Match Day Thread Manchester United v Southampton (BT Sport 1 ) - 8 pm 02/02

I have pretty much written this game off and am now hoping that we don’t have a massive minus GD at the final whistle.
Hopefully my negative thoughts about the result will have the opposite effect.

 

I have serious misgivings about this match, especially with the utter ****-pot officials that are in charge. I think the only hope we have is for Danny, Che, Nathan and anyone else who fancies chipping in, to discover their form so we can out-score them. Other than that I fear we might be in for a battering.

To support my concerns about tomorrow, I just discovered this bit of research:


Age-old football fan chant confirmed by referee masturbation study

A new study, by the Kinsey Institute, has confirmed that the vast majority of football referees do indeed ‘polish the whistle’ on a regular basis.

‘Even those in stable, happy marriages with healthy sex lives occasionally rub one out from time to time.’ confirmed Gabby Ulrich, a spokesperson for the Institute.

‘Indeed, our results suggest that anyone chanting ‘The referee’s a ****er!’ at any given match has a 99.6% chance of their assertion being factually correct.’ she added.

Conveniently, says Ulrich, the finding has also acted as supporting evidence to back up another claim, often made on terraces. ‘Yes, in part because of all the ****ing, there is a high chance referee is also ****ing blind.

 

0-9 Saints, hat tricks for Redmond, Stephens, and Jankewitz.

 

Is this some kind of wind-up?

 

I’m not even going to bother watching. There’s no point. I’m with Vin (I think it was) in this - turn up with the youth team and save our strongest team for the cup. We don’t stand a chance of getting any points with those officials, so let’s just write this off and aim for some cup success

 

I think it will be a draw . No i'm not joking .

 

We beat Spurs at home last season with Mike Dean as referee and Leicester away last season with Lee Mason as referee. Just saying.....

 

That’s very unlike you to come in and point something positive out about a referee. Have you turned over a new leaf?

 

Valerie is the man, he always scores at Old Trafford.

 

Fantasy football, why not, keeps us cheerful

 

So we've got a team who lost at home to Sheffield Utd, an offence so absurd there needs to be mass dope-testing, against a team that can't buy a goal. How the **** do you call that?

 

Surprised by some of the pessimism on here. I watched you against Villa, trust me if you play like that against us you'll win by a couple.

 

The pessimism is because of our injury list. Pretty much all the experienced players will make up the starting 11, and then it’s just inexperienced kids.
We don’t have a subs bench anymore, we have a crèche.
And we don’t score from open play anymore, so as long as you don’t give us corners or free kicks in JWP range, we will struggle to score.

 

That may well be true but I thought your attacking play was sharp on Saturday. I was thinking watching the game how we'd be coping with it if that was us instead of Villa, and tbh I don't think we would the way we're defending at the moment. Look at the goals Sheffield United scored against us

The only thing I'm counting on is that you won't just sit back and defend which gives some of our players the space to run at your defence.

Can see this being another 3-2 either way.

 

Frankly that's ridiculous, there's no way Redmond will score more than 2!

 

Is that really true Chilcs? For both handball & offside situations, I presume? Bottom of armpit! If correct, that makes DI’s offside even more debatable?

 

Thought he was off to