United Thread - 2022/23

[lefty goldblatt]

Anyone got a picture of the empty rag parade of 2011

 

[Blue Mist]

Anyone got a picture of the empty rag parade of 2011

It's unfair to bring that parade up, the crowd was low because ergh it was raining.
If it had been sunny then there would have been hundreds there.

 

[tweety]

Anyone got a picture of the empty rag parade of 2011

Midget has come out of his bunker

 

[Tb1981]

We took the one thing they had on us (not that we even cared)
They cherished that treble being the only ones who could win it and we took it off them.
It’s like we really wanted the champions league but in doing so we won the treble and that’s killed them!

 

[Crooked_rain]

Seems Ten bob is sticking to the park bus and lump it and we all know Pickford is a master of kick it long as often as possible

Probably easier to stick with that method

He wants them to play like us and was mad enough to try it at the start of the season and they kept getting smashed

I think he's realised he would need a new team entirely to play now he wanted, so he's sticking with his Tony Pulis brand of football.

 

[foggy1974]

This thing about the rags accounts are hidden in the Cayman Islands .
Does anyone have any definitive proof on this .
Is it a legal loophole ?
Is it tax avoidance?
Should the Premier league be looking into this ?
Are other clubs doing it ?

Those questions would only be answered if it were City or Newcastle

 

[melrose40yarder]

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Casemiro is better apparently.

At what fouling and eating?

 

[Ducado]

I shouldn’t have but I just popped on to red cafe, they really are bitter but I have noticed that traffic on there really has slowed over the last few years, I can only assume all the plastics are starting to abandon them

 

[Blue_eyes]

I shouldn’t have but I just popped on to red cafe, they really are bitter but I have noticed that traffic on there really has slowed over the last few years, I can only assume all the plastics are starting to abandon them

Well you know what they say...................the first to desert a sinking ship are the rags.


or words to that effect.

 

[Blue and still suffering]

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It's been 7 years since they won the cup, 10 years since they won the league and 15 years since they won the Champions League.
Past glories!

 

[coolcity]

Who the fuck is Brandon Williams? The mouthy prick is in the Mail saying 'nobody wants sloppy seconds,' referring to us doing the treble.

The IQ of plankton, these rags.

I love it! Just show what a sour, sad bunch of twats they really are. You just know that if it had been the other way around you would not have got that from a City player, let alone a shite no-hoper like Williams. To think they used to call us bitter - you couldn't make it up!

 

[Blue and still suffering]

Not for me. Other managers have achieved a lot on a limited budget. They have managed with low crowds and no muscle in the transfer market, no Hollywood-style headlines at anything they did, no bias from refs and officials and absolutely no friends in high places.
The pisscan had more money at his disposal when he went to the swamp than any other manager in the clubs' history, and he routinely failed at everything he did - despite spending record-breaking amounts. An extremely flukey goal from Mark Robins saved him his job because by then even the fans had turned on him...big time.
Then, with almost uncanny timing, Rupert Murdoch and his Sly company ploughed even more money into the club leaving the rags as the only club that could literally outspend any other in their pursuit of glory.

Pisscan just happened top be the manager of the rags at the time the Premier league began. Not only was he given free rein in the transfer market, his bullying, foul-mouthed intimidation of match officials meant he got more injury time than any other club when he needed it. Essentially, that club under his dictatorial leadership, were permitted to do precisely what they wanted in the early years of the Prem, with no interference from the sports' governing body whatsoever.

His style of football was not innovative, like Pep's. The pisscan liked speedy wingers and crosses into the box. That's it. They were -and still are- a team playing a brand of football that was considered 'stale and old fashioned' in the 80's.

Money (lots of it), underhanded dealings in the transfer market, insisting his players only signed management deals with his own son's agency, bullying and intimidating any and all officials who wouldn't kneel before him.

But worse than that, he routinely insulted the club I have loved all my life with his childish and vindictive comments.

Jelly and ice cream indeed.

Believed in his own hype that he was untouchable...
Then came the Rock of Gibraltar!

 

[SWPISHOME]

Irrelevant twats!

 

[coolcity]

What makes this all the sweeter is that their fans cling on to history more than anything, it seems to be the one thing they hold dear more than anything else.

