The simple truth...

Manc in London said:
United will announce the signing of Sancho soon for c£100m. The fans protests will cease, they will become giddy and everything will return to normal.

Green and gold scarves and LUHG handles on Twitter disappeared shortly after they signed Pogba.

It's laughable that they see themselves as being an 'edgy', aware fan base (Red Issue being evidence of that). If they were, they would have long refused to buy season tickets and purchase merchandise. However, this group are so small in number as most of the fans don't care that much about such things. Most just want pictures from their annual trip to the ground and, of course, they want to pick up their 'souvenir' megastore bag.

It's pathetic but great to see.
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What's LUHG?
 
Manc in London said:
United will announce the signing of Sancho soon for c£100m. The fans protests will cease, they will become giddy and everything will return to normal.

Green and gold scarves and LUHG handles on Twitter disappeared shortly after they signed Pogba.

It's laughable that they see themselves as being an 'edgy', aware fan base (Red Issue being evidence of that). If they were, they would have long refused to buy season tickets and purchase merchandise. However, this group are so small in number as most of the fans don't care that much about such things. Most just want pictures from their annual trip to the ground and, of course, they want to pick up their 'souvenir' megastore bag.

It's pathetic but great to see.
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They should take a lesson from Blackpool fans not a penny more campaign. A good half of the fan base boycotted home games and asked away fans and non boycotters to spend no money in the ground on programmes.refreshments etc. Went on for a couple of seasons and they succeeded in the end. At the time would wind my Blackpool supporting friends up about it, but had to admire them.
Mind you look what happened after we got rid of Swales, be careful what you wish for.
 
Sick of repeatedly hearing yesterday’s abandoned fixture is “the biggest in the premier league calendar”. It was merely to decide who loses the league and who loses (or should lose, if UEFA finally sprout a backbone) entry into next season’s champions’ and runners up cup.
Why I am I yet to see anyone in the media drawing parallels with this and their efforts to get the 74 back-heeled relegation game abandoned too?
 
Feed the Elk said:
Superb post - wasn’t aware of the bit I’ve bolder - is this true?
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They were most definitely the junior club in Manchester until they were rebuilt in the 50s. With the solid arguments and research of the historian's craft, Gary James has established this.
But of course there are ignorant people who actually think that English football was invented when the satellite tv dish became a standard household acquisition (which just happens to correspond, conveniently, to United's period of utter dominance up until about 2011). Or other ignorant people who think that English football was invented in the 1970s, when the Liverpool juggernaut got going.
It wasn't. It just wasn't. I wonder if there's a single United or Liverpool fan under the age of forty who could tell you without looking it up who the first team to do the double in the twentieth century was (and it was very late on, by the way). Or that for quite a long time Aston Villa held the record for the greatest number of F.A. Cup wins. I'm not banging the MCFC drum here, and it's not a question of ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’ this or that club. It's just a question of having a clear sense of what football history, in its modern, codified form, actually is.
And by the way. Since we're in the process of accumulating quite a haul these days, I can say this with tranquil sincerity — it is not simply about accumulating trophies.
 
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I think its all coming to a boil because a few weeks ago they dared to dream they could catch us only to realize that it was false hope. (hope kills) On top of that we're on the edge of a champs league final (fingers crossed) with no Bayern Munich to face. I just think maybe it's pushed them over the edge and the toys are coming out of the pram.
 
Come next season, the plastics will be back at OT, buying their shirts from the megastore.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
They were most definitely the junior club in Manchester until they were rebuilt in the 50s. With the solid arguments and research of the historian's craft, Gary James has established this.
But of course there are ignorant people who actually think that English football was invented when the satellite tv dish became a standard household acquisition (which just happens to correspond, conveniently, to United's period of utter dominance up until about 2011). Or other ignorant people who think that English football was invented in the 1970s, when the Liverpool juggernaut got going.
It wasn't. It just wasn't. I wonder if there's a single United or Liverpool fan under the age of forty who could tell you without looking it up who the first team to do the double in the twentieth century was (and it was very late on, by the way). Or that for quite a long time Aston Villa held the record for the greatest number of F.A. Cup wins. I'm not banging the MCFC drum here, and it's not a question of ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’ this or that club. It's just a question of having a clear sense of what football history, in its modern, codified form, actually is.
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FFS!
Don’t get me started on Aston fucking villa and our 1904 FA CUP winning team!
 
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