Thursday, March 26, 2009

Can Utd win the quintuple this season?

I guess it must be the initial enthu but here is another post in quick succession. And wat better topic to choose for my first "content" post than Man Utd. For all those who dont hav a clue as to wat the topic is, Man Utd(short for Manchester United) is a professional football club which plays in the EPL(English Premier League). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_united for the wiki-maniacs. The quintuple here refers to the 5 competitions that they can potentially win this season viz. The Premier League, The FA Cup, The Carling Cup, The Club World Championship and The UEFA Champions League. Well, it would've been 6 but they lost to Zenit in the Super Cup finals :( They hav already taken a couple of major steps in their pursuit for the quintuple by winning the CWC and the CC. They are leading the EPL by a point and hav a game in hand. They are in the semis of the FA cup and the quarters of the CL.

The Premier League

A couple of weeks ago, the premier league had only 1 winner. Utd were cruising with a 7 point lead over Liverpool and a game in hand. But successive losses, the first time since 2005, meant that the gap is now only 1 point but they still hav that crucial game in hand. Honestly, I've never seen utd look so shaken up. Their manager Ferguson is so concerned that he refused Sky Sports offer to prepone their match against villa so that they can hav an extra day to prepare for their game gainst porto. The priority has suddenly shifted back to the premiership. Although they hav some very tricky fixtures against arsenal, city and boro, I still feel utd hav enough about them to seal the deal.

The FA Cup

Big players rise to the big occassion, they say. Semifinal against everton at the new Wembley is an occassion enough to inspire the squad and with everton missing their playmaker Arteta, it should be easy. It is the final which is a big concern coz the other side of the pool sees a chelsea
and arsenal face-off. So, after a long time, FA cup will hav a potentially mouth watering final between 2 of the "Big four" of the premiership.

The Champions League

I knw it is a little too early to be talking abt utd's chances in the CL but wat the hell, iam just predicting. Fergie was smiling after the draw for the later stages of the CL were taken. Clearly, Utd has the easiest of the paths to Rome. I hope it is a Utd Bayern final just like the time when utd won the treble only this time, it will be the stage whr utd could collect the last piece of the puzzle, the quintuple.

So, finally, after all the bull shitting i hav done, the bottomline is that the ans to the quest is "Hell Yeah!!"

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