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[bigtoga]

Amazon.co.uk has the Treble DVD now on sale for $11. I picked it up along with Keano's book, Stam's book, SAF's book, and Cantona's book - all things you can't get stateside. It was reasonable too - I paid about $80 for all five with S&H.

Here's how to get it:

Go to http://www.rednews.co.uk/

On the right side, click on the Amazon banners

Put in "Treble DVD" for your search terms - it should be the first item. Then, when you add it to your cart, it will make the siggestions about the other books.

Let's support RedNews - go through their site instead of directly to Amazon...

[Motterman]

Amazon.co.uk has the Treble DVD now on sale for $11. I picked it up along with Keano's book, Stam's book, SAF's book, and Cantona's book - all things you can't get stateside. It was reasonable too - I paid about $80 for all five with S&H.

Here's how to get it:

Go to http://www.rednews.co.uk/

On the right side, click on the Amazon banners

Put in "Treble DVD" for your search terms - it should be the first item. Then, when you add it to your cart, it will make the siggestions about the other books.

Let's support RedNews - go through their site instead of directly to Amazon...

Check the Region Coding for the DVD?

[Acronym]

Dont you lot have multi-region DVD's?

[Achtung]

Amazon lists it as being Region 2. I don't know if this DVD was ever sold in Region 1 format. No multi-region DVD player for me either... :(

Also, the listed price is £7.97, which is more like $14.50. Still worth it, but I wish I could actually play it.

[Motterman]

Dont you lot have multi-region DVD's?

I wouldn't assume that most peope here do. It's a must for football fans, and fans of foreign movies and anime and stuff..... Pretty easy to bypass the coding restrictions on some cheap DVD players as well.

In other news, Quieroz may come back to United, that would be OK with me.

[markh852004]

I wouldn't assume that most peope here do. It's a must for football fans, and fans of foreign movies and anime and stuff..... Pretty easy to bypass the coding restrictions on some cheap DVD players as well.

In other news, Quieroz may come back to United, that would be OK with me.

Yeah, that would be fine with me too. I dont blame him for leaving to manage real madrid, but they say he will only come back to england if real madrid dont win La Liga this season. We will just have to wait and see :cool:

[Sofabloke]

Its wierd innit - we seem to be (quantumly) entangled with Real Madrid.

We cheer them on in the Champs League to get the extra five million for Becks (that didn't work out).

Now we must cheer on their opposition in the hope we get a decent manager back to partner/replace SAF.

The way football is going, if we were (heaven forbid) to sell Ruud to them and we met them in the Champs League final, the plc would probably ask the players to throw the game because the RVN deal gave us a bonus if they won it.

[futbolnut]

FYI...good article on "what went wrong with UNITED" at www.guardian.co.uk.

I thought this was the essence of the problem...moving away from the 4-4-2 system. Agree?

[Mac_Howard]

Unfortunately I can't read the Guardian article, their bandwidth these days doesn't match the userbase.

I don't think it's as much the move from 4-4-2 to 4-5-1 that's the trouble as the move from an attacking midfield 5 to a defensive one. The original 5 man midfield was made up of Giggs, Beckham, Scholes, Veron and (a fully fit) Keane. There was no shortage of attacking flair there and, with van Nistelrooy new to the EPL and a revelation in attacking efficiency, then Utd were still a team with much attacking threat.

But with the loss of Beckham and Veron and Keane losing his ability to maraude up and down field, Utd took on a much more defensive style with two defensive midfielders behind an often changing attack midfield lineup. EPL defenders have become much more alive to Ruud's techniques, he no longer gets the support from midfield that the above five gave him and Utd are not a dominant attacking force anymore.

Utd's best players are still attacking players (Giggs, RvN, Scholes, Ronaldo, Saha, Solskjaer - only Rio compares with these in defence) and an attacking game is the style that makes most of their skills. The easiest way to get back to an attacking style that the other clubs fear is for Utd to go back to a 4-4-2 formation with Saha working around RvN and Giggs, Scholes and Ronaldo supporting them. To get back to an attacking 5 man formation would require Utd to bring in a high quality attack midfield and even then the lack of cohesion that often accompanied Veron's inclusion could well result and injuries could cause a significant loss of style.

