.

Berbatov bundled in a 5th just to twist the knife little bit more. There probably could have been another couple more but we eased up on them.

While all this was going on, Michael was busy smsing me just how this game resembled that Beckham-led turnaround earlier in the decade. We cameback from 3-0 down to win 5-3 against today's opponents. I just want to take a quick timeout to apologise to Mike here as my replies were short and curt. I was practically dying from my flu, and the adrenaline rush from watching United play the way they are capable of, nearly gave me a heartattack in my weakened state.

This was United at it's finest. The only problem now is how to replicate this second half performance for the remainder of the season. If we can do that, then repeating last season's feat would be a walk in the park.