presido1:

thx brother, when you have the likes of Ronaldo,Ronny,Tevez and Giggs, even if they are not playing well its still difficult to jeep them quite for the whole 90 minutes. Owen is doing his job well at the moment hope he stays out of injury. Anderson did well for the few minutes he was on the pitch. Bring them on(London Clubs) we can finish them before we get to wembley.

anderson is a great potential. he is having a great season with man utd and it will be interesting to see how ferguson plays four brilliant central midfielders. anderson and owen gets my vote but u cannot under-estimate the brilliance of carrick. scholes is a grand-master and his experiennce will count against big teams. ro-te-ro are the best(48 goals between them this season). who can stop ferguson's team. bring on arsenal.

@ presido1,
actually, the scores was 3-1 to man utd. the lads didn't really hit the top gear we have known them for but they got the job done. i think owen hargreaves had a brilliant game. i couldn't count the number of crunchy tackles he won. that boy, ronaldo----25 goals already with 4 months to go.
tottenham played extremely well but the quality of ro-te-ro cannot be kept quiet for 90 mins. it was a good cup tie. i hope we meet arsenal in the next round.

chelsea scares me o. they just seem to grind teams down without their big players. avram grant has the same % win as jose mourinho in his 1st 29 games. how is that for a stat? wright-phillips was lucky to have scored that goal. what was he thinking? he had the goal in front of him and he couldn't find a space to tuck the ball.

i think i need to pay someone to get mcomo and dayokanu off my back. what is all this about? cougar this cougar that. when will u stop this conspiracy theory that seems to be getting u nowhere. i dont understand this. if jackal told u he is cougar then let jackal come here and say it to my face. i am tired of this cougar is jackal tales. its getting monotonous.

@ dayokanu and ruudie,
keep postulating fake theories/laws. i dont even know why i am arguing this with u. it will take the most famous religious leader to change your land-locked minds. enough said!

@ debosky,
kolo toure has suffered a knee ligament damage. for the first time in history of his career, toure was stretchered out today. this injury rules toure out for the rest of the season. what effect will it have on gunner's title challenge?

@ i-man,
you are confuzzled. this conspiracy theory must be paying dividends in your pockets. cougar is jackal, cougar is reyes4ever, jackal is hyena.
where u got this from worries me. my 2 cents: why not prove why you think cougar is jackal instead of presumptions/assumptions. how many nuhu ribadu/kiefer sutherland(24) do we have on the sports section. what else? cougar is debosky?

@ wormedup,
this is becoming embarrassing? if cougar isn't jackal, if jackal isn't cougar, is this not boring? mc omo lied he was in contact with me on yim when it is so obvious we have never met outside this forum. are u going to say we met on yim too? all of a sudden everyone is trying to play a csi agent. what are u guys? sherlock holmes or nuhu ribadu?

@ cooljoe,
good job! your formation is the best i have seen here today. a team looking for victory cannot play 4-1-3-2 or 4-2-3-1. those are too defensive for me.
i say put odemwingie/utaka on the flanks and let them cut in and support the 2 strikers up front if need be.
excuse me, are u a man utd fan?

@ mc omo,
u must be hallucinating. me and u on yim? what pleasure do u derive from lying? stop peddling false stories about me. it irritates me. i have never ever been in contact with u outside nairaland. are u this dramatic?

@ mc omo,
my only question to u is why u love propagating false stories. i have told u times without number that jackal and cougar are not the same. jackal is jackal, cougar is cougar. this foggy condition will soon become clear to u.

@ topic,
who knows if scholes would feature against tottenham on sunday?

@ i-man,
it is horrific. what ade did was appaling. it's an image assault and affray. kids are scared to watch arsenal play now. my six-year-old nephew is scared to see any team in red and white. with the way steam was streaming out of adebayor, he looked like an angry asian dragon. met. police should take a legal action and co19 should be involved in this act of racism/terrorism acts. two black men(togolese) were stabbed in denmark after the incident.
@ hnic,
you need to go to specsavers. rio and vds will never attack each other in a man utd shirt. rio was only urging the dutch wizard to step up his game. it is different from what happened between bendtner and ade. howard webb had to intervene. what a calamity!

@ i-man,
on the streets of uk with cctv footages as evidence, ade will be looking at five years in a jail cell. he will be looking at gbh with the intent to murder(section 18). bendtner might have suffered internal bleeding leading to a massive brain damage. ade should be deported.

five game ban is a light punishment. adebayor should be slammed for eight months for bringing the game to disrepute. young kids look at these games and they see what their supposed "role models" are doing and they follow suit. adebayor can score thirty goals this season if he shuns petty violence and aggression and channels 60% of his testosterone-filled energy into goal scoring.

@ loyika,
angolans don't roll like nigerians.

@ debosky,
i have seen manucho in three games now. i saw him score in a pre-nations cup game in lisbon and i saw some sneak previews of him at carrington on mutv scoring goals in training practise. ferguson saw this guy for one week and handed him a three-year contract. this is no dong fangzhou. united will not sell shirts in angola.

on the night with the same circumstance, kaka would have also looked ordinary playing in an angolan shirt. manucho's team mates were just too poor to be playing football. imagine giggs, ronaldo and anderson threading passes to manucho last night. manucho can be the next andy cole.

i can only describe manucho as zlatan ibrahimovic in black skin. hell of a player plus he is agile. scored a great header last night and he helps in the defence as well.

