If united play like they did against Blackburn, they won't.

United won't play that bad again all season. Right now their league form is outstanding and they just look too strong for anyone.

If City drop points in the next few weeks it could be the nightmare scenario of United winning the title on derby day at The Etihad.

Wow, heard some ridiculous overreactions to Utd's exit since last night . As someone rightly pointed out this is a team in transition and when you throw in the ridiculous amount of injuries we've had this season, along with the patchy form shown by our "star" players (Rooney, Rio etc) then it was always an uphill task to do anything in Europe. If we can somehow win the league this season that would be a phenomenal achievement & would again be testament to the resolve of Fergie & the players. FWIW, I'm glad we're out of the EL as we shouldn't have been in it anyway, the whole "get knocked out of one cup & get put into another" is a farce.

Good luck to Bilbao, btw, excellent team & as previously stated, top bunch of fans. I've never been one of those fans who's adopted a 2nd team but may just change my mind!

I don't think United particularly minded going out of the EL.

I think United clearly missed Vidic in Europe. The foundation of their success (or near success) in Europe over recent seasons has been the defence, take out your best defender and stick in a new goalkeeper and the results are as shown. United's midfield clearly isn't capable of doing a proper cover-up job, United fans have been asking for a Keane replacement for years (Hargreaves, for a year), I think more than ever they're in dire need of a proper defensive midfielder in the Mascherano mold. Fernando at Porto's a good'un, if Fergie's reading.

Premiership - best league in the world

yes

Clearly not a vintage United team
Worst Chelsea team since who? pre Vialli?
Obviously it's a 'better City' than usual
Arsenal are doing what Arsenal do, and clearly not a patch on the best Wenger teams
Spurs doing better than usual but looking in danger of implosion

Sorry, don't know why I said that. I actually remember saying a while back that the Bundesliga had overtaken Serie A. School boy error.

I'm not a big one for 'league x is better than league y' arguments. The 'best league in the world' mantra used over here has come to resemble something of a comfort blanket though. "Yes, England flopped at the finals of a major championship, but we've the best league in the world". I done written something about my hopes and fears in the face of what we've all seen happen this week rlover hererl.

You can't write off the Spanish league so easily either. Yes, the top two are far and away from the rest as a result of the TV distribution (or not, as the case may be), but there are plenty of clubs other than them that are very good indeed, albeit not as good as Those Two. But hey, these things are always cyclical, right?

The real nightmare scenario would be if they won it the week before

There is no nightmare scenario bro. They've won it millions of times already so them winning it again is nothing. Them losing the title to us is the nightmare scenario. The pressure is off us now thankfully and even if we don't win the league it's only a delay to the inevitable.

You think??.....Your reputation as the 'bottlers' of the league will just grow, and the pressure will increase on you, year on year....The longer you go without winning the league, the harder it will get.

With your squad and financial advantage over the rest of the competition, you should have won the title last season, never mind this....I don't see how you can improve your present squad without spending another huge amount, and becoming increasingly mocked for doing so.

If you don't win it this year, then its a new manager you need rather than any new signings.....Mourinho would have this present City squad about 10 points clear and in the quarters of the Champions League.

Mourinho