Alex Ferguson has voiced his fury at Alan Pardew, calling him "the worst at haranguing referees" and dismissing Newcastle as "a wee club". More
90+9' It's all over, and Manchester United have won an extraordinary match here! And with Manchester City having lost to Sunderland, United go seven points clear!
90+4' Manchester United as much time off the clock as they can here... Newcastle desperate to get the game going, but they have a man down injured. Looks like Anita.
90+2' Off comes Javier Hernandez to a standing ovation as Darren Fletcher comes on to shore things up in midfield.
90' HERNANDEZ!!! HE'S DONE IT!! Amazing! It had to be!! He slides in and finishes from close range after a diagonal ball by Carrick!
89' Another chance goes begging! Another cross from the left, this time to Robin van Persie, but he cannot direct his header on target. Manchester United will have nobody to blame but themselves if they don't win this.
87' Hernandez again! Giggs clips a looping ball into the six-yard box which Hernandez meets with a sort of back-header (like the one he scored against Stoke last season) but it is straight at Krul!
85' SAMMY AMEOBI OFF THE POST!! He hits a slow, rolling effort that evades De Gea, comes back off the woodwork and into De Gea's arms!!
81' HERNANDEZ!! Valencia finds him with a perfect cross from the right but the Mexican sends his diving header wide! Newcastle living dangerously as the home side fail to take their chances! That was a sitter by Hernandez's standards.
80' VAN PERSIE!! Nearly a goal of absolute brilliance from the Dutchman as he meets a ball dropping over his should on the volley but sends it just wide from the edge of the box!
78' Huge penalty shout for handball against Coloccini who blocks it at the edge of the box - Mike Dean says no! The ball came at him very quickly, but to coin a cliche, 'I've seen them given.'
74' Oh my, what a game! Now the ball drops for Valencia inside the box but he fails to make proper contact with his attempted volley! Frantic action here.
73' Manchester United race clear on the counter-attack and Van Persie finds Hernandez who takes the ball past Krul but takes it wide and cannot get a shot away - he tries a cross which is cut out!
72' Newcastle change: On comes Shola Ameobi, who scored the winner against QPR. Demba Ba is the man who makes way.
71' GOAL!! THREE-ALL!! VAN PERSIE!! His first shot is parried by Krul, but the rebound finds its way to the feet of the Dutchman and he makes no mistake at the second time of asking, finding the bottom right corner!
70' Here comes Tom Cleverley for Paul Scholes, who has not enjoyed his finest game today.
68' GOAL!! PAPISS CISSE!! Amazing! Newcastle are back in front! Obertan pulls backs from the left byline and Cisse smacks it in left-footed from 10 yards!
65' First change of the afternoon, as former Old Trafford, ahem, 'hero' Gabriel Obertan comes on for the visitors.
65' Oh, that's a crass foul by Papiss Cisse, in late on Evra and that's a clear yellow card.
60' Evans is complaining after he disappears down one of those steep banks around the Old Trafford pitch, helped on his way by Danny Simpson. Yellow card Simpson.
58' GOAL!! EVRA equalises!! He fires through a crowd of players at the edge of the box and finds the bottom-right corner! Manchester United on terms, 2-2!
54' Valencia slides in in a cloud of spray and picks up a yellow card for a loose challenge.
52' Cisse crosses from the right for Ba, whose header is touched behind for a Newcastle corner!
46' Out come the teams, and Alex Ferguson is raging at referee Mike Dean and his assistant.
43' Some old school Giggs as he turns on the burners and drives through the centre of the pitch - Williamson upends him, it's a yellow card and free-kick.
39' Off the bar!! Marveaux strikes the free-kick, De Gea does not move and the ball clangs back off the woodwork!
38' Hernandez trips the sprinting Marveaux as he charges towards the edge of the box. Yellow card and a dangerous chance for Newcastle.
36' Evans is adjudged to have impeded Cisse and it's a yellow card for the defender. Possibly for dissent, that one.
