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**randy420** · 01-18-2008, 07:23 AM

Only three huh? Damn you funky, you dirty dirty man!

ok, here's my go at it.

1. Edwin van der Sar: While we were still able to win while he was out, we seemed to lack a lot of goals when PIG was our starting keeper. Eddy just brings confidence and experience to the back 4. Yes he is prone to making a few mistakes (end of last season) but for the most part those are few and far between. When he is in goal the back 4 seems even more solid and for me personally he makes me feel much more confident of our chances at keeping clean sheets and picking up the victory.

2. Rio Ferdinand: This is pretty self explanatory really. The majority of England fans slate him for being to overconfident and lazy with his play, and as such they don't rate him as top defender. But all you have to do is watch United when he plays and you can see the class just ooze out of him. Sometimes he makes stupid, stupid mistakes (away to Pompey last season) but those seem to be few and far between, and all the times between those when he is the rock at the back makes you easily forget about those. He may be very casual on the ball, and while he is defending sometimes, but you almost always know that he is going to come out on the winning side of the challenge. He's clearly not the rough and tumble defender who gets stuck in and throws himself about all the time, but he still gets the job better than the major majority of other defenders. Plus it's always a treat when we play teams that just sit back, allow us to press them, and watching Rio go on those runs from defence all the way through to the attack to try and create.

3. Paul Scholes: Even in his advancing years, Scholesy is still an amazing player. Many players and managers have said that Scholes is probably the best player of his generation, which is quite the compliment considering the other players during the time (Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, Keano). Scholesy possesses one of the best footballing brains there is, his passing is absolutely sublime and his vision is second to none. He just seems to know what the players around him are going to, and the runs they are going to make and he just seems to have a knack for putting the ball right into their path, at just the point that it should go. I've said all this without mentioning how much of a goal threat he is either. He is absolutely deadly from the edge of the box, or just outside the box, rocketing shots towards goal. I've had the belief, and this has been echoed by a large amount of other parts of the United supporting world, that when Scholes is on his game, that United are on their game, and when he's having an off day, that United seem to have a bit of an off day too.

01-18-2008, 07:23 AM	#2 (permalink)
randy420 Status: Not-so-Super mod Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: in funkys sisters bed Posts: 566 Club Team: Manchester United Players: All current United players vCash: 12433 Thanks: 8 Thanked 72 Times in 37 Posts	Only three huh? Damn you funky, you dirty dirty man! ok, here's my go at it. 1. Edwin van der Sar: While we were still able to win while he was out, we seemed to lack a lot of goals when PIG was our starting keeper. Eddy just brings confidence and experience to the back 4. Yes he is prone to making a few mistakes (end of last season) but for the most part those are few and far between. When he is in goal the back 4 seems even more solid and for me personally he makes me feel much more confident of our chances at keeping clean sheets and picking up the victory. 2. Rio Ferdinand: This is pretty self explanatory really. The majority of England fans slate him for being to overconfident and lazy with his play, and as such they don't rate him as top defender. But all you have to do is watch United when he plays and you can see the class just ooze out of him. Sometimes he makes stupid, stupid mistakes (away to Pompey last season) but those seem to be few and far between, and all the times between those when he is the rock at the back makes you easily forget about those. He may be very casual on the ball, and while he is defending sometimes, but you almost always know that he is going to come out on the winning side of the challenge. He's clearly not the rough and tumble defender who gets stuck in and throws himself about all the time, but he still gets the job better than the major majority of other defenders. Plus it's always a treat when we play teams that just sit back, allow us to press them, and watching Rio go on those runs from defence all the way through to the attack to try and create. 3. Paul Scholes: Even in his advancing years, Scholesy is still an amazing player. Many players and managers have said that Scholes is probably the best player of his generation, which is quite the compliment considering the other players during the time (Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, Keano). Scholesy possesses one of the best footballing brains there is, his passing is absolutely sublime and his vision is second to none. He just seems to know what the players around him are going to, and the runs they are going to make and he just seems to have a knack for putting the ball right into their path, at just the point that it should go. I've said all this without mentioning how much of a goal threat he is either. He is absolutely deadly from the edge of the box, or just outside the box, rocketing shots towards goal. I've had the belief, and this has been echoed by a large amount of other parts of the United supporting world, that when Scholes is on his game, that United are on their game, and when he's having an off day, that United seem to have a bit of an off day too.