United Thread - 2022/23

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I refuse to fear a side we utterly embarrassed and humiliated three months ago

Did you watch the game?
They won the 2nd half you know!

 

[IT and Me]

It's not who, but when.

If I fight five journeymen boxers in succession and KO them all in the first round, it gives a warped perspective of form.

Especially so, if another opponent has already fought those same journeymen, but perhaps those bouts were interspersed with greater tests against more seasoned opponents.

All about timings. Very reason Solskjaer was installed in the caretaker job at United when he was.

Very reason most clubs sack a manager when a more favourable set of fixtures are on the horizon.

I have a different take. Either they are exceptionally lucky or (imo) dark forces are in play to assist them in game management/key decisions whenever they take to the field.

The authorities who run the Premier League are powerful and corrupt; with an agenda in favour of the red tops - which they don’t even have to hide, thanks to an equally corrupt Media.

Winston Churchill once reportedly said that “the only statistics you can trust are the ones you have falsified yourself”. How apt!

I accept it leaves me open to being labelled a conspiracy theorist but I genuinely believe it.

 

[blue by birth]

So you think that they’ve had a ‘ridiculously kind‘ run of fixtures - you’ve got me baffled mate because they’re 17 games into the season, they’ve played almost exactly the same teams that we’ve played / had almost exactly the same run of fixtures that we’ve had.

We’re one of only 2 PL teams they’ve not played.
They play us next weekend and if they beat us they’re only one point behind us.
You putting it down to them having had preferable league opposition to date is weird as fuck if you don’t mind me saying ;-)

Pretty sure we played them once ..6-3 springs to mind

 

[lazerblue]

We’re one of only 2 PL teams they’ve not played.

eh?

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

It's not who, but when.

If I fight five journeymen boxers in succession and KO them all in the first round, it gives a warped perspective of form.

Especially so, if another opponent has already fought those same journeymen, but perhaps those bouts were interspersed with greater tests against more seasoned opponents.

All about timings. Very reason Solskjaer was installed in the caretaker job at United when he was.

Very reason most clubs sack a manager when a more favourable set of fixtures are on the horizon.

Ah right then. So, at the end of the season when every team has played every other team twice, the winners might not truly be the winners because they played the same teams that every other team played in a different order?

No of course not, that would be ridiculous, wouldn’t it?

On the same basis, halfway through the season the points gained by each team represents their positioning / their worth as a footballing side in the context of half a season gone.
You can wrap that up anyway you like but it will always remain an indisputable fact.

Also, if you apply your twisted logic to this straightforward issue and persist with the delusion that the rags are absolute shite because they’ve only lost one of their last 10 games but ‘they were favourable fixtures’ then what must you think of us having dropped more points than them in that period.
And keep in mind that we dropped them to Brentford and Everton (surely ’favourable fixtures’) at our own ground.
According to your logic that make the rags shit and us shitter - which really isn’t so is it?

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Pretty sure we played them once ..6-3 springs to mind

Yep, I’m glad to confirm that I watched the game and we beat them soundly (so not news to me) but that’s not a point of conjecture.
The point at issue is that we’re just about halfway through the season, having played almost exactly the same teams as them, but a nob end on here is spouting on about them being shite because they’ve had ‘favourable fixtures.
He added to that by claiming that it was their last x number of fixtures, or something of that nature, a period in which they’ve lost only 1 game and we ourselves have dropped points at home to Everton and got beaten at home by Brentford (points dropped at home in so called ‘favourable’ fixtures).

I must say that I’m surprised at how some of our support have become so ridiculously arrogant since we’ve had success - many behaving as up their own deluded arses as the dippers are now or as the rags were back in the day when they had their golden moment.
I thought City supporters were above that, I thought we were fair minded realists but this forum is, sadly and embarrassingly, getting more and more like rawk nowadays.

 

[1961_vintage]

The authorities who run the Premier League are powerful and corrupt; with an agenda in favour of the red tops - which they don’t even have to hide, thanks to an equally corrupt Media.

A media that benefits hugely.

 

[the blue panther]

ATTENTION!!

Derby incoming so, just a reminder:-
In the beginning was the word
And the word was ............
SCUM!

At ease.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Ah right then. So, at the end of the season when every team has played every other team twice, the winners might not truly be the winners because they played the same teams that every other team played in a different order?

No of course not, that would be ridiculous, wouldn’t it?

On the same basis, halfway through the season the points gained by each team represents their positioning / their worth as a footballing side in the context of half a season gone.
You can wrap that up anyway you like but it will always remain an indisputable fact.

Also, if you apply your twisted logic to this straightforward issue and persist with the delusion that the rags are absolute shite because they’ve only lost one of their last 10 games but ‘they were favourable fixtures’ then what must you think of us having dropped more points than them in that period.
And keep in mind that we dropped them to Brentford and Everton (surely ’favourable fixtures’) at our own ground.
According to your logic that make the rags shit and us shitter - which really isn’t so is it?

And I’m not in the least peeved that you’ve jumped in to support a deluded tool - you love your moment in the limelight don’t you eh? I’m only disappointed that you didn’t do it by way of an Abba song so that you could choose to select any one of a dozen readings from it after the outcome’s clear to all.
;-D

I think something is clear to all...

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

Ah right then. So, at the end of the season when every team has played every other team twice, the winners might not truly be the winners because they played the same teams that every other team played in a different order?

No of course not, that would be ridiculous, wouldn’t it?

On the same basis, halfway through the season the points gained by each team represents their positioning / their worth as a footballing side in the context of half a season gone.
You can wrap that up anyway you like but it will always remain an indisputable fact.

Also, if you apply your twisted logic to this straightforward issue and persist with the delusion that the rags are absolute shite because they’ve only lost one of their last 10 games but ‘they were favourable fixtures’ then what must you think of us having dropped more points than them in that period.
And keep in mind that we dropped them to Brentford and Everton (surely ’favourable fixtures’) at our own ground.
According to your logic that make the rags shit and us shitter - which really isn’t so is it?

And I’m not in the least peeved that you’ve jumped in to support a deluded tool - you love your moment in the limelight don’t you eh? I’m only disappointed that you didn’t do it by way of an Abba song so that you could choose to select any one of a dozen readings from it after the outcome’s clear to all.
;-D

Calling somebody out for enjoying the limelight? Fucking irony.