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Quick thought,

Does anybody believe that history is repeating itself?

Fergie nearly getting the sack in 91, only of the FA cup 'v' Palace saving him.

Fergie spent =his initial years sorting out United defensively, making them hard to beat, then turning them into a hard to beat / great attacking force.

Van Gal is now in the pre 91 year development phase, and if they win the FA cup, it could launch a new era of young United stars

BTW, My father and uncles were United fans, I'm Arsenal, and my son Liverpool, so no angle with this post, just interested in what's happening

There are a few coincidences but that's about it.

Fergie from 90-92 bought Schmeichel, Irwin, Kanchelskis & Cantona from a combined £3m. LVG isn't going to replicate that.

Delighted to win but there disappointed with the 2nd half performance and the lack of tactical change in from LVG, Everton were well on top and all he does is change one of the fullbacks.

We should have finished off Everton in the first 55 minutes and as usual we didn't, the midfield 3 worked in the first half but we were crying out for a change from about 55 minutes; Rooney, Fellaini & Carrick began to tire as the game became stretched and we didn't have the legs in midfield to cope. Several times Fellaini & Rooney were bypassed in the middle and only for Carrick we would have been in trouble a lot more.

Overall we just about deserved to win as we controlled a lot more of the game than Everton although 4-3 would probably have been the right result. Lingard needs to start taking his chances, he's missed so many great chances in recent weeks mainly in both cup games. Martial as usual was superb.

The Rooney bashing has gone beyond a joke on this forum, I'd comfortably play him before either Mata or Lingard despite his obvious shortcomings..

Recent form points to a comfortable United win tomorrow but as a man once said footballs a funny old game and maybe a cup semi-final with little expectation on their shoulders is just what Everton need, like Wigan a couple of years back.

Mata & Lingard aren't good enough either to start in a good United team, Lingard is a squad player and thats possibly still a debate.

An 18 year old Rashford offers more as a centre forward than Rooney who is one of the best paid players in the world. Rooney hasn't had a great game against top oppositions since the 11/12 season.

Huge game tomorrow, winning trophies is a habit and all the great teams under Fergie began a period of success winning the league cup or FA Cup.

Rashford will start so I'm expecting to see our useless scouser in midfield, I'd rather Fellaini play instead of him although LVG will probably fully depress me by playing the pair of them.

Its important to start well as Everton are lacking confidence but knowing this United team we'll allow Everton to grow into the game.

Did he not still say we for man united when on bt sport??

You're welcome to him.

Not me, but I do know there were some games in Wembley back in the day as well. Must have been 13 a side I suppose.

Think there were games at Wembley every year for about 15 years going back to the 60's and 70's. I'm sure there was 100,000 there in one of those years.

Anyone else see Galway play Mayo at Elland Rd about 25 year ago?

How many dual players missed out for Tipp?

An easy win tonight, we should have scored a lot more goals but still not great to watch. Our crossing is appalling, it doesn't matter which player it is the crossing is just dreadful although the chances of picking out a player are slim considering there never seems to be more than one player in the box.

It looks like Rashford will start upfront on Saturday so he'll probably play Rooney further back as he doesn't have the balls to drop him.

Good year for the u21's, Warren Joyce has done a great job although the standard of the u21's is very average. Ro-Shaun Williams who's played in every game I think since October is still available for the youth team next season. The journo's who were slating United at youth level have all gone quiet.

I can still City & Arsenal dropping points in other games before they play each other, both teams aren't playing well and City's improvement in form is exaggerated; The performances against PSG & Chelsea weren't that good, both opponents were terrible; They were poor last night and if they were beaten they'd have no complaints and were lucky to beat West Brom who should have had a nailed on pen when the game was 1-1. Luck has gone City's way in the last 3 league games with offside goal last night and Zabaleta should have been sent off last night.

Even 4 wins and a draw might be good enough for 4th spot but I still don't see that happening, we'll probably take 10 points from our remaining 15 which won't be good enough.

What do we make of this alleged/paper talk/pie in the sky about Sheikh Mansoud's half brother taking over LFC for £700m. Part of me would be very suspicious about the club heading down that route, but is it *really* much different than Henry owing it? And if he pumped in the guts of a billion quid on players and wages, would we care, if it meant a League title coming back to Anfield?

Which paper was that in?

Mitchels are in good shape for a team who was playing their first game of the season although they probably won't score 2 softer goals all year.

Are Celtic debt free?

Is Arsenals problem not that they don't have the money but that Wenger won't spend it?  Do they not have over 100m cash in the bank ?

Think its nearer to £200m but FFP does restrict them going out on spending it all at once. I do think their probably waiting for when Wenger moves on and giving the next manager that money.