United Thread - 2023/24

[Vienna_70]

There is an earlier Rock Bottom song (2007) by UFO, much better.

In which universe is 2007 earlier than 1977?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Truth.

 

[Vienna_70]

The principal difference is that Birtles had a seriously decent season before United signed him 40-odd years ago. Wasn’t seen as a bad signing at the time. He simply crumbled under the pressure.

He scored a lot of goals, when he went back to Cloughie, IIRC.

 

[jimharri]

There is an earlier Rock Bottom song (2007) by UFO, much better.

 

[Vienna_70]

They've been dogshit for 10 years or so. This is the real united now. These people expecting something different are deluded and living in the past. It's been a long time since they were any kind of force, so where is this "real" united suddenly going to spring from and stand up? Their time is over and long gone.

Their decline has been gradual, as ours was during the Peter fucking Swales years.

Let’s hope they fall as far as we did.

I doubt that will happen, but one can dream.

 

[Vienna_70]

They’ve only ever had 3 managers that have won the English league title in their whole existence that tells you everything from 1993 to 2013 was an anomaly. For the rest of their history they have been shit and pissed money away on expensive players just like they are doing now. Why their deluded fuckwit followers think they should have dibs on sustained success is beyond me.

And two of those managers had a connection to the only football club in Manchester.

 

[Hoghead]

In which universe is 2007 earlier than 1977?

Ha ha! Should be 1974.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

He scored a lot of goals, when he went back to Cloughie, IIRC.

Not quite as prolific as his first stint, but still a decent record, especially as Clough played him at centre half with some regularity.

 

[Hoghead]

Ha ha , should be 1974. What a FOC I am

 

[freshie]