Source: Daily_Mail
Manchester United's Red machine wipes out Charlie Adam's Tangerine dreams
As Bloomfield Road emptied last night, it echoed to a chant from the visitors that goes: 'We're Man United, we'll do what we want.' [LNB]It felt most appropriate. Blackpool, puffed out and beaten when they had been feeling so giddy just half an hour earlier, had experienced what countless clubs have suffered over the 'red machine' years of Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford. [LNB]So this is what it's like to host Manchester United in the Barclays Premier League. [LNB]At the final whistle, all it needed was Sammy Kuffour crying on the pitch. United, two down at half-time, had done what they wanted to do. Ferguson's men did not quite look invincible in the first half, as Charlie Adam on what is expected to be his last Blackpool appearance stimulated the home team and its exhilarated fans. [LNB][LNB]Doubling up: Darron Gibson (left) and Darren Fletcher (right) keep Charlie Adam under wraps[LNB]Then Ryan Giggs was introduced. Giggs had never played here before. It is one of the few grounds he can say that about. [LNB]And he soon owned it, as they say. [LNB]While Adam and Blackpool faded understandably given their heaving efforts in the opening 45 minutes United, via Giggs and Paul Scholes, began to do what they wanted.[LNB]The Premier League table leaders may not have magnetised credit so far, but we are about to enter the business stage of the season and there is something about this team thatis aware of their OldTrafford DNA. [LNB]Never give up. Keep playing. We'll get a goal. You can imagine that being part of Ferguson's half-time teamtalk, along with a few expletives. [LNB]Dealing with Adam's dead-ball accuracy had proved beyond even Nemanja Vidic. A day after submitting a transfer request, Adam was proving it was no distraction. He was adding millions to hisvaluation, just as Ian Holloway had urged him to do. [LNB] Knockout: The evergreen Ryan Giggs (right) celebrates at the final whistle with Nani[LNB]Adam began by doing what he always does kissing the tattoo of his son Jack on his forearm then set about demonstrating why Liverpool so want him and why they will have to pay upwards of£6million to force this transfer through in this window.[LNB]Adam's best moment, then? The first laserbeam corner headed in by Craig Cathcart? The second corner nodded in by DJ Campbell? What about that little nick on Scholes on 17 minutes that showed a combative nature, or the 36th-minute nutmeg on his Scotland colleague Darren Fletcher?[LNB]Whatever, Charlie Adam was in his element. As Ferguson said: 'In the first half we were battered. We couldn't handle Charlie Adam. We were terrible.'[LNB]Holloway agreed, though he was more concerned about the non-penalty award for Luke Varney at the start of the second half. And of course, he was concerned about Adam and where he goes from here. [LNB]To Anfield, is the consensus, but Holloway rowed back from his earlier negative about Liverpool: 'If they pay me a decent amount of money, then away we go. In fact, I think they are mad not to buy him off us. They haven't replaced Xabi Alonso and they need someone like Charlie. They haven't got that passer. Charlie is their man.' [LNB]By 10.30pm last night, Holloway was saying: 'You don't always get what you want.' [LNB]United fans beg to differ.[LNB] Blackpool 2 Manchester United 3: Dimitar Berbatov to the rescue as Red Devils seal another comebackBlackpool chief Oyston blasts Liverpool for their pursuit of wantaway skipper Adam All the latest Blackpool news, features and opinion[LNB] Explore more:People: Darren Fletcher, Ian Holloway, Nemanja Vidic, Ryan Giggs, Xabi Alonso, Charlie Adam, Luke Varney, Alex Ferguson, Paul Scholes Places: Liverpool, Scotland
