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Ribble73 said:
This phenomenon definitely disappeared in the Busby era
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Think it happened all over the country, not just in Manchester ?
Football was the bread & butter of the working class so you could afford to watch a game every week. Standing on an open terrace was cheap and you could decide at 2.45 to go to the game.
I moved to Manchester in 1980, playing football and socialising with a Sunday team of mixed blue & red supporters.
Went to Old Trafford a few times, but thought it was too commercial, even then.
Also, the managers and players, of both Manchester teams, were generally not such a bunch of twats...
 
Moyes - We’ll aspire to be more like Man City
Mourinho - Football heritage
Mad Louis - We are going to go for 2nd place
Ragnick - The club needs an open heart operation
Ronaldo - like a sick fish in an aquarium

The cunts don’t like yo hear the truth.
 
They can play 5 at the back with Mainoo and Ugarte in midfield and make themselves awkward to beat away from home but their forward line is awful.
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
Think it happened all over the country, not just in Manchester ?
Football was the bread & butter of the working class so you could afford to watch a game every week. Standing on an open terrace was cheap and you could decide at 2.45 to go to the game.
I moved to Manchester in 1980, playing football and socialising with a Sunday team of mixed blue & red supporters.
Went to Old Trafford a few times, but thought it was too commercial, even then.
Also, the managers and players, of both Manchester teams, were generally not such a bunch of twats...
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When I was still living in Cornwall, one of my drinking buddies was a Londoner, who told me that when he was growing up, he’d watched Charlton one week, and Millwall the next.

He thought he’d never see a better goalkeeper than Frank Swift, until Bert Trautmann came along.
 
Vienna_70 said:
I see at least one of the papers is going with the line that Rashford wants his place in the team back.

As Mrs Vienna used to tell the grandchildren, I want gets nothing.
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But but but I thought there was a massive queue and bun fight from Europe's top clubs for his services or did the media really not mean that and were doing the rags business by trying to create a market?
 
LangleyBlue1970 said:
The media onslaught on these cunts is a thing of beauty. They are nobody anymore other than a complete laughing stock
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What media onslaught?

I've seen nothing really mocking them or highlighting their spending.

All I'm mostly seeing is the "Wembley of the North" storys being regurgitated and pumped out once again and how it's going to bring immeasurable billions of economic benefits to the region... Distract Distract Distract
 
King Jay said:
They just buy average players all the time who come into a team with no system and internal struggles . I believe Hojlund, Antony and someone like Yoro would be far better now if they joined another team instead of this circus.

Mount, Malacia, Shaw, Casemiro. Already 4 players they need to get rid of with high wages.
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Hojlund is a Championship level player on his best day
 
Blueboy73 said:
Real have taken several players off the Rags who were in their prime and sell them their over thrle hill dross.
Rags said Aguero and Silva were off to Real every year for 10 years and were saying the same about Haaland until he signed a 9 and a half year contract.
These are the same Rags who claim their club is the biggest in the world.
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utd have got clever in recent years by not buying any players that Real Madrid would be interested in. Maybe City could still learn a thing or two from their neighbours?
 
jacko74 said:
What media onslaught?

I've seen nothing really mocking them or highlighting their spending.

All I'm mostly seeing is the "Wembley of the North" storys being regurgitated and pumped out once again and how it's going to bring immeasurable billions of economic benefits to the region... Distract Distract Distract
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What the fuck does Wembley of the north even mean? National stadium, soulless, expensive, just typical sound bites. There is no Olympics, commonwealth games, world cups on the horizon.

By next season there are 3 modern stadiums within 30 miles with attendances over 50k. There will be no benefit to the “north” the only people who want this are Rags.
 
Gingers Dad said:
The away fans sang Fergie Out! But let's not dispel the myth that everyone was patient and supported the manager until he got it right.
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“Not the yernited way to sack managers”

Made me piss when they spun that one. In between busby and GPC and post GPC they sacked managers for fun. Easy to say “we dont sack our managers” when you have a couple of generational managers in place.

Dick heads
 
Gingers Dad said:
utd have got clever in recent years by not buying any players that Real Madrid would be interested in. Maybe City could still learn a thing or two from their neighbours?
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I agree, maybe we could learn how to waste a billion pounds on utter dross and sack countless managers after claiming each one was the second coming.
 
cheekybids said:
What the fuck does Wembley of the north even mean? National stadium, soulless, expensive, just typical sound bites. There is no Olympics, commonwealth games, world cups on the horizon.

By next season there are 3 modern stadiums within 30 miles with attendances over 50k. There will be no benefit to the “north” the only people who want this are Rags.
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The thing is “big stadiums” are NOT the way forward in this day and age, quality stadia with high income return seats and facilities are. The view from those high seats at Wembley are shocking and they are wanting to build one with worse views than that? In the position they’re in?

Absolute utter bonkers management. They’re continually trying to find that “missing piece” of the jigsaw to return them to their former glory when most everyone else is using proper business logic to build slowly over time.

Look at how Arsenal and Spurs have fared after their £390M and £1B respective spends on their new homes, not exactly a model for instant success is it.
 
Norman kneejerk said:
That's a great find. My dad always told me how City were the superstar team of the 30s and how almost everyone supported them but I never realised united were that close to dropping into the 3rd. If only
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They averaged around 11k in the top flight in the 1930/1931 season which was the lowest in the division.
For context, City pulled over 84k for a cup tie in 1934 which is still a British record attendance outside Lindon and Glasgow.
 
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