*hissy-dilly thread flounce*
Four defeats in the last seven.
Even we're not that bad, and we're shit.
^ well actually i am expecting Arse to turn up and play like 11 players who've never played together, oh and Auba to run around trying to remember which position he played in.
City win , Utd lose oh City...we're singing the Blues
Is there a petition to keep Ole in his job yet?
Internet in London has gone down again.
i think jurgen will throw a mercy draw next week just to prolong the hilarity of the solskjaer era
Congroats to teh Chitty half of Manchester , almost up there with European Champions Chelsea.Just a bit more effort application and hopes and prayers may make worthy runners up.
Man Utd seem to be finding there level in the Brentford Nylons kit and Brighton belles part of the lower orders.
Meanwhile wiith Newcastle near the relagation Zone will the manager and players get THE CHOP at St Jame's Park or a special beheading at Riyad headless R Us Gala.
The Duke of Newcastle has almost pulled his tool off in frustration and so many Geordies in tears there is Fog on the Tyne as Maccans jump for Joy and forget for a moment the tragedy of living in Blunderland and the stadium of fright
Solskjær cannot continue to survive on goodwill and fond memories
It was an afternoon to stir the soul, a thrilling game of three outstanding goals and a Leicester performance that suggested their injury problems may be behind them and their season may be about to begin.
Even in the context of recent successes, this was a game that will take an exalted place in the collective memory of the King Power. But beyond that excitement, this was another glum day for Manchester United and Ole Gunnar Solskjær. How long can this drift be allowed to go on? How long can nostalgia insulate against the recognition of mediocrity? How long can the same problems be allowed to keep recurring?
When things are going badly for his side, Solskjær has a habit of gazing plaintively from the edge of his technical area, like a Viking elder wondering if the longship fleet will ever return from across the unknowable sea. His weary grey‑blue eyes perhaps see through the storm and the spray, to the deeper currents beneath, the remorseless beat of the waves against the shore as familiar problems erode his credibility yet further.
As Paul Pogba acknowledged, none of the issues that undermined them on Saturday have not been seen before; none of them look close to being solved.
The signing of Cristiano Ronaldo, for all that he papers over cracks with his remarkable goalscoring ability and his appeal to memories of the club’s last golden age, has not helped. Rather he exists as a perpetual rebuke, a projection of the deeper mood of the club that must exist beneath the sentimental recollection of the player Solskjær used to be.
As the second half went on Ronaldo passed from irritation to disbelief to funk. At the final whistle he stood alone in the Leicester half – as he had for most of the game – staring furiously at the ground. He tore the tape from around his ring in obvious frustration, bumped fists with Kasper Schmeichel and then clapped the away fans with desultory politeness.
The midfield, as ever, was the major source of concern. This time there was no Fred, no Scott McTominay, just Nemanja Matic alongside Pogba, whose only real contribution beyond his damning post-match comments was a series of minor fouls for which he was eventually booked.
As each combination proves as ineffective as the last, how long, you wonder, before Solskjær turns to the 35-year-old Paul McShane, who anchored the midfield for the academy side in the Papa John’s at Sunderland last Tuesday?
But personnel is only part of the problem. There is no sense of organisation or coherence and that is as true of United in the attacking phase as the defensive. The only plan seems to be to wait for one of their many brilliant players to do something brilliant.
Mason Greenwood did just that to give them the lead, seizing on the half-yard of space allowed by Timothy Castagne to rattle a shot in off the post, and then Marcus Rashford did as well to level at 2-2, taking Victor Lindelöf’s long pass to finish emphatically. For the most part, though, United were outplayed in midfield, despite the absence of Wilfred Ndidi.
What is perhaps most worrying is that United have started conceding on the break and to dead balls, two red flags that something is wrong on the training ground. The goals for Caglar Soyuncu and Patson Daka were the third and fourth United have let in from set-plays this season and, frankly, there could have been more.
The scoreline would have been worse but for a couple of excellent saves from David de Gea, the sharpness of two of United’s forwards and the sense, particularly early on, that Leicester are a side lacking in confidence.
The darting runs of Jamie Vardy and Kelechi Iheanacho down the outside of Harry Maguire and Lindelöf caused constant problems, while the deployment of James Maddison just behind them successfully targeted the area where United are weakest. The wing-backs, Castagne and Ricardo Pereira, enjoyed a remarkable amount of space, as well as effectively neutering Luke Shaw as an attacking force.
