Park Ji-Sung's Birthday with Evra & Tevez

Stoke City 0-1 United

Another tough nut to crack as we struggled to break down 10-man Stoke. The irony is that we should've been down to nine men by the time Stoke were a man down - Rooney for a stray elbow, Ronaldo for a moment of pure idiocy. Hasn't he learnt not to kick out at opponents? He was even trying to stomp on the fingers of his opponent.

Dare I say it? Fergie has lost control of their discipline. Those two don't listen to him anymore. Some bench splinters on the butt will certainly help.

The problem is they are mixing with the wrong company - each other. They should follow Tevez's example - get sent off for your country so you save yourself for your club.

United 5-3 Blackburn (Carling Cup)

United 1-0 Roma

Bring on Barcelona!

United 4-0 Villa

United 3-1 Spurs

United 6-0 Newcastle

Cristiano Ronaldo finally gets a treble. Why did I sell Tevez?!

Bolton 1-0 United

We deserved at least a share of the spoils, but kudos to Bolton for really getting stuck in, harrying and harassing their more illustrious opponents. Despite dropping three points and getting sent off (which could mean a touchline ban), Fergie will have many lessons to draw from this loss.

1. Gerard Pique is not Premiership material and must be dropped like a hot potato. He makes Michael Carrick look like The Flash and can't win a header to save his life. He was badly at fault for Bolton's goal as he flew through the air to head thin air, the ball dropping kindly for Nicolas Anelka to sweep in. He then repeated his stunt two more times after that, thankfully with no further consequences than to leave Rio Ferdinand hoping that Nemanja Vidic or even Mickael 'Heart Attack Man' Silvestre was there to partner him. He was soon hauled off for Anderson, Fergie deeming him a liability. Move either John O'Shea or Wes Brown to centreback in an emergency, and kick Pique back to Zaragoza.

2. Owen Hargreaves must take the free-kicks from now on. He forced more saves out of the keeper from a dead-ball situation than Cristiano Ronaldo has the entire season. For the record, Jussi Jaaskelainen only had one save to make, though a far-post effort seemed to leave him stranded as it shaved the bar.

3. Anderson must play more games. United only came afire when the enigmatic Brazilian came on. For all of Carrick's vaunted range of passing, it took the ex-Porto man to really stretch Bolton with long passes to the right wing.

4. Carlos Tevez is no Ruud van Nistelrooy and Fergie needs to buy a targetman in January. He missed another one-yard sitter to condemn United to their second defeat of the season.

5. Put the new players through boot camp. Where United's old guard would get fired up from the challenges that were flying in from the likes of Kevin Davies, we saw Patrice Evra, all wrapped up against the cold, complaining bitterly about a strong but fair challenge from the Bolton hardman. Coupled with Anderson and Nani's incessant turf-rolling, this is looking embarrassing.

We Are the Champions by Queen

Champions indeed. Despite a domineering performance, United managed to lose to Tevez's sucker punch, but all that didn't matter once the trophy came out and everybody started to party. Here's to another party next year, Messrs. Giggs and Neville!