Maybe there's more than one secret agent at the stadium of shite. And then there's the one from the smoggies as well.

Beau

Yeah, Cattermole sent off again....he really is a tithead

Let's not give Gala too much ammunition for Monday night when we get stuffed!

Chelsea already 1-0 up, Malouda scoring

Nah, if we get beat, then fair enough, its not a game we (and to be fair everyone) are expecting anything from.

The mackems however, when you are 2-0 up at home with 9 minutes to play against Birmingham, you should win, and they still didnt, thats worth laughing about

Chelsea 2-0 West Brom (Drogba)

And thats now a HT

Chelsea 3-0 West Brom (Drogba, 2nd goal)

4-0 now, Lampard

Looks like its between them and Blackpool for the league

5-0, Drogba hat-trick, this is actually frightening to watch now

Then again, West Brom have gone there and tried to play football and not defensively, guess thats what you get when you try to beat Chelsea at their own game. Chelsea fans now mocking west brom by chanting "we want 6!"

6-0, Malouda

And if you look at their 606 page, they're actually complaining

newly promoted west brom 0-6 chelsea
newlly promoted newcastle 0-4 man utd?


... and I bet marlon harewood is gutted, he was top scorer for all of 2 hours

Anyone going on Monday night by the way?

I'm travelling with Back Page down to the game - first time I've used them. Anyone used them before know what they are like? I'm guessing it's a bit tame as the coaches are alcohol free.

The Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985
prohibits the possession of alcohol on the way to matches on football special coaches
and trains and makes it an offence to be drunk on them

So the fact other people allow it is by the by. Just drink before you go.

And when I get there

Wow, Joe Cole gets a straight red

I have to say that I think that was only a yellow, pretty ugly but not a red

Just reading on nufc.com that we have sold out our 1800 allocation for Old Trafford. I thought there was a rule that you had to be offered 5% of the capacity for away fans, does this mean we have turned tickets down as surely we should have had around 3800 tickets.

I'll be at work but as my boss is a Man Utd fan I'm hoping we'll be able to sneak off to the pub to watch the game

I think because we are newly promoted

Knowing our away backing, we'd have no trouble selling out any allocation

As far as I know we only requested that many. I think the fact that it's a Monday night game, on the tele and it's school holidays and people are away is why. I read that even the home tickets went on general sale which I don't think they normally do for most games. Hopefully we will take over away grounds with poor home support this season, like Wigan, Blackburn and Bolton, like we did at Barnsley last year.

forgive my ignorance and i know its been a while since i perused these boards but isnt this the Man United away Thread?

If so why is an admin posting all the scores from other prem games on here, Ive just wasted 3 minutes of my life reading through this!

Come on guys get your shit in order

Because thats the way it is and everyone else seems to like it.



Strangely excited for tonight, maybe an early Man Utd goal will take that away though.

Been a cracking weekend, what with Blackpool doing what they did, Chelsea just looked class which makes me even more sure Man Utd will want to send a message back to them by clattering us.

The best thing has to be either the mackems throwing a 2-0 lead away or even better Liverpools howler right at the end v Arsenal last night, hahah.

I wonder how Toon are going to approach this game.
Will they park the bus?
Or will they go down fighting, but at least come away with their heads held high?

Will be a combination of the two I think. I think you are playing a very dangerous game if you simply park the bus against the likes of Man U.

Will be a usual away 4-5-1, hopefully will keep it tight and frustrate them and possibly look to nick one from a set piece or something.

If we dont concede early we maybe have a slim chance of a point, if we concede early then i really would fear for us

I guess the team will pick itself really:

Harper
Perch Williamson Coloccini Jose
Routledge Smith Barton Jonas
Nolan
Carroll

Unless guthrie is injured surely he has to be in for Smith? To me Smith is in the same position as Butt was in the Championship last year, just not good enough but will do as last resort back up

Maybe but I think he would want someone a bit more defensive minded than Guthrie or Barton.

Think youare right but wasn't it 0-0 at HT 3 years ago and then we lost 6-0?

where the hell is Guthrie? is he injured? not in the starting team or the subs bench?

how many strikers do we have on the bench? think this is why we need more midfielders

Rooney and Berbatov up front for Man Utd

Owen fails even to make the bench

BBT will be devastated

Manchester United
Edwin van der Sar
John O'Shea
Patrice Evra
Nemanja Vidic
Jonny Evans
Paul Scholes
Darren Fletcher
Antonio Valencia
Dimitar Berbatov
Wayne Rooney
Nani
Substitutes
Tomasz Kuszczak
Rafael da Silva
Chris Smalling
Ryan Giggs
Michael Carrick
Javier Hernandez
Federico Macheda


Newcastle United
Steve Harper
Fabricio Coloccini
Mike Williamson
James Perch
Jose Enrique
Joey Barton
Alan Smith
Jonas Gutierrez
Kevin Nolan
Andy Carroll
Wayne Routledge
Substitutes
Tim Krul
Ryan Taylor
James Tavernier
Shola Ameobi
Nile Ranger
Xisco
Haris Vuckic

HOWAY - LET'S HAVE THE BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!

Great to see the fans making a great atmosphere in the Prem again!

Howler from Carroll, should be 1 up

Shite shite shite.

Looks like the same old for the coming season. did well for the first 20 but awful after that. Perch, Routledge = Out of their depth.

I think it's been a reasonable performance so far, a few fortunate goals for them that could and should have been dealt with. Williamson and Carroll look good.

It doesn't take a good team to try and shut your opponents down, sooooo frustrating

The amount of space we are giving them to pull the strings they were always going to break us down, and this could turn into a cricket score..

Even more frustrating in that Carroll should of buried that header, and we look like we can score if we can play the right final ball, I'm not convinced by their defense at all

If the 2nd half is the same as the first, 4 or 5-1, if CH tells them to stick to their men tight and we can pinch an early one in the 2nd, a point is still possible.

Not sure I agree about Routledge, he's one of the few trying to get forward.

Guti, Perch and Barton have been awful... Enrique also not performing to last year's standards at all.

That said, don't think anyone is playing well. Harper isn't a premier league keeper.

I had forgotten just how fucking awful the refereeing is at OT.

3 yellow cards and a blatant shirt pull on Carroll - hardly a level playing field

damn.. we need to sign at least 3 more players... our squad's too thin for PL!

Perhaps a bit harsh on routledge but no doubt about Perch. He looks poor even for Championship standard. Long way to go, but it doesnt bode well.

Pretty much agree with that. Barton & Enrique are giving posession away far too easily and you just can't do that against Man Utd or you will be punished. I'm a bit nervous now that they are really going to target Perch 2nd half. I think Williamson has been outstanding.

Where's Guthrie when you need him

Routledge has actually looked keen to be on the ball and I think will do well at this level, Perch without doubt looks completely out of his depth

Yep, Williamson seems to be the one grasping the opportunity (obviously we're only going on 45minutes here, trying not to be overly negative) - but I'm afraid.. a little...

The whole team and the manager are way out of their depth, that is plain and simple, make no mistake, Man Utd aren't playing well, we are simply so far behind that it is untrue.

Our whole team looked absolutely knackered after about 20 minutes and in all fairness, this could end up a cricket score.

I think our passing has looked much better. Carroll seems promising and is doing OK. Enrique has looked terrible, times Jonas has got us into positions to pass to Enrique and lost it.

Only concern is Hughton doesn't seem to know how to change it. Other than that, I don't know what people expected.

\o/ Shola

Holy shit Hughton, 2-0 at Man U isn't a bad result, throwing 3 strikers on is asking to get thumped

Quality goal that was to be fair.