"I don't know if this point has already been made, but I havn't seen it anywhere else, so I'll give it a shot.
Many people on this forum are saying that two draws is hardly a bad thing. The last time we drew our first two games of the season we went on to win the treble.
The naysayers dismiss that as being an easier time, where dropped points were nothing, and a team could win the league even when losing half of its games and with all of its players missing. I, for one, don't agree, but I'll bring up this point to switch around the argument.
Last year. Surely one thing we can all agree on is that last year we were tremendous. We won the title with verve and we looked good doing it. It was also classed as a "good" start. Well, we took 13 points from the opening six games.
Manchester United 5 -1 Fulham
Charlton 0 - 3 Manchester United
Watford 1 - 2 Manchester United
Manchester United 1 - 0 Tottenham
Manchester United 0 -1 Arsenal
Reading 1 - 1 Manchester United
Total: 13 points
This season --
Manchester United 0 -0 Reading
Portsmouth 1 -1 Manchester United
Manchester City - Manchester United
Manchester United - Tottenham
Manchester United - Sunderland
Everton - Manchester United
Take a good long look at that. We have two points on the board.
Manchester City are always difficult, especially at their home ground, but I'm hopeful. Someone is due a drubbing, and I think Ferguson will put the fire under the players for this match. Beating Manchester City might kick-start our form.
Tottenham are never easy, but we do generally tend to come out on top of close-fought games, especially at home. Tottenham, too, may be looking to bounce back from a poor run of games, but at Old Trafford I think we have the edge.
With Sunderland, expect them to play us like it's a cup final, but I don't think that will matter. Keane will have them riled up and chomping at the bit, but I think we'll outclass them. I don't think Keane will come to play for the draw, which will mean we can attack them, and, hopefully, Saha will be back for that game, giving us that extra goalscoring edge.
We always do well at Goodison Park, for some reason. Admittedly, there's no Rooney to score against his boyhood club for us this time, but there's still Phil Neville to score for his boyhood club. I can see us winning here, too, especially if we've hit a run of form building up to the Chelsea game.
Those four wins, paired with our two draws, would give us fourteen points out of eighteen. That's a better total than this time last year. And for those of you pointing out that we'd played Arsenal last time, I'd like to remind you that we have a better record at Old Trafford against Arsenal than we do at Fratton Park against Portsmouth. We're already a point up on that fixture from last year.
This ain't over 'til it's over. And that's a long way yet, folks." courtesy : man utd forum
