Manchester United: Drop Kagawa, Shoot From Range And Keep The Ball To Beat Newcastle

Manchester United invite Newcastle United to Old Trafford on Saturday in the weekend's early kick off. Both sides come into the game on the back of midweek losses - United losing 1-0 at home to Everton and Newcastle 3-0 to Swansea - and will be desperate to get their seasons back on track. I would argue that the Red Devils, and David Moyes in particular, need the three points more, so here are a few ways in which they can boost their chances, in my opinion.

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Could Bellamy be the signing of the season?

While Messrs Aguero, Jones and Parker have garnered riotous acclaim since their summer moves, one transfer has continued to escape mass attention, yet Craig Bellamy’s return to Anfield could be the best piece of business conducted in the Premier League this season.

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Can the Saints keep marching in?

Hands up everyone who thought this season’s nPower Championship would be a heavyweight tussle between Big Sam’s West Ham and Sven’s lavishly-assembled Leicester?

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Rovers to chicken out of the Premier League

What do you get when you take deluded owners and add an inexperienced manager, throw in absurd expectations, then mix in an aging squad with a despairing lack of summer signings, and what do you get? A recipe for relegation.

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International Friendlies – Yes, They Can Work!

The international friendly…managers despise them, fans frown upon them, the very mention of them is enough to turn the air blue.

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Survival Sunday…and breathe

Well wasn’t that exciting?

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Francesco Totti – 201 not out

Few players divide opinion quite like Francesco Totti.

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Diving. We Stand

As you know, we at Football Friends abhor the diving culture that has seeped into out beautiful game – it is ungentlemanly, unsavoury, and it just isn’t English.

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The Alternative Team of the Year

So here’s the Alternative Team of Year; a team of the underperforming, the overpaid, the disliked, the overpriced, and the overrated.

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Time to go, Don Fabio

And the least said about the ‘Capello Index’ the better.

Just imagine if Steve McClaren had acted in such a fashion, he’s lucky he’s just the ‘Wally with the Brolly’.

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Dean Richards

As a Southampton fan, I’ve been lucky enough to witness many great defenders pull on the famous red and white striped jersey over the last two decades, and Dean Richards was one of the finest.

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Football’s unluckiest

 

When it comes to football, the old adage ‘you make your own luck’ is fairly redundant.

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