United thread 2017/18

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But 60 years...

Which passed last month. They've known the date of the actual anniversary since it happened but didn't decide to make a standalone programme in time and are forcing it in to this series and it really sticks out.

I'm going to celebrate my birthday tomorrow. It's not the actual day but it is the anniversary year so fuck it why not?
 
kippaxwarrior said:
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He seems to be wearing a wedding ring, who did he marry? The mirror??
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
As a footnote (and I caveat this with the word ‘includes’ that you used) but the putative absence of Aberfan is an even bigger disgrace. That disaster ultimately gave rise to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which is arguably the most important single piece of legislation since the Second World War, in terms of shaping British society. If it has been excluded from that programme, then the producer is a fucking moron.
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Couldn't agree more - like Hillsborough, Aberfan was a totally avoidable tragedy arising out of years of institutional neglect with those responsible trying to weasel their way out of the firing line. I was 12 at the time of the disaster and I still can't read articles or watch TV programmes about Aberfan without getting angry.

Munich was a terrible one-off accident but its inclusion in this series can only be seen as a ratings-grab. Far from being accidents, Hillsborough and Aberfan were the almost inevitable result of years of corporate and governmental negligence.
 
lancs blue said:
Couldn't agree more - like Hillsborough, Aberfan was a totally avoidable tragedy arising out of years of institutional neglect with those responsible trying to weasel their way out of the firing line. I was 12 at the time of the disaster and I still can't read articles or watch TV programmes about Aberfan without getting angry.

Munich was a terrible one-off accident but its inclusion in this series can only be seen as a ratings-grab. Far from being accidents, Hillsborough and Aberfan were the almost inevitable result of years of corporate and governmental negligence.
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Completely agree and very well put.
 
Oh YeahOh Yeah said:
Regarding the annoying follically challenged rag Nesbitt's series about Disasters That Changed Britain does the Burnden Park, Ibrox or the Bradford fire disasters not feature in the series seeing as they were football related tragedies as well?
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Or when two Middlesbrough fans died at the hands of their moronic fans.

Or the young Tottenham fan or the Crystal Palace fan.
 
Wretched Vengeance said:
After the continual and appalling treatment of Shaw by Mourinho, who does nothing but harangue and besmirch the lad, I wonder if it has come to the point where Shaw has thought, ' fuck this, fuck him and fuck this club', I'll do everything I can to get away.

I wouldn't blame him, he seems to be singled out every time he plays.
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But Simon Jordan said on the radio last night, "but where does he go after united? With all due respect to city, Chelsea, arsenal and Liverpool, united are the biggest club in the world".
 
Groke said:
But Simon Jordan said on the radio last night, "but where does he go after united? With all due respect to city, Chelsea, arsenal and Liverpool, united are the biggest club in the world".
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He also came out with shite such as ' the money paid to players is irrelevant if they perform well' I think his mic must have been broken as he surely would have added 'unless they play for that bastard oil club'.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I tend to stay away from commenting on anything negatively in relation to Munich; but that is outrageous.

All of those other disasters significantly changed our laws around health and safety, Munich didn’t. Hillsborough indisputably did, as it changed the wider landscape of football in a way that Munich couldn’t lay a glove on: it (arguably) irreversibly changed the safety, the setting, the demographic and ultimately the viability of football in this country. It provided a pivotal and seismic turning point in the history of football as a spectator sport. Munich didn’t.

As a footnote (and I caveat this with the word ‘includes’ that you used) but the putative absence of Aberfan is an even bigger disgrace. That disaster ultimately gave rise to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which is arguably the most important single piece of legislation since the Second World War, in terms of shaping British society. If it has been excluded from that programme, then the producer is a fucking moron.
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Also Hull trawler tragedy 1968 often forgotten sadly
 
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