man utd are out of the champs league: 2-1 @ benfica

i was going to mock the man utd fans, but i think they've been through enough lately (and so have arsenal fans, so i know they can give as good as they'll get). so i thought, instead, i would offer a quote from Keano, who saw this coming, said something about it, and was crucified for speaking the truth. here's what the eminently honest Keane had to say about just such an occurence way back in the days when Beckham, Scholes and Giggs were just pups:

On this occasion, as with so many before and since, it wasn't so much spite felt for the opposition as anger at myself and my team-mates that caused me to lose my head. [Our 3-6 loss at] Southhampton was a good example of our team going through the motions, thinking our ability gave us a divine right to win the game. These lapses into the comfort zone drove me crazy. So with a rash challenge or a crunching tackle I'd try to inject some angry urgency into the contest. I could take defeat, but not surrender. If we lost at Southampton [or Boro], what fucking chance did we have against Juventus [or Benfica]....Knowing that you couldn't switch form on and off like a light bulb caused me intense frustration in League games like the one at the Dell. The result was sometimes an early bath, sometimes a row with my team-mates.