Match Preview - Manchester United vs Tottenham

This will be a very enthralling encounter between two teams that produce good, end-to-end, attacking football. With Spurs going through to the next round of the Europa League proper already with the 5-0 hammering of Hearts midweek, barring catastrophic defending, although with Spurs you never know, they will be in buoyant mood ahead of this one.

Being it Spurs first game of the league campaign, they definitely want to show that they can compete with City, Liverpool and Arsenal for those Champions League spots with or without Modric.

Although you want your first choice defenders playing, Evans, Jones and Smalling are very much able deputies and any team would love to have them as cover, especially the latter two. With Evra coming back into the side and Fabio performing really well recently, I do expect Smalling and Evans to cover the central defence. Although, I would prefer Jones to Evans, because of his calmness and composure that Evans lacks.

With Young cementing his place on the left wing, Nani's poor showing against West Brom will be punished with a place on the bench usually but with Valencia still recovering, he has another chance to impress. I am slowly beginning to be impressed by Cleverley, as I still have my doubts over him, because one game doesn't make a great player.

But his attitude and energy gives him a good platform to build on and he should get the nod with Carrick in midfield providing he is fit. Upfront, I was surprised to see Welbeck starting ahead of Berbatov, and I wouldn't be be caught off my guard again as Welbeck showed great fighting-spirit and some neat touches and could start again.

Spurs play a very counter-attacking football, similar to the one we play away from home but we should be having more of the ball in this one although Van der Vaart should be nullified whenever he lurks in or around the box, as he has the vision to unlock our young defence. Gareth Bale will threaten with his pace, power and crossing ability but I expect Fabio to match him on everything.

Scoring goals is never our problem and shouldn't be on Monday especially with Gomes playing but if De Gea hasn't mentally prepared himself for shots from distance and gets the timing wrong again, we could be trying to rescue another win.

A great match is in anticipation here, and I expect to be fully entertained. 

United shares to be listed in Singapore Stock Exchange

As all United fans coming to terms of news that the current owners, the Glazer family, are planning to "service" the debts incurred purchasing United by raising funds reportedly about 600mil pounds by launching a IPO (International-Public-Offering) in Singapore's stock exchange.

I heard the Balti pies are good

To those who don't speak all this business jargon, the Glazers are trying to sell United's shares to the Asian market as a measure to clear the debts they have incurred, which currently stands at about 500mil pounds. Although the club have denied this, there do seem to be enough good reasons for them to be doing this action. Anyway, we'll just have to wait and see if anything materialises.

I really couldn't care less who owns the club or the intentions to wanting to own the club as long as we are bound to be in a healthy financial condition. The sooner, the better.

Malaysia on the map

Smile for once, Neil

Matters closer to home, Datuk Tony Fernandes, the Malaysian AirAsia tycoon has just wrapped a multi-million pound deal to own over 60% of shares in QPR(Queens Park Rangers).

Well, in the light that the Malaysian national football team is slowly nudging it's way back to it's heyday, is it really necessary for a rich Malaysian to spend so much money acquiring a soon-to-be struggling Premier League team when all that money could be put to good use here, in our very own Malaysian grassroots programs for youngsters.


Unless he is planning to promote partnerships with QPR to open coaching clinics here and even farm out our Malaysian players over there for exposure to the professional side of things in England.

As the saying goes, A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. Or is it the other way around ?