Manchester United

Talk about a tough schedule, we will need our A game for the start of the season!

U can say that again... Its gonna be a tough start... but we are UNITED!!! we do it season after season.

The beginning of the season says nothing. It's the end that matters.

It might be a tough start but there are some good points still to be won so it could be really useful to have these games out of the way.

@Success indeed mate.

Hmm we have been known to be slow starters.

But as Success says Its the end that matters, its not a sprint.

Well last season we had many of our toughest fixtures in the first 3 or 4 months of the season, didn't we? Sometimes it's the initial trial by fire that sets the team up for long-term success. Less surprises that way.

ABSOLUTELY AGREE... its not a sprint... but with a new manager, starting off well would be crucial, we aint got SAF to tutor our boys when/if the going gets rough.. I still maintain a good start would be crucial (especially for confidence and belief),.... but what do i know? am just a chick that loves football haha

Well if we get most of the big teams early, the reverse fixtures will be played around Feb and March, so that means we avoid them at the business end of the season.

@ success, in a RARE situation where Chelsea lose the first 5games of the season, i doubt you'd say the beginning of the season means nothing lol. Mourinho would be a goner, and we all know how effective (NOT) a new manager at that point would be.. so i do believe the beginning does matter.

Chelsea usually fly out of the blocks, have a mid season melt down and then sack their manager.

We have Mourinho this time and no offense but i am happy that we are facing you guys away early. SAF is not your manager anymore, you have a new manager in Moyes. Moyes may use a new style and it needs time to gel in.
So it may be a benefit for us to face your Man UTD team early just to get the hard fixtures out of the way.

You guys also play Chelsea the week before i.e. The second matchday of the season.
But have a 7 day rest still.

A fixture I always look forward too, Liverpool away.

ROFLMAO. Thanks for that it just lifted my day.

well they nearly did lose, but the spurs choked lol

Yeah Ray Allen said he wanted to keep playing. Legendary player.

Ray Allen is the only player I like from Miami lol. It was a good game. For some reason the Spurs just stopped playing and left Tony Parker to play by himself and forced him to attempt bad shots.

Game 7 is going to be a great game.

Spurs choked. Couldn't hit foul shots.

^ dgrant: ray allen used to be a legend but he lost it when he joined the heat. He went after glory then respect and honor. He spoiled the game for me today. why the f**k will someone allow greatest 3 pointer that space. The best nba finals game I ever saw in my live. breath taking, exciting it had everything. f**k ginobli for f*****g up at the end. undeserved win for the heat.

Heat are like the Man City of Basketball..recently assembled team with hardly any history of championships...sorry Darren i know you're from Miami ;)

Lucky for me, I don't care much about the Heat, my main focus of support is for United. I'm even one that agrees with most of the calls the refs make against the Heat, I'm as fair-weathered and even level fan you may meet, lol.

They lost a bit of their identity in my eyes. I grew up watching a different kind of Miami Heat. Pat Riley was coaching back then, I still think he's above a lot of the coaches now in the NBA. They have a great team I'm not going to lie, but we built the team around Wade who always keeps pushing in every game.

And how does moving to a team lose a person's status of a legend? That's just pure bitterness in my eyes. Your comment is the reason why I can't stand the entity of the fans of NBA. I also don't believe in neutralism with fans in the sport too. Everyone just sees everything wrong with the Heat. There is so much hate around what the team is doing, no one is gracing their games they play sometimes. I'm not going to lie, they do showboat, gloat and dive, but what team doesn't?

Undeserved win for the Heat? How so? The Spurs gave up their opportunity to kill the game off, in which I thought was over. The Heat deserved their win, stop making up excuses. I admit the Heat was getting fought off, but they made up for it in the end. They capitalized against the Spurs' mistakes.

i'm a fan of lebron and d.wade, so i wont root against them. at worst i'd be neutral in their games.

but in general i always root against the west coast in the nba finals, regardless of who is in the finals, and i always root against the lakers :D

I've never really cared much about LeBron and his story, but it's grown on you now that he's at the Heat and the anti-fans won't stfu about him.

Wouldn't care he left tomorrow to be honest, I mean he's a good player, but I'm not infatuated with him. Don't trust his loyalty either.

The Heat remind me of the hate we get from the ABU's. They are a hated team in the NBA and i sympathize cause it's the same stick United gets at times.

Someone just wakes up, and decides to hate for a living. And more than half don't know why they hating, someone told em too or they overheard someone hating and decided it was the way.

I wrote a song, it's called "Hating is not the way"

^^^^^ Hey Abdul, Game 6 and I don't see a Spurs victory, i believe you owe me 2 cool votes as agreed a few weeks back. ;-)

Heat isn't the Man City of basketball. LBJ and Bosh lowered their paycheck to join the Heat. I know they only have one championship before LBJ and Bosh came in, but their president (Pat Riley) is one of the greatest coach of all time with a lot of history and championships under his belt.