After seeing the events of this past weekend and the resultant post and replies,I'm of the opinion that SAF,Wenger & Rafa are willing to risk the chances of their teams winning a trophy just to satisfy their egos while going for the 'big one.'
SAF was clearly perturbed by Rafa's assertion that Everton is a small team and therefore decided to field a similar 'small Man Utd' team just to prove Rafa wrong. Of course it didn't go as planned.
Enter Wenger who is seeing he has a great chance of going on to win the CL (yet their best chance was when they met and lost to Barca in the finals 2006/07) against a favourite Barca (if they get past Chelsea and Assnole get past Man Utd) much stronger than that of then! I think Assnole had a fighting chance at winning the FA if they had given their best in the semis,seeing as they won't win the PL even if they beat Liverfools.
Then ofcourse there's Rafa who seems obsessed with Fergie and right now will do anything to win the PL just to score one past SAF and satisfy Liverpudians who yearn for the PL more than the CL since this year will be 3 decades since they last won it.
Another Man Utd win will see them equal Liverfools record of eleven PL wins. THEN Rafa will be mad!
smano
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