Of demons and devils

Don't worry, I am not talking about any unworldly phenomenon...well, not in the way you might think.

Manchester United took on Blackburn Rovers in the EPL today. And at the half time, they were a goal down, had a critical injury to Nimanja Vidic and had too many shots on goal deflected away. It was, as one of the commentators said, as if there were demons in the goal preventing the ball to go in. So ManU went into the second half by a goal's margin against them.

And this is where the Red Devils showed exactly why they are the Premiership leaders by such authority. The second half was a blitzkreig of activity where United put so much pressure on the Rovers that it looked as if the game was being played almost exclusively in the Rovers' half. And in that pressure, they hit 4, yes FOUR, goals...all of them wonderful.

One was a wonderful move by - who else - twinkle toes himself! Ronaldo weaved through into the box and then crossed which came to a calm Michael Carrick who slotted it past the goalkeeper for the equalizer. Then came a brilliant piece of action from Paul Scholes as he moved across four defenders to put the second one in. Then a powerful free kick from Ronaldo again which rebounded off the hands of the goalkeeper right towards Ji Soong Park who put the third one in. And then, just to make it look so easy, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who came on as a substitute for the dying minutes of the match, put another one in the back of the battered Rovers' net.

Final score: 4 - 1 in utterly convincing fashion.

If you missed this match, you missed some great United football. Oh, and incidentally, Liverpool beat a ridiculous looking Arsenal by the same margin. Ha ha ha!