As everyone must be aware, the pressures of life can often catch up in whatever you do and time can sometimes run away from you. And so it was with writing something on this site for the Fulham visit to Old Trafford on Saturday. Rather than completely ignore a crucial game which can have a huge bearing on the title race, we are reproducing a preview by John Ley in The Telegraph, one of the most respected newspapers in the UK.

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Let’s not put too fine a gloss on it. What happened in the second half at Stamford Bridge was a shock to the system, it’s difficult to put it any other way. I must also confess however that I’m a born optimist, the glass is always half full as far as I’m concerned, so when I looked back to what happened just two seasons ago, Manchester United’s position started to look a little brighter. History does sometimes repeat itself after all. The Chelsea defeat was game 28 of the season, remember game 28 in March 2009? That was when United got walloped 1-4 by Liverpool at Old Trafford in which Nemanja Vidic was also sent off. United then went to Fulham the following week and again got beaten 0-2 with both Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney getting red carded.

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Just as Manchester United reclaimed pole position in the Premier League for the first time in nine months, they look likely to be forced into playing catch up football once again after their scheduled visit to Blackpool was called off. Sky Sports reports that despite Blackpools’ best efforts, Bloomfield Road has been deemed unfit for Saturday evening’s meeting due to a frozen pitch.

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It was a good weekend for Manchester United grabbing all three points from what always promised to be a tricky meeting with Tottenham. All the doomsayers, including many United fans, who believe that the team is slowly crumbling with too many squad members not good enough to don the red shirt, should remember that United have now gone 21  matches since their last defeat by Chelsea on April 3 – and that unbeaten record was virtually achieved without the services of the man widely regarded as their main weapon.

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It was a good weekend for Manchester United grabbing all three points from what always promised to be a tricky meeting with Tottenham. All the doomsayers, including many United fans, who believe that the team is slowly crumbling with too many squad members not good enough to don the red shirt, should remember that United have now gone 21  matches since their last defeat by Chelsea on April 3 – and that unbeaten record was virtually achieved without the services of the man widely regarded as their main weapon.

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It’s not commonly known that veteran Manchester United defender Gary Neville gives his outspoken opinions about the club – and football in general, in a weekly column for the Sunday edition of The Times of Malta. The connection with the island is not surprising as he has often gone on holidays there as a lad and owns a home where he plans to settle once he retires. In his latest  column Neville gives his opinions on the scoreless draw at Sunderland and England’s prospects in the Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro.

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