United Thread - 2023/24

[pride in battle]

It's always the same with spuds
Arse might do something
Brighton will be robbed, because, well, they're only Brighton.....

If Arsenal don't beat them they aren't winning the league...

 

[blue b4 the moon]

It doesn't even surprise or make me angry any more. You have to factor in the corruption when you play Ushited particularly at the Old Toilet.

Yeah I always work on the assumption that they're the equivalent of 1-0 up when they kick off.

There's always a decision their way or against whoever they play which is or could be game changing. Been the same all my life and with every game now on TV & cameras everywhere they've had to pull VAR out of the hat to try and muddy the waters.

To paraphrase Buzz Lightyear.....cheats, cheats everywhere.

 

[Blue Maverick]

I suppose Webb will come out with we apologise this won’t happen again this season, its blatant cheating/corruption/incompetence and gives them 3 points, after that offside last year nothing surprises me, I suppose we will just have to win it again our own way.

 

[havefaith]

Re them being reffing differently, I only watched a chunk of the first half during which I saw offsides given against wolves a number of times (at a guess 4/5 times) with no replay to show said offsides in the space of 10 mins.

Looking for match stats, 2 sources both show scum 1 and wolves 3 offsides during the match, - that can,t be right surely.

 

[Iamthemusicman]

Amazing how the Caf mental gymnast their way out. Apparently, your keeper can run out, get none of the ball, clatter into an opponent who has control of the ball, and it won't be a penalty because "it happens all the time".

In all fairness keepers get away with stuff like that all the time. It should be a penalty but for whatever reason they never are.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

The takeaway from last night after spending over £170 odd million this window is that United are a pile of steaming dung. A team that lost their manager a few days before and scored the fewest amount of goals last season created chance after chance. Pumpkin head will be wishing he was back in Madrid with all the extra space he will have to cover with Fernandes and Mount hanging him out to dry.

Wolves had more shots than the rags, completed around the same amount of passes and possession was 51/49 in United’s favour. If that’s what they will do against a team tipped for the drop what happens when the teams in the top half of the table come knocking. Not to mention whoever they get in the champions league. They will be lucky to get top four, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and even Newcastle look like they have more potential to finish higher than them.

 

[Cellarite]

Amazing how the Caf mental gymnast their way out. Apparently, your keeper can run out, get none of the ball, clatter into an opponent who has control of the ball, and it won't be a penalty because "it happens all the time".

Claiming the Wolves player had control of the ball is stretching the truth, even by this forum's standards.

 

[Cellarite]

In all fairness keepers get away with stuff like that all the time. It should be a penalty but for whatever reason they never are.

Apart from when it's Ederson at the Emirates.

 

[coolcity]

I really think I'm going to have to take a step back from football this coming season... As much as I enjoy the fantastic football and subsequent success that City achieve I just can't face another 9 months of seeing these jammy twats getting comprehensively outplayed WEEK IN WEEK OUT yet scraping the narrowest of undeserved wins thanks to a combination of opposition strikers constantly shitting themselves in front of goal and corrupt officiating.

TBH I get around that by simply not watching them. I'm not usually into conspiracy theories but there's no way it can fall your way that often, when the decision is clear to everybody else watching it. Absolutely everybody thought that was a penalty last night, yet it wasn't. It's not as if the keeper was anywhere near the ball, for it to be a 50/50 call, it was a blatant pen.

Not the only call Wolves had either. Just a shame they couldn't finish, but they would have probably had to score three before one of them counted.

 

[Akira]

Claiming the Wolves player had control of the ball is stretching the truth, even by this forum's standards.

By 'control', I meant in the sense he played the ball.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

My ERO and myself both agreed on 'the pen' at The Swamp last night. However, we both thought that as Wolves had spurned a good few chances there was a Rag pen loitering in the next ten mins, but it turned out to be on the 'other hand' - blatant denial of a blatant pen. How many more times has PiGMOL got to apologise about decisions that VAR was supposed to eradicate. I came to a conclusion some time ago that the whistling wankers and partially-sighted in the VAR shed just do not want to apply the LotG. They know it's a pen, the world and his pet chinchilla know it's a pen, but they are gonna brazen it out till FT and then offer a mealy-mouthed totally dishonest apology to the team robbed of a point whilst their opposition waltz off with the whole three. Matchday One and we are still being force-fed the same old, same old!

 

[Cellarite]

By 'control', I meant in the sense he played the ball.

He didn't play the ball either. It was the Wolves player behind him who headed the ball.

 

[Akira]

He didn't play the ball either. It was the Wolves player behind him if I recall correctly.

Didn't the ball come in and landed on the one Onana fouled? Granted I only caught the highlights, so if that wasn't the case I stand corrected.

 

[Maly]

Claiming the Wolves player had control of the ball is stretching the truth, even by this forum's standards.

Perhaps you need to put your blue tinted specs back on, as the Wolves player was balancing the ball on his nose when he got clattered

That’s definitely having the ball under control. No idea what game you were watching mate

 

[roach3]

After that Onana challenge I saw the ref running over to the touch line me thinking it’s a var check only for it to be a booking for the wolves manager.

What they’ve basically done here is nobody will be allowed to contest querie or confront
Blatant incompetence and cheating bias.

Every single fan other than the rags can see the obvious bias decisions they are going to get this season, according to the caf they’ve seen em given, apart from a few proper utd fans and I know a few they will say and do anything to absolve their team.

They have actually gone backwards based on that shite last night.

Garnacho will have a few good games but other than that he’s shite.

Casimero looked fucked after 20 mins a big problem for them.

Mason fucking mount is average at best chavs have pulled the keks down with this pretender, runs around a lot doing fuckall.

Antony 90m? he’s dogshit made one run all night then turned and passed it back to midfield. Spent most of the game falling over and frowning.

Splinter did fuckall seeing as he’s not allowed to wave imaginary cards or complain about everything infact I actually asked a Newcastle fan if he’s was playing after 30 mins.

Fish fingers did fuckall as usual lazy **** walking around barely any pressing.

Onana prob a decent Keeper but instructed to hoof it to a none existent midfield.

ten bobs a total fraud they have not changed their style of play at all.

400m spent under him and they rely on their pgmol mates to bail em out.

 

[coolcity]

In all fairness keepers get away with stuff like that all the time. It should be a penalty but for whatever reason they never are.

Generally if the keeper is nowhere near the ball it's given, where the keeper has barged into the player. If it's the other way around, or a 50/50 clash it's not given. If the keeper gets a touch on the ball it's not given but he wasn't even close to getting there. It's the fact that VAR didn't even look at it, or looked but made a decision in 0.03 seconds that's suspicious. They'll spend 5 minutes looking at an offside that's clear even without a specialist equipment but not at a clash like that. It's time that we at least had access to what is said by the refs and the video ref at Stockley Park. They do in other sports.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

In all fairness keepers get away with stuff like that all the time. It should be a penalty but for whatever reason they never are.

Yeah, they only have to drop the ball, and often it will be their own defenders who cause them to drop it, but if it's not a clean catch then it must be a foul! The Fulham keeper at Goodison on Saturday got away with a pen award and was presented with a free kick when he'd fouled the attacker. It's just risible.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Blatant penalty..........VAR is sometimes blind it seems. (at the swamp)

 

[The Salford lad.]

Excuse my ignorance but what is a PIGMOL

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Excuse my ignorance but what is a PIGMOL

U****d's bitch.