Manchester United To Give Hull City an Easy Ride: You're Havin' a Laugh

So it comes down to the last weekend of the Premiership campaign for the once invincible Tigers (well I can dream). A last gasped chance for Hull City to stay in the top flight that took us so very long to achieve.

We sit on the cusp of dropping back into the Championship for another season only one point off the bottom three with the rest of the North East in the mix with us. Any two from ourselves, Boro, the Mackems and the Toon Army could join the inglorious Baggies for the drop in the Championship.

The Tigers have a tough task in facing the newly crowned Premier League Champions. "No" the rest of the North East cry. They seem to think that their upstart new rivals have an unfair advantage because Manchester United have the undaunting matter of a trip to Rome and a Champions League Final against Barcelona three days later.

The feel that Sir Alex Ferguson (a manager who never likes to lose anything let alone a football match), might field an under strength side agaisnt Hull City. They sight the games two season's ago against West Ham were they had already won the title and lost on the last day of the season sending Sheffield United down to the Championship.

The team fielded that day wasn't too shabby either with quite a few internationals and Champions League winners. Edwin van der Sar, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Patrice Evra (Ryan Giggs), Gabriel Heinze, Darren Fletcher, Kieran Richardson, Michael Carrick (Paul Scholes), Alan Smith (Cristiano Ronaldo), Wayne Rooney, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The three subs used all came on at the hour mark so not just token appearances either.

Now the press has been saying that it is not right for Manchester United to field a team of kids against Hull City when other "bigger" more "famous" clubs are needing them to be fair. However, you have to look at the people saying such nonsense. There are Alan Shearer's pals from Match of the Day.

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