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The latest galactico I they are 'targeting' is Arjen Robben according to the MUEN! They truly are a joke of a club and long may it continue.
 
It just had to be BLUE. said:
Can anybody help I'm after a picture of the packed Utd end at Brugge.
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Here's one mate. I've done the MUEN circles as well.

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crazyg said:
Sorry to correct you, but that road is the Sir Matt Busby way - named after a real gentleman, who I once met. An ex - City player as well.

The Gobby bullying Jock has a stand named after him - the Govan Piss Can stand.
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My apologies, I dropped my daughter off near there and never realised, I've not been there for a while, and noticed it. Sir Matt, of course, was a gentleman.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Well said mate. Let it not be forgotten that their rise to dominance in the modern era was substantively down to them loading the footballing dice in their favour in the early 80's - along with Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal and Everton. It's no coincidence that once clubs got to keep their entire home gate receipts those clubs were significant beneficiaries, at the expense of other clubs, as was the intention, of course. Those clubs' threat of a breakaway at the time if they didn't get what they wanted wasn't designed with the wider interests of football at heart. It gave them, and us it should be said, a competitive advantage over smaller clubs, which inevitably translated itself onto the pitch.

It broke a collective agreement that had been in place since the reign of Queen Victoria and started a series of moves, which united were once again at the vanguard of, to concentrate more and more power and wealth at the top of the game.

united fans pontificating about the club 'earning their own money' and 'doing things the right way' conspicuously and conveniently ignores the calculated and systematic machinations that delivered their club's preeminence. Financial doping, if you will.

Greed, self-interest, cunning and duplicity are the embodiment of the united way. That, and peeping under ladies toilet cubicles whilst they're taking a shit, of course.

Can't make Seville mate as I'm in South East Asia at the time, but let me know if you're going to Juve :-)
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great point GDM, completely forgot about that stitch up on attendance fees - this fast tracked the monopoly of the first division, flash back to 70s and you see Ipswich Southampton Derby Forest Leeds all top side challenging us and Liverpool at the top, never be seen again
 
Mikejl said:
great point GDM, completely forgot about that stitch up on attendance fees - this fast tracked the monopoly of the first division, flash back to 70s and you see Ipswich Southampton Derby Forest Leeds all top side challenging us and Liverpool at the top, never be seen again
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What makes what you've described even more tragically comical is that certain united fans refer to Forest and Leeds as 'proper clubs' without any hint of irony that it was their club that consciously thrust the knife into those clubs' very existence as a leading footballing force. They talk nostalgically about their rivalry with Leeds United, like a wife-beater talks about the early days of his courtship with his battered and bruised missus. It's even more ironic given our place in the footballing firmamant at that time, which was considerable.

To some, football exists within a comically narrow and foolish prism. united, as a footballing institution, are hugely guilty in that regard. If they'd been on the ball between 2008 and 2011 the footballing landscpace would be very different today. They were too focused on dismissing and belittling us, to advance what they stood for and represented.

But they weren't. Their bloated arrogance allowed us to conquer, within a decade, the same mountain they'd taken a whole generation to climb. united fans love to try and use where we were a decade ago as a stick to beat us with, but the reality is it should be us that are taking the piss out of them for that. That we've been allowed to slip so seamlessly into the very heart of the European footballing establishment without any signs of meanwhile resistance should give them cause for serious self-examination, but it won't. They'll keep on telling themselves how good they are at pulling rabbits out of the hat and how their history will always trump whatever anyone else can bring to the table, but the rules of history aren't fixed like the laws of physics or chemistry.

Let them dream. A sinking man will always cling to whatever wreckage floats his way. It doesn't have any bearing of the...errr.....massve currents that are coming his way. They can thrash and complain all they want; the tide has turned and it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.

Hope dies last.
 
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£8m for Johnnny Evans. Seriously. Some PL teams will buy literally any old shite off the rags won't they? Still makes me chuckle that they let Pique go because they thought Evans was better. Second only to losing Pogba because they prefered to play a 40 year old Paul Scholes and Darren Gibson in terms of comedy misjudging of talent
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
What makes what you've described even more tragically comical is that certain united fans refer to Forest and Leeds as 'proper clubs' without any hint of irony that it was their club that consciously thrust the knife into those clubs' very existence as a leading footballing force. They talk nostalgically about their rivalry with Leeds United, like a wife-beater talks about the early days of his courtship with his battered and bruised missus. It's even more ironic given our place in the footballing firmamant at that time, which was considerable.

To some, football exists within a comically narrow and foolish prism. united, as a footballing institution, are hugely guilty in that regard. If they'd been on the ball between 2008 and 2011 the footballing landscpace would be very different today. They were too focused on dismissing and belittling us, to advance what they stood for and represented.

But they weren't. Their bloated arrogance allowed us to conquer, within a decade, the same mountain they'd taken a whole generation to climb. united fans love to try and use where we were a decade ago as a stick to beat us with, but the reality is it should be us that are taking the piss out of them for that. That we've been allowed to slip so seamlessly into the very heart of the European footballing establishment without any signs of meanwhile resistance should give them cause for serious self-examination, but it won't. They'll keep on telling themselves how good they are at pulling rabbits out of the hat and how their history will always trump whatever anyone else can bring to the table, but the rules of history aren't fixed like the laws of physics or chemistry.

Let them dream. A sinking man will always cling to whatever wreckage floats his way. It doesn't have any bearing of the...errr.....massve currents that are coming his way. They can thrash and complain all they want; the tide has turned and it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.

