Skip to main content

MUFC in the EUROPA…yeah that.

Image
By

So hell has frozen over & the humble pie is being served by the boat-load, but is this the worst thing in the world?
Below are some silver-lining/tongue-in-cheek points suggesting that this might be worth the effort:
1. MUFC have never won the EUROPA/UEFA/Thursday Cup:
So there is a trophy still out there for SAF to bring home!! Happy days!! In fact, even Ipswich Town have a UEFA Cup in their cabinet. EPL 2nd, 3rd & 4th spot is important & cool, but you can’t parade it from a bus & it doesn’t count as a trophy. Let’s bring this thing home & add another trophy to our (already) packed cabinet. ALSO, since the EUROPA Cup is only 3 years old, only 2 other teams have won it in this format….therefore making this The Most Exclusive Cup in Europe. You didn’t see that one coming did you?
2. Gametime free-for-all:
This tournament does provide a perfect platform for our youth & bench to get 1st team experience. Berbatov, Owen, Macheda, Gibbo, Ravel, Pogba….an endless list that can easily win our first match, which, BTW is likely to be one of these teams: Trabzonspor, Ajax, Porto, Plzen, PAOK, Hannover, Warsaw, Braga, Atl Madrid or Lokomotiv Moscow.
3. The Citeh factor:
I have little time for teams who buy their success in the way Man Citeh have done so. MUFC vs. MCFC have already played twice this season…return EPL game + FA Cup (can have a replay) & the chance of meeting them in the EUROPA…this fixture can possibly happen 7 times this season!! The joy of beating the noisy neighbours out of the remaining cups will equal the joy reaching the UCL Final for me.
4. The excuse factor:
We all know the only real reason MUFC are in the EUROPA Cup is because SAF has never won it…he also wanted to KO Citeh out, so as soon as he heard Napoli had scored, he threw on Johnny Evans - in football terms, this means “I’m throwing this game”. Absolute genius from SAF to manage to get 3rd in our group in order to fulfil this prophecy of winning everything. I’m sure SAF said “I won the league last season so I’m in the UCL, but I really want to win the EUROPA…I know, I’ll make sure we get in to EUROPA by coming 3rd but only if Man City are also in it”. Genius!
So yeah, we’ll win a brand new trophy…our bench & youth will get excellent gametime, we’ll beat Citeh & even parade the trophy around their the Eithad stadium….what more could we want? So make sure you back our team fully & let’s buy our beers on Thursday nights instead! I’m looking forward to it.
Buy it…don’t buy it. The reality behind MUFC’s erratic & contrasting season will be my 1st post on my website - going live this weekend, including MUFC, EPL & UCL stats.
Cheers

Article by @thembasweet follow him on twitter.

Jade Christopher Bentley Adams (JCBA)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Premier League changes its logo.

By
The most lucrative football league in the world, The English Premier League (EPL), yesterday unveiled its new official logo, which will be used from the 2016-17 season onwards. The division's lion icon has been the face of England's top flight since its launch in 1992 but has undergone a makeover to give it a fresh, modern look. It means, EPL is ending its 12-year association with Barclays bank and will from now on be known simply as ‘the Premier League’. The new logo – has a crowned lion’s head gazing to the right, accompanied by either the words ‘Premier League’ or ‘PL’ -- will replace the current logo of a lion with its left paw on a football. All 20 clubs in the top flight have also agreed a new centralised sponsorship strategy, meaning the league will no longer have a named sponsor. “From next season we will move away from title sponsorship and the competition will be known as the Premier League, a decision which provided the opportunity to consider how we wanted ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Arsene Wenger v Jose Mourinho: The history of their rivalry in quotes

By
A must read by Adams Bate of Skysports news, The war of words between Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger goes on and on. While the Manchester United boss has generally had the upper hand on the pitch over the years, both managers have had stern words for each other in the press room. Here we recall their rivalry in quotes, dating back to Mourinho's first season in English football... "I don't see especially that Chelsea play more English players than we do. Who have they produced, homegrown? Just one, John Terry." - Wenger in 2005 when quizzed on Arsenal's all-foreign line-up. At the beginning of the following season in August 2005, Wenger also expressed concerns over Chelsea's tactics: "I know we live in a world where we have only winners and losers, but once a sport encourages teams who refuse to take the initiative, the sport is in danger." Mourinho was unimpressed. "Wenger has a real problem with us and I think he is what you ca...
2 comments
Read more

Currie Cup Final "Op Nuweland"

By
Op Nuweland (i.e. In Newlands Stadium) for Capetonian Rugby lovers has a special connotation understood only with a beer, friends, family, braai and biltong on match days. This match day Cape Town can boast a Currie Cup Final, and a deserved one I might add, for the first time in 12 years. It will also be the 12th time since 1939 that this illustriuos stadium hosts the Currie Cup Final, with only Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria hosting more (17). It has also been dominated by these two teams for the last 4 years with Western Province(WP) taking part in three of the last four finals. The Sharks can boast being in their fourth Currie Cup Final in as many years, each winning the title just once in that time. A stat each side will want to change as it's one thing to take part in a show piece and quite another to win one. WP are in the uneviable position of being tagged favourites come Saturday not just for them being the defending champions and them being at thier home patch but because t...
2 comments
Read more