United thread 2018/19

[Vienna_70]

Seeing Rashford interviewed last night, he seemed a decent lad but not well endowed in intelligence.

And if there's one thing Pep's players need it's intelligence. Listen to any of ours talk (with the possible exception of Delph) and they come over as articulate, often multi-lingual, footballing intellectuals. Poor Rashers wouldn't fit in at all.

Fabian has an excuse: he’s from Bradford.

 

[Luddite_Blue]

The wheels are coming off, the roof's caving in ......................................................Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[jimharri]

I wish that was kosher.

 

[jimharri]

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Lad I work with went last night, came in today, sat down & fair play to him sang our praises. He was devoed, you could see in his face it broke him.
Said after Sane scored he left & about 10 people followed him out.
Other lad I worked with savaged him, kinda felt for him as at least he goes to watch em & isn't a knobhead.

 

[malg]

Fatty Shaw has been taking them to Greggs after training every day.

All joking aside, that lad does appear to be carrying some baggage for a professional footballer.

 

[malg]

"Taking the players to The Cliff training ground generated some sort of response but it was not enough. The danger is that Solskjær concludes he is not being nostalgic enough. So what next? A round of golf with Alex Stepney at Davyhulme? Get Bryan Robson to take the lads on an all-day bender at Pat Crerand’s pub?"

"The worry now is that Solskjær actually believes all this guff and thinks all that is required for United’s return to the top is the reimposition of Fergusonian values."

"Solskjær might get the whole squad to sit down and watch the X-Files with a bottle of Two Dogs while worrying about the millennium bug, but reliving the 90s won’t get beyond United’s basic lack of long-term planning"

From the Guardian. Brilliant
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/25/manchester-united-derby-city-ole-gunnar-solskjaer

Great article, an even better clip:

His refusal to use Ferguson’s car-parking space is, frankly, a little weird. It feels a worryingly small step from here to finding Ferguson in a rocking chair in the spare bedroom while the unnervingly mild-mannered Solskjær butchers potential rivals for his affection in the shower. Supply your own joke about taxidermy and spending his days arranging stuffed corpses of once proud beasts.

And while Solskjær attempts to reconjure 1999, the history that is actually being replayed is that of 30 years earlier and the chaos into which the club lapsed after the retirement of Matt Busby. City, meanwhile, seem successfully to be breaking free from their past. Nobody talks any more of Cityitis, the disease diagnosed by Joe Royle.

 

[Blue Mist]

It comes to something when you start to feel sorry for Utd players, coach and fans.

Fortunately for me it hasn't come to that.


And it never will.

 

[Blue Mist]

Sky last night showed the swamp about an hour before kick off. The heavens had opened and there was an almighty down pour. The cameras went to an area of the ground and a waterfall, no seriously, a waterfall was cascading from the roof onto the seats. That is how dilapidated the ground is. had that happened during the match a huge area of the stand would have had to be moved as no one for ten rows either way could have sat there. The beauty is they simply will not spend the money on renovation.

What a shithole.

 

[flook]

Sky last night showed the swamp about an hour before kick off. The heavens had opened and there was an almighty down pour. The cameras went to an area of the ground and a waterfall, no seriously, a waterfall was cascading from the roof onto the seats. That is how dilapidated the ground is. had that happened during the match a huge area of the stand would have had to be moved as no one for ten rows either way could have sat there. The beauty is they simply will not spend the money on renovation.

What a shithole.

clip on page 1903 if you want to relive it :)