In a busy week of Premier League action, it was nice for them to throw in a fixture involving a couple of Sunday League teams.
Stamford FC versus Trafford Rovers last night was tremendous fun, a glorious cocktail of zero tactics, players who must clearly have been hungover from the night before (it was probably one of the lads’ stag party and they ended up drinking Jaegerbombs from a KFC cup they stole off a homeless man), and two coaches whose football philosophy has both of them looking in the dictionary for the meaning of the word ‘philosophy’.
In seriousness, what an enjoyable shambles it was. Chelsea went 2-0 up, United got it back to 2-2, then went 3-2 ahead in the second half, but conceded twice in the 8+ minutes of injury time to lose 4-3. I mean, even if it had been 3-3, it’d have been a great laugh, but what United did after conceding a late penalty was just next level. A commitment to on-field comedy that hasn’t been seen since the halcyon days of Mustafi and David Luiz doing their best to one up each other as a central defensive partnership.
David Luiz: “Watch me come on as a sub, give four penalties away and get sent off!”
Mustafi: *Falls Over* – thus setting in motion a butterfly-effect situation that somehow destroys an orphanage in Cyprus. On Christmas Eve. While Santa is in the chimney.
Rather than just take the blow of the late goal, they piled forward from kick-off, lost the ball, and ended up in a situation where Chelsea had a 6 on 4 advantage – one they should have scored from. In the end, they got a corner, and if you thought what happened before was funny, this was rolling in the aisles stuff. Cole Palmer realises that United don’t have any kind of defensive shape at their set-pieces, they just get a load of men in the box and hope that Harry Maguire can loaf the ball away with his giant head.
A couple of the United players obviously have residual brain cells somewhere and start pointing at Palmer. Just pointing. Not…
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Publish date : 2024-04-05 06:57:20
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