Jack the United fan said:
mad4city said:
Sorry Jack,
Martinez still hasn't beaten a top team away!
Haha I think I had the stats mixed up. I think what I meant was Moyes hadn't beaten United at Old Trafford in 11 years, yet his successor does so immediately.
Fair play, mate.
I look at Utd fans and I'm reminded of that film, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. There's still the odd unaffected one, like yourself, around here & there, but the rest have all been got at by the zombies. (Bear with me, I do have a point here, honest).
For a long while now, the Utd propaganda machine has been getting away with all sorts of stuff & nonsense. The media, happy for a steady stream of tales to peddle to a large unquestioning (zombie-like) audience, have been eager to oblige in relaying and often even enhancing the narrative of how unfailingly wonderful all things Utd are.
For example, as recently as last week, Jeff Stelling, in his Sky website column, was actually urging the world to believe that Moyes had got to grips with the big job and was now getting the best out of Anderson, Fellaini and the rest. What with the backbone of the England team to boot, well... you've got the gist. Nobody - and I do very, very nearly mean, nobody - in the media would have dared write anything else. Certainly, nobody in the media openly questioned it. And Stelling's article is just one of thousands.
Stay awake, I'm nearly at the point!
The thing is that the stuff & nonsense from Utd's PR machine will not stop at anytime soon. In fact, if the downward spiral continues (& it will), it will probably only increase out of desperation. That's begun already. Ed Woodward's rationalisation of the effects of falling out of the top four (quoted earlier in this thread) is the thin end of the wedge. Sure, that can be easily identified by most Utd fans as a realignment of the marketing strategy being prioritised over investment in the squad (they're not that dumb) but what nobody seems to be alarmed by is that he can get away with actually saying it out loud. Can you imagine if Bill Kenright said it was dandy for Everton to just survive and never look for the means to progress? The Toffees would lynch him. But the CEO of Manchester United has just rolled out this acceptance of the inevitability of failure out as the future, without any repercussions to his position.
The problem (yep, we finally got there) for you, sane Utd fans, is that, after decades of being bullshitted, there is no longer a critical vocabulary amongst the overwhelming swathe of Utd "fans" - the zombies, if you will.
But the zombie horde is where the money is!
That lot will swallow whatever they're told as long as a soothing voice reassures them that Utd are really the best, whilst the money men are throwing it into them.
Actually, forget Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, it's far more Orwellian than that.
Your lot are in serious trouble and nobody is going to write that article, nobody will broadcast that truth because there's too much money to be made out of living the lie. Problem, what problem? It's Utd, bestest team in whole world. What are you handful of non-believers on about.
