United Thread | 2025/26

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blubanjo said:
What a day, remember being outside the Sherwood before the game. Thankfully I didnt get embroiled in the North Stand trouble as I was in the Kippax that day. The few minutes break changed the whole dynamic of the game, the rest is history.
Heywood town centre was like a scene out of Apocalypse Now later that night.
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Love it !! In what way ? #Heywood
 
eversince 76 said:
Another full week off to try and learn ‘the system’.
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is 'the system' that hard to learn? Hope a man gets sent off, get dodgy decision, get another dodgy decision, hope opposition gets injuries or manager has brain fart, claim great win, let idiot fans believe you've turned another corner, seems fairly simple.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Brilliant performance.

I’d forgotten about Paddy Roach, one of a long line of dodgy rags goalkeepers.

Stepney, Bailey, Bartez, and right up to date with Onana.

I’m not convinced that Bayindir is any better, though obviously, we haven’t seen him of him yet.
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Thank you for that list.
I recently had a conversation with an old-school rag (closer to 70 than 60, this lad) who was adamant that Alex Stepney was "arguably the best English goalkeeper of the 1970s after Shilton and Clemence".
This lad is Irish and he used to schlep over regularly to Old Trafford on the (fucking arduous, to get fair) bus to the ferry & train to Manchester & do it all in reverse route before Ryanair. So I didn't want to take the piss out of him but like I say, thanks for the list. He was so adamant, I was starting to doubt my own memory.
Aba452 said:
I'm shocked outraged and amazed that Massimo taibi has been left off this list of legerdemain.

To say nothing of Slippery Jim Leighton!


Standards, Vienna, standards ;-)))
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When Sore Alex won the Cup Winners Cup with Aberdeen, only two of the Aberdeen first XI that night had been signed by him. The rest were former manager, Billy McNeil's players. In fairness to Ferguson, two unused substitutes that night were also his signings. One of those unised subs was the young but competent goalkeeper, Brian Gunn.
When Sore Alex went to United, he left Gunn at Aberdeen and took that other clown, Leighton, with him. Leighton nearly cost the twat his job with a dreadful performance at Wembley. Add in Taibi, Barthez and that Aussie coke head whose name escapes me and you'd have to say the belligerent Scots hard shoulder shitter was blessed when someone recommended Schmeichel to him.
All of which goes to prove that it's better to be lucky than good, I suppose.
 
mad4city said:
Thank you for that list.
I recently had a conversation with an old-school rag (closer to 70 than 60, this lad) who was adamant that Alex Stepney was "arguably the best English goalkeeper of the 1970s after Shilton and Clemence".
This lad is Irish and he used to schlep over regularly to Old Trafford on the (fucking arduous, to get fair) bus to the ferry & train to Manchester & do it all in reverse route before Ryanair. So I didn't want to take the piss out of him but like I say, thanks for the list. He was so adamant, I was starting to doubt my own memory.

When Sore Alex won the Cup Winners Cup with Aberdeen, only two of the Aberdeen first XI that night had been signed by him. The rest were former manager, Billy McNeil's players. In fairness to Ferguson, two unused substitutes that night were also his signings. One of those unised subs was the young but competent goalkeeper, Brian Gunn.
When Sore Alex went to United, he left Gunn at Aberdeen and took that other clown, Leighton, with him. Leighton nearly cost the twat his job with a dreadful performance at Wembley. Add in Taibi, Barthez and that Aussie coke head whose name escapes me and you'd have to say the belligerent Scots hard shoulder shitter was blessed when someone recommended Schmeichel to him.
All of which goes to prove that it's better to be lucky than good, I suppose.
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Mark Bosnich?
 
Tuearts right boot said:
Chuckle all ye want....we haven't beaten the mighty Terriers yet.....
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At least we made the third round.

Yes, I know we had a bye, due to our European commitments, but whose moaning and bitching about fixture congestion led to the situation whereby teams involved in continental competitions were given free passage into the third round of the League Cup?

Oh yeah, that’s right, one pisscan!
 
Vienna_70 said:
At least we made the third round.

Yes, I know we had a bye, due to our European commitments, but whose moaning and bitching about fixture congestion led to the situation whereby teams involved in continental competitions were given free passage into the third round of the League Cup?

Oh yeah, that’s right, one pisscan!
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Oh Vienna! ((c) midge ure) But isn’t that so poetic?
 
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