United Thread - 2023/24

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jacko74 said:
Absolutely.

Even at their most successful under the pisscan they never really controlled games or dominated the opposition, they didn't even play particularly attacking football unless it was the final five minutes and they needed a goal to get something from the game.

For the most part they played just the same as they do now... park the bus hoofball and relying on snatching goals on the break against the run of play.
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Exactly. It was the sycophants in the Sly studio that made them out to be better than they actually were. I remember the Don Revie side of the 70's and the similarities between the two sides are quite compelling. Neither played out from the back or played tactically-aware football. Both relied very heavily on brutality to win games, the rags in particular were very Wimbledon-esque in their approach.
Leeds were a dirty, cynical side who were grand masters of the dark arts - Brian Clough was 100% correct in his assessment.
The same with the rags: witness the amount of times the ginger pig went in two-footed, or when the Irish pikey scythed in and took an opposition player out of the game.

The drunken despot was not a good football manager: he was in the right place at the right time and he was handed an absolute treasure chest in order to create a team that no other club could compete with.
But a compliant media, and a selection of referees with both stars in their eyes and a fear of upsetting the bullying clique who manipulated the Premier league at that time, helped create and sustain the myth that the rags were a good team.

Success is not always the result of talent: ask Amanda Holden, The Spice Girls, One Direction etc.
 
KentBlue said:
Exactly. It was the sycophants in the Sly studio that made them out to be better than they actually were. I remember the Don Revie side of the 70's and the similarities between the two sides are quite compelling. Neither played out from the back or played tactically-aware football. Both relied very heavily on brutality to win games, the rags in particular were very Wimbledon-esque in their approach.
Leeds were a dirty, cynical side who were grand masters of the dark arts - Brian Clough was 100% correct in his assessment.
The same with the rags: witness the amount of times the ginger pig went in two-footed, or when the Irish pikey scythed in and took an opposition player out of the game.

The drunken despot was not a good football manager: he was in the right place at the right time and he was handed an absolute treasure chest in order to create a team that no other club could compete with.
But a compliant media, and a selection of referees with both stars in their eyes and a fear of upsetting the bullying clique who manipulated the Premier league at that time, helped create and sustain the myth that the rags were a good team.

Success is not always the result of talent: ask Amanda Holden, The Spice Girls, One Direction etc.
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Ask Amanda Holden.
Brutally brilliant.
Post of the weekend for me
 
Burnage Burnsy said:
There is a flag behind the goal they were ‘attacking’ in the first half that reads THE PAST WAS YOURS THE FUTURE IS OURS?!?! Is that a rag with a sense of humour and irony??? Or a mischievous blue?
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Maybe they were trying to say "Your past (Lutons') is our future ", but being rags , they got the words wrong (They can't even spel Glarezs rgiht)
 
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