I will definitely be watching Manchester United play at Ipswich this afternoon. It looks normal after all I support the Red Devils. However, I will be watching this time as more of a critic than a supporter.
For a while now, I've gotten used to the negativity surrounding the club. The negativity has been so suffocating to the point that I now also view the club from the glass half empty lens, instead of the other way around. In short, I am not that excited by what Amorim will do or the way the players will play today. Not even his proposed 3-4-2-1 formation or tactics are getting me excited. Not yet!
True to my usual self, I will be quietly watching the annoying little things these guys will do. It's not as if I'm going to judge them on that afterall the term "new manager's bounce" has continued to defy all logic. With that said, I expect a Man United victory, as usual.
Even if the players come out guns blazing, harrying and hustling the Ipswich dudes all in a bid to impress the new boss, some of their rotten habits will still be in full glare. Some of their dastardly acts that have continued to bedevil and make mockery of this once dominant institution won't disappear in two weeks. But the signs of correction must start showing.
I will be looking out for those signs. Win or lose today, I will be unbothered. What will bother me is if the new dude can give us a new lease of life, a new direction. I hope he can. I pray he can.