It was the first time Leicester had used a back three in the league this season so, being generous, United can perhaps be forgiven if they were taken aback. But at no point did they react. The tactical battle, once lost, remained lost.
Solskjaer cannot continue to survive on goodwill and fond memories | Manchester United | The Guardian
Now that was a good read , thanks Cy, who says a cut n paste cannot be handy esp for those like me who often mispillThe Gaurdiron, when I used to buy it each Saturday I didn't have to spell and my Asian newsagent slipped a bar of Bourneville without asking
For pre internet folks
The Friday Telegraph had a good color mag as later FT
The Sundays I took The Express for General Knowledge crossword ( A real stinker pre net) Observer and pre Murdoch Sunday Times each weighed a kilo have copious sections of sport, culture, business etc, Later the Indie Correspondant so I had more cat litter than Immi by Monday
The WEEKEND FT published Sat for those with dosh bored wit Monday -Friday money info tips columns had a supplement called How to Spend it Full of Lambos, Rolexes fine dning with Pattaya Piles and Smoochi like sylphs draped over Maseratis Porsches and porches.
The Gaurdian used too and maybe our UK members can update a Big Format and good travel section pull out and Sport/Leisure so a family of 4 could swop section and a handy 15 x 20cm TV guide with teh lonely hearts and adds for odd items never seen n shops.
The only paper I ever handled heavier at my bro home in LA was teh LA Times designed for weighlifters
Is the tinterweb back up and running in South London yet?
Some comedians out there..
Petition * Keep Ole the clown at the wheel for Merchandise Utd * Change.org
Even with these players in the team, we're not creating enough chances, we're not scoring enough and, more pertinently, we're getting cut open through the middle time and time again.
Rodgers said after the game on Saturday that we didn't press through the centre, so it was easy to get at our back 4. There has to be a formation change and/or one or two of the big names warming the bench until we work out a way of including them in the team.
Despite the signings we've made, we're clearly in a situation on the pitch where we have actually regressed since last season. Time to go back to the absolute basics or else the next few weeks are gonna be very fucking messy indeed.
Not much, which is why I think he'll be an obvious candidate for the chop. Sancho will have to go too. Get Rashford in maybe. We could even go to a 5 at the back like we did a couple of seasons ago and bring Telles in on the left to get up and down. Push on when we have the ball and drop deep when we don't. Lots of options, but we clearly need to be more solid against a half decent team instead of just sending a host of attacking players out and expecting magic from them. McFred will obviously return too.
This looks a lot more solid with enough threat going forward too. Lots of players in that side who'll do the dirty work when we haven't got the ball.
De Gea
Wan Bissaka
Lindelof
Maguire
Shaw
Telles
McTominay
Fred
Greenwood
Fernandes/Rashford
Ronaldo
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^ are you sure that orange beer wasn't a harvey wallbanger
Man Utd solve the Riddle
In a stunning coup or polished window dressing the Glazers have saved Utd.
Ole gonna Away with a ten bob bonus a packet of toffees no cups but a thermos of warm sick and single ticket to Fleetwood.
He will however be ale to watch hs crippled squad of former failures ex stars and amatuer athletes at their away games at the Fylde Fleetood court. Sr Alex is said to have fled to a moanstery and most of teh fans , dozens even have bured ther shirts , sox, scarves and bras in Picadilly as they start the long painful but necessary march to teh ETIHAD,
Some of the richer lovers of real soccr have cycled to Anfield , hijacked a plane to Leicester or hitchhiked to the promised lands of Stamford Bridge and St James's Mosque Newcastle-R -Byker Insh'alla
Yes they have decided more enthusiam and success will be formed by joining the new breakaway
MAN UTD, CHESHIRE +FYLE'D BITS TIDDLYWANK LEAGUE
The shock new acting manager is a Ms Dunchitty a Thai magnate who made her millions apparently gambling and selling sheds and bicycle parts.
i'm sure we can all say Hallelulah to that
the new fisrt team line up to include
Strike position
Smokie De Geer
Winker Fred
Muslim Ronaldo
PogPogPog
others TBA tho they are hoping to sign up star winker extraordinaire Backspin Bumfluffpornatipper from Buriram Weds on a flee transfer.
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