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Manchester United 5 - 1 Leeds 14/08/2021

We're back! Pre game The city centre For the first time since Scott McTominay made Ederson look silly in the Manchester derby all that time ago, a capacity crowd was set to return to Old Trafford.  Videos of fighting in the city centre and policeman chasing after Leeds fans really ensured everyone new that not just the premier league was back, but one of its fiercest rivalries was too. Team news As always, twitter was full of complaints when 11:30 struck and the poor twitter admin knew it was time to release the team.   Starting in goal was David De Gea.  With Henderson out with COVID, there were no complaints about this one. The back 4 was as expected: Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, AWB.  Absolutely no complaints with this one, we all knew Varane hadn't been registered so this was the obvious choice. Protecting the back 4, the infamous McFred!  Ole's go to defensive midfield partnership were sure to bring the effort, desire and running we've become accustomed to with...

Progression is a rollercoaster, not a staircase

  Progression is a rollercoaster, not a staircase I’m sure you have heard of at least one of these phrases: “keep moving forwards”, “things are looking up” or “It can only go up from here!”…   All of these supposedly motivational quotes have one thing in common – they portray success and an upwards and forwards journey. To some extent, I like these quotes as they imply a heaven-style location of success that we can all work towards giving us all a goal, vision or idea of the reward of our hard work.   However, when we look at the journey of progress rather than success, they simply couldn’t be more wrong. Firstly, let us look at the simple idea of a staircase.   If the queue for the lift is too long or there isn’t a working escalator, we will reluctantly take the stairs to walk from one floor to another.   For this example, we will be looking only at walking up a staircase.   As we walk up this staircase, one leg at a time, complaining about the out o...