Brick by brick, piece by piece, record by record we are taking from them the thing they hold most dear.

If we go on to win the league next year they will go into full meltdown.

Let's be honest, they don't have much else to cling to at the moment.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Let's be honest, they don't have much else to cling to at the moment.

Very true.

The great thing about it also is, Over the last 10 years or so when we've come head to head against them in the big games we have always come out on top. They might have beaten us now and again but nothing of importance where as we have beaten them numerous times...

1-0 Yaya winner FA CUP
1-0 Kompany winner PREMIER LEAGUE
2-1 Gundogan FA Cup Final
Numerous Semi Finals in the League Cup
Along with numerous victories home and away against them towards the end of the season to beat Liverpool to titles.

The tide has well and truly turned.

 

[coolcity]

Had a message from a Rag
“ our treble was better,fact”
No it’s an opinion not a fact you tosser.

Would that be the treble where they only got into the CL because UEFA changed the rules in the previous season to let them in, the one where they scabbed 2 injury time goals in the final, the only 2 shots they had on target in the entire match, the treble where they only got to the FA Cup final because Arsenal missed a penalty in the final seconds of the semi, the treble where they only finished the league on 79 points, scored 13 goals less than we did (this season) and let in 6 more, had to rely on Arsenal losing their penultimate league match and still needed to win on the last day; the treble where most of the players didn't have to go off and play in the World Cup halfway through the season.....that treble?

 

[coolcity]

Very true.

The great thing about it also is, Over the last 10 years or so when we've come head to head against them in the big games we have always come out on top. They might have beaten us now and again but nothing of importance where as we have beaten them numerous times...

1-0 Yaya winner FA CUP
1-0 Kompany winner PREMIER LEAGUE
2-1 Gundogan FA Cup Final
Numerous Semi Finals in the League Cup
Along with numerous victories home and away against them towards the end of the season to beat Liverpool to titles.

The tide has well and truly turned.

Yes, they've had a couple of typically raggy underserved late winners but there have been some memorable ones for us, the 6-3 last year, the 6-1 at their place in 2011 (and a reminder that we won by the same score around a century ago, the 6 goal feat being something I don't think they've ever done to us), and this season to beat them in the only ever meeting in any cup final. On top of that, all the records we've broken in the past decade puts most of their highlights to shame, especially given that they were achieved in an era where they didn't really have anybody that could touch them financially. They've never hit 100 points (or 100 goals as far as I know) in a season, and you can't see that changing anytime soon.

 

[coolcity]

From Rag Central - they are hurting

What will be interesting is how Europe reacts to this. Before, it was an internal problem as their cheating was only affecting their domestic league, but they've now disrupted European order and knocked noses out of joint whilst doing so. Do they get to continue doing that unabated? If yes, they've truly broken football as we know it because prior to this, blatant cheating had reprimand that acted as a deterrent.

What used to make me angry, but makes me laugh now, is they keep bleating on about this Fair Play bollocks and how we've bought everything yet they are spending even more than we have, even now. On top of that the Glazers mortgaged the club to buy it and they've had a deficit of hundreds of millions ever since, so if it's perfectly acceptable to trade under those conditions, or for Chelsea's new owners to come in and throw half a billion at it in one season, what exactly is the problem with us? You couldn't make it up.

 

[Vienna_70]

Yes, they've had a couple of typically raggy underserved late winners but there have been some memorable ones for us, the 6-3 last year, the 6-1 at their place in 2011 (and a reminder that we won by the same score around a century ago, the 6 goal feat being something I don't think they've ever done to us), and this season to beat them in the only ever meeting in any cup final. On top of that, all the records we've broken in the past decade puts most of their highlights to shame, especially given that they were achieved in an era where they didn't really have anybody that could touch them financially. They've never hit 100 points (or 100 goals as far as I know) in a season, and you can't see that changing anytime soon.

Correct.

There are only three occasions, on which six goals have been scored by a team in a single Manchester derby.

And the alpaca has been in the rags' goal for two of them.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I shouldn’t have but I just popped on to red cafe, they really are bitter but I have noticed that traffic on there really has slowed over the last few years, I can only assume all the plastics are starting to abandon them

Plastics are being phased out due to the environment.

Expect their fanbase to shrink to well below 50k within a decade.