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Turned on the radio this morning and found that I was in the middle of a Kloppfest. Watched the Fulham-Newcastle game just now and learned that Liverpool's next game will be the start of Jurgen's "Retirement Tour". Saw on BBC that Germany can only wait in hope. It was to be expected that things...

As did Yassine Bounou who was rated (for what it's worth) ahead of Martinez on the top-30 ranking given out on the Ballon D'Or extravaganza - which makes me wonder how Martinez came out on top (some sort of transferable voting system?). Maybe I got it wrong - attention was wandering a lot - but...

Back in the '60s my Mum worked on and off at a sweet shop/newsagent/tobacconist in The Quadrant, Stretford. A lot of United players used to come in. Although my Mum was City through and through she liked the United players she met, and, in particular, described Bobby Charlton as a true...

A great pity. Though not many rate Southgate as a manager of talented players there has generally been a feeling that he's a decent chap who has established an excellent mood in the squad ... and all that. Openly criticising a player's aspirations when, presumably, those aspirations have been...

Reminds me of vanchi in the Gvardiol thread. The quality of written English is at a level of which most of us can only dream. As the man said - welcome! (How long before someone on here questions your Serbian credentials?)

How How long before someone mentions the match-fixing scandal of 1915, involving a game in which the former City player Billy Meredith played? How much truth do you want or need for the chosen narrative?

Deep stuff. Schrodinger's Gvardiol,eh? - both this and not this. But, and I may be confused here, isn't this the case only if we don't look? If we do dare to do so then it's one or the other - the term "collapse" is sometimes used but under the circumstances I would prefer not to. What will this...

Charity demands that I do not accuse the posters (I was thinking of three, not just the one I replied to) of stupidity or malice, which is why I suggested the out-of-season WUMery. No exaggeration though to say that I find these whinings and moanings a bit much. So - I should just ignore them -...

Funny you should say Swedish. Where I worked a few years ago everything written for public consumption, including by management, was checked, and corrected, by a member of the office staff; she was Swedish but quite capable of saying whether what had been written was correct English - which is...

I can't see any good reason for thinking that vanchi is not authentic. Of course, all this may be a bit of a joke (education of vanchi in the subtleties of Mancunian humour perhaps?) which I'm not getting. Anyway, what would be the point of a Utd or Liverpool fan coming on here to... well...

I may have got this wrong but I had an idea that in a recent post you apologised for your uncertain grasp of English - not your first language, self taught and so on. If one of your reasons for coming on this forum was to extend your grasp of the vernacular (as spoke in Manchester) while...

United have a history of going after players who are prominent in the media and over-priced, or past their best, or both. They also go for players that they think City are interested in, so I'm wondering about this new chap Hojlund: from Scandinavian parts, name sounds promising ....

According to the BBC United, having paid over the odds for Mount, a player with a prominent image and a good long range shot, have now asked De Gea not to join another club "in case they can't find another keeper within their budget". Their dealings are seriously odd, or (and I've just thought...

Though De Gea has come up short with the passing game he did serve United very well for years: four times their POTY, beat Schmeichel's record for number of clean sheets, Golden Glove twice. No way of really knowing what has been going on behind the scenes but can't help feeling that this is a...

To continue your digression - I was taught to say "Pardon", while "What" was considered very common. Only very much later did I find that the upper classes see it the other way round. Alan Bennett said exactly the same thing about his working class upbringing. Now I'm much older than 45 and it...

Hard to judge when you are playing lower ranked teams; the defence did what was expected of them, which wasn't much - all tidy and unhurried, ending with a clean sheet. The one I feel for is Foden. What was he meant to do? In both games he ran around, harrying the opposition, but why? As far as...

Maybe not a great performance but I couldn't understand claims from various quarters that City were lucky or that Inter deserved to win. The last few minutes had me feeling ill - the thought of extra time and the horror of penalties! Perhaps the blue-tinted glasses are back in place, but I can't...

Agreed. Every time I watch an England game I begin full of enthusiasm and optimism. Don't want to sound negative but I really should know better. For a start I thought it was Malta against England but it soon appeared that it was Malta v. "Trent and Friends". A minute in and Malta have the ball...

Dunk. Really takes the biscuit.

Well said. I ought to be better informed, so thanks for the summary and the links to sources. I may be quite wrong but I get the impression that you've been through this before, demolishing arguments, pointing to the facts of the case. A frustrating business - sad to say but not everyone rates...