the reports all confirmed it: it was a ridiculous penalty. and maybe it didn't even happen in the box. the referee was probably thinking: in the first leg, a penalty wasn't given, and that referee was criticised, so i have to give it this time.

of course you feel a sense of injustice.

i can tell you that sometimes you can't judge a football game by the result, or even the proceedings.

like the first leg between man u and roma. people can say that man u played very well because they were so dangerous in the last 20 minutes. i can tell you those are the people who don't understand football, because they don't realise that after the 2nd goal was conceded, it wasn't roma-man u anymore. as simple as that.

it's the same yesterday. babel might have gotten the 4th goal, but that goal came when the game was already different.

we just got liverpooled. englanded.

the pride of england, all right.

we don't have time to feel indignant. there is work to be done. we may have surpassed others' expectations, but we haven't surpassed ours, because i am sure right at the start, even with henry's departure, the goal was clear: champions, champions.

i can tell you that next season will be harder because tottenham will really be a threat. blackburn, everton and maybe villa as well. and maybe man city.

we have to work on the killer instinct, and to really get the ball up so quickly such that we play against 4 defenders, rather than 8 players. you know why an average team like liverpool can be so threatening? they kept going 3 on 3 on us yesterday. and that's what man u does best, and that's why they are top. this is actually the killer instinct.

if we need to buy, we need to buy.

and the door is open for whoever wants to leave.

a season which has promised so much ends in disappointment.

how apt.