Thread: Manchester Utd

Originally Posted by hallelujah

One point from the last 2 home games to get top 4 - Liverpool will obviously hammer Southampton - and the first up is Chelsea tonight.

I know they've been shit. I know they've got 8 or 9 injured. I know they've got nada to play for, but what if they actually turn up and play tonight with the talent they have in their squad? I wouldn't want it going to the last day against a Fulham side hell-bent on revenge for their FA Cup meltdown.

And, apropos of nothing, I'm a member of these "Better" gyms, so if you sign up for one, you can use them anywhere in the country. However, there's nothing really near OT or in town that has a sauna and a gym (you all know how I love a sauna from my time with Ahmed ), so I've gotta go to work in town, come almost all the way home and then go back the same way again for the game! For fucks sake.

Don't worry, Fat Frankie will ensure Chelski play like shit. He has a talent for it.

Job done. Top 4 AND a trophy thanks to the great Ten Hag.

And still a Wembley appearance to come.

Despite all the bluster from Arsenal fans, we've had a more successful season than them, and Ten Hag will be lifting that title next season with Harry Kane knocking them in for us.

No way will the Glazers stump up the money for Kane.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

And still a Wembley appearance to come.

Which could end up being a wakeup call to just how much of a job there is still to do.

Could be 2-1 to United, or 6-0 to city. :/

Originally Posted by reinvented

while they fully deserve it, and they have improved a lot, they are still a long way off.

Liverpool were knackered, spursy were spursy, and chelsea inconceivably shit this year given their resources. these all helped, but thats the way it goes.

and they have been anally raped so many times, at least 7

But, but, but, but, but!

Liverpool are shit, by the way. Not knackered.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Which could end up being a wakeup call to just how much of a job there is still to do.

And as Morcheeba not so famously sang, "it's all part of the process."

What Ten Hag has done with this squad - with the Ronaldo and Greenwood issues, takeover rumbling on in the background, shorn of our two centre backs and key midfielders for large parts of the season, not having an actual top class striker to rely on - is not far short of the footballing equivalent of walking on water.

We were told after the first game of the season we'd have no chance of top 6. Might even be in a relegation battle said some.

We haven't lost a single home game since then.

And as D:ream famously sang: things can only get better.

Originally Posted by cyrille

No way will the Glazers stump up the money for Kane.

They've never stumped up any money for anyone, so why would they start now?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

That Casemiro fella is top draw, a great buy, and exactly what Man U needed.

he'll be retiring in the next year or two, he's 36

Originally Posted by hallelujah

is not far short of the footballing equivalent of walking on water.

I knew people would like that one.

Dil, can you photoshop a halo onto my next picture of the great man?

^ I'm going to enjoy next season and i really hope you get Kane.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

GLAZERS OUT! We don't need any Qataris either. We make enough money ourselves to compete with the very best and you can stick state ownership and sportswashing where the sun shines.

Good luck with that mate

I grew up with Uncles who had fought in teh Western desert and Egypt and always spoke of filthy Arabs, pinching shoes from under tanks and generally unkempt.

Since 70's OPEC secured teh producers wealh and now they are

FILTHY RICH

A Chelsea fan cannot mudsling after Abramovich and teh Chelski era the FA are blinded by the TV money FIFA totally corrupt so I foresee little change.



Im slinging Chitty a year's supply of man size Kleenex from the Euston Holyhead sleeper as it wings through Cheshire for many purposes, but imagine if the disPEPsia if City's titles are removed!! I imagine a bribe to match the fine and EtilHAD"S yer uncle !!!!


Can see why Kane wishes to leave a sinking ship and get a few EURO games in before retiring

Originally Posted by hallelujah

D:ream famously sang: things can only get better.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Morcheeba not so famously sang, "it's all part of the process

And this one naturally..



A hatric of positivity for Hals playlist

Originally Posted by Joe 90

And this one naturally..



A hatric of positivity for Hals playlist

Mate, the sun is shining, the weekend is upon us, United are back (again )...

I'm gonna put a tenner on Weghorst to score at any time on Sunday!

Is that positivity or insanity?

All the vacuous, fawning shit Hal is saying about Ray Shoesmith is the same shit he was saying about OGS a few years back, and probably most of the others they've had since Rednose called it a day.

Did you know - and here is a stat for you to file alongside this majestic club having had an academy player in every match day squad for the last 85 years - that United haven't lost a league game at Old Trafford when leading at half time since 1984?

Pretty fuckin mad that, isn't it?

Can anyone name the team that beat us that day without googling?

Clue: a fan if theirs has posted on this thread.

No takers yet?

Think back to a very good team early 80s...

Is it Ipswich Town?

I'd get around to that halo photoshop but I don't think God wears one, does he?

Wasn't United record win at one time against Ipswich Town, was is 8-1? Not Google'd.

Originally Posted by PAG

Wasn't United record win at one time against Ipswich Town, was is 8-1? Not Google'd.

You bastard!!!

I suspect nobody on this board went to that terrible game...

However, back in 1979, I went to this game. Every United player was an international. (BTW, our penalty taker, John Wark, was at his father's funeral this day.)

1979/80 season...

Gary Bailey, the united father had an ITFC connection - his dad played for us.

&, you were second in the league...

"It was on this day in 1980 that United made the trip to East Anglia, with an even encounter widely anticipated. After all, the visitors sat in second spot, while Bobby Robson's hosts were five only points adrift in third.

Yet, from the moment that Ipswich centre-forward Alan Brazil beat the United offside trap to put his side in front, it was anything but a close contest.
Brazil then turned provider soon after when he rolled the ball into the path of Paul Mariner, who fired a low shot inside Gary Bailey's near post.

The home side continued to attack and in the 27th minute, it was 3-0. The United rearguard failed to clear a cross from Eric Gates and Mariner was on hand to slam in his second goal of the game.
There was to be plenty more drama before the half was brought to a close, as United goalkeeper Bailey, the son of former Ipswich custodian Roy, took centre stage.
The South Africa-born stopper denied Frans Thijssen from the penalty spot, only for Ipswich to win themselves another penalty soon after.
The responsibility on this occasion was handed to Kevin Beattie, but he was also thwarted by Bailey. The Ipswich defender was given a second bite of the cherry, though, with the referee having judged that some United players had encroached before the ball had been struck.
Would it be third time lucky for Ipswich? Bailey had other ideas, diving to his left to hold Beattie's second tame attempt to keep the scoreline at 3-0 to the hosts.
Despite his heroics during the first half, Bailey was powerless to prevent his side from suffering a hammering after the restart as the Ipswich onslaught continued.
Brazil claimed his second goal of the encounter as he bounced a shot in from close range, before Thijssen slammed the ball in following some slack defending by the away side.

The scoring was completed five minutes from time as United winger Steve Coppell's pass was intercepted by Gates. He rolled the ball across the face of goal for Mariner, who had a simple finish to score his hat-trick.
Ipswich: Cooper; Osman, Butcher, Mills, Burley; Beattie, Gates, Muhren, Thijssen; Mariner, Brazil
Man United: Bailey; Houston, McQueen, Buchan, Nicholl; Sloan, Macari, McIlroy, Coppell; Jordan, Grimes"

https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/footbal...ix_208447.html

Alan Brazil went on to play for Man U.