tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4830595389151104350.post-72944856988273330672007-08-20T01:11:00.001+01:002007-08-20T02:24:08.768+01:00<span xmlns=""><p><strong>THE FOOTBALLING PUBLIC </strong>demands a crisis. It's been over a week now and even Spurs have got a win, so no managerial beheadings, nor looting of the board rooms. Damn it. But what's this? Manchester United with no wins in three games? I smell blood.<br/></p><p>And the smell of blood is what the United forwards filled their nostrils with for <a href="http://goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=387459">90 minutes at Eastlands</a>, they still got nothing though.<br/></p><p>Pundits fell over themselves on Sunday afternoon television to declare them the 'new Arsenal': lots of pretty passing with gloriously technical players, not a single player to stab home a two yard wondergoal.<br/></p><p>Ferguson bought well during the summer and Manchester United now have arguably the best midfield the Premiership has seen since the Beckham, Keane, Scholes, Giggs combination, only with extended depth.<br/></p><p>Just ahead, the likes of Rooney and Tevez will create goals a plenty and weigh in with a few too. Yet, despite probably being the weakest member of the first choice XI, Louis Saha is the man that makes it all click.<br/></p><p>He can be the fox in the box, although not in the same league as <a href="http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=15858">Ruud van Nistelrooy</a> or <a href="http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=8718">Ian Wright</a> in their heyday, Saha is the foil for the likes of Rooney and Tevez.<br/></p><p>As it stands, United have not won in three and trail an ominously efficient Chelsea by five points. Last season, the Old Trafford boys would have won games like Sunday's against City, a goal would have gone in somewhere and that would be two extra points made. At the end of the season, that is what really separates the top two.<br/></p><p><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article2268211.ece">Chelsea bludgeoned a win against Reading during the week</a>, thanks to a moment of inspiration from Drogba. Wins like this are every bit as responsible for winning the league as big wins against your rivals.<br/></p><p>Providing the ailing American economy hasn't crippled the Old Trafford coffers, Fergie needs to splash out one more time on a goal poacher.<br/></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4830595389151104350-7294485698827333067?l=thesplog.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ade O'Connornoreply@blogger.com0