United Thread - 2023/24

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horlock_was_super said:
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.

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KentBlue said:
Good luck to Forest, but I think it will fall on deliberately deaf ears.
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The narrative started on Saturday. MOTD managed to get an ex pro (Ashley Williams) to say it was the correct decision, without allowing any opposing views to be aired. Dean came later saying it was the correct decision, and suddenly it isn't as universally condemned as it otherwise would have been.

We see it all the time, and this is the pattern:

1. Initial decision immediately in favour of United.
2. VAR checks but there wasn't enough in it to recommend a review or overturn the decision.
3. Original decision stands.

For most other clubs, the pattern is slightly different:

1. Initial decision is against the interest of non-favoured team.
2. VAR checks but there wasn't enough in it to recommend a review or overturn the decision. On rare occasions, for really obvious mistakes, a review is called for.
3. Original decision stands.

Thus the majority of controversial calls go in United's favour and against other teams. I'm even starting to include Liverpool as a non-favoured team.

Pundits and journalists are really useless. In the Rashford penalty question, their starting point is entirely wrong - "Was there contact?" If the answer is yes, then they conclude without further question, that a penalty was the correct decision.

They should be saying: "Mike Riley said at the start of the 21-22 season that referees will ask themselves whether the player used contact to try and win a foul penalty, and it isn't sufficient just to say: ‘Yes, there’s contact.’ In addition to this, the amendments in the 23-24 Laws of the Game says that referees have been told to apply a higher threshold when considering contact between players to allow the game to flow better without so many free-kicks. Have these requirements been correctly applied in this situation?"

Attwell, other referees, and VARs are not applying their own regulations to United. They are not being held accountable for it, and neither is PGMOL.
 
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