Football Banter

bigguy01, I couldn't agree more when you say that most of the players at United are overpaid; Rooney, whatever he's actually on does very little to justify it, John O'Shit has just signed an £80,000 per week deal which simply beggars belief, such is his degree of averageness, Gary Neville embarrasses himself everytime he takes the field and yet he's on £80,000 p/w as well, Ferdinand's so injury-prone he spends more time tw@ing on Tw@ter than earning his £100,000+ p/w, to name but three cases. But then, Blackpool aside (the only club with the balls to stick to a £10,000 per week salary cap), which Premiership club's players aren't grossly overpaid? When an under-achiever like Jermain Pennant can forget that he even owned a Porsche in Spain, you just know that the game's gone mad; this is a guy who only came on as a sub for Stoke the other week at Old Trafford and did nothing.

Totally agree with you regards Ian Holloway for Manager of the Year; the bloke - and his team - have been an absolute breath of freshe air this season and I doubt many neutrals - Preston fans apart - would wish to see them go down. Certainly there have been more than three teams this season far worse than them so far.

Regards United ceasing to exist should the Glazers do a runner, that just wouldn't happen to any institution in the sport, business or commerce world of such standing. Wealthy Arabs, or others would just pick up the tab ala Manchester City or Roman Abramovich beforehand at Chelsea.