PSG nickname The Parisiens, MU nickname the rags. PSG plays at Parc des Princes in lovely Paris by the banks of the Seine, MU turns out at the swamp in, well, Salford by the trolley-strewn tip called the river Irwell. Manager (ex-rag) multi award winning Laurent Blanc, MU manager mutant ninja turtle and so it […]

Penalty shootouts don’t you just love them? Maybe not all of them but 1999 and the awesome latest can’t get better. Roller-coaster stuff yet again from the magnificent Blues. We might not win every game or every game that we should but boy we are always exciting to watch. Even the League Cup warm-down (the […]

Everyone’s talking about our Willy. Maybe we should vote for a Big Willy statue strategically positioned at the West Stand?? Keeping Willy as keeper; Pellegrini’s word, his promise was more “important” than winning the trophy. If the ref had awarded the penalty for the foul on Aguero and we’d scored it then Willy’s opportunity to shine […]

The absurdity of the FA Cup to the awesome performance in the Ukraine. Rollercoaster? Blackpool Pleasure Beach; the Bobs (sleigh ride), the Revolution (loop-the-loop), Grand National (named after the race), Valhalla (Scandinavian heaven), Big Dipper (large Liverpudlian) have nothing on us and talking of Scousers, Sunday’s game shall see me hanging on to my seat […]

We appear to have set another record; the aggregate of the shirt numbers was the highest ever. Consequently, before the team selection was declared it seemed inevitable that we would concede any further involvement in this year’s FA Cup so I jumped aboard the Tardis and listened to the Alan Green commentary on the radio. […]