it's the premiership, and it's big, big money at stake for everyone in it.
you do everything in your power to sneak a morale-boosting point at the emirates, the bridge, unfilled and the theatre of dreams, and it's accepted as part of football.
it aint pretty but you don't honestly think it would be anything other than suicidal for middlesborough to come to old trafford and play an open game, attack us and look for a win. once in a season that will work against us, every other time we would rip the team apart. monday will be another sunderland or stoke unless we get through and score an early goal. after that it could be fun
