it seems almost impossible for united to win against chelsea this weekend...at stamford bridge(almost impossible to beat at home), rio's out by injury, and vidic, i believe, is suspended. a weak back line means chelsea looks to feast on united's soft centre, sky sports says...

if united wants to remain successful, i think this might sound daft but, they have to find a replacement for rio ferdinand. he's lost a step in his pace...seems to be hurt more often now, and you cant have your star defender hurt especially when your other center back is aggressive as vidic is..you need a guy consistently playing and performing well back there, and rio hasnt done that this season. rumors say that rio is linked to barcelona, so my opinion would be to sell rio to barca and buy another player, or rather swap for pique..he's been outstanding this year and holding off puyol from his common center spot...in other words

on to champions league. caught the real madrid/ac milan game today and it was a crime!!! there was no way pato was offside..nor was it a hand ball...thats the only reasonable explanation, but it looked like pato chested it down and hit metzelder's head...knocking it on for pato...world class finish but called off...disgusted by that call...

and philipa is right..you cant call united to advance just yet...theyve yet to play @wolfsburg for their away tie...that game shouldnt prove much about how far they go...they should still win. every german club in the tournament has struggled except schalke, already advancing i believe, so win away from home, then it should be cake for united...arsenal just needs 1 point in two games to advance, in which we can pull off very easily.

oh?? and how did you end up supporting chelsea again, philipa?...lol...