Glorious

Diablo

What is this? Labour celebrating a by-election win in C&N after a one vote margin?

Oh no, it's a lot of low paid workers in ecstasy about the one-off payment of £3 a week that Sir Alex Ferguson has awarded them following their trouncing of the Blues in Moscow.

Go Labour!

Travis Bickle

Glorious indeed. Penalty taker slips and you scrape through.

Well done.

ps Is this not a politics blog, rather than MUFC fanzone?

Paul B

Congratulations Man U, good game, see you next year in Rome

MartSharm

Give over with the Man U fanboyism. It's not dignified. There's plenty of other forums for football. Can we please stick to politics.

idle

As a Chelsea fan since 1967, I think I came of age last night. I enjoyed a cracking match which ended in the lottery of penalties. My team lost, but I just don't care the way I used to. I can handle this.

Agreed, MartSharm. This site should not include football, unless it leads to armed conflict, as in Latin America.

Trumpeter Lanfried

Football is the most boring activity ever invented by mankind since the world began. You would have to pay me £1m to watch a football match. I prefer to watch paint dry.

And the people! My dear, the people!

Tony Makara

As a Liverpool fan I enjoyed the game as a spectacle. However when Chelsea hit the bar, hit the post, have a man sent off and then have a player slip and hit the post in the shoot-out. It reaffirms what every football fan knows already, that the team that has Satan on its club badge has the luck of the devil!

Frank Pulley

Oi! You crabbie political obessives, why click into this thread if you don't like soccer - the topic was hardly disguised. The blog's moniker is the Coffee House, which implies a variety of conversation, not just polemical political piffle. A little light relief is no bad thing and you'd have to have a heart of stone not to enjoy watching a grown man who pulls at least £5m a year crying his eyes out like a primary school wannabe because he just missed a penalty kick, having slipped on an inferior Moscau pitch. Even more satisfying when you know that the most pissed-off man in the stadium is a Russian oligarch in front of his home crowd, throwing a wobbly because his favourite expensive toy just developed a glitch. To enjoy politics you must be able to appreciate the ironies of existing on this mortal coil. Bwaaahahahaha! As for you Mr Ferguson if you happen to be reading this, you have the luck of Paddy O'Reilly, and I'll bet there are a few of those among the shareholders of ManU.

ingeborg

Get this s*** off here, you arrogant idiot. I bet you've never been near Old Trafford in your pathetic little life.

Ethan Hurlington

There are many likenesses between the Reds of football and politics.

Both have supporters who think it's their God given right to win everything/be in power, and because of this arrogance, they are disliked by everyone else.

Both are fans of big over-inflated squads/government, and feel that if you throw enough money at a problem it will solve things.

Both are propped up by debt.

Both have Scottish leaders, who are surely nearing their sell by dates, and aren't immune to throwing things when they get angry!

...everyone knows the reason United won last night was that Avram Grant made the monumental mistake of stopping by for tea at Jonah Browns last week...

More importantly...hopefully the blue team will win tonight!

AlanofEngland

You really ought to look at the image of the UK game. Petulant players in the face of the referee at EVERY decision, Ferguson chasing the referee at half-time, in his face when he came out of the tunnel. Three mob events and players running the length of the field to take part. How unedifying. I thought I was watching a rugby match, so many players used their hands, have the rules changed?

RedSteve

Well done Peter, what a night!

Ingeborg - Not everyone has been in Parliament but we're all entitled to be involved in Politics!

Ian C

I didn't think the removal of the 10p tax band would be so popular with a bunch of footballers..!b O r are they cheering for the by-election today? Funny lot.

dave, surrey

my neighbour's big on football, shouts a lot when there's a big game on, wears some kind of hideous blue tee-shirt and so on.. I usually show my displeasure by mowing the lawn but my missus told me off last night since it was late and the nippers were in bed.

the romans had bread and circuses, we have fast food and football.