United thread 2020/21

[Mancity1980]

Have to respectfully disagree. This is a very well staged PR exercise aided and abetted by the albeeb in particular Silly Sally who is a good friend of St Marcus's media manager. Whilst I agree that no family should ever go hungry in this country this crusade is for the benefit of the rags and Rashford. Real champions of the poor are people like my old fella who as a shop steward sort donations from the various plants he represented worker's from both the members and employers during the miners strike in 1984. He refused recognition from within his union as he did it out of genuine human compassion rather than the sycophantic response that Rashford, his PR team and the rags are courting.

Hmmm, when someone is reaching out to help others with the same unfortunate background and all the emotional baggage that comes with that it will be genuine. This is not the same as staged celebrity charity work those sole purpose is to keep them known and “loved” by the public. I have no doubt there are PR elements playing out here but I and many others across a broad spectrum of Britons think it is a great thing he is doing here.

 

[Winchester]

Lol

 

[Paladin]

Have to respectfully disagree. This is a very well staged PR exercise aided and abetted by the albeeb in particular Silly Sally who is a good friend of St Marcus's media manager. Whilst I agree that no family should ever go hungry in this country this crusade is for the benefit of the rags and Rashford. Real champions of the poor are people like my old fella who as a shop steward sort donations from the various plants he represented worker's from both the members and employers during the miners strike in 1984. He refused recognition from within his union as he did it out of genuine human compassion rather than the sycophantic response that Rashford, his PR team and the rags are courting.

Whilst I'm not fully on board with the media hype surrounding Rashford, I don't quite go as far as criticising the player himself. Yes, it does smack of a concerted onslaught by United, and the complicit media is only too willing to play its part. But I kind of think Rashford might have been railroaded into this to some degree.

He probably does have some sympathies with struggling families, since he came from a modest background. So it wouldn't have been a surprise to see him helping his old school, or some charities in deprived areas, back in the first lockdown. Many clubs, businesses and individuals were seen helping their communities at the start of lockdown. But this might have snowballed much bigger than anyone at first expected.

So credit to Rashford for heading up the effort, even if it might have been an unintended consequence. But that's as far as it goes for me. The rest, as I say, smacks of PR, and I can't be doing with any of that.

 

[Claytop]

I see someone has been digging up some old tweets from Maguire...

 

[PrestwichBlue2]

Hmmm, when someone is reaching out to help others with the same unfortunate background and all the emotional baggage that comes with that it will be genuine. This is not the same as staged celebrity charity work those sole purpose is to keep them known and “loved” by the public. I have no doubt there are PR elements playing out here but I and many others across a broad spectrum of Britons think it is a great thing he is doing here.

Respect your view and I am totally onboard on ensuring no family go hungry in this country. Rashford may or may not been persuaded into the full PR campaign we see in full flow. However, him sending out a few tweets, signing his name to letters drawn up his PR team and a soppy programme featuring his mother is no real effort in comparison to people in the community if selflessly give hours of their time and money in the cause of charity. So why he is seen in such reverence I will never understand.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

If Rashford did initially intend to help the less fortunate in society , I suspect that he would never have envisaged that his efforts would be completely overtaken by the rags PR dept under Ashton , in order to try and show the despicably cynical club in a favourable light. The club it seems had absolutely fuck all involvement until there was some promotional benefit in it fot them.

If it isn't sufficient for the usual UK media whores to lick the rag arse at every given opportunity, a charitable act by one of their players is turned into one massive bit of publicity and regularly trumpeted by the equally corrupt and sycophantic BBC and their stupid presenters .

 

[lloydie]

For info; I know and worked with his cousin, to whom he is very close. She is a well respected and very dedicated Safeguarding and Child Protection professional, I have no doubt his concern is real and sincere. MUFC (about whom I mocked and educated her ceaselessly) on the other hand...

 

[razinho]

I think we would all agree this has been one of our worst starts for many a year and while we deserve some amount of criticism, we're 3 points behind the new title challengers and greatest United team ever assembled according to the media. 3 fucking points. Its not just limited to that lot, the amount of propaganda and positivity surrounding the Scousers, Spurs and Leicester should be enough motivation for us.

Listen to the papers, radio and TV and they're all the absolute bollocks whilst we have a subpar start and are in touching distance - it's amazing how the media can make folk see a completely different situation to what is present and factual.

 

[ganganvince]

What's going on with Cavani?

 

[Mike Cledford]

Haha. Imagine if he gets a knighthood and Beckham continues to be snubbed.

Boris will have to put his thinking cap on to decide which one will make him more popular in the public eye.
Its hypothetical really as he will have a last minute change of mind like we've seen with Christmas.