United thread 2019/20

[crazyg]

I thought yew wouldn’t be far behind!

This is getting like a Nightmare on Elm Street. The person who started this should be birched.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

This is getting like a Nightmare on Elm Street. The person who started this should be birched.

Blimey it's like being back at ASHton Grammar.

 

[KentBlue]

I noticed it on MotD the other night, Shaw really does look like he's piled on the pounds...again.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I noticed it on MotD the other night, Shaw really does look like he's piled on the pounds...again.

I think Shaw has looked terrible this season from what I have seen. He was destroyed by Chelsea but they missed a bag full of chances. I thought Wolves and Palace both targeted United's left side. Maguire has bailed out Shaw on numerous occasions. To be fair Wan Bissaka looks strong on the other side but their team overall is very unbalanced. All helped even more because the "best goalkeeper in the world" keeps chucking goals in. Lovely stuff for us to enjoy!

 

[Vienna_70]

Yes indeed. The club was in such dire financial straits that the team was reduced to wearing such a tatty kit that their own fans (oh the irony!) started calling them the rags. "Come on the rags!" was a regular shout from the sparsely populated terraces. Then City, not for the first or last time, stepped in to help and in a neighbourly gesture bought a new set of kit for them. Not long after James Gibson, their second sugar daddy, pitched up and wiped out all their debts and steadied the ship somewhat.

City gave the rags a new set of kit and the rags gave us the clock banner. Never forget.

Thanks.

I remember reading about it in one of @Gary James' books - Manchester: The City Years, I think it was - but couldn’t recall the time period.

He also wrote that while rags were happy to use the nickname themselves, they hated it if supporters of other clubs did so.

Not much has changed, really, has it?

 

[Vienna_70]

This is getting like a Nightmare on Elm Street. The person who started this should be birched.

Respect your Elders!

 

[Tracking back]

Respect your Elders!

I wanted to get involved with these puns but I didn't want to come across as a sap.

 

[SouthStandStander]

They'll throw some kind of smokescreen to divert attention from what's happening on the pitch: another bomb scare, maybe? More racial abuse stories? Something, anything to keep everyone's minds away from what a joke of a club they've become.

That bomb incident was the biggest set up ever. They tried to get an advantage in the race for top 4 by postponing their game.
How nothing more was made of that "bomb scare" is strange. All went very quiet, very quickly.

 

[Marvin]

I noticed it on MotD the other night, Shaw really does look like he's piled on the pounds...again.

at least he can get forward unlike AWB. Losing Shaw for a month is a big blow. He was Man Utd's POTY last season.

 

[Fabled mabel]

Yes indeed. The club was in such dire financial straits that the team was reduced to wearing such a tatty kit that their own fans (oh the irony!) started calling them the rags. "Come on the rags!" was a regular shout from the sparsely populated terraces. Then City, not for the first or last time, stepped in to help and in a neighbourly gesture bought a new set of kit for them. Not long after James Gibson, their second sugar daddy, pitched up and wiped out all their debts and steadied the ship somewhat.

City gave the rags a new set of kit and the rags gave us the clock banner. Never forget.

Until recently it was very difficult to find any reference online to why United are called the rags. The rag PR boys must have really twisted arms. On a lot of a media sites if you call them the rags in the comments section it gets replaced by **** when perhaps ****s is more appropriate.

There was a ludicrous definition by some Yank on the urban dictionary saying we started it because their 'grounds' were bombed in WWII and we resented this and called them rags to mock their misfortune. So it's a well kept secret but one I always explain on holidays to neutral fans.