Man Utd Thread:

[Redgreenery]

No i don't what exactly is PPMate??

[Square Ball]

3-3 now.

go here http://d.www.ppmate.com/files/setup.exe and download, when done on the search type in goal, click on goal 1 and wait of a wee min, and bobs your uncle

[An Fear Rua]

4-2 on the night 4-3 on agg to Utd...

[Square Ball]

5 mins left, great match, anyone watching it on the net as opposed to MUTV

[Redgreenery]

Sounds like they really have turned the game around! Well done!

[Redgreenery]

Downloading the PPMate now! Thanks Squareball!

[ONeill]

Congratulations. Finally, a victory over the Arse this season!

[An Fear Rua]

PPMATE eats a lot of memory, Id recommedn SopCast as its not as greedy.

have allok here
http://www.myp2p.eu/Matches/Match1.htm

great links to games, and other software- Sopcast, ppstream, TVU etc

[Square Ball]

I have PPmate, sopcast aand TVants but never used sopcast, did they show that match as well?

[An Fear Rua]

nope, not tonight, the channels available vary, I use sopcast as first pref when I can, Tv ants second

[Redgreenery]

Thanks for the info lads! Will look into them.

Great for Utd to have turned around the game and Congrats to them aswell!

[Redgreenery]

From Unison:

Wily Ferguson just too streetwise to fall for Italian mindgames
Tuesday April 3rd 2007



HAVING been told for the umpteenth time that Brazilian forward Ronaldo would fail to overcome injury in order to make Inter Milan's starting line-up for a Champions League quarter-final against Manchester United in 1999, Alex Ferguson replied dismissively: "When an Italian says it's pasta, I check under the sauce to make sure."

With almost 150 Champions League games behind him as United manager, Ferguson is too street-wise to fall foul of the golden rule which states that one should always prepare for the unexpected in Europe and his caution proved a wise move eight years ago with Ronaldo, unsurprisingly, making a Lazarus-like recovery to face United after all.

A similarly wary Ferguson flies out to Rome today with his United players preparing to tackle AS Roma in the first-leg of their quarter-final tie in the Stadio Olimpico tomorrow night.

Luciano Spalletti's giallorossi may lack the pedigree of Juventus, AC Milan or Inter, but the club who reached the European Cup final in 1984 were good enough to eliminate Gerard Houllier's strongly fancied Lyon side in the last round and, in Francesco Totti, they possess a player with talismanic qualities to equal those of United's young pretenders, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The 30-year-old, fresh from helping Italy to World Cup glory last summer, has scored 18 goals in 28 Serie A games this season and has a ratio of a goal every other game in the Champions League. Whatever Roma create, Totti is usually the instigator, and Ferguson does not need to "check under the sauce" to confirm his belief that the playmaker is the biggest threat to United's hopes of progression.

"Totti is the architect of everything they do and we have to decide how best to deal with him," Ferguson said, "but we are not underestimating our task because it'll be a difficult one and it's probably the toughest of all the quarter-final ties. It's a game where we'll have to be right tactically because if we're not, we're in trouble. The issue is what we do with our centre-backs and whether we push one on to Totti. But we cannot let him control the game. It's a little bit of a tricky one and we have to resolve it as best we can.

"The tie requires two good performances, though. There is no question about that. We have a lot of respect for Roma. They beat Lyon, who I regarded as one of the favourites, in the last round and didn't lose a goal. So that kind of result and performance speaks volumes for their quality."

Although Roma lie second in Serie A, the gap of 20 points between themselves and leaders Inter suggests that their position, rather than highlight their strength, betrays the distorted state of Italian football in the wake of last summer's match-fixing scandal which resulted in relegation for Juventus and substantial points deductions for AC Milan and Fiorentina and a lesser three-point penalty for Lazio.

Roma consider themselves underdogs and United's emphatic home victory over Blackburn at the weekend certainly made its mark on Daniele Baldini, the Roma technical director who was dispatched to Old Trafford on a spying mission by Spalletti.

"We know that we have to win in Italy because it will be very difficult in the second game in Manchester," Baldini said.

"It is simple for us. We have to take a lead to Manchester. We also know that Cristiano Ronaldo is the one player we have to stop if we are to win. He is one of the best players in the world at the moment, if not the best."

United travel to Rome hampered by defensive problems with injured captain Gary Neville joined on the sidelines by centre-back Nemanja Vidic, who broke his collarbone in the Blackburn game. But Wes Brown, who will now partner Rio Ferdinand in central defence, remains confident. "Roma will be difficult to beat, that's the nature of the Italian teams," Brown said, "but given the form we're in, we feel we can win the match and the fact the first game is away gives us a slight advantage." (© Daily Telegraph, London)

[ONeill]

"When an Italian says it's pasta, I check under the sauce to make sure."

A racist slur.

[Uladh]

UNITED KIDS BEAT YOUNG GUNNERS
Posted 03/04/07 09:09EmailPrintSave



Manchester United will face holders Liverpool in the FA Youth Cup final after beating Arsenal on Monday night.

With the young Gunners leading 1-0 from the semi-final first leg at Emirates Stadium on March 14, the United youngsters looked out at 2-0 down on aggregate but fought back to make it 2-1 on the night at Old Trafford and force extra-time.

The two teams traded goals, but United claimed a winner deep into extra time through 16-year-old Danny Welbeck.

After a goalless first period, Steve Bould's Arsenal side took just a couple of minutes of the second half to seemingly seal their place in the final.

The ball broke to Rene Steer on the left who fired across goal to the far post from where the ball was knocked back in for 17-year-old Kieran Gibbs - scorer of the only goal in the first leg - to tap home.

Chris Fagan gave United hope when he tapped home after a free-kick scramble in the 73rd minute and Antonio Bryan ensured extra time when he slammed home three minutes into injury time.

Substitute Rhys Murphy clipped home in the last minute of the first extra period to restore the Gunners' lead but again United replied through Febian Brandy (108) and Welbeck (114).

United are due to be away to Liverpool in the final first leg on Monday April 16, with the return leg three days later.

[Goats Do Shave]

From BBC.

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has sprung a surprise by including Louis Saha and Darren Fletcher in his squad to face Roma.

The pair have been out for five weeks with hamstring and ankle injuries respectively and were expected to play for the reserves on Thursday.

However, they have both travelled to Italy for the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final.

Park Ji-Sung has been left behind because of an unspecified injury.

Defenders Gary Neville, Patrice Evra, Mikael Silvestre and Nemanja Vidic are all out of the tie, while Roma will be without midfielder David Pizarro, who is serving a one-match ban.



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Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Heaton, O'Shea, Brown, Ferdinand, Heinze, Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, Fletcher, Eagles, Giggs, Richardson, Rooney, Saha, Solskjaer, Smith, Dong.



Wonder what's wrong with Park!? His movement would have caused problems!