A New Order

A New Order

This weekend saw two events that may just be the start of the changing of the guard both in the Premier League and the Golf world.

Manchester Derby

On paper Man City look a dull functional side and they confirmed this with their performance yesterday, Toure's performance was disgraceful and with all their millions spent on players they completely isolated Aguero, there needs to be a major clear out in the summer and you wonder if it will be a while before they challenge again.

On the flip side it was the best performance I have seen from Manchester United this season, Van Gaal has finally worked out that Rooney is his best striker and Mata is a quality midfield player .

The revelation is Fellini he is playing in between the solo forward and the midfield and generally gets in the way, he does make it very difficult for defenders and making late runs is a very good target at the back post, he also has a good knack of breaking up play forcing the opposition to go a little longer than they may wish and giving away possession. In addition Ashley Young is looking like the player that was signed from Villa 4 years ago.

Van Gaal will hit his target of bringing Champions League football back to Old Trafford, next season will be very interesting to see if he can make them Premier League champions.

The Masters

In some ways the Masters lacked its usual excitement, as Jordan Spieth led from start to finish, the other way to look at it is that we could have been watching the start of the next golfing superstar's career, over the next 5-10 years there could be plenty of battles between Spieth and Mcllroy for the major prizes.

Whilst I was hoping Spieth would slip up to make the tournament exciting the way he kept his nerve in the last round was compelling, his second shot straight at the flag on the 13th and the par putt on 16th showed that he had the makeup of a champion.

The old master Woods performed well, and it will be interesting to see if he can make the level required to seriously challenge at the top of a major leaderboard, I feel he has lost the fear factor though and his time has past.