The 4-4-2 formation is the best option. It's flexible and one that I think best suits Alex's experience and hopefully approach to the game and the skills of the players we currently have. It is slightly weaker defensively but with Rio back and a more productive attacking force I think that's the way we need to go.

[futbolnut]

Sorry, the Guardian article on what's wrong at United is already gone.
However, the gist was; the switch to more use of a lone striker and the inclusion of Veron (who played a style incompatible with recent United teams) was the beginning of the loss of form. If you take a look at this year's games, the offense has consisted of primarity long crosses into the box. Gone are the days of intricate combination play just outside the penalty area, watching Giggs, Cole, Scholes, and others selling dummies, making intelligient runs to open up space. I was of the opinion that ManU were the greatest 4-4-2 team in the world in the latter 90's. Now they seem less creative. I know some personnel have changed, but I think they need to return to the system that suited them best.

[Acronym]

I blame peter kenyon (no capitalisation of his name.) He purposely messed up several transfers, knowing that he would be joining Chelski. The biggest one was Ronaldinho. The reason is, is he received a phone call prior, from one of Roman's advisors, part of the agreement was to mess up the Ronaldinho transfer. He failed to negotiate anything like what PSG wanted, and had to make several trips to France. The deal could and should of been tied up while Manutd were in the US, yet Fergie relied in him not knowing he would be leaving for Chelski.

While he was on gardening leave, he was secretly, planning to hijack Manutd's future transfer targets; Roben was one.

He tried to hijack, Ronaldo and Saha at a later date also.

So Kenyon did play a big part in us faltering, the btard.

[Frankfurt Blue]

I blame peter kenyon (no capitalisation of his name.) He purposely messed up several transfers, knowing that he would be joining Chelski. The biggest one was Ronaldinho. The reason is, is he received a phone call prior, from one of Roman's advisors, part of the agreement was to mess up the Ronaldinho transfer. He failed to negotiate anything like what PSG wanted, and had to make several trips to France. The deal could and should of been tied up while Manutd were in the US, yet Fergie relied in him not knowing he would be leaving for Chelski.

While he was on gardening leave, he was secretly, planning to hijack Manutd's future transfer targets; Roben was one.

He tried to hijack, Ronaldo and Saha at a later date also.

So Kenyon did play a big part in us faltering, the btard.

Don't feel so bad. He won't be too far behind Ranieri departing Chelsea, when Abramovich gets bored.

[Motterman]

Arsenal Vs. Pompey Result:

1-1, means that our record 91 points in the Premiership will continue to stand as the highest

[Achtung]

Arsenal Vs. Pompey Result:

1-1, means that our record 91 points in the Premiership will continue to stand as the highest

Thanks, Mott, I hadn't even thought of that. Bit of consolation I guess that we'll still have an argument for best Premiership team ever.

[johno]

Thanks, Mott, I hadn't even thought of that. Bit of consolation I guess that we'll still have an argument for best Premiership team ever.


Best Team ever, period... oh well, maybe I am biased... but hey... I am allowed, its our board after all.

[Achtung]

Chelski crash out to Monaco... and for at least another year we remain the only English team to have won the Champions League

[Motterman]

More Premiership Records stats:

Arsenal's draw against Portsmouth stops them from beating our 91 pts (38 game record).

they can't beat our 18pt winning margin.

they would need to score 27 goals in the next 2 games to beat our 97. (which they won't)

they need to score +8 in the next 2 games to beat our +52 GD. (which they won't)

[Mac_Howard]

That not only shows that Arsenal's performance isn't as spectacular as is made out but also how much Utd have lost ;)

[FreakiestJosh]

Does anybody here know what C.Ronaldo wears around his ankles, its some kind of weird short white socks, as im gettin a pair of mizuno wave cups and dont think they will go well with the green socks of my team.

[bigtoga]

Does anybody here know what C.Ronaldo wears around his ankles, its some kind of weird short white socks, as im gettin a pair of mizuno wave cups and dont think they will go well with the green socks of my team.
Its ankle tape as far as any of us can tell.

And welcome to BS :)