United Thread | 2025/26

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Blue Mist said:
It has been widely reported that a Dundee school have bought 52 tickets for an upcoming rag game.

Unfortunately the school has been struck by a severe bout of illness with 750 kids ill. A further 322 wagged it and 176 changed schools.
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Hahahaha.....'wagged it'....
 
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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It' amazing.

They struggled with a strong team at Grimsby and eventually went out.

We made light work against an inform Huddersfield with a second string.

Reckon that summarises the gulf between us and them.
 
Paul Parker on talksport this morning.
1. It will take 2/3 years to get utd playing the way he wants.
2. Giggs and Scholes wouldn't get a game in the Amorim system.
3. Utd dominated the derby once Mainoo came on
 
richardtheref said:
Paul Parker on talksport this morning.
1. It will take 2/3 years to get utd playing the way he wants.
2. Giggs and Scholes wouldn't get a game in the Amorim system.
3. Utd dominated the derby once Mainoo came on
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He obviously failed to notice that we scored one of our three goals, after Knobby ManYoo came on.
 
richardtheref said:
Paul Parker on talksport this morning.
3. Utd dominated the derby once Mainoo came on
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Once the narrative is set on one their youngsters it never shifts. The manager doesn't fancy him, so he mustn't be doing it in training.
 
' United fans hail touching gesture' Somebody in his family has died and they have given him compassionate leave. Wow. What a tremendous example they have set to all other clubs. I despair
 
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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Didn’t Stepney throw it in his own net once ? And it was before Asian betting cartels!
 
CPPSC said:
Didn’t Stepney throw it in his own net once ? And it was before Asian betting cartels!
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He saved an indirect free-kick (possibly struck by Frannie) in the League Cup semifinal in 1970, which Buzzer (I think) scored the winner from, as he followed up.

If that isn’t incompetent goalkeeping, nothing is.
 
Vienna_70 said:
He saved an indirect free-kick (possibly struck by Frannie) in the League Cup semifinal in 1970, which Buzzer (I think) scored the winner from, as he followed up.

If that isn’t incompetent goalkeeping, nothing is.
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Just googled it and it was Gary Sprake I was thinking of . Apologies for the foc moment though it will bring back happy memories for Jim Harris !
 
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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What do you mean, ‘later that night?’
 
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