Devils of Heath

Manchester United are a badly run football club, after all they signed a 35 years old who has scored only 13 goals this season, they overpaid to sign the best young midfielder in the world, they made the Armenian wizard rot on the bench till he developed physically and they signed an unknown defender who defends well but is overpriced and will leave for the African cup of nation. They have a manager who is very aggressive and demanding, he only wants to win and doesn’t care about referee’s and player’s feelings. Good managers are those who caress their player’s ego even if they end a season trophyless. Look at Jurgen with that brotherly love for his senseless defenders, they will be the critic’s favorite for everything. Or look at Pep, he is the Cruyff incarnate, here to teach the world how football is played – formationless, positionless even if it is mostly clueless. As per the Einsteins, Pep will turn Stones into Beckenbauer, Bravo into a Maradona. Jose is such a fool that he is o...

At long last, the news all us United fans have been desperately waiting for is here – Jose Mourinho is a Manchester United Manager. The news has been teased about since the end of last year and at times it reached a point where we wondered if it would ever happen.  The last six 6 days have been a whirlwind for all connected with club, from the euphoria of winning the FA cup after over a decade to the much awaited end of the LVG era and now to the arrival of our very own “Special One”. We have been glued to our smartphones since the story broke on Saturday - awaiting confirmation from the club. (While, rival fans have been irritated at the focused global coverage the whole story has received. Guess, this should remind them we are and always will be the biggest club in the world!) Any United fan who has witnessed the LVG era was in need of therapy and that has come in the form of Jose Mourinho. Big clubs are built by big names and they don’t come any bigger than Mourinho...

It pains me no end to write to a critical piece on my beloved club. I became a fan of Manchester United the very first time I watched them about 2 decades ago, I remember we lost the game. But there was something about this team that made me want to watch their next game and every other game since. No one had told me about the club before that, but the love affair with this football club just happened. As fans we are in a lifelong relationship with our beloved club, so when we see that club stagnating we must raise our concerns. Being silent when wrong things are happening to something you care about is just plain cowardice. This is the 21 st century, we are in dynamic times, demanding change, demanding success is not wrong, it is called being ambitious. This is exactly what Manchester United must go back to being. Accepting a season of bizarre football, a 5 th place finish and a FA cup final appearance is simply not on.  Manchester United should never be a club w...

There is a seminal moment in the latest season of House of Cards – this is when the Underwood couple realize their greatest strength is that they are something “Beyond Marriage”. In so many ways the Manchester United – Liverpool rivalry is “Beyond Football”. Yes, the rivalry may have its roots in the economic battles between the two cities in the late 19 th century – which transcended to the football pitch. But in many ways this rivalry defies modern football logic. These games nowadays don’t see potential Ballon d’Or winners pitted against one another, nor are they about a fight to become English and European champions. Yet, every time this fixture approaches – it has the feel of the biggest game in football. Throughout the history of these two clubs, their periods of success have rarely coincided with one another. There are only a handful of instances in the past century when both these clubs have been competing for the big trophies in the same season. Yet the rivalry is so ...