CHAMP19NS!

CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND! 19 LEAGUES AND THAT’S A FACT! ARE YOU WATCHING MERSEYSIDE? 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 1919 19 19 19 19 19 19 (In honor of our great mate in London Lawan, 19 times repeating the number 19) … Top of the perch!!

Cheeky banner snuck into Anfield on Sunday - Nice one lads

COME ON! GET IN! Congratulations to all of my Manchester United family! AND  most importantly a huge congratulations to our boys in Red for a tremendous effort all season long. Grinding out results just when we thought we were not going to get anything out of some fixtures (West Ham & Blackpool most notably). Sir Alex Ferguson is one of a kind and we might as well enjoy these Fergie days as much as we can because you just don’t know what awaits us in the future after our Fergie era, but thats another topic altogether.

Our performance vs Blackburn also sets a reminder as to why we still need to strengthen in key areas of our squad. Our performance also sets a reminder that if we are not focused we will be vulnerable. I would like to see Little Pea work on his dribble and passing. After his exceptional first season we only hope to see him get better and become more lethal. Hernandez is but one of those young players with tremendous potential in our side. With all of our stunning success this season it is still inevitable to sign 3 new players and who knows maybe even 4 all depending on how many players leave this summer. Our management must hopefully not feel foolish to overlook and forget that we seriously looked into signing players to further tweak certain departments. Since we can have the entirity of June to talk about squad strengthining in detail we refocus on trophy number 19 and continue embracing the moment and continue building on that momentum. Now that Number 19 is in the bag, our lads must take time to rest, regroup, train harder, get motivated and come out on the 28th May, on English soil and feel that they can matchup against Barcelona. Our lads know they are more than capable, but even Fergie admits he faces a challenge on how to control Barcas creative midfield engine trio of Xavi, Iniesta and Messi.

Manchester United supporters are full of belief come the 28th of May

Until that special night of the 28th comes knocking, MUSC UAE will be present in Harvesters for Sunday night to watch an experimental younger Manchester United side take on Blackpool on Sunday 22nd May as well as celebrating the trophy presentation at Old Trafford. Kick Off time is 7pm UAE time and we are expecting a good turn out for our 19th Trophy ( God I can’t stop saying 19). Since this will be an experimental lineup, I would personally like to see: Amos – Brown – Smalling – Evans – O’shea – Obertan – Pogba – Fletcher – Bebe – Berbatov – Keane. But thats just the lineup I would like to see. Fergie can give second half run outs to Owen, Anderson and Morrison. No matter which lineup comes out on Sunday, one thing is for sure, Sir Alex will ask the squad to honor our exceptional home record for the season. Blackpool will be fighting for their lives, so no easy match for our younger squad. The FA will be delusional to look at our second team as a weakened squad as they have proved themselves in various fixtures and most notably our 2nd leg semi final vs Schalke 04. Anyways it always seems more likely for the FA to keep coming against United rather than support the most succesful club of the country as they also seem set to charge Sir Alex with another Impropper Conduct sentence for complimenting Howard Webb … Sorry say that again? Or as Rooney would say “What? Fucking!! What?”. The FA, always pathetic, no wonder England has not won honors of hosting the World Cup, The FA seems to make more enemies than friends. Forget bribary charges, set your own mess out in the first place.

... That boy Giggsy, he's won it 12 times!

MUSC UAE will issue a new chants page for all of our supporters to log onto and memorize. You can type some lines from these chants to get their tunes off google or youtube. MUSC UAE will also issue a statement via this blog on the rules and regulations to Harvesters for the Champions League final. Keep coming back for more information and dont hesitate get in touch via the information in our about page, we are here for our Manchester United supporters in the UAE.

The MUSC UAE family during the 2009 Champions League Final

Enjoy your Euphoric celebrations and keep them going till Sunday so we can propperly celebrate together on trophy day.

See you soon Reds and remember,

Keep the Red Flag Flying High in Dubai

B E L I E V E

Moe

Come on United

Don’t Lose Faith

It is so easy to burst out and start ranting at our performance against Arsenal. But We shouldn’t. There are now 3 games left. THREE. So to find out people are ranting away on twitter and facebook is disgusting! I am just as frustrated in terms of not beating a dejected Arsenal, but I won’t rant at our players. We didn’t play well. Let us get over it. We are the 12th Man on the pitch (& off of it) and we can make a difference. We have Chelsea on Sunday and I must say I am an absolute nerve wreck! I both hate & love this part of the season. United never do it the easy way, it is a rarity that we do.

 

Wednesday night Manchester United beat Schalke 04 4-1 (6-1 on Aggregate). It was a tremendous victory at Old Trafford considering the lineup Sir Alex has decided to go with. His “Sleepless” lineup made sure we showed and proved to the football world that we do have depth within our squad. It is only a matter of Heart, Focus, Urgency and Consistency for us to go out and earn number 19. Those are  major components which should be at the gut of every United player this part of the season. The Blackburn draw & Chelsea loss of last year still gives me heartaches. We must overcome them this year. On Sunday Fergie would have rested the team he wants to play against Chelsea. Should my lineup prediction go correctly then it will be: Van Der Sar – Fabio – Rio – Vidic – Evra – Valencia – Carrick – Park – Giggs – Rooney – Hernandez. What would my scoreline prediction be? At this part of the season I always get my predictions wrong, I rely on the Boys in Red and I hope Fergie plays his cards right. I hope we play for title number 19 and not for “revenge” as it will bring out nothing from our players. Chelsea came after us for revenge in Europe and did not get the result they were looking for. Howard Webb will ref the match at Old Trafford and I like him because he is a classy unbiased ref. I just hope now we can put all of these non sense ref conspiracies aside, especially on Sunday.

