Marouane Fellaini is the most hated Manchester United player since….Tom Cleverley? We’re speaking of course about players hated by the Red Devils supporter fan base itself. It’s obviously debatable, but the Fellaini vitriol seems to have surpassed the Cleverley backlash. Just search his name in the Twitterverse, and you’ll see a world of insults and venom.
He’s a top ten trending term again today on the micro-blogging platform, due to Manager Jose Mourinho defending the embattled Belgian. In fact, Mourinho even defended today’s 1-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur to the polarizing midfielder, and this news is trending massively through cyberspace right now.
With United playing this way you almost have to think about fading them each time they take the pitch. You can find sportsbook promos that will give you free money to bets these games with, just because United is losing doesn’t you have to.
This was their first league win in 34 days (Nov. 6th), and all the best prognosticators who make EPL predictions regularly could not have seen this coming. United, proud club and world reknowned brand that they are, saw their first home league win in 78 days (Sept. 24th).
There wasn’t a single bookmaker around who would have envisioned this. No one expected United to struggle so much his during this portion of the schedule. It was just assumed, given Mourinho’s CV, the Red Devils would simply take care of business. It wasn’t until today that they did, and did so against a fellow big six side.
“I want to dedicate this victory to Fellaini because he deserves it,” he told Sky Sports, then sending reverberations throughout the media world. “In the last match, it was him that was involved in the loss of two points, and that’s why I want to make it clear he is an important player for me.”
“The fans can do what they want and they have been phenomenal with us. I just have to thank them for everything they are giving us, especially in the period where we are not giving them too much so I am really happy with them,” Mourinho continued.
“Also, they had the Everton mistake by Marouane in their minds and no more than that. He’s a player and person that I like. And the person is even more important than the player. He’ll have my protection and always my trust.”
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