Serious point.
There is of course huge satisfaction in seeing the rags stumbling along, after the years of shite they stuffed down our throats, and I for one will not begrudge any blues a single instance of returning the favour.
As regards tempting fate, counting your chickens, hubris, false dawns or any other metaphor for saying 'it's too soon to judge whether they are truly knackered or whether this is still teething troubles', one of the things we have learned from the last five years of shit coverage in the media is how things can develop a momentum of their own, and how a proposition which is initially questionable gets repeated so many times in so many quarters that it becomes received wisdom.
Let's just assume that what we say on this forum has some real influence in how the rags are perceived in the footballing world and see where it takes us for a moment. Suppose we had a choice: we can bite our tongue, keep our powder dry and not get too giddy about United's demise in case reports of it prove exaggerated. That way we don't look like a bunch of tossers if in fact the rags manage to turn it around.
Or, we can get behind this particular 'the rags are finished, let's all laugh at them' bandwagon and start pushing for all we are worth. Sure, we get to look like a bunch of cocks if the rags make the top 4 with ease, win the COC and have a good run in the CL. But what if constantly repeating the point again and again and again that the rags are finished and its time to laugh at them actually contributes towards their downwards trajectory? I would have thought a lot of blues would gladly run the risk of having some egg on their face for a chance to kill off the hated enemy for a long time to come.
So for what my opinion is worth, let's keep laughing at them. It is deeply satisfying to give them some comeback after what they heaped on us for years, and who knows? By making the point again and again and again it might just help to turn a possibility that it is the beginning of the end for them into a reality.