Hope dies last.
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Beautiful GDM... It almost brought a tear to my eye.

That should be given a page in the bible or new testament or whatever it is kids read these days...
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
What makes what you've described even more tragically comical is that certain united fans refer to Forest and Leeds as 'proper clubs' without any hint of irony that it was their club that consciously thrust the knife into those clubs' very existence as a leading footballing force. They talk nostalgically about their rivalry with Leeds United, like a wife-beater talks about the early days of his courtship with his battered and bruised missus. It's even more ironic given our place in the footballing firmamant at that time, which was considerable.

To some, football exists within a comically narrow and foolish prism. united, as a footballing institution, are hugely guilty in that regard. If they'd been on the ball between 2008 and 2011 the footballing landscpace would be very different today. They were too focused on dismissing and belittling us, to advance what they stood for and represented.

But they weren't. Their bloated arrogance allowed us to conquer, within a decade, the same mountain they'd taken a whole generation to climb. united fans love to try and use where we were a decade ago as a stick to beat us with, but the reality is it should be us that are taking the piss out of them for that. That we've been allowed to slip so seamlessly into the very heart of the European footballing establishment without any signs of meanwhile resistance should give them cause for serious self-examination, but it won't. They'll keep on telling themselves how good they are at pulling rabbits out of the hat and how their history will always trump whatever anyone else can bring to the table, but the rules of history aren't fixed like the laws of physics or chemistry.

Let them dream. A sinking man will always cling to whatever wreckage floats his way. It doesn't have any bearing of the...errr.....massve currents that are coming his way. They can thrash and complain all they want; the tide has turned and it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.

Hope dies last.
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You write some genuinely wonderful posts.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
What makes what you've described even more tragically comical is that certain united fans refer to Forest and Leeds as 'proper clubs' without any hint of irony that it was their club that consciously thrust the knife into those clubs' very existence as a leading footballing force. They talk nostalgically about their rivalry with Leeds United, like a wife-beater talks about the early days of his courtship with his battered and bruised missus. It's even more ironic given our place in the footballing firmamant at that time, which was considerable.

To some, football exists within a comically narrow and foolish prism. united, as a footballing institution, are hugely guilty in that regard. If they'd been on the ball between 2008 and 2011 the footballing landscpace would be very different today. They were too focused on dismissing and belittling us, to advance what they stood for and represented.

But they weren't. Their bloated arrogance allowed us to conquer, within a decade, the same mountain they'd taken a whole generation to climb. united fans love to try and use where we were a decade ago as a stick to beat us with, but the reality is it should be us that are taking the piss out of them for that. That we've been allowed to slip so seamlessly into the very heart of the European footballing establishment without any signs of meanwhile resistance should give them cause for serious self-examination, but it won't. They'll keep on telling themselves how good they are at pulling rabbits out of the hat and how their history will always trump whatever anyone else can bring to the table, but the rules of history aren't fixed like the laws of physics or chemistry.

Let them dream. A sinking man will always cling to whatever wreckage floats his way. It doesn't have any bearing of the...errr.....massve currents that are coming his way. They can thrash and complain all they want; the tide has turned and it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.

Hope dies last.
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Brought tears to my eyes :-)
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
What makes what you've described even more tragically comical is that certain united fans refer to Forest and Leeds as 'proper clubs' without any hint of irony that it was their club that consciously thrust the knife into those clubs' very existence as a leading footballing force. They talk nostalgically about their rivalry with Leeds United, like a wife-beater talks about the early days of his courtship with his battered and bruised missus. It's even more ironic given our place in the footballing firmamant at that time, which was considerable.

To some, football exists within a comically narrow and foolish prism. united, as a footballing institution, are hugely guilty in that regard. If they'd been on the ball between 2008 and 2011 the footballing landscpace would be very different today. They were too focused on dismissing and belittling us, to advance what they stood for and represented.

But they weren't. Their bloated arrogance allowed us to conquer, within a decade, the same mountain they'd taken a whole generation to climb. united fans love to try and use where we were a decade ago as a stick to beat us with, but the reality is it should be us that are taking the piss out of them for that. That we've been allowed to slip so seamlessly into the very heart of the European footballing establishment without any signs of meanwhile resistance should give them cause for serious self-examination, but it won't. They'll keep on telling themselves how good they are at pulling rabbits out of the hat and how their history will always trump whatever anyone else can bring to the table, but the rules of history aren't fixed like the laws of physics or chemistry.

Let them dream. A sinking man will always cling to whatever wreckage floats his way. It doesn't have any bearing of the...errr.....massve currents that are coming his way. They can thrash and complain all they want; the tide has turned and it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.

Hope dies last.
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Wonderfully put as always mate - knocks my effort into a cocked hat ;)

My little fishing expedition did have the desired effect though with some daft twat over there indeed posting it in the Bluemoon meltdown thread. Apparently I froth at the mouth and am very angry which ignores the fact that I was pissing my sides laughing as I was typing that this afternoon.

Even more hilarious is the poster that implied by saying "we" I was basking in the self reflected glory of what our club had done in helping them fuckwits out despite me having no input into that whatsoever. Seriously, a United fan accusing a fan of another club of basking in self reflected glory is as ironic as it gets.

I'm not doing Juve mate - as the song goes, I'll be watching on the telly so I'm a **** ;)

Anyway, I'm off to replicate the behaviour of a certain former United chairman - I'm going to flog a load of condemned meat to schools across the North West of Englamd. Yes, the United Way is alive and kicking ;)
 
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