Great day for FC United and Man U

I've just been watching FC United's epic performance at Brighton via myp2p.eu - and listening for the last 10 minutes at fcumradio.co.uk when the video failed. The penalty save at the end, to secure a 1-1 draw, sounded great - a shame I couldn't see it.

And the 7-1 victory of Man Utd over Blackburn, taking the other reds to the top of the Premier League table, with an incredible 5 goals by Dimitar Berbatov, certainly made my day!

So how did the Glazers raise the money to pay off a £220 million loan?

In today's Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/17/the-glazer-family-loan-piks - it is reported that Manchester United's Florida-based owners have paid off a loan which was accruing 16.25% interest.

That article speculates as to how this could have happened. United fans, including the Manchester United Supporters Trust (www.joinmust.org), are demanding answers.

The MUST website says the following:

"Now is the time for the Glazers to finally come clean and tell the truth about what is going on at Manchester United and what their plans are. What have they got to hide? No more secrecy. No more spin. Just tell the fans the truth."

The website also says that MUST has prepared a series of questions that will be released following a presentation of financial results later today.

Woking nearly knock Brighton (League One leaders) out of FA Cup! FC United to play at Brighton in FA Cup second round

[Sorry for not contributing to this blog for a while; I feel guilty for neglecting to talk about FC United's tremendous FA Cup run!]

Woking play in the Conference South, three divisions below Brighton (who recently played in the Premier League and are currently top of League One), but nearly knocked them out in the replay last night after drawing 0-0 at Brighton's ground.

After the score was 1-1 at full-time, Woking scored first in extra time and for a couple of minutes a huge upset was on the cards until Brighton equalised. Brighton in the end got through on penalties.

FC United of Manchester, after knocking out fellow League One team Rochdale away in the first round, now face a long trip to the south coast to do what Woking came to close to achieving.

It would be an even bigger shock if FC United knock them out, since we are four divisions lower, but you never know! And the prize would be a place in the third round, potentially playing a Premier League team (perhaps even Man United or Man Shitty).