United Thread - 2023/24

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Psychedelic Casual said:
We’ve had draws where Nedum Onuoha and Jill Scott have been the two pulling the balls out. If there were warm balls or whatever nonsense people think goes on, surely they’d have broken the silence on the fixing?

It’s like when Redshirts were claiming we were giving draws when City were constantly pulling out piss easy draws against the likes of Port Vale and Newport for about seven years running. It just happens sometimes.

From 2011 onwards we pulled these out of the bag and had everyone calling it a fix:

Leicester (Championship) a
Notts County (League 1) a
Reading (Championship) h
Birmingham (Championship) h
Wolves (Championship) a
Watford (Championship) h
Leeds (Champ) h
Barnsley (Champ) h
Blackburn (Champ) a
Watford (Champ) h
Wigan (Champ) h
Wigan (Champ) h
Leicester (Champ) a
SheffWeds (Champ) h
Norwich (Champ) a
Sunderland (Champ) a
Hull (Champ) h
Hudds (Champ) a
Boro (Champ) a
Cardiff (Champ) a
Wigan (League 1) a
Wolves (Champ) h
Bristol C (Champ) h/a
Rotherham (Champ) h
Newport (League 2) a
Swansea (Champ) a
Oxford (League 1) a
Burton (League 1) h/a
Port Vale (League 2) h
Fulham (Champ) h
Sheff Wednesday (Champ) a
Preston (Champ) a
Oxford (League 1) a
Birmingham (Champ) h
Cheltenham (League 2) a
Swansea (Champ) a
Bournemouth (Champ) h
Wycombe (League 1) h
Swindon (League 2) a
Fulham (Champ) h
Peterborough (League 1) a
Bristol City (Champ) a
Burnley (Champ) h
Sheffield United (Champ) n

Even in the CL we’ve had dross like Plzn CSKA Kyiv Donetsk Celtic Feyenoord Basel Hoffenheim Shalke Zagreb Lyon Olympiacos Marseille Brugge. In one Ro16 CL game against Shalke (who were down at the bottom of the Bundesliga and were absolutely shite) we had the same aggregate scoreline as we had against Burton Albion.

We were even handed CL games against English teams where we were 25 points (Liverpool) and 27 points (Spurs) ahead of in the Prem table at the time (yet we ended up going out to both of them).

We of all teams can never really moan about Cup draws.
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And I would argue getting a strong team early in the EFL Cup is an opportunity to go out.

It's not lost on me that the last 2 seasons were the first in yonks where we went out early and look what happened. CL final x2.

I for one am happy that we got Newcastle away and hope we go out.
 
The smooth brains on the Caf that are baffled by our easy draw can get fucked by Harry Kane.

We earned that group, we won the CL. And we were consistently in the CL for seasons while they were struggling with Europa League.

Bayern and Galatasaray will send them back playing Europa League nights in Feb. They'd be asking themselves how they didn't manage to sign Kane and Kim Min-Jae this window.
 
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