Man Utd Ramblings – CL Draw & Chance To Bounce Back

By: Wayne Farry | March 19th, 2009

Woo! I’m back after my trip to Galway for Paddy’s Day and I’m in good form. I had the greatest Paddy’s Day ever and am now feeling even more optimistic about all things United.

Away from my drinking habits the Champions League Quarter-Finals and Semi-Finals draw takes place tomorrow morning at 10.55am at the UEFA HQ in Nyon, Switzerland.

There are eight sides left in the draw; us, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Barca, Bayern Munich, Villarreal and Porto. Rob is doing a Live Blog of the draw over at the Champions League Offside tomorrow morning. As he states over there, anyone can draw anyone else so there’s bound to be an all EPL tie.

Without a doubt, Barcelona are the team that most clubs will look to avoid. They appear to have got over their little blip and are in fairly barnstorming form yet again. Saying that, there’s never any point in looking to avoid any side in the Champions League because if you’re looking to win the thing you’ll have to beat the best anyway. Plus, we are the holders so we should have absolutely no fear in facing any side at all!

Onto the next topic; the away game at Fulham on Saturday. Last time we played Fulham (in the FA Cup) we beat them 4-0, with goals from Park, Roo and Tevez. After that match everyone was quick to say how unbeatable United are and how they don’t even have to try to win anymore. This time, however, is different. Despite still being 4 points ahead of ‘Pool and Chelsea at the top of the EPL with a game in hand United should see this as something to prove. After being demolished by Liverpool last Saturday there have been immediate retractions regarding peeps’ statements about United’s invincibility. If United don’t win against Fulham then they’re be even more people saying that we’re letting the title slip. In my opinion United need to win, and win big if only just to silence the naysayers.

I really hope we hammer Fulham and put the Liverpool game behind us. Because if we do beat Fulham convincingly we can put to bed the doubts and put down the Liverpool defeat as just an awful, tiny blip.

In the last of my Utd news, there are some nice little pics over at Unprofessional Foul regarding Gary Neville’s hedges outside his house, it’s pretty cool/ridiculously stupid…

A small tidbit regarding this season’s Champions League Final in Rome, if like me you want to see the CL Final moved from Rome click on The Times’ campaign page here.

It has been said many times recently that if what has happened in Italian football in the past years had happened in England, English teams would have been kicked out of Europe again. That’s a point for a different day but if you want to get involved click on the link above and follow he instructions..