Re: Manchester United Supporters Thread - 18 Times and Thats a FACT!!!
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That team is more than capable of beating Hull.
Liverpool put out a weak team a couple of seasons back before the CL final and Fulham beat them and stayed up by a point so whats the difference?
I dont see what the big deal is anyway.
tbh i don't see the problem with resting the main players for the final seeing as you can't lose the league now, my point was that Neil Warnock basically blamed Benitez for Sheffield United going down after he rested players against Fulham, but if Hull beat United i very much doubt he'll come out in the press and say that it's because of his best mate Fergie that Hull stayed up at the expense of Newcastle, Boro or Sunderland.
besides, the Liverpool team that played Fulham was hardly a reserves/youth team. This was the team that started against Fulham:
Reina, Arbeloa, Hyypiä, Paletta, Insua, Pennant, Sissoko, Alonso, Gonzalez, Fowler, Bellamy.
Warnock's quote last year (a whole year after the game) was:
"I felt sick, physically sick, when I found out the team Liverpool were playing," said Warnock.
"We had a late kick-off at Villa Park that day and when we saw who Benitez had picked, we were struggling to even think who they were.
"We hadn't even heard of them and a lot of them haven't played for the club since."
The problem with that is that they'd all played for Liverpool several times and only Insua and Paletta could be considered reserves out of the whole team, and to say nobody had heard of them was total bollocks.
Whereas this United squad is pretty much completely reserves apart from maybe 3-4 players who could be first team players. Again though, before anybody starts trying to have a go at me, i have no problem with United resting players in these games, what i have a problem with is hypocrisy from Warnock and anyone else who blames another team for their own shortcomings.
