Chicarito Saves United's Blushes

Stoke City 1 - Manchester United 2
Scorers
Stoke City: Tuncay (80)
Manchester United: Hernandez (27, 86)

Team: Van der Sar, Rio, Vidic, Neville (Brown 46), O'Shea (Carrick 70), Scholes (Obertan 87), Fletcher, Evra, Nani, Berbatov, Hernandez

Another week of Rooney headlines and the strange U-turn decision he made to stay with the team after dissing the entire organisation from head to toe. Of course at the end of the day he got what he wanted and is currently reportedly receiving anywhere from 250k to 180k pounds a week. Personally I think it's ridiculous to be paying this crazy money to a so-called superstar who can't find the net, while he's peers, namely Messi and Ronaldo are scoring goals for fun. Thankfully we have Scholes, who did what any decent United fan wanted to do, to injure him in training.

Whatever dog and pony show that was on display over the last week or so, one thing's for sure, it's going to take alot of badge kissing and sucking up to us fans before he even comes close to getting back into our good books. The massive amount of greed and self righteousness is hard to stomach for the ordinary fan. I know I'll be finding it tremendously hard to root for this dick again.

Today in his absence, I think we've found a new hero in the form of the Little Pea. Against the odds, Hernandez snatched a late winner to end our away blues. For a moment there, it looked like we had thrown away another lead when Tuncay cancelled out Hernandez's opener as time wound down. Hernandez was at the right place and the right time to poke home Evra's deflect shot to give us a frankly undeserved winner. It broke the duck and hopefully we move on from here to capture a few more away wins.

Stoke were probably rather unlucky to find themselves one down after dominating most of the first half. Hernandez contorted rather unorthodoxly to flick his head back to score the first goal. It was a thing of beauty, ballerina-like, yet at the same time difficult, almost impossible to produce. The bottomline is that the ball went into the net. We spend the rest of the half defending like crazy as Stoke pressed for the equalizer.

After a pulsating first half, the second half was a non-starter until both Scholes and Evra made mistakes to allow substitute Tuncay to score a brilliant effort. It looked like we had to settle for a point yet again until Hernandez's instinct took over.

Currently at this point in time, I'm hoping the club does the right thing and boot Rooney off sometime in the near future. In Hernandez, I believe we've found a true goal-poacher.