United Thread - 2023/24

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I know there is a separate thread for the number of dodgy points they have gained already this season and I know Scudamore famously said they need a successful Utd for the premier league product, but what I can’t get, is that they are seeing the best team to ever play in the English league, breaking records left right and centre, with a great business model and very fast growing fan base etc.. but instead of getting behind this team they would prefer to back a team that’s not won the league for a decade, has a failing stadium, fans that protest at the drop of a hat as they are not winning anymore and basically make the league look bad. I don’t see how they are better for the “product” compared to us.

Not the right 'kind' of owners would be my guess.

 

[Kippax77]

Gallagher actually said “no penalty” for Rashford

Did he really?
Well I flabbergasted as I didn’t get that far down the page.
I gave up after the 2 wrong decisions on Trent

 

[hammocity]

Did he really?
Well I flabbergasted as I didn’t get that far down the page.
I gave up after the 2 wrong decisions on Trent

He did actually say Arnold’s second offence was a booking didn’t he but the first one wasn’t, ref bottled it.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Gallagher actually said “no penalty” for Rashford

 

[horlock_was_super]

They are still bankable for all media outlets.
For years they were pushed down every other teams throat week in week out.
How great they are, they are the yardstick, they are what every schoolboy wanted to be and on and on it went.
We are now seeing the flip side - they are fucking shit and although the media are hurting - the scum are still able to pull the clicks/subscriptions in unabated.

Fans of other clubs who have suffered at their grubby hands in the past during their glory days (YUK!) are now taking great delight in seeing them as just another also ran - the mighty have fallen it seems and in that great British tradition we take comfort in what goes around comes around.

We have never been a gobshite fan base and hopefully never will be. We all accept that sooner or later we'll end up back in the pack and I doubt if/when this happens any perceived decline in our fortunes will be looked upon with as much morbid fascination/delight as that bunch of rat infested, fuckpig, cheating, misogynistic, deluded fuckwit scumbags are now subjected too.
The glory hunting plastic twats were right all along then maybe after all, we are all obsessed with them because right now I am taking great delight in watching the rest of the footballing world finally cottoning on to what we have known for years.

They have succeeded through winning by any means necessary - bullying, cheating, spending more than anyone else and having all forms of football officialdom in this country firmly at their beck and call.

I hope that the piss stained, shitty pants gpc lives for many years to come and watches as his corrupt fucking creation falls slowly and painfully apart before his bloodshot eyes.
Noisy neighbours? We've knocked the party wall down, had a massive dump in your front room and evicted you lock stock and barrel you booze addled cnut!

Chris Sutton is a cnut but, when he sticks his head above the parapet and calls it for what it is then maybe, just maybe the weight of public opinion might start a sea change towards the scum. Sadly I won't be holding my breath.
Long live UMS.

CTID.
As you w3r3 Blu3s.

 

[cookster]

It really is all down to their foreign (mostly south east Asian) fan base and the income derived from it.

It really does dwarf ours and all other clubs, I wouldn't be surprised if the rags have more SE Asian armchair supporters than all other PL Clubs combined.

Think you're significantly underestimating our overseas growth.
We'll overtake them in the next 5-10 years.

 

[cookster]

Compare the contact on Haaland on Sunday. Literally wrestled to the floor by one or two players at least three times.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Words we all say constantly, but he never is. Once you become a rag you are immune from the normal laws of the game - or so it seems.

And guaranteed England call up.
Tom cleverly.
Point proven the guy is in the top ten worst player in history but played for england

 

[KentBlue]

Every time I say to a rag that pigmol are helping them I'm told I'm a 'bitter bertie.' There's probably an element of the truth there, because they have been systematically cheating their way through games since long before the Pisscan stumbled in and it pisses me off that we're told he was a great manager. Like fuck he was. He had the officials in his pocket - common knowledge.
But when I admit to those same rags that I am biased and loathe that fucking club with every microcosm of my being, what about fans from other clubs? Are they all rag-haters? Are they all wrong when they see blatant corruption going on before their very eyes and call it out? If so they must all be related to me. The same DNA, the same hereditary genes, one huge family of anti-rags.

I've got a mate in Barrow-in-Furness, a genuinely nice chap who tries to see the best in everyone. Never seen him lose his temper or raise his voice: a more gentle soul you will never meet. But when he's down here on holiday we meet up for a chat, and inevitably the first thing we start to talk about is football. And it's during these discussions that he really opens up and gets animated about the way the rags are being gifted points from corrupt officials.
He has friends all over the globe and every one of them, apparently, feel the same way - that clubs are being robbed of precious points in order to help the vermin, over and over again.

It's good to know we are not alone in calling it as we see it.

 

[Ardnaree]

Every time I say to a rag that pigmol are helping them I'm told I'm a 'bitter bertie.' There's probably an element of the truth there, because they have been systematically cheating their way through games since long before the Pisscan stumbled in and it pisses me off that we're told he was a great manager. Like fuck he was. He had the officials in his pocket - common knowledge.
But when I admit to those same rags that I am biased and loathe that fucking club with every microcosm of my being, what about fans from other clubs? Are they all rag-haters? Are they all wrong when they see blatant corruption going on before their very eyes and call it out? If so they must all be related to me. The same DNA, the same hereditary genes, one huge family of anti-rags.

I've got a mate in Barrow-in-Furness, a genuinely nice chap who tries to see the best in everyone. Never seen him lose his temper or raise his voice: a more gentle soul you will never meet. But when he's down here on holiday we meet up for a chat, and inevitably the first thing we start to talk about is football. And it's during these discussions that he really opens up and gets animated about the way the rags are being gifted points from corrupt officials.
He has friends all over the globe and every one of them, apparently, feel the same way - that clubs are being robbed of precious points in order to help the vermin, over and over again.

It's good to know we are not alone in calling it as we see it.

Look at the ref's view of this shot at goal and handball in the box. No penalty awarded.



How is that any different from the penalty awarded to City on Sunday? Which struck John Egan as he was sliding in to block a cross into the box.

Is it corrupt? Or just inconsistent refereeing? Spineless officiating from VAR?

A team can now time waste throughout the game. Then on 90 mins throw on all their fresh legs because the ref is going to add 15 mins on. So they have quarter of an hour to throw the kitchen sink at tired legs that have been giving everything for a full game. How is that penalising the time wasting? Who benefits the time being added on now?