Scholes' Century Sends United Back Top

Wolves 0 - Manchester United 1
Scorer
Manchester United: Scholes (71)

Team: Van der Sar, Rio, Vidic, Brown (Neville 45), Evra, Carrick, Scholes, Gibson (Diouf 61), Nani (Park 74), Valencia, Berbatov

Aren't we lucky to have Scholes on our side? Our play today was simply rubbish. Ferguson opted to rest a few players and our play was affected as a result. The good thing was that the gamble paid off when Scholes kept his composure and scored at a time when the game looked like it was going to be a dull draw.

Things off the pitch didn't help matters much either. As everyone should know by now, Owen's hamstring problem has ruled him out for the season. Rooney's probably being saved for the midweek clash against the Italian giants AC Milan, despite officially ruled out with some knee problems. And the Glazers have come out with guns blazing, firmly confirming their rule over our club, and rejecting outright all overtures from unwelcome bidders. So as you can see, things don't seem that rosy afterall. At least we're top of the table albeit until Chelsea plays their game in hand.

And speaking of Chelsea, after they were hammered by our 'friendly' neighbours, Shitty, the FA decided to level the playing field by sending in their thug referee, Peter Walton. If you all recall, he was the same arse who engineered our draw against Villa some weeks back. It wasn't as blatant as that other game, but Walton somehow managed to get in the way of our players as we were countering, not once, not twice, but a whooping three times! He's positioning was simple questionable to be extremely polite.

Yet, as much as I would love to play the blame game, we're our own worst enemies for much of the game. We lacked energy and thrust, something Rooney would have provided in abundance. Recently we're been dancing to the tune of Rooney's flute and without him on the pitch, we honestly never looked like scoring. Berbatov leading the frontline alone is painful to watch. He lacks the speed when we go on the counters, and when he perceives that the players around him are not running to where he wants them to, or make the passes he requires, he openly shows his frustration and displeasure. It brings the morale of the affected player down. In short, as brilliant as he can be on occasion, he's also equally disruptive to the term harmony on the pitch. It's a little like having Ronaldo back, but at least Ronaldo is so effective that we mostly tend to overlook his little tantrums.

Additional observations:
- My word, Diouf looked terrible today. He had a couple of chances to really put the game away, but missed terribly on both occasions. It's probably still early to pass judgement on him, but it's really not looking good when he misses chances that I'd probably be able to put in.

- When we take the foot off the paddle, we REALLY take the foot off the paddle. Wolves could have and really should have punished us, not once but freaking twice in injury time. The team needs to be able to concentrate for, not only the full 90 minutes, when whatever the referee and his cronies add on. This period used to be owned by us, and today we were nearly shown our own medicine.

- Just wanna make a comment on the Red Knights, we've all be reading about in the news. Where is the money to buy out the Glazers coming from? It's a helluva lot of money. Pardon me for being skeptical, but after spending all that money, the club's coming back to us? I don't get it, I really don't. Are there people out there who are really so generous? And what's going to happen when it comes back to us, supporters? We get to vote like how they do with Barcelona and that circus of a club, Real Madrid? Wouldn't that mean a turnstile charade of managers when things don't go right? Don't get me wrong, I'm terribly cynical of Ferguson's decisions, but at the end of the day, I'm glad he's making them instead of some blogger who really knows nuts. All I know right now is that the situation is not ideal when the club being saddled in ridiculous debts, yet I'm not sure I'm inclined to like the alternative either. In short, I'm just clueless and maybe I should just shut my mouth and let the powers that be do what they do best.