United Thread - 2023/24

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jacko74 said:
I thought he came across as just a bit too sympathetic to their current plight and too reverential for what their status supposedly should be... almost sounded more like a rag at times bemoaning and lamenting their woes.
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He’s been invited on there to speak on united’s current plight and would have been conscious of that. Coming across all Bertie in those circumstances would have been rude and a bit childish imo. He could have declined the invite, but if he’s accepted it then he’s got to talk rationally about it, which he did.

I’ll speak to United fans rationally about it in similar terms, as long as they don’t play City bingo. If they do, then I take their legs from under them.

I’m sure he’s loving their demise as much as you and me mate, but it doesn’t mean he has to be a **** and rub their noses in it when invited by a united fan to speak about the club.

I think what he said was fine in the circumstances. A club ‘like’ united should not be acting in this way, because any professional football club shouldn’t.

They are a fucking disgusting and disgraceful organisation, and the rot absolutely comes from the top.
 
Ric said:
These sanctimonious tits actually believe this absolute horseshit. They’re almost as cult-like as Liverpool.

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Is this the same Utd team that stole their badge from the dippers and their nickname off a rugby team among many others Im sure
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
He’s been invited on there to speak on united’s current plight and would have been conscious of that. Coming across all Bertie in those circumstances would have been rude and a bit childish imo. He could have declined the invite, but if he’s accepted it then he’s got to talk rationally about it, which he did.

I’ll speak to United fans rationally about it in similar terms, as long as they don’t play City bingo. If they do, then I take their legs from under them.

I’m sure he’s loving their demise as much as you and me mate, but it doesn’t mean he has to be a **** and rub their noses in it when invited by a united fan to speak about the club.

I think what he said was fine in the circumstances. A club ‘like’ united should not be acting in this way, because any professional football club shouldn’t.

They are a fucking disgusting and disgraceful organisation, and the rot absolutely comes from the top.
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Yes that's a fair point, it was a very mature and measured stance that he adopted, but I still think he could have been just a bit less respectful and reverential without necessarily coming across as bitter and/or childish.
 
Manchester United have more sexual assault allegations against their players (2) in the last 2 years than trophies (1) won in the same period.
 
jacko74 said:
Yes that's a fair point, it was a very mature and measured stance that he adopted, but I still think he could have been just a bit less respectful and reverential without necessarily coming across as bitter and/or childish.
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I’m always up for a bit less respect towards united fans at any given opportunity!
 
TravisBickle said:
Is this the same Utd team that stole their badge from the dippers and their nickname off a rugby team among many others Im sure
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The same that was originally formed by a scouser from the Leeds Yorkshire railway. They don't like talking about that part of their history, dignity and integrity funnily enough
 
Bluearmy said:
The same that was originally formed by a scouser from the Leeds Yorkshire railway. They don't like talking about that part of their history, dignity and integrity funnily enough
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Not to sure about that the very same fools say Wayne Rooney isn’t a Scouser
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
He’s been invited on there to speak on united’s current plight and would have been conscious of that. Coming across all Bertie in those circumstances would have been rude and a bit childish imo. He could have declined the invite, but if he’s accepted it then he’s got to talk rationally about it, which he did.

I’ll speak to United fans rationally about it in similar terms, as long as they don’t play City bingo. If they do, then I take their legs from under them.

I’m sure he’s loving their demise as much as you and me mate, but it doesn’t mean he has to be a **** and rub their noses in it when invited by a united fan to speak about the club.

I think what he said was fine in the circumstances. A club ‘like’ united should not be acting in this way, because any professional football club shouldn’t.

They are a fucking disgusting and disgraceful organisation, and the rot absolutely comes from the top.
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I find faux concern can be so much more satisfying than full on piss taking.
 
If they sink any further into the abyss that is football obscurity, I don't think they'd ever fully recover and come bouncing back. At this particular time in the rags' history they currently have neither the character or resilience to surmount the numerous obstacles that would stand in their way.
For me, they have always been a facade, a pretence of a club. Newspaper headlines are more important than the actual football itself. The ultimate 'glamour' club. All Hollywood tinsel and glitter, but absolutely no substance. Signing players who are not necessarily the type they need, but players who are guaranteed to keep the club in the limelight.
The one single player who -for me- sums up the whole persona of that club is Beckscum. A player of extraordinarily limited ability who always seemed to play with one eye on the nearest camera lens on the side of the pitch. This is a man who married the LEAST talented of the Spice Girls (believe me, I have heard the raw tapes of her 'vocals' without Autotune or any other effects, trying hilariously to record 'Happy Birthday' to Tony Blair - a Marylin Monroe/JF Kennedy parody. Utterly fucking excruciating).
But they are two peas in a pod. They are both of them extremely shallow and superficial human beings, glossy surface but nothing beneath it.
And it's this pair of publicity-hungry wannabe's that fuelled the rags through most of the 90's. Beckscum, although having nothing to offer except free-kicks and penalties, brought the masses through the gates. And by the time he had that perfumed-scarecrow dangling from his overly-tattooed arm, and the paparazzi constantly on their tails, the rot had set in and the rags have been more about media savvy than football since then.
 
KentBlue said:
If they sink any further into the abyss that is football obscurity, I don't think they'd ever fully recover and come bouncing back. At this particular time in the rags' history they currently have neither the character or resilience to surmount the numerous obstacles that would stand in their way.
For me, they have always been a facade, a pretence of a club. Newspaper headlines are more important than the actual football itself. The ultimate 'glamour' club. All Hollywood tinsel and glitter, but absolutely no substance. Signing players who are not necessarily the type they need, but players who are guaranteed to keep the club in the limelight.
The one single player who -for me- sums up the whole persona of that club is Beckscum. A player of extraordinarily limited ability who always seemed to play with one eye on the nearest camera lens on the side of the pitch. This is a man who married the LEAST talented of the Spice Girls (believe me, I have heard the raw tapes of her 'vocals' without Autotune or any other effects, trying hilariously to record 'Happy Birthday' to Tony Blair - a Marylin Monroe/JF Kennedy parody. Utterly fucking excruciating).
But they are two peas in a pod. They are both of them extremely shallow and superficial human beings, glossy surface but nothing beneath it.
And it's this pair of publicity-hungry wannabe's that fuelled the rags through most of the 90's. Beckscum, although having nothing to offer except free-kicks and penalties, brought the masses through the gates. And by the time he had that perfumed-scarecrow dangling from his overly-tattooed arm, and the paparazzi constantly on their tails, the rot had set in and the rags have been more about media savvy than football since then.
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Wish I could like this twice, I particularly enjoyed "...that perfumed-scarecrow dangling from his overly tattooed arm..."

Take a boo sir!
 
Keep the Faith said:
I have a notion that the players have found that smacking your girlfriend/wife gets you a quick exit from then shithole. Quicker than waiting for a transfer at an inflated price
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Imagine if Liverpool took up that policy, the WAGs would be throwing themselves down the stairs.
 
They have literally 'taken their eye off the ball'.
Every decision is taken with one eye on how much people can screw out of the club and its past reputation, players and owners alike. They deserve nothing. Certainly not sympathy.

They are still miles away from being a serious football club.
 
United have a big issue now.

For the last 10 years their advantage over most of the competition has been that they could outspend most of, if not all, the other top PL clubs. It was felt that they had so much money that it was inevitable they would get it right at some stage even if it would take a few years.

The thing is, all the top teams now have a shitload of money to spend and that financial advantage they had has now been lost with the likes of even Arsenal being prepared to spend £100m on a single player. It will make it even harder for them to establish themselves as a title challenger.
 
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