Media Thread - 2021/22

[Saddleworth2]

Caller after caller yesterday saying “x player isn’t a Manchester United player” and “come on, this is Manchester Utd we’re talking about”…. And?

You’re a football club, competing with 19 other clubs in the division and 92 in the football league in total. You don’t deserve anything unless you work hard and work smart to get it. United as a club aren’t entitled to the best players and best managers and trophies because you won stuff under one man for 20 years in the past.

City aren’t entitled to win stuff when Pep leaves, not unless we are incredibly clever and replace him with the right personnel.

United are no more entitled to win stuff than Newcastle or Burnley, that’s the beauty of competitive sport. you’re quite correct in saying their arrogance is part of their downfall. They sign a player on huge wages that City have vaguely been interested in and presume they’re going to score 30 goals a season or get them 15 clean sheets. It’s madness but long may it fucking continue.

I hear off rags less and less these days, they’re quietly depressed.

What’s glorious is that they need to rebuild from the top down as we did in the early days of the takeover. That is the right way to go about it and it would still take them years to be competitive. The glorious bit is that media, fan and ex player pressure for short term success will never allow them to do that properly. They are fated to haunt the Premier League for decades with the rotting corpse of their history and faded stars dragging them down like anchors strapped to their ankles. A bit like they played for much of the second half yesterday.

The post match pundits review was almost as entertaining as the game. Neville even wore a black tie. Micah could hardly keep a straight face at the collective grief and wringing of hands.

 

[Octavian]

What’s glorious is that they need to rebuild from the top down as we did in the early days of the takeover. That is the right way to go about it and it would still take them years to be competitive. The glorious bit is that media, fan and ex player pressure for short term success will never allow them to do that properly. They are fated to haunt the Premier League for decades with the rotting corpse of their history and faded stars dragging them down like anchors strapped to their ankles. A bit like they played for much of the second half yesterday.

The post match pundits review was almost as entertaining as the game. Neville even wore a black tie. Micah could hardly keep a straight face at the collective grief and wringing of hands.

I just got an erection reading your first paragraph

 

[Keeper!]

The United inquest is in full flow on the BBC.

For once I don’t mind. Great reading.

Manchester United are a club and a team flattered by suggestions they are going nowhere - because the brutal truth is that Sunday's humiliation by Manchester City exposed the grim fact they are going backwards.

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Manchester City's victory margin of 4-1 was also an act of flattery because the gulf between these two sides, and these two clubs, is now a chasm that should have been emphasised by a more painful scoreline.

As United's new chief executive Richard Arnold watched this embarrassment alongside the one-time laird of Old Trafford Sir Alex Ferguson, he could not have had a more graphic illustration of just how much work he has to do to get them anywhere near the club once scornfully referred to as "the noisy neighbours".

Arnold has inherited a once-proud institution that has as many cracks as cheap crockery, a club waiting for firm direction and leadership on how to drag them away from their current status as also-rans.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60642078

They are getting mullered and rightly so by every media outlet, the only downside to this, is can they go any lower without doing something about this sh1t show?

 

[Kippaxpete]

I had that daft woman on Talk Sport. "You can't polish a turd". Like most of these callers she knew nothing whatsoever about football. "I'd play the reserves". What a clown. And the presenters acting like she's some kind of football genius for saying the team are shit.

Fuck me, I don't even support Man United and I know exactly what the problem is: poor management from the top for ten years. When you start to berate an entire squad you are talking rubbish.

Unless the silly woman called in to both, it was 606 on the BBC. Both Savage and Sutton fell silent and allowed her to spout shite about the problem lying exclusively with the players rather than the succession of clowns who came in after the Govan Bully departed. Astoundingly, Sutton (I think it was) then expressed the view that it was one of most eloquent and compelling arguments ever put forward by a caller to the programme. She really nailed her colours to the mast when saying that Solskjaer had done a good job and should have been allowed to continue!

 

[Saddleworth2]

I just got an erection reading your first paragraph

A ‘like’ would have been sufficient mate ;-)

 

[NMB]

Notice the laughable non penalty in the first half has had no media coverage Compared to the non stop for weeks, Everton handball claim. Important decision at the time as could have put us 2 up.

We should demand an apology

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I think the tide is changing though some pundits are still sticking to the false narrative that United have a great squad and it just needs the right manager to galvanise them. It was clear yesterday that they have a lot of technically poor players who can't even trap a ball with their first touch and are not elite level players. I give you Lindelof, Maguire, Fred, McTominay, Elanga, Wan-Bissaka, Telles, and Rashford for starters. Not many of them would get in the West Ham team for example. United are in a false position in the league at present with those players.
I thought the latest headless chicken they have produced, Elanga, was pitiful yesterday.

This guy had a double spread in the DT the other day and was hailed as the next 'starlet' to emerge at The Swamp. Every kid who can put on his own boots has always been anointed with stardom before they leave the changing room

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I had that daft woman on Talk Sport. "You can't polish a turd". Like most of these callers she knew nothing whatsoever about football. "I'd play the reserves". What a clown. And the presenters acting like she's some kind of football genius for saying the team are shit.

Fuck me, I don't even support Man United and I know exactly what the problem is: poor management from the top for ten years. When you start to berate an entire squad you are talking rubbish.

I heard that woman but I thought I was on that Savage show on 606, unless she phoned both, or they were twins and were spouting the same shite on two channels. It was laughable the way she was attempting to emasculate FakeRon. Not six months ago he was hailed, lauded and feted as the Messiah returning. But turning on the team is the standard default for Rags. I remember Stuart Hall (oh yes!) relating an occasion among his 'friends' at The Swamp. They would go ballistic, apparently, if one of their players put the ball out for an opposition throw. Too many Rags are incapable of accommodating anything other that a hefty win, and when they get a result like yesterday, and play the way they did, oh, how we laughed, their standard becomes meltdown.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

This guy had a double spread in the DT the other day and was hailed as the next 'starlet' to emerge at The Swamp. Every kid who can put on his own boots has always been anointed with stardom before they leave the changing room

Three goals in 13 appearances and a missed penalty to dump United out of the Cup is Elanga's entire contribution to MUFC yet apparently he is the next big thing. Mind you he has a better record this season than £73m wonderboy Sancho (23 games and three goals).

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Three goals in 13 appearances and a missed penalty to dump United out of the Cup is Elanga's entire contribution to MUFC yet apparently he is the next big thing. Mind you he has a better record this season than £73m wonderboy Sancho (23 games and three goals).

Ah, but hasn't he got those goals in the last four games. He's turning a corner - probably the one that gets you on Our Matt's Way!