United thread 2017/18

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TCIB said:
Drop being a kind term. I prefer "pissed it up the wall". I can't say i was a fan of the lazy shit if i'm brutally honest.
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Robinho was a statement by HRH that Manchester City had arrived on the big stage.

I thought Robbie did very well the first season, but seemed to lose interest after that.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Maybe.

But his arrival was a fantastic fillip for the club and us fans at the time.

I absolutely loved 1st September 2008.
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Same here Vienna, seeing all those kids outside the ground chanting we've got Robinho on SSN* had me on the verge of dry hacking man-sobs.
There was still for a loonnng time the fear we'd fuck it all up though and I can't tell you I was majorly deflated after the UEFA up exit even after daring to believe we'd get to Istanbul because I was waiting for us to go out, if that makes sense?

*What a transfer deadline day that was!
 
By the time United played next 9 game I think we will have made the G A P bigger
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and Liverpool and Spurs will be in 2nd and 3rd spots respectively.
 
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer said:
Barthez
Blanc
Van der sarr
Kleberson
Mata
Schweinsteiger

And David silva is a serving city player, along with viera.... there's more I'm sure!!!
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But none was a serving United player at the time they played in a World Cup final which is the criterion I was using. Barthez played for United between 2000 and 2004 either side of his appearances in the 1998 and 2006 finals. Blanc didn't play in the 1998 final but didn't join United until 2001 anyway. Van der Sar and Mata never played in a World Cup final. Kleberson was playing in Brazil in 2002 and didn't join United until 2003. Schweinsteiger didn't join United until a year after the 2014 final.

Silva didn't play in the 2010 final but got a winner's medal as a squad member and having played in earlier games. Vieira didn't join City until 4 years after he won the World Cup in 2006.

If we're counting non-serving players we could add Navas and United could add Romero and Rojo too.
 
laserblue said:
But none was a serving United player at the time they played in a World Cup final which is the criterion I was using. Barthez played for United between 2000 and 2004 either side of his appearances in the 1998 and 2006 finals. Blanc didn't play in the 1998 final but didn't join United until 2001 anyway. Van der Sar and Mata never played in a World Cup final. Kleberson was playing in Brazil in 2002 and didn't join United until 2003. Schweinsteiger didn't join United until a year after the 2014 final.

Silva didn't play in the 2010 final but got a winner's medal as a squad member and having played in earlier games. Vieira didn't join City until 4 years after he won the World Cup in 2006.

If we're counting non-serving players we could add Navas and United could add Romero and Rojo too.
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That 2010 Dutch side was fucking awful, God knows how they got that far.
 
StrangewaysHereWeCome said:
Wasted talent. Perhaps it was more graft over here than he was willing to put in?
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He got kicked to bits.
When Hughes got his team all wrong at Spurs, Huddlestone followed him across the pitch in about the 5th minute and openly kicked him in the ankle. The linesman saw it and called the ref over. The ref... had a word, and nothing else. Robinho disappeared for the rest of the game.

I assume it happened in other matches.

I think City bid for about five elite level strikers - Berbatov was one, resulting in Ferguson kidnapping him at the airport and having to buy Spurs off with Frasier Campbell for a season - all on the same day. At least that's what beer-addled memory says.
 
schfc6 said:
That 2010 Dutch side was fucking awful, God knows how they got that far.
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They had Sneijder and Robben at the very height of their game, a piss easy group, a piss easy second round tie, an extremely biased and favourable ref against Brazil in the quarters and played a poor Uruguay side in the semis instead of a great Ghana side that were cheated in the quarters. Oh and Van Bommel and Nige were given immunity to red cards throughout the tournament.
 
aguero93:20 said:
They had Sneijder and Robben at the very height of their game, a piss easy group, a piss easy second round tie, an extremely biased and favourable ref against Brazil in the quarters and played a poor Uruguay side in the semis instead of a great Ghana side that were cheated in the quarters. Oh and Van Bommel and Nige were given immunity to red cards throughout the tournament.
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Yep, do remember the immunity, especially Van Bommel.
 
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