United played Chelsea last night in the Champions League final in Moscow. It was an extremely tense game. In some ways the best game I have ever seen but in some ways the worst!!
In the end United won 6-5 on penalties. It ended 1-1 after 90 minutes and also after extra time. United scored first with (who else) Ronaldo scoring a great header after excellent work by Brown and Scholes. Chelsea equalised after abit of luck with a couple deflections and Lampard scored. United really should have been at least 3 goals ahead by half time with a couple great chances for Tevez and another for Carrick.
In the 2nd half (and also extra time) it can be argued that Chelsea were slightly better. However we defended really well especially Vidic. There certainly had more shots. However they just didnt take them – they hit the bar 2 or 3 times – my word it was tense, I was pulling my hair out!!
In the crowd there didnt seem to be any problems which some people were worried about and there was a shot of some United fans swapping shirts with some Russia police/guards. 
In extra time a lot of players were suffering from cramp and it all got abit silly with the bad/late challenges and falling about. Drogba (not a stranger to play-acting and generally acting like an idiot) slapped Vidic round the face. It wasnt a big slap or anything like that but the ref saw it and you just cant raise your arms these days.
It then went to penalties and the first few went in with no problems. It then got to Ronaldo who is usually brilliant in penalties. He stepped up, paused (as he usually does) and then shot. However Cech saved. At that point I was just hoping that the next Chelsea player would miss. He didnt 
It got to Chelsea’s 5th penalty and this was taken by Terry. I am sure you all know what happened now but he hit the post after slipping abit (ala Beckham). It turns out that Drogba would have taken the 5th penalty if he wasnt sent off. With Terrys miss it was now sudden death. The 6th pens were fine, but the 7th Giggs scored his (on his record breaking 759th appearance for United) and Anelka (who didnt really look too bothered) missed – or more specifically Var der Sar saved it.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After the final whistle all the United fans of course were very happy and the Chelsea plays were almost in tears – actually Terry (and I think Lampard) were crying. You could feel abit sorry for him but thats football. Also for his behaviour as a footballer this season (and previous) has not been one of a model professional football never mind a potential England captain – all his moaning and harranging of refs etc. In this match it appears from video evidence that he blew snot on the back of Tevez’s neck. Also the £130,000 / week will help. The penalties were so tense – I actually missed Terry slipping and just looked up as it hit the post. I have since seen replays on Youtube and actually I dont remember Anderson’s penalty. My word it was tense!!
After the game various players were interviewed including Ronaldo. He was asked something like “You cant leave now can you” and he said “I stay”. (Although he was asked a couple hours later and he said his usual non-committed things and “whos knows what happens in the future“.
After all the various post-match interviews I decided to go out and see what was happening on the streets. Straight after the game there was singing and shouting from a couple balconies where I live and I could hear tooting of car horns etc. When I got out there were loads of ppl about who had watched the match in pubs etc, some ppl looked like they were on the way out clubbing, plenty of cars with being singing and waving flags etc. The police were about but there was no problems.
As I type this United have landed back in the UK in the past hour or so. However that will may be the only bit we see of the United players and staff with the two trophies. The council (and/or police) have said there will be no street parade. They dont want a rish of what happened after the UEFA cup last week with the Rangers fans. It wasnt pleasant last week but was a minority of people. Also why would Manchester people ruin there own city!! Thanks a lot Rangers!!! (Well not all of you!!)
I have heard a rumour it could be early August when we have a bus/street parade or maybe just during the Ole Solskjaer testimonial in August. That wont be good if your not there and even if you are, there will be nothing like 10s of 1000s of people lining the street.
Fingers crossed something gets sorted. The editor of the MEN newspaper has been on TV about how there should be a parade.
