United (A) Post Match Thread

Thorin Oakenshield said:
What young manager's are out there they they can get? Seriously who is doing well in football?
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Potter or Rodgers would be their best bet but I see them going for a bigger name like Zidane if they sack Ole.

The one thing I’ll say about Brighton and Leicester is that they are both well coached sides. They have a plan and patterns to their game which is why they are decent sides to watch. I also think that is why Pep rates them so highly as well.

I suppose the big question mark would be whether they can handle big egos. If they can, then they’d be a good replacement for managers at any of the top PL clubs.
 
AlanBalls said:
I didn’t see any violence - in fact the worst I’ve seen was on Wembley Way after the 1-0 in the FA semi in 2011 - but it’s still a head down and go kind of place.

For better or worse, it’s totally opposite to the Etihad. Plenty of oppo fans will be milling around at the food stalls & round City Square.

It’s not the ‘modern’ way, but it’s unpleasant.
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Bit like their football, stuck in the past.
 
LongsightM13 said:
Thought that was at home
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It was. Late in 2006-07 under Pearce. Crap7 scored from the spot for them and Vassell took a late pen down the middle. The keeper dived but it hit his legs and our long wait for a home goal continued.
The clown Barton usually took them but he missed the previous week against Villa and didn't play against the rags. i think that might have been about the time the Ousmane Dabo incident occured.
 
AlanBalls said:
Not had a chance to run through the thread but, having been to the game, there’s one thing I’ve got to credit the rags for. The walk towards the stadium and the area surrounding it is intimidating as fuck. They haven’t lost the old school feel in the surrounding area with the pubs and chippys on Matt Busby way.

Granted, it’s a side-product of their owners having zero interest in the redevelopment of the area (noticed a fair bit of wasteland and dereliction adjacent to the ground), but it’s a positive all the same.

I hate the walk in, I hate the walk out. Hasn’t changed in the 15 or so years since I first went to OT.

Loved the two hours inside though :-)
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Been loads over the years. All over that ground. Nothin but shithouses.
 
AlanBalls said:
Can’t even blame Sky. City’s marketing team themselves have rebranded us as ‘Man City’. See the third kit ffs. I detest it.
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Same, don’t think I’ve uttered “Man City” out my mouth in the 55 years I’ve been watching em.
 
CC1 said:
Of course he is - but I called you out on the stupid thing you said about the rag players: ie
I’d take Pogba, Fernandes, Greenwood, Rashford, Ronaldo, Sancho, Varane and Shaw if they were available for the right price. They’re all decent players


shaw? Sancho. Varanne. Pogba

Do be serious
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I’m not advocating swapping our current players for theirs. I simply think there is some potential in those players and Pep could get a tune out of them.
 
AlanBalls said:
Not had a chance to run through the thread but, having been to the game, there’s one thing I’ve got to credit the rags for. The walk towards the stadium and the area surrounding it is intimidating as fuck. They haven’t lost the old school feel in the surrounding area with the pubs and chippys on Matt Busby way.

Granted, it’s a side-product of their owners having zero interest in the redevelopment of the area (noticed a fair bit of wasteland and dereliction adjacent to the ground), but it’s a positive all the same.

I hate the walk in, I hate the walk out. Hasn’t changed in the 15 or so years since I first went to OT.

Loved the two hours inside though :-)
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I haven’t been there in a while. Last time I went I got the supporters coach and had to get across the left to right moving scum fan traffic from the coach park. An absolute disgrace having away fans try and get the the stadium entrance by crossing the home support flow of fans......a fair few trying to kick you as you pass but I was wise to this and had worn boots so gave as good as I got. Then the police penning us in at the stadium entrance...like I said, disgrace and haven’t been since.
 
The perfect fumble said:
"Worse than the Liverpool game, they toyed around with us, this was a training session today"...




Our fantastic support supplied the soundtrack to their misery!
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I fucking love this video. Our support was brilliant today, was shitting it before the game as losing at the swamp is the stuff of nightmares. They truly are the most plastic fan base I’ve ever seen, majority of them outside the swamp after the game were all laughing and taking pictures still.
 
blueparrot said:
I have and lots of others have too, we even have songs that do. Personally don’t care it only became something people care about in the last 20 years or so.
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City or Manchester City to me.. or maybe the blues.

Will never be anything else.
 
East Level 2 said:
It was. Late in 2006-07 under Pearce. Crap7 scored from the spot for them and Vassell took a late pen down the middle. The keeper dived but it hit his legs and our long wait for a home goal continued.
The clown Barton usually took them but he missed the previous week against Villa and didn't play against the rags. i think that might have been about the time the Ousmane Dabo incident occured.
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Yeah I remember Barton skying that one against Villa, almost cleared the Platt Lane roof
 
Octavian said:
Touchel, Guardiola or Klopp would have them pushing 3rd easily, probably 2nd.
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I don't think this is a silly thought.

Look at Chelsea before and after Tuchel came in. I think that even though their squad is more balanced than United's, it's lesser on individual quality.

Had Solskjaer been sacked last December and Tuchel went there I think they'd be pretty similar to Chelsea now. Boring but very efficient.


Klopp and Guardiola would've taken more time to get going, but again they'd make it work in the long run far better than Solskjaer has done.
 
AlanBalls said:
Not had a chance to run through the thread but, having been to the game, there’s one thing I’ve got to credit the rags for. The walk towards the stadium and the area surrounding it is intimidating as fuck. They haven’t lost the old school feel in the surrounding area with the pubs and chippys on Matt Busby way.

Granted, it’s a side-product of their owners having zero interest in the redevelopment of the area (noticed a fair bit of wasteland and dereliction adjacent to the ground), but it’s a positive all the same.

I hate the walk in, I hate the walk out. Hasn’t changed in the 15 or so years since I first went to OT.

Loved the two hours inside though :-)
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Should have been there in the 60/70's it was a nightmare. Even as a kid trying to keep my head down and walk along Warwick road now Sir Matt Busby way to get the bus home. Loads of Wythenshawe rags knew me so I hoped I wasn't spotted. Mind you they knew I'd catch up with them later but it was nerve wracking at the time
 
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