By Ollie Irish
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Manchester United's Nani (left) and Liverpool's Paul Konchesky battle for the ball
Photos: PA
Hi folks – you well? I'm back after a long weekend away in Cork for a friend's wedding, during
which time I consumed too much Guinness and sneaked into a pub to watch Sunday's big game the
All-Ireland football final, in which Cork overcame a dismal first-half display to roar back and
beat Down by the narrowest of margins.
Hi everyone. To echo the sentiments of my fellow United Offside blogger, Ian, it is indeed a
pleasure to have been selected to write for this site. This post feels a little like the first day
of school where you're asked to introduce yourself. Or it's like a networking event where you wear
those incredibly fashionable stick on nametags like so
I'm Shaun and I've been following United for as long as I can remember.
The Berba, the man who signed for United for £30.75 million and then proceeded to do
not an awful lot, but unless you go and watch a game live, you cannot appreciate what this man does
for the team...
Berba, I despised him in his first season at Man Yoo. His famous languid style and his lack of
goals left me wondering what the shit had happened to that Dracula-looking fella who was banging
them in at Spurs.
The man cannot stop scoring. In what has probably been his biggest test so far this season
individually, he responded with aplomb knocking in 3 goals to help us edge out Liverpool 3-2.
There's always been a knock on Berba for disappearing in the big games. That argument has been put
to bed at least for a couple of days.
Dimitar Berbatov's hat-trick against Liverpool on Sunday, which included an audacious overhead
kick, sealed a crucial win for Manchester United. Moreover, it was the first hat-trick by a United
player in this fixture since Stan Pearson scored three for United in a 5-0 trot past their
ancient rivals on September 11, 1946 in a match played at Man City's Maine Road due to the
wartime damage to Old Trafford.
