As regards to Fergies charity work. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20031221/ai_n12877574/ It appears that in his case charity begins at home.
As I said, you've almost held your own so far, but last season's away record does show that the strains are starting to show. Liverpool know that the Mystique of being the best team in the league props you up for a few years after that title is no longer relevant. You are currently living on past glories. That may end if you don't get some good players soon. The clock is ticking, Fergie needs to rebuild again, and this time with limited funds.. the world is watching...
Past glories of a matter of weeks ago? Will we still be living on past glories if we win number 20 this season?
From the Liverpool fan that is the funniest quote I have ever seen on this forum. United won the league last year and even in the interviews after the game they were talking about number 20. We have been so succesful as we don't live on past gloies.
Whenever a manager takes charge of a premiership club, the 1st letter they have on their desk is from Fergie wishing them luck.
It depends on how you quantify terms like Dynasty and Empire. I don't think Empire works at all as a footballing expression. However Dynasty is a good word, and to date, only Liverpool have built a dynasty, that went from Shankly to Paisley to ***an to Dalglish. That is what you class as a dynasty, maintaining control across generations. Fergie is just like Queen Victoria, he may well have built an impressive...Empire if you wish, but look back to Busby, United should have kicked him out of the club and not let him stick his nose in with Frank O'Farrell and the Doc, so Busby never created a Dynasty, and I don't think Fergie will either. Everything around this recent success is down to the one man. You have no-one within the club to succeed him, you've been through more assistant managers than is healthy, so when Fergie goes? Appointing a top European manager is not a dynasty, you have to appoint from within for it to be a dynasty. So unless you appoint Neville as your next manager, that is still one title you will not be holding anytime in the next few decades is it?
Probably less assistant managers than most clubs have had managers. And when you have managed a club in 4 separate decades having your successor at the club is a little difficult tbh. Hes built a dynasty.
United19red you shoudl shorten your signature -it is 9 lines of self glorification and so your signature takes up more space than yoru actual posts.
OK past glories is not a good choice, but you are surviving on reputation. It's Old Trafford, It's Manchester united, yet not one of you can honestly tell me that this current team is anyway a classic, and with the loss of two more greats this season, and the absolute disgrace of Giggs, you are going to find it that little bit harder to convince opposition teams that you are the same as the once great treble winning team, and barely winning the league, while all about you imploded and gave it away, is not really a significant milestone is it? They humiliation against Barcelona is a truer measure of how good a team you currently are. I know for a fact that I can't wait to play you next season! I can't wait to see Carroll wipe his arse with beanpole David De Gea, and I'm sure more and more teams now fancy their chances, so a lot will ride on how good a job Fergie does at rebuilding, but getting a defender from Blackburn and Villa's second best winger, and a six stone goalkeeper isn't looking too good is it? CAN WE PLAY YOU EVERY WEEK?
You can't say that, as he hasn't handed it over to an internal successor and the success has to continue, and then it has to pass on again. Go look "Dynasty" up in a dictionary. then come back and embarrass yourself some more.
It is a press conference, and the biggest topic is how your club legend is a man whore and a disgrace to the club. If you talk to the press, you have to take questions about the bad stuff as well as the good stuff, but Fergie thinks he doesn't have to. Fergie thinks he doesn't have to talk to the press when he loses. Fergie thinks it's his right to only talk about what he wants to talk about and when he feels like doing it, and that is not the way it works. If your longest serving player bring great shame to the club, the press have a right to ask questions about that. Will the club do anything about it? Will the club sack him/support him? Was he right to get a super injunction when he just used it as a cloak to go and screw a few more women? Managers have to come out and face the press when they have just been demoted, that spoilt brat of a man doesn't even want to do it after a single defeat, and don't give me any bollox about how that is a measure of the man, that he takes defeat so badly. He is a spoilt, angry man with a god complex. He just wants to talk when it concerns good things about him. Great manager, my arse!
Anyway, I am so bored talking about Man U, lets talk about Real Madrid. I have absolutely no respect for their European Record. The first 5 wins were the first 5 years of the competition, when it was all mickey mouse and hardly anyone was in it. Then the had another little run, when they spent like a rich man's housewife with a platinum credit-card, until they maxed it out, and got bailed out by the tax payer. So the only real single worthwhile success is 1966. We could probably argue about one or two of the early successes being justified, but they are hardly this magnificent greatest side in Europe that people think they are. They have only really won it when they have had an unfair advantage. So in my mind Milan are top dogs in Europe, and Madrid are are worthless as the mancs or Forest. Discuss...
