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This is an excellent read from a blog called FootballIsFixed http://footballisfixed.blogspot.com/ which is always worth a read. The guy who writes it is a rag (from Salford) but a very switched on one. Enjoy!

Thursday, 5 January 2012
The End of Manchester United As We Know It
On the 23rd of October 2011, an idea for an app came to mind...
... the number nineteen on a red background would slowly morph into 1-6 on a sky blue background.

Less than a fortnight later and Steve Bruce and Wes Brown were needed to ensure that Sir Ferguson's 25th anniversary was marketed correctly.
The naming of the Sir Alex Ferguson Stand on that very date was the ultimate sell sign.

Manchester United are in terminal decline - there are no redeeming aspects.
Like Chelsea post-Mourinho, the fade from glory will see the occasional triumph but the days of dominance will fade into the mists of universal time.

Unable to get more than three draws against the might of Basel and Benfica, the financial cost of failing to reach the second phase of the Champions League is colossal. Even more so when oodles of cash are needed to fund the interest payments on the leveraged buyout enacted by the Glazers in their medium term strategy of asset stripping par excellence, while grabbing some financial action themselves.

And the internal psychology of the club is in decline too. Insider trading from within Manchester United accompanied both of their Champions League Final defeats to Barcelona (hardly an indication of a robust structure). United were not even competitive in either of these events.

Massive insider trading against United was also undertaken prior to the two most recent defeats against Blackburn (bottom of the table) and Newcastle (five points from 8 games prior to Man U). Very serious money indeed was traded against the mighty reds in both games. You could get 30/1 on Blackburn winning!!!

The holistic is dire - Ferguson announcing three more years (and the timing) is a strategic weakness, the battling with an already declining Rooney is counter-productive, while chatting with Asian bookmakers is surely not what one should expect from a knight of the monarchy.

There is no waiting list for season tickets, and tickets are available for virtually all home games, the power structures behind Liverpool, Sunderland, Newcastle, Chelsea, Tottenham, Villa, Manchester City (especially) and even Stoke are more robust (only Arsenal are similarly self-harming), Ronaldo and Tevez haven't been replaced and there is no money available for anything other than low/mid tier transfers. Worse still, the 'acclaimed' next wave of youth is not looking quite so promising anymore - they are certainly not Giggs, Scholes, the Nevilles and Beckham anyway. And even worse still, the available squad in their current state of injuries, form and mind are simply not up to it.

De Gea is not der Sar. Lindegaard's mentor is Roy Carroll to the delight of the laying community. Hence the media campaign against De Gea.

United don't have a right back, Jones is an incredibly amusing blundering buffoon - it is a little like watching Tommy Cooper on wiz as his three own goals this season outscore his one goal at the right end in his entire club career.
Ferdinand must have a good agent because he crossed the white finishing line a decade ago. Vidic is out for an eternity and Smalling is injured. Evans is poor and only Evra is up to scratch in the defence.

Nani is not the player of last year, Fletcher is probably not going to play again, Giggs cannot juggle his sex life and the football for much longer, Carrick is useless, Gibson and Valencia haven't evolved and Anderson frustrates. Park is okay though.

Berbatov is a dodgy smoker, Rooney a loose cannon, the Little Pea has been podded and has lost some pace to boot, while Michael Owen has a Timeform squiggle next to his name. So Welbeck is the only forward.

In comparison, City are stable. Their owners have a long term strategy and are self-financing, so no payments to financial institutions. City fit into the array of businesses that the Abu Dhabi Chaebol are assembling. The psychology is positive. The sky is the limit. The best young kids are veering to City.
Tevez hasn't been missed and can be replaced by anyone they want as Champions League is no longer a distraction.

I was at Newcastle for Manchester City's 4-3 victory that gave the Sky Blues the title in 1968 - United imploded on the same day at home to Sunderland.
So it seems apt that City fans can start celebrating the next title on the night that United yet again imploded against a north eastern team.
And 44 years and 2 days on, City will be handed the EPL trophy as United no doubt implode once again against Sunderland on May 11th.

Knowing when to stop is the mark of a man. Sir Ferguson is going on three years too far...
... for his legacy and for the club.
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So this United fan, on the day they were playing at home and could win the title, decided not to go to Old Trafford, but hotfooted it up to Newcastle in the hope of seeing City lose.
 
ono said:
They can't be that shit though. They're only 3 points behind us.
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They have had a good run of home games against the bigger boys whereas we have played most of the big boys away..

They have some tough aways starting last night against Newcastle...

3 points dropped at the first major hurdle of 2012.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again, last season was baconface's greatest achievement.
Taking that pile of shit to a Champions League Final and winning the Prem really was quite remarkable
Anyone else would have sat down at the end of the season and thought they were fortunate, but no doubt the self obsessed alchy thought "I can do this again and again"

This season Diego Jones and Ashley Young have had their "honeymoon" periods (like Nasri for us)
Berbatov can't be arsed as he knows he has no future.
Rooney looks pissed off and that's rubbed off onto Nani
Ferdinand and Giggs are past it and practically finished
They don't have a decent keeper and worse still, they spunked an incredible amount on DeGea which should have been used to strengthen elsewhere

All in all, they are a decent Premier league side who are massively over performing.
They have a six game run coming that includes Tottenham, Arsenal, and Chelsea away and Liverpool at home.
Let's see where they are after that
 
Puskas said:
So this United fan, on the day they were playing at home and could win the title, decided not to go to Old Trafford, but hotfooted it up to Newcastle in the hope of seeing City lose.
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Not just me thinking this is bollocks then?
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Puskas said:
So this United fan, on the day they were playing at home and could win the title, decided not to go to Old Trafford, but hotfooted it up to Newcastle in the hope of seeing City lose.
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He was only a kid at the time so possibly his dad was a Blue.
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Was it you?
 
The Future's Blue said:
Prestwich_Blue said:
Puskas said:
So this United fan, on the day they were playing at home and could win the title, decided not to go to Old Trafford, but hotfooted it up to Newcastle in the hope of seeing City lose.
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He was only a kid at the time so possibly his dad was a Blue.
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Was it you?
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I'd love to have written that but it wasn't me.
 
Considering there in massive decline they had there best ever start and with the injuries are only 3 points behind ?
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The Future's Blue said:
Prestwich_Blue said:
He was only a kid at the time so possibly his dad was a Blue.
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Was it you?
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I'd love to have written that but it wasn't me.
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OK, I seen the 1st bit you written before editing.

Sounds like many Rags, crying out loud because they can actually see what's around the corner. You'd have thought they'd have seen how they were papering over the cracks but most of the deluded fucks ain't actually got a clue.

As for Rasher-Chops, don't they actually understand that he was one of the few who invited the Glazer's in and has been holding it together since? He can't leave, he's part of the problem and won't want anyone looking through the windows and seeing the house is derelict.
 
Could have been written by a blue (apart from the bit about Park being OK :D)

And, 3 OGs this season, that's incredible - the way he is going he will overtake Richard Dunne and Jamie Carragher in about 2 years seeing he still has half this season to get a few more! :)))))
 
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