For the Love of the Club

We’ve slipped from first place with a comfortable lead to now chasing Manure.
We’ve drawn far too many matches.
We’ve sold Keano without a replacement.
We’ve offloaded Pennant without a replacement.
We’ve been knocked out of the cup by Everton this morning.
We’re probably gonna lose Stevie G

It’s no wonder the fans have been so miserable of late!

To put things back in perspective, here are some FACTS:

Rafa has improved our team every single year.

He has bridged the gap between the top clubs to now being in 2nd place within 2-3-or-5 points of UTD - ‘the Kings of Europe’, who else can boast 4 of the premiership’s (perhaps even the world’s?) best strikers in Tevez, Berbatov, Ronaldo and Rooney.

Prior to this year our season has always been over by February. Our results against the top teams haven’t been this good for a very long time.

The league table doesn’t lie, and it suggests Rafa is leading us to solid improvement, that we’re catching up to our rivals. We are truly and deeply involved in the title race that we all wished to be in way back in August.

This year, we sit in second, above Chelsea who we have done the double on for the first time in 20 years, and very close to the leaders.

We are definitely in the middle of a title race.

Now is the time to get back behind our teams and start asking for our Gaffer to deliver the 1 thing we all asked for in September and August - A title challenge.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be frustrated. That’s natural when you lose to our poorer cousins in the cup (Sorry Wilfred), or draw 7 matches in 10 matches. I’m just saying that despite all that, we are still fighting for the league, and now isn’t the time to lose faith.