Ye really do hate Man U. Like I know ye're living with them and have put up with them and their success but ye're level of hate is on another level. I don't like them, but I can say that they're a good team.
You know I've always found that sligtly different to other sports, I mean there are a lot of teams I really don't like, hate, but I respect them you know, well more like, I recognise them as good if they're good, or great if they are great.
Ye don't.
And it's just insults after insults after insults, you can't say a positive word about them without being called a RAG, while on other sites, say you insult the mighty Kilkenny, you get called bitter, or if you were a Munster fan and you gave out about Leinster last season, you'd be told that they deserve their chance, we've had our time in the sun, beat us fair and square, they were excellent..etc. You wouldn't hear anything like that on this site, or in football culture in general. It's just a totally different type of attitude..and I don't really care to be fair, but it's interesting enough.
Like, to say that Man U are where they are based on just ref decisions is ridiculous and biased to say the least. I mean hate them, despise them all ye want, but that suggestion is ridiculous and impossible.
EVERY team, City included win some and loose some decisions from refs, and ya sometimes top teams get a decision at home that lower down teams would. But to say that they are where they are because of refs, couldn't happen.
It may be a "poor" team compared to what they've had, and to be fair, I couldn't really care less whether it is or not. They are second, and they could well finish first. At the end of the day Fergie still manages to get results out of them time and time again, so they can't be that bad.
Sometimes you can have great players, but a bad team, us in a way, especially last season, and then there are the great teams, mightn't be the strongest team of indivudals on there, but individuals win you a few games, great squads win you titles.
I mean, at the end of the day, who really cares whether it's the worst United team in a while, the only thing that matters to me is that there are 5 teams above us and I really couldn't care less who it is.