29' GOAL!! The goal has been awarded after Dean gets the word from his linesman - the offside was given against Cisse - who was in an offside position and being marked by Evans, but did not touch the ball. Therefore he was not strictly offside.
28' Mayhem here!! Jonny Evans scores an own goal but it is chalked off for an offside against Cisse... hang on though, Mike Dean is still consulting with his officials.
25' GOAL! And there's the equaliser! It's a scrappy one from Jonny Evans! Van Persie swung a free-kick into the box, Newcastle failed to clear, Hernandez saw his shot saved and Evans pounced on the rebound!
4' GOAL! Ba takes a long shot that looks pretty innocuous and De Gea can only palm it into the path of James Perch who slots into the empty net! Newcastle lead!
2' Early chance for Newcastle as a misjudged defensive header loops up and drops to Ba who takes a swing and a miss left-footed!
1' And off we go! Manchester United kick off, playing from right to left as we see it. Newcastle in fluorescent yellow shirts.
14:15 MANCHESTER UNITED: De Gea; Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra (c); Valencia, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs; Van Persie, Hernandez..SUBS: Lindegaard, Vidic, Wootton, Buttner, Tunnicliffe, Fletcher, Cleverley. /// NEWCASTLE: Krul; Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini (c), Santon; Anita, Perch, Bigirimana; Cisse, Ba, Marveaux. SUBS: Elliot, Tavernier, Ferguson, Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Campbell, Shola Ameobi.
90' HERNANDEZ!!! HE'S DONE IT!! Amazing! It had to be!! He slides in and finishes from close range after a diagonal ball by Carrick!
89' Another chance goes begging! Another cross from the left, this time to Robin van Persie, but he cannot direct his header on target. Manchester United will have nobody to blame but themselves if they don't win this.
87' Hernandez again! Giggs clips a looping ball into the six-yard box which Hernandez meets with a sort of back-header (like the one he scored against Stoke last season) but it is straight at Krul!
85' SAMMY AMEOBI OFF THE POST!! He hits a slow, rolling effort that evades De Gea, comes back off the woodwork and into De Gea's arms!!
81' HERNANDEZ!! Valencia finds him with a perfect cross from the right but the Mexican sends his diving header wide! Newcastle living dangerously as the home side fail to take their chances! That was a sitter by Hernandez's standards.
80' VAN PERSIE!! Nearly a goal of absolute brilliance from the Dutchman as he meets a ball dropping over his should on the volley but sends it just wide from the edge of the box!
78' Huge penalty shout for handball against Coloccini who blocks it at the edge of the box - Mike Dean says no! The ball came at him very quickly, but to coin a cliche, 'I've seen them given.'
74' Oh my, what a game! Now the ball drops for Valencia inside the box but he fails to make proper contact with his attempted volley! Frantic action here.
73' Manchester United race clear on the counter-attack and Van Persie finds Hernandez who takes the ball past Krul but takes it wide and cannot get a shot away - he tries a cross which is cut out!
71' GOAL!! THREE-ALL!! VAN PERSIE!! His first shot is parried by Krul, but the rebound finds its way to the feet of the Dutchman and he makes no mistake at the second time of asking, finding the bottom right corner!
68' GOAL!! PAPISS CISSE!! Amazing! Newcastle are back in front! Obertan pulls backs from the left byline and Cisse smacks it in left-footed from 10 yards!
58' GOAL!! EVRA equalises!! He fires through a crowd of players at the edge of the box and finds the bottom-right corner! Manchester United on terms, 2-2!
52' Cisse crosses from the right for Ba, whose header is touched behind for a Newcastle corner!
39' Off the bar!! Marveaux strikes the free-kick, De Gea does not move and the ball clangs back off the woodwork!
29' GOAL!! The goal has been awarded after Dean gets the word from his linesman - the offside was given against Cisse - who was in an offside position and being marked by Evans, but did not touch the ball. Therefore he was not strictly offside.
