Post by staggerstag on Aug 19, 2018 14:58:30 GMT
No takers for this one? Here we go again then :
We're in the land of pale sticky candy floss/cotton candy, colourful striped flags, millions of pebbles, a dilapidated broken pier that's stuck some 300 meters out in the sea and now split in two by storms a few years back, red and cream coloured buses, and a special kind of seagull which is notoriously adept at sh*tting on people who aren't seen to be enjoying themselves and smiling : they've been queuing up all day to have a pop at Mourinho.
Come on you 'Gulls. A point at least.
Albion: Ryan; Montoya, Dunk, Duffy, Bong; Knockaert, Stephens, Propper, March; Gross; Murray
Subs: Button, Bernardo, Balogun, Kayal, Bissouma, Jahabakhsh, Locadia
United: De Gea; Young, Lindelof, Bailly, Shaw; Fred, Pereira, Pogba, Mata; Lukaku, Martial
Subs: Grant, Smalling, Herrera, Fellaini, McTominay, Lingard, Rashford
Brighton 5/1
Man Utd 8/11
Draw 13/5
Preamble by Ben Fisher :
We're in the land of pale sticky candy floss/cotton candy, colourful striped flags, millions of pebbles, a dilapidated broken pier that's stuck some 300 meters out in the sea and now split in two by storms a few years back, red and cream coloured buses, and a special kind of seagull which is notoriously adept at sh*tting on people who aren't seen to be enjoying themselves and smiling : they've been queuing up all day to have a pop at Mourinho.
Come on you 'Gulls. A point at least.
Albion: Ryan; Montoya, Dunk, Duffy, Bong; Knockaert, Stephens, Propper, March; Gross; Murray
Subs: Button, Bernardo, Balogun, Kayal, Bissouma, Jahabakhsh, Locadia
United: De Gea; Young, Lindelof, Bailly, Shaw; Fred, Pereira, Pogba, Mata; Lukaku, Martial
Subs: Grant, Smalling, Herrera, Fellaini, McTominay, Lingard, Rashford
Brighton 5/1
Man Utd 8/11
Draw 13/5
Preamble by Ben Fisher :
This fixture at the back end of last season was indicative of life under José Mourinho at Manchester United. After slipping to a 1-0 defeat, the Portuguese questioned his players’ attitude, a scathing attack on their characters that has since festered this summer.
That culminated in Paul Pogba’s innocent post-match tell-all of very little after an opening-day win over Leicester City, before Mourinho proceeded to wax lyrical about his captain earlier this week. “The truth is we are together for two years and a couple of weeks, and I’ve never been so happy with him as I am now,” he said. “That’s the truth. I cannot demand more from him, I cannot ask more from him.” And iif United win here, as expected, maximum points will surely quieten some of the noise.
Brighton, meanwhile, started the season on a bum-note, with a flat performance at Watford.
That culminated in Paul Pogba’s innocent post-match tell-all of very little after an opening-day win over Leicester City, before Mourinho proceeded to wax lyrical about his captain earlier this week. “The truth is we are together for two years and a couple of weeks, and I’ve never been so happy with him as I am now,” he said. “That’s the truth. I cannot demand more from him, I cannot ask more from him.” And iif United win here, as expected, maximum points will surely quieten some of the noise.
Brighton, meanwhile, started the season on a bum-note, with a flat performance at Watford.
