Tag: Ole Gunnar Solksjaer
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FA Cup 4th Round Draw
At a time when cut-throat cynicism and lack of common sense is spreading through top level sport and having a noxious effect akin to the invasive scourge that is Japanese Knotweed – Munster GAA I’m looking at you – at least the FA Cup can always be relied upon to inject a bit of much…
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Good for the heart… Eventually!
Move over Barcelona, you have been eclipsed. The SAS (Sheringham and Solksjaer) deposed by MAM (Mainoo and Maguire). The absense of Roy Keane outweighed by being 4-2 down against 10 men. Peter Schmeichel’s cartwheel being replaced by Andre Onana running over to celebrate with manager Ruben Amorim and cramping up in the process. ITV commentator…
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Right said Fred let’s settle this St Antony
Manchester United… 2 Barcelona… 1 (United win 4-3 on aggregate) Fred, I owe you a profuse apology. It’s not all that long ago it was opined in this space that it was felt Fred The Red – the Manchester United mascot – would be more useful in central midfield than his Brazilian namesake. So how’d…
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Being around them doesn’t necessarily turn you into them
An opinion poll was recently encountered in one of the myriad Manchester United fan groups on Facebook posing the admittedly interesting question as to who has been the best manager of the Red Devils since Sir Alex Ferguson retired nearly a decade ago. Now read on… Perhaps being a little trigger-happy, this corner immediately plumped…
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The only predictable thing is their unpredictability
ATHLETICO MADRID… 1 MANCHESTER UNITED… 1 Manchester United currently resemble a volitile backside – you just don’t know what they’re going to do next. In truth, that has been the state of affairs at the Old Trafford club since Sir Alex Ferguson vacated the dugout. On and off the pitch. The second part of that…
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Too many cooks may contaminate the dish
There are very few things that grind my gears about the sporting world, but the omerta which surrounds GAA teams is certainly this corner’s Kryptonite. Especially when laid against a backdrop of Stone Age mentality within the Association clinging to amateurism like The Bull McCabe to his field. In contrast, whether it’s down to the…
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Take tonight for what it is and no more
You just knew it. The minute the under siege manager is shown the door, his erstwhile players come out and record a crucial in the Champions League. Not with a worldly performance by any means, but a damnable improvement on what they’d been producing in the closing stages of Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s reign. Coincidence? Let’s…
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The wheels came off the wagon long before Ole lost control
Ole Gunnar Solksjaer has been sacked. The latest chapter in the half sporting tragedy, half farce that has been life at Old Trafford came to its sad but inevitable conclusion as the former forward was brought to book in the wake of yesterday’s latest humiliation, against Watford at Vicarage Road. The sporting tragedy here is…
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Breaking News! Ole Gunnar Solskjær is gone
Official. Manchester United announce that Michael Carrick will now take charge of the team for forthcoming games, while Manchester United look to appoint an interim manager to the end of the season.
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The obvious answer is often the only one
It’s funny how the wheels of time often come full circle. In the autumn of 1995, the late Shane McEntee TD ran against Sean Boylan for the position of Meath senior football manager. This being against the babkdrop of the ten point drubbing against Dublin in the Leinster Final. The Nobber native, who was a…