28' Mayhem here!! Jonny Evans scores an own goal but it is chalked off for an offside against Cisse... hang on though, Mike Dean is still consulting with his officials.
25' GOAL! And there's the equaliser! It's a scrappy one from Jonny Evans! Van Persie swung a free-kick into the box, Newcastle failed to clear, Hernandez saw his shot saved and Evans pounced on the rebound!
4' GOAL! Ba takes a long shot that looks pretty innocuous and De Gea can only palm it into the path of James Perch who slots into the empty net! Newcastle lead!
2' Early chance for Newcastle as a misjudged defensive header loops up and drops to Ba who takes a swing and a miss left-footed!
14:15 MANCHESTER UNITED: De Gea; Smalling, Ferdinand, Evans, Evra (c); Valencia, Carrick, Scholes, Giggs; Van Persie, Hernandez..SUBS: Lindegaard, Vidic, Wootton, Buttner, Tunnicliffe, Fletcher, Cleverley. /// NEWCASTLE: Krul; Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini (c), Santon; Anita, Perch, Bigirimana; Cisse, Ba, Marveaux. SUBS: Elliot, Tavernier, Ferguson, Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Campbell, Shola Ameobi.
Manchester UnitedManager: Alex Ferguson
Newcastle UnitedManager: Alan Pardew
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Joseph, I agree with you. We did get decisions that we shouldn't. The officials need to improve and the use of TV replays should be introduced. If they can use them in Ice Hockey they can use them in football.
Cards,ok then, what about the ridiculous decisions that helped your team get a draw v Everton? It happens! Last season you had umpteen go your way,which allowed you over acheivement. As you know I always said your team were average but got lucky its ran out this season !
Joseph, I'm not crying, I'm stating facts. You're trying to tell me if those decisions had happened to Sunderland you would have been happy with them? I don't think so. At the end of the day, the ref made 2 mistakes in the game and Man Utd benefited from them.
Hey Gearoid, i hope your bumhole heals over and your next #$%$ a hedgehog ,yuratwat
Ha ha ha oh oh oh the mighty mags looking doon at the championship ha ha ha ha haha ha ftm
Just goes to show how disjointed ManU supporters are. Thats something else we can pin on SAF(whatever was the Queen thinking of making him a KNIGHT???) Not a mention of the bad foul at the end againt Anita.Of course the best team won, but just why do they have to include all of those professional fowls every match. You will never be in the class of Barcelona because to win you have to use the "foul & the mouth of SAF"
Cards,stop crying man and think of all the times the Toon have been lucky,e.g v Everton,Cisse scoring with his back v West Brom !! You gave it a go against Man Utd and werent good enough.
chicarito love u
Maybe it is fair to have Newcastle the own goal, just to shut the mouth of united haters, and for united not to get a penalty hand ball also should make all the united haters shut up as well! Because clearly both are the wrong decision. How can that not be an offside goal! He was interfering with play. The goal was given because Evans scored an own goal?? If cisse was not there to influence Evans would he score an own goal? Cisse was clearly offside and interfering the clearance and vision of Evans and de gea! Furthermore, the hand ball for coloccini was mighty clear that the ball was on target, and he has gain an advantage with the hand ball
Where are tony, jonny and cameron??? those wind up merchants only show their faces when we lose. Pathetic!
cut the Beef up your defence SAF if you want 20th title. You may exchange yours with Stoke's.
Sunderland above the Wongas ..how dare they......not many NUFC fans on tonight
You're either offside or you're not.... How the hell did cisse play himself back onside without the ball touching the ground?? Bonkers !! but not quite as bad as coloqueenies professional handball. United should have won by 3 goals just with a half decent ref.
Thank RVP for make my day
well well well fergie rants again why doesnt he #$%$ off out of football and do us all a favour
De Gea 5, Krul 7. Why?????
win and win GGMU