Yaya_Tony said:
That we won it on goal difference on the last day is what made it so exhilarating, that said we were also the much better side all season, and the project has only just begun. The scum will cling on, maybe, but in all honesty there is no reason why we can't boss them for a few seasons, like we did every time we played them last season.
Of course anything can happen, however the signs are that the tide is finally turning in our favour, a consequence of that is their downfall. I don't expect a team like the scum to disappear overnight, it will be long and drawn out. They may even escape yet, but the thing that really shits them up is the knowledge we are not going anywhere. That is what really worries them. All those bullshit jibes about empty seats, and the swamp will be a ghost town as the so called support slowly deserts them. It'll be beautiful. Fucking take it.
The cloud hanging over Old Trafford is Ferguson's retirement, there is no doubt that Utd's performance last season was greater than the sum of it's parts, I would say that our performance was not.
When Ferguson goes that will be the crunch time for Utd, whoever replaces him I see the real possibility of Utd going in to tailspin. His tenure at Utd has been so long and his influence so pervasive that in many regards he is the club, when he goes the effect could be catastrophic.
Older posters will remember what happened to Utd when Busby retired, football has changed since then, but the dynamics have not. When powerful figures like Busby and Ferguson disappear its more akin to regime change than a smooth corporate handover.
Nothing, in the short term, goes well with regime change.