Comments on: Thoughts Ahead of the Manchester Derby http://www.viewfromablue.com/2016/03/18/thoughts-ahead-of-the-manchester-derby/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thoughts-ahead-of-the-manchester-derby Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Jeremy Poynton http://www.viewfromablue.com/2016/03/18/thoughts-ahead-of-the-manchester-derby/#comment-844431 Jeremy Poynton Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:32:52 +0000 http://www.viewfromablue.com/?p=11354#comment-844431 One thing the media studiously avoid mentioning is that our four best players, indeed, perhaps the four best, at their best, in their positions in the Prem, Vince, Yaya, David S and Sergio have started together I think less than one in five of our games this season. I'd like to see how other clubs would have coped with this. We've not been up to scratch, but what I note has caused us most of our problems. Id the Fab Four had been fit all season, I am damn sure we'd have won the league by now. Worse, all bar Yaya got their injuries on international duty, with Vince and Sergio played when they should not have been and Silva played in a meaningless game against L'burg when a Spanish B team would have sufficed. I dread international breaks, as we always get one player at least back crocked One thing the media studiously avoid mentioning is that our four best players, indeed, perhaps the four best, at their best, in their positions in the Prem, Vince, Yaya, David S and Sergio have started together I think less than one in five of our games this season.

I’d like to see how other clubs would have coped with this. We’ve not been up to scratch, but what I note has caused us most of our problems. Id the Fab Four had been fit all season, I am damn sure we’d have won the league by now.

Worse, all bar Yaya got their injuries on international duty, with Vince and Sergio played when they should not have been
and Silva played in a meaningless game against L’burg when a Spanish B team would have sufficed.

I dread international breaks, as we always get one player at least back crocked

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