 

Depth in squad

 

Our boys will have that European Cup final qualification as a major boost of morale and hopefully not ego. Wednesday nights performance highlights that on our day we can take on anyone. Barcas brilliant start to the season seems to be increasingly over shadowed with diving /ref hogging conspiracies. I’m not sure what to make of it but Fergie is doing his homework and will hopefully figure out what it is that we need to do out on the pitch to counter Barcas passing game and of course Messi. I dont agree with anyone which says this is about “revenge”, not only because I have already mentioned that revenge gets you nothing, but we have nothing to avenge. If you think about it, in 2009 we have lost fair and square to a brilliant Barcelona side. We have not been wronged or robbed by the Catalans. That down to earth Barcelona side of 2009 was by far the best team on planet earth. United simply did not show up. Ronaldo and the boys clocked in the first ten minutes then dissappeared. We heavily relied on Ronaldo that season after his stunning 42 goal 2008 campaign. When Manchester United walk out to Wembley on the 28th May 2011, we will be the underdogs. We will not have Messi, Pedro, Xavi, Iniesta, Pique & Shakira, Puyol, Alves & Villa. We will come out and play as a team, a collective unit, the same way we have done over and over the past few months.

I truly hope nerves do not kick in. We have nothing to lose, LITERALLY! No one would have thought at the begining of the season that come first week of May we will be top of the league and Champions League Finalists. I quite simply just want our boys to go out, have fun and put in a decent performance. That will do for me. If United just enjoy the moment, we’ll do just fine.

To those who started leaving Old Trafford on Wednesday night by the 85th minute I would like to say that you are all a disgrace and not worthy of your season tickets. You do not have the heart nor dedication to be United supporters. How can you leave your seats on a European Cup Semi Final?? Unfortunately, we might see more of these day trippers next year as The Glazers inconsiderately increase ticket prices again. When you take moments like this for granted is when you will regret them in the future. Our support was good throughout the match, but not great. If we are to beat Chelsea on Sunday we will have to turn Old Trafford into an intimidating atmosphere making Howard Webb and more importantly Chelsea know they are playing on OUR turf.

Support is crucial for United especially on Sunday

Dubai Red Army, gear up, rest well, leave early from work and join us at Harvesters for the 7pm Kick Off of the much anticipated Title decider vs Chelsea on Sunday. Spread the word.

Talk to you soon Reds,

Keep the Red Flag Flying High in Dubai

BELIEVE

Moe

LUHG

One Foot in Wembley

“How did we not score?” Ian asked me last night after a commanding first half. “Manuel Neuer” was my simple response, “we could’ve been 4 or 5 up, but Neuer is amazing”. Cheers for a great lengthy convo Ian, top lad. I hope we belt out choruses of “Fergie sign him up” at Old Trafford. Neuer + a top drawer creative midfielder will do for me in the summer, though Neuer has ruled out a move to the Theater of Dreams, you never know, agents are a funny thing.

In the end it was Shalke 04 0 – Manchester United 2

Super Neuer blocks a one on one with Giggs

Manchester Uniteds performance was simply outstanding! It was as if we were playing at home. We dictated the whole match and attacked. Schalke, fortunately, were no match. When Giggs broke through for that first goal a huge sense of relief broke through because once more Neuer was simply magnificent! Then some 2 minutes later that relief turned to a jubilant mood and Harvesters broke out into OLE’s and Que Sera Sera’s. What an amazing night! The atmosphere was just mint. It was nights like this were we proved why we have the greatest supporters club in the Middle East. Singing throughout the entire match as if we were there with the away supporters at the Vetlins Arena, which make no mistake was rocking regardless of their result. Renditions of  “You are my Solkjaer”, “Take me Home” , “Pride of all Europ” … and endless classic chants rang through the Pub. We were simply buzzing. A vital away win with a superb display.

What? Fucking What? - Rooney lets Metzelder know what he thinks of his tackle

Though it was a great win, it still isn’t over as the Germans have to play us at Old Trafford for the 2nd leg. Our players have also encouragingly highlighted the danger the Germans may still possess coming to Old Trafford keeping images of Schalke beating Inter Milan at the Giuseppe Meazza (AKA The San Siro) 5-2 fresh in their mind. If Fergie plays with this winning European lineup of : (Van Der Sar – Rafael/Fabio – Vidic – Rio – Evra – Valencia – Carrick – Park – Giggs – Rooney – Hernandez) I believe that we can go through to the Champions League Final.  Fergie acknowledges our rise in form believing we are nearing further peak in our performances & I hope we further establish that in all of our remaining fixtures.

Will we be able to beat a Real Madrid or a Barcelona in the Champions League Final? Up to March I would have completely agreed with most critics and said No we won’t cope. But during the past month or so, I have started believing more in our capabilities as a TEAM and on our day we can take on ANYONE! I hope that we emulate Sir Matt Busbys class of 68 and run around Wembley with the European Cup.

Keep on peaking United

Come on United, let’s go on an unbeaten run till the end of the season.

Thanks to all who showed up last night. If you know any Manchester United supporters in Dubai or even the UAE you must spread the word around. We aim for a bigger United community/family. See you on Sunday and Wednesday!

Talk to you soon Red Army

Keep the Red Flag Flying High in Dubai

Moe

Believe