@ a-40,
it seems you are jealous of man utd's strength in depth. when a manager spends sixty odd million on a team crowned champions 8 months ago then u shouldn't expect less. football fans all over the world are still wondering how sir alex was quicker than arsene wenger to build a league winning team. while arsenal shipped five goals in a single match, united is yet to concede a single goal in all competitions this year.

valid point! as long as man utd do not rely on saha to deliver the holy grail then we are good to go. the combination of rooney, el-apache and ronaldo will score against any defence in the world.

@ eldee,
i really admire your courage putting ur money on arsenal. arsenal is 12-5 to win, man utd is 4-7 to clinch it. what does that tell u? let me make it more intriguing. do u know chelsea and man utd will finish above arsenal by may?
@ nateevs/loyika,
can u guys put a stop to this? lets discuss football and skip the ifs, why, when, how, therefore, wherefore, henceforth and thus. this is no english class.

@ tkb417,
manucho is the dealie. he is mobile and will pose an aerial threat for premiership defenders. i think saha's days are numbered now.

@ loyika,
what do i need to do to clear this air of doubt? i may have to beat these doubts out of you, i guess. moving on, i mean ready made excuses for failure. no matter what arsene puts out to play, fans and pundits always regard them as kids. if it's not age issues then its money. how many times have i heard gunners saying man utd/chelsea bought the titles. how many times have wenger said his boys are naive and are still maturing and fans should keep their chins up. it is always one excuse or another and lets face it, wenger cannot win anything with these lads. he needs 3-5 world class experienced players to put the icing on the cake.

@ loyika,
get this straight: cougar is not jackal.
besides, i think arsenal is lucky most of your players are not hi-profiled. imagine if this had happened in a united game with ronaldo nutting rooney!
i know the media would have turned the incident into a circus. arsenal gets away with murder. cesc's double-barelled tackle still lingers on my mind. arsene wenger's project is finished already. the mistake he makes is not blooding the core of his youth squad with enough experienced players. money is no issue these days so why is he shying away from buying world class midfielder and maybe a striker. are we sure wenger is not using this youth policy to carve out a ready made excuse?

Jids:

Cougar, you must be out of your mind to talk about Mr Wengar just like that. This guy deserve all respect that is available. He is the most educated and talented manager recently in the world.
Please withdraw that statement and apologise to all niralanders

and yet another cyber-gangster wannabe!

@ loyika,
true. roy keane never liked cristiano ronaldo. he believes ronaldo can be frustrating at times but that animosity should be kept in the dressing room and not under the gaze of 40,000 tottenham fans. ade/bendtner should be fined by wenger for bringing the club to disrespute. end of. theo walcott should be sent back to southampton for the rest of the season. i will gladly give u saha. he is a waste of black flesh.

@ razorr,
great piece of write-up. like someone said somewhere on this forum, arsenal only have talent in depth not strength in depth. man utd spent 60 million on a squad that were already crowned champions, chelsea have a second team that could grace any pitch and have a chance of winning. the chelsea team that played yesterday had nine quality players missing and they still won. that is strength in depth and this is where wenger should improve his squad if he wants to win anything this season.

@ loyika,
great write-up. arsenal itself is the cause of this ruckus. it is known world-wide that arsenal have an irritating way of over-estimating it's team potentials. this youth policy is not working for arsenal. lets look back to when arsene wenger started bringing in youths to arsenal: he has not won anything with them unless u want to count the amsterdam/emirates cup. he should blood this team with 3-4 experienced players and carry on with it. there's strength in the core of that team so is naiveity. if something is not done quickly, arsenal might finish trophyless this season again. the chances seem to be fading away. when arsenal lost 6-1 to man utd, i did not see henry nutting ljunberg or vice versa. this is what u get when u play too many teenagers. adebayor must be punished.
p.s. heard through the grapevine that walcott is going out on loan to burnley. can u confirm that?

@ nateevs,
that was a professional performance at full tilt. you thoroughly deserved this victory. why do u guys slate avram grant? i think he is meticulously brilliant.
@ i-man,
where is jackal?

@ nateevs,
how many regular team members are absent here today? terry, ashley cole, ferreira, essien, lampard, ballack and drogba are all out. talking about teams that play their 2nd team. chelsea does it more than arsenal.

@ nateevs,
chelsea scares me. the pass from malouda($30 million). joe cole's first touch($40 million). joe cole's volley(priceless).

@ hnic,
interesting comment. so who is to blame? do we blame arsene wenger for keeping faith with his kids or blame bendtner for scoring an own goal?

@ tkb417,
i am watchin senegal/tunisia game and its so lively. berti vogts needs to take a mental note now and ensure mobility in nigeria's next game. i cannot wait to see manucho play for angola. i want to know what prompted carlos quieroz to buy the tall striker. ferguson will have himself to blame if any of united's front two gets injured. i can always count on el apache. i cannot say the same about rooney. ferguson must get one striker on loan at least.

@ hnic,

dont be gutted, mate! lets be honest, spurs deserved the victory. the only time they have played badly against arsenal was when martin jol was their gaffer. in the league game at the emirates, they outplayed arsenal and were unfortunate to lose on the day. tottenham are not too far behind and they play some breath-taking football. berbatov is sheer class. his involvement/contribution in the sixty odd minutes he played was more effective than anyone else. keep your chin up.