United Thread - 2023/24

[I'm With Stupid]

To be fair to him, he was expecting to come over to play total football, not hoofball where they can only manage 40% possession against teams at the bottom of the league.

 

[oakiecokie]

The massive attack doesn’t play quite as well nowadays, does it?

I think the daft fucker that Mitten is, missed out a word between Massive and Attack ... one called Panic !!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Unfortunately the leagues is probably top 5 getting in this season, they may luck in.

Absolute bullshit btw. Galatasaray showed that it's better to have champions of a weaker league in than the 4th or 5th placed team from the stronger leagues.

 

[oakiecokie]

After 30 pages of wonderful entertainment here on Bluemoon, it's time to swing over to the caf and enjoy their comic misery.

Honestly you wont be disappointed. I was on there earlier and its very entertaining. ;)

 

[KingGeorge]

i have a feeling they have a lot farther to fall.

 

[BlueTG]

How was Casemiro’s foul only a second yellow?

Surely that’s a denial of a clear goal scoring opportunity?

 

[RodneyRodney]

Some gems on the Caf :

Onana - he's a goalkeeper and the most comfortable I feel about his abilities is when he's in the opposition box trying to score a header. This is not a good thing

Dalot - Some more trademark sideways passes to no one, conceded the worst defended goal of all time (if you ignore most of the other goals we concede), ruined our last chance by deciding to pretend he was Messi for some fecking reason. If you measured his footballing intelligence as alcohol, he would be an empty bottle of alcohol free alcohol.

Casemiro - I thought he was good until Onana sent him off

Fernandes - like one of those jelly bean boxes where some of the flavours are things like strawberry or delicious ice cream, but others are things like unwashed socks or getting a cactus shoved up your bum.

Rashford - I felt sorry for him with that chance. I thought if he doesn't pass here and misses he'll get destroyed. Then he did pass but managed to feck that up instead. Also though if you're a top player and the kind of human god that is allowed to travel round in a white rolls Royce, you can't go so far to pieces when in bad form that you mess something like that up. That's not white Rolls Royce, it's 30 year old lime green Vauxhall Astra that's been sitting in the corner of the council estate car park with a slashed tire for 6 months

Hojlund - One of the best nights of his career ruined by his team mates celebrating his goal by ramping the incompetence up to 100/10. I really like him.

Subs:
Eriksen - quite a bit better than anyone except Hojlund. The only time we look even half convincing is when he's on the pitch and isn't tired yet. This already leaves very limited time and ETH's way of utilising it is to avoid playing him. A bit lost on that I'm afraid


Martial - pretty sure he managed to lose a 50/50 to himself
Antony - I saw him come on. Then that was the end of Antony’s contribution to the evening's fun.

ETH - I would say what can you do as a manager about that level of idiocy, but he did kind of sign Onana and I still don't know what he thinks he's doing with our midfield, other than butchering it.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Dublin hotels rubbing their hands in anticipation of a dippers / rags final.

A few Englishmen may fill the hotels but Dublin is probably the world epicenter of Rag and Dip support

 

[I'm With Stupid]

How was Casemiro’s foul only a second yellow?

Surely that’s a denial of a clear goal scoring opportunity?

Yeah I thought that. Referee just making it easy for himself, I suspect.

I wonder, if he gave a red and the VAR disagreed, can the downgrade it to a second yellow instead, or can they only cancel the red?

Anyway, how many reds is that now for him in less than a season and a half? I know of 3.

 

[jimharri]

A few Englishmen may fill the hotels but Dublin is probably the world epicenter of Rag and Dip support

Yep. This whole country is awash with them.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

First week in October and out of the premier league title race, possibly out of the champions league and hopefully back in the europa league. I can’t stop laughing at this club and the fans got a good pissing on from the roof.

They need to finished third in the group to get in the Europa, at the moment the Danes look a better option for that spot.

 

[lancs blue]

Unfortunately fake Haaland looks somewhat decent, even a stopped clock, etc.

But they still need a keeper, a defence and a midfield...

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

The twat Mitten has been stealing a living off rags and the media for a quarter of a century. Sat in a bar in Amsterdam pontificating about the rags losing at home to Galatasaray. May as well be Goldbridge.

 

[jimharri]

But they still need a keeper, a defence and a midfield...

Pfft. Minor details.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Uncle Malc

Give him the keys to the city

Tampa Bay's finest....

 

[One Fan Clapping]

Yeah I thought that. Referee just making it easy for himself, I suspect.

I wonder, if he gave a red and the VAR disagreed, can the downgrade it to a second yellow instead, or can they only cancel the red?

Anyway, how many reds is that now for him in less than a season and a half? I know of 3.

Wasn’t the rule changed as the team still had a goal scoring opportunity in the form of the penalty?

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

 

[jimharri]

Getting into Clarkie territory here, but fuck it. Am I the only one to notice the date on that?

 

[Deleted member 95930]

good morning manchester,
nevizade yesterday. missed it? cheers. good luck tonight

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Wasn’t the rule changed as the team still had a goal scoring opportunity in the form of the penalty?

It's only for genuine attempts to get the ball, if I remember rightly. You can still get a straight red for blatantly scything someone down. I reckon Casemiro's would be borderline in that respect, because he was quite a way off it, but it was probably more panic than cynical foul.