Another Times article

[Soulboy]

I particularly loved your last sentence.

When we're being hated more than the Rags you know something's working!

 

[1.618034]

Nice one Ric, although have to take you to task on utd "going from strength to strength"... "since the halcyon days" of the late 60's... They had their own stumbles in the 70's I seem to recall, and fortuitously managed to coincide their resurgence in the 90's with the arrival of the Sky millions which cemented their place at the top table... Of course we more than stumbled from the late 70's onwards until the 81 cup final, which seemed to make us lame for the next 20 odd years... if we'd have been a racehorse then the glue factory would've no doubt beckoned in the 90's...

Sorry to be picky like, but utd's "luck" in being at the top as the PL emerged still rankles with me daily! People, and especially rags, have very short memories and a Pol Pot-esque way of thinking that history started in 1991!

But hey, it seems that finally the times, they are a changin'!

 

[Stato]

Wahey you got an elbow lyric in.

well done Ric, good read.

 

[LEE BRADBURY]

Nice piece Ric,why don’t you contribute more on here ?,

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Brilliant !

Go Ricki Go Ricki

 

[Lemmy]

7.34/10

 

[samharris]

cool.

 

[Balti]

Nice one Ric, although have to take you to task on utd "going from strength to strength"... "since the halcyon days" of the late 60's... They had their own stumbles in the 70's I seem to recall, and fortuitously managed to coincide their resurgence in the 90's with the arrival of the Sky millions which cemented their place at the top table... Of course we more than stumbled from the late 70's onwards until the 81 cup final, which seemed to make us lame for the next 20 odd years... if we'd have been a racehorse then the glue factory would've no doubt beckoned in the 90's...

Sorry to be picky like, but utd's "luck" in being at the top as the PL emerged still rankles with me daily! People, and especially rags, have very short memories and a Pol Pot-esque way of thinking that history started in 1991!

But hey, it seems that finally the times, they are a changin'!

Bit harsh that as the rags are almost an amateur side that has prospered purely on gate receipts and bovril sales, and certainly not Irish or Yankee million/billionaires. They have never used their finacial muscle to outbid other teams for players that they covet and players that go there usually hike there for days on end through the snow before pledging to play for nowt but an orange and a rich tea biccy. When the team changes ownership it is done on a handshake over a glass of mackeson and a smile, and certainly no money ever changes hands. They learnt this from Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea who have similarly old-fashioned almost amateur-like principles. In fact Chelsea have always been one of the top clubs in the country almost forever largely due to the fantastic coaching skills of Matthew Harding who built them up from nothing to be a major force before his philanthropic chum Batesy gave them away to his buddy Abramovich who has only had to spend the program receipts to keep it ticking over nicely. This is all as it should be in a competitive league where every club has an equal chance of winning the league every season, and it is only the sheer brilliance of the management teams that the bestest clubs continue to sit at the top table where they so richly belong and where they can best donate their Champions League and TV revenues to lower league sides and other charitable foundations. God bless them one and all. City and their nasty cash threaten to ruin this hard-won nirvana of equality and opportunity for all. It's just not fair. Sob.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

And I suspect that there will not be a Rag with the word 'hegemony' in their everyday vocabulary.

 

[yankblue]

Great Article