Watford FC 1-2 Manchester United - 15/09/2018

Love the preview.

One thing I will add is that Luke Shaw is actually playing very well this season. He’s actually their only player to fear, if he gets over his latest injury.

The rest of them are worth about a tenth of their transfer fee at the minute.

 

Welcome, Hambo!

 

United fans seem to think that he's now likely to miss the game, which is good news for us.

 

Doesn't that just unleash a super-hyped up Ashley Young instead?

 

I thought he looked just as fat and slow as ever last night.

 

What ?? Does that mean I shouldn't have used my real name as my user name ?
I bet his real name is Rico or Roberto.

 

His real name is Moog obviously.

 

Friday. The United players set off for Manchester Airport. As they’re on duty they use their club cars and leave their Porsches and Maseratis at home. Except, obviously, those whose Chevrolets won’t start.

Their plane is waiting on the tarmac. Aeroflot, the club’s official airline partner. The captain welcomes them with a personal message from President Putin. As it’s in Russian nobody understands it except Jose, who picked up the language during the summer. He nods sympathetically at the bit where Putin wonders why the rest of the world hates him even though he’s doing such a great job.

Coffee is served. Maxwell House, the club’s official coffee partner. Nobody drinks it. The British players take out their phones and log on to bet365, club’s official gambling partner. They bet responsibly, of course, though one of them needs to contact Wonga, the club’s official payday loans partner. The Wonga website seems to be down for some reason.

At Luton the players are whisked off to the nearby Travelodge. They would have preferred The Grove or Sopwell House, but Travelodge is the club’s new official overnight accommodation partner.

It’s matchday. In the dressing-room, the players endure the warbling of some Portuguese bint. Jose has the contractual right to choose the club’s official pre-match music partner.

As they line up in the tunnel, Pogba reflects that he’ll slit his wrists if he has to listen to another note of fado. Also, he’s hopelessly disoriented by being forced to play at 3 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon. He concludes that he really isn’t in the mood for this.

Nevertheless, the niceties have to be observed. “Bonjour, Troy.” “Afternoon, Paul. How are your cojones today?”

Score: TBA.

 

Is Kremlin?

 

Changed it from Cassiobury IIRC. Which always made me wonder, Cassiobury being where the posh kids came from in my day.

 

I reckon Clive is an ex copper from the Hertfordshire constabulary. Plenty of them on here.

 

Nigel of Cassiobury?!

Has a different ring to it.

I tend to see Clive as a state of mind.

 

Modern TVs don’t have the Horizontal Hold ****, unfortunately.

 

All I wrote was k nob!

 

A lovely gesture from the England captain that shows the team spirit within the England camp,

Harry Kane has visited Luke Shaw at the England medical centre this morning.

"His speech is still very slurred and he's struggling to string coherent sentences together" said Luke.

 

Why was Lloris there?

 

Guessed what was coming but still laughed loud enough for people in’t pub to look at me sideways



(No smart arsed comments required thx as the missus has already made them)

 

No he waited outside in the car (he parked in the private car park because it was off licensed)

 

Yeah No definitely.

Purple Kane....

 

Mouth breather, Kane not you.

 

Changed it from Cassiobury IIRC. Which always made me wonder, Cassiobury being where the posh kids came from in my day.

*******. Spat my coffee all over keyboard.

 

Wearing a flat cap is sooooo middle class these days

 

Great write up!

Very hard game to predict, I'm struggling to think of an outcome that would surprise me barring a thrashing for either side.

While we have won EVERY match this season across all competitions, a draw would be an absolutely fine result here. Man Utd are clearly not in a good place, but they outgun us on an individual level which means we will need to ride our luck a bit.

Prediction

Watford 2-2 Man Utd
Pereyra (23), Kabasele (72); Lukaku (5), Dahlberg (og 90+8)

 

Rooney could be out for this one.

 

We need to watch out for their diving antics...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45471611

 

Done them once, we can do it again. This time maybe even more convincingly.

Is Zuniga available for this?

 

When United are in a rut, Fellaini often drags them out of it, much like Giroud used to at Arsenal. If he's injured then I'm certainly more optimistic.

 

It seems Fellaini returning to United was more of a precautionary measure, and I expect he'd be fine to play against us, unfortunately.

 

Ashley Young puts in a good performance to seal his transfer in order to come back home in January.

 

Wouldn't be a surprised, he isn't the first play who declares themselves unfit for an international and then is miraculously fit a few days later and he won't be the last.

 

Win this 2-1. Caps to get on the score sheet. Gray gets a penalty. Deeney converts.

Doucoure scores for them & then club does swap deal with Ashley Young + 45m in Jan.

 

I'm pretty sure this exact same sentence was said before we played them and he scored last time, celebrating by the rookery to a chorus of boos closely followed by everyone on here slagging him off.

 

If both were available who would you prefer back; AY or Vydra?