United Thread - 2023/24

[T_C]

I'm afraid I have to agree with Ten Hag that they are very close to city...I measured the league table today and it's just over an inch.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Dirty twat. That's what you do when your a kid.

 

[wahablue]

Well I believe it was dear old bill who coined the phrase 'Tick Tock' on here and some on here scoffed.

Well they've now fully Ticked and Tocked.

 

[johnevans]

Just back from delivering 70th birthday gift and card to a longstanding friend of more than 40 years, who is a lifelong Red and who's just joined me in the 'Really, Really Old Gits' Club'.

We touched very briefly on yesterday's game and his dissatisfaction with Ten Haag and his team and left it at that.

Then I noticed the pile of birthday gifts on the coffee table, most notably two boxes featuring a 'Lego United Crest' next to a 'Lego Titanic' (he's an inveterate 'puzzler' and jigsaw doer etc!)

It was an obvious opportunity but I really didn't have the heart to point out the humour/irony in the juxtaposition of those gifts. I know I should've done so but I just couldn't add to his misery.. so forgive me fellow Blues, I have sinned..

 

[Healthcare29]

Yesterday a team from just outside Manchester played like a team just outside the Championship.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

Last October we discussed City's 3-0 romp at the swamp and wondered if the rags could ever be sa bad again (in fact we had had the same discussion after our 2-0 win there in 2021!) Then yesterday they had a dream start after 8 minutes before the sad reality reasserted itself and the rags took another absolute pasting. But then we heard the man himself, none other than ETH, tell us that Utd had actually played well. They could have won. They were really unlucky not to get a draw! My United-supporting friend and I agreed this morning that this nonsense was the product of a delusional being inhabiting a fantasy world. Indeed my friend admitted freely when asked whether he'd enjoyed the match (!) that it wasn't as bad as he'd feared beforehand!

The point is that all great athletes and managers, all those who enjoy success, nevr blame bad luck, the officials, the weather or the line markings (!) for failure. Pep refuses point blank ever to make an excuse. He tries to control those things he can control and work ceaselessly on these. Yet ETH is stuck in excuse culture. "It's bad luck and injuries. If only Dias had still slipped but Rashford had actually scored we would have led 2-0 and won." I think (hope!) that until ETH faces facts head on that United will not improve, there'll always be an easy way out for players from underachievement to underachievement .... and they'll caryy on from pasting to pasting at our hands.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Just back from delivering 70th birthday gift and card to a longstanding friend of more than 40 years, who is a lifelong Red and who's just joined me in the 'Really, Really Old Gits' Club'.

We touched very briefly on yesterday's game and his dissatisfaction with Ten Haag and his team and left it at that.

Then I noticed the pile of birthday gifts on the coffee table, most notably two boxes featuring a 'Lego United Crest' next to a 'Lego Titanic' (he's an inveterate 'puzzler' and jigsaw doer etc!)

It was an obvious opportunity but I really didn't have the heart to point out the humour/irony in the juxtaposition of those gifts. I know I should've done so but I just couldn't add to his misery.. so forgive me fellow Blues, I have sinned..

You missed a trick there. Never forget the banner.

 

[Bald fraud]

These cunts are proper in the shit if they don’t get top 4.

Crackhead Jim will be shitting himself.

If these fuckers end up in the shit through not getting top 4 ffp will be scrapped faster than an old Austin allegro!

 

[Bald fraud]

This lot should be about 17th.

Should be year after year but the powers that be won’t allow it

 

[Gingers Dad]

Did Chelsea Jim waste one of his tax free days in the UK to come over for the Derby. Or did he stream it on his firestick in Monaco?