The Manchester United Club Thread
- Thread starter Robbo
- Start date
yeah - he was on the top of his game at the time, one of the best in the premier league...
Soldato
- Joined
- 16 May 2004
- Posts
- 7,587
- Location
- Derby
I have seen a few post on Reddit/Twitter etc about how bad we are and how we seem to lose a lot over January. Well, it seems that way but in fact we drew 1 lost 1 and won 5 games in January. So why does it feel as though we have lost more than that single Brighton game? I sort of feel that same way for some reason.
Is it because we are a bit up and down and when we are up we notice the down more. Weird.
Is it because we are a bit up and down and when we are up we notice the down more. Weird.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 22 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 29,401
- Location
- Boston, Lincolnshire
A lot of our wins have been extremely spawny. Amad rescuing us against Southampton. Bruno Rescuing us against Rangers and a lucky deflection against Fulham. Those 3 games alone could have gone either way.
Soldato
- Joined
- 16 May 2004
- Posts
- 7,587
- Location
- Derby
Maybe spawny, but now at least we dont put our heads down when facing defeat like in recent years, we play to the whistle now. Maybe we still think these 'spawny' games are in fact defeats in some way. Its weird, we have a great recent run of games but feels like we haven't.
I always like watching premier league years and i think it's easy to forget even when we were a great side we had some of those wins that we shouldn't have. Obviously not comparing the quality of sides by any stretch of imagination but i'd happily take any win. I'm just hoping Ruben doesn't do a ETH and go mad for players he used in other leagues when he gets a cheque book.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 9 Mar 2006
- Posts
- 59,359
- Location
- Surrey
You could say the same about a lot of the games we haven't won though. How often does a football match come down to a moment or two?
Exactly. We have been awful in front of goal. There have been quite a few games we should have put to bed but haven't. Bad refereeing calls etc. United are a fanbase that has been miserable for so long that we think we always deserve to lose when we lose and aren't sure if a win should have been a win.
Ten Hag lost his job ultimately to a ******* awful refereeing decision. (yes I know that was just the result that broke the camels back).
It's because the football isn't good/great and the players are poor, people expected the manager to make a big difference and whilst he's made some difference there's no escaping how crap the players are.
Add in the last decade and the additional negativity coming from Ineos and... here we are.
Last edited:
Soldato
- Joined
- 14 Oct 2007
- Posts
- 10,338
- Location
- newcastle
Just think of the back hander’s that will be going around.
As a Man UTd fan since the 70s I was always used to them being “a cup team”. But always stuck with them and the glory years of the 90s and 2000s were of course great to experience. When Ferguson retired and they got a string of no hope managers it was utterly disappointing of course. Then they got Mourinho and my interest and support in Man Utd tanked hard. I just dislike the guy that much. Never liked what the Glazers did with riddling the club with debt, but they did make Man United a global brand.
I always wished the team well of course and like to see them win, but then that Brexit loving ******* Ratcliffe bought a stake in them. The kind of person that would not be out of place running a Victorian era coal mine sending children to their deaths. Seeing so many Man Utd fans get excited about this because “Ratcliffe knows what Man Utd are about” was utterly bewildering. Now we are looking at this rumour of one of the worst ***** in the history of the UK politics joining them.
To say I hate what the club has become “off the pitch” is an understatement. I can live with the poor performances and laughable managerial recruitment. No Amorim was never going to be good, because better managers have failed with better players in the past. But these reprehensible excuses for human beings running the place and even being mooted for recruitment makes me half enjoy seeing them fail miserably.
Sorry but Man Utd lost their way years ago, both on and especially off the pitch. The likes of Ratcliffe and even being remotely linked to Osborne are the antithesis of what I would normally hold dear as typical human decency.
I always wished the team well of course and like to see them win, but then that Brexit loving ******* Ratcliffe bought a stake in them. The kind of person that would not be out of place running a Victorian era coal mine sending children to their deaths. Seeing so many Man Utd fans get excited about this because “Ratcliffe knows what Man Utd are about” was utterly bewildering. Now we are looking at this rumour of one of the worst ***** in the history of the UK politics joining them.
To say I hate what the club has become “off the pitch” is an understatement. I can live with the poor performances and laughable managerial recruitment. No Amorim was never going to be good, because better managers have failed with better players in the past. But these reprehensible excuses for human beings running the place and even being mooted for recruitment makes me half enjoy seeing them fail miserably.
Sorry but Man Utd lost their way years ago, both on and especially off the pitch. The likes of Ratcliffe and even being remotely linked to Osborne are the antithesis of what I would normally hold dear as typical human decency.
Last edited:
Caporegime
- Joined
- 9 Mar 2006
- Posts
- 59,359
- Location
- Surrey
Apparently it's a voted award, so of course they voted for their new signing.
Soldato
- Joined
- 28 Jan 2008
- Posts
- 7,317
- Location
- Leeds
Maybe i'm wishful, however football clubs are much more than it's owners, ... I'm not sure I could ever say I enjoy watching a club and it's fans miserable due to decision making of any 1 person who had the money enough to claw a stake in any club.
Glorifying the glazers as making man utd a global brand... i'm not sure they did. The sky money, the 99 team and Fergie are much more of a catalyst IMO. The glazers got hold of a titanic, they didn't build one.
ANyways, like most fans this is a time of change and it's affect, personally i think patience would probably be the key here and seeing how this pans in the medium-long term rather than initial emotional reactive rhetoric that seems to be the go to for most football fans, living a club's running like the ups and downs of a 90 minute knock out match.
INEOS have only had the club a year. The executive appointments (even the Ashworth endeavour in it's efforts was appreciated), Amorim decision and Rashford dealing is enough hope for me to have patience. Change doesn't happen overnight when the ship's been rusting inside and out for 12 years.
Mind, George Osborne' is a very poor association on paper optics.
The Glazers have been nothing but disastrous for the club. If you look at the growth of the club its been in line with pretty much every other club. The growth was football, not United under the Glazers.The only thing the Glazers haven't been utterly awful at is spending money on the squad. Yes they have ****** about 75% of it up the wall but they have spent it.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 9 Mar 2006
- Posts
- 59,359
- Location
- Surrey
Martinez done his ACL, 6 months at an optimistic take apparently. We are absolutely cursed 
Martinez done his ACL, 6 months at an optimistic take apparently. We are absolutely cursed
Not good. Hes dug us out of quite a few holes recently with his goals and long range passing as well. Fingers crossed he recovers from this.