United Thread | 2025/26

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VinceYoungisaBLUE said:
I thought it was hilarious and well-written. I'm unfamiliar with Liew's other work, though
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You want to check him out on Sly Sports "The Back Pages" where he's often a guest. He might well be invited onto "The Sunday Supplement" now that it's a regular gig.

He tries way too hard to articulate his point. So much so, that he ends up rambling on about some obscure detail, which results in him forgetting the point he was trying to make in the first place. He's only young, probably late 20s early 30s.

I think he views himself as a bit of a frustrated genius. He offers his body of work like scattering pearls amongst the swine, and holds his audience in contempt for being a bunch of philistines.

He really is a legend in own mind.
 
Scaring Europe to Death said:
Last Season United were able to bank the profits from 11 home cup matches, which probably equated to £30m in attendance receipts, plus TV and Prize Money.

This season, the most they can have is 4 and that's assuming the luck of the draw (possible) and being good enough to win each game (highly debatable)

Let's see how that stacks up financially.
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Exactly.

It's amazing how they've miraculously found themselves a magic money tree since Christmas.
 
paulchapo said:
I wouldn't be surprised. He sounded as if he knew he'd lost the dressing room in his post match interview and once that happens it's over. The telling point in his bizarre speech was him saying he can't change twenty two players. The international break gives the rags two weeks to get somebody else in, probably a stop gap.
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Give it Giggsy for two week.
 
Newman Noggs said:
He did make one pertinent admission though;

"We went into football media to tell the untold stories, find the hidden angles, and ended up surrendering to the numbers and leaning into United content in perpetuity."

Something we all knew a long time ago.
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We did indeed.

It's interesting to hear it voiced though.

I wonder if some of the executives in the media are finally waking up to the fact that, any perpetuity the rags once generated now has a seriously short shelf life?

I wonder which club they'll lean into next?
 
Earlyriser said:
Just listening to another of the top rate pundits that Sky now employ... Charlie Austin. According to him should sack Amorim and bring in Sean Dyche to stabalise the situaton. Do they pay him for this...
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No I think the Sheikh pays them. Lol
 
BertTrautmann'sParachute said:
I saw these cunts relegated (live). I never thought I'd get close to that feeling of schadenfreude again but if they bring in Gareth Southgate as their coach it'll be very, very close.
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Yes, I remember listening to the match which relegated them back in '74. We were living in the West Midlands then and I was painting the kitchen ceiling when dennis "did it". I fell off my step ladder, got straight up and did a dance round the kitchen before doing a manic jig with my wife and 2 year old son. Since then I have experienced the same joy after other City wins (you can guess a few of them easily) but for many years I was fed up to the back teeth with the ludicrous rubbish that's spouted about "the world's biggest club". But my attitude to them has changed gradually over the last few years. I now look forward to the media building up their team, their manager, their club and their fans because I find them fantastically entertaining. After City they are the team I want to watch most. To quote a few examples: the first game of the season, how great they were, by far the better team ... oh, but they lost thanks to a comical goal! Then in the second game, they get a penalty to make up for their faltering approach, but Bruno takes a penalty the like of which hasn't been seen since the days of Jonny Wilkinson! But nothing quite compares with that pearler of a result last night. Two down before half time! Two Grimsby goals disallowed! Ignore the "perfect fits" they have just signed (£200 million?0 and get back to traditional rag hoof ball to take the game to penalties. Then lose 12 - 11 ... because Cunha and Mbueno, two new arrivals to turn things around, can't score from 12 yards. Oh please, let the rags treat us to performances and results like this all season.
 
mancboy said:
nah thats to easy, i wont them to go into a death spiral like they are where there is continual hope with nothing at the end of it, i want them to be the sisyphus of football constantly pushing a rock up a hill and NEVER reaching the top
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Would be a herculean task to clean the stench from the Augean swamp, or is that dumplington?

Or perhaps a reverse Midas of everything you touch turns to shit!
 
city5189 said:
My youngest was misbehaving last night refusing to go sleep for mum,
I brought her down stairs,made her watch the rags,she was begging me to take her back upstairs.
That'll teach her.
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The way to handle that one is make sure she gets loads of treats when Daddy does his football happy dance. She'll soon be an all in blue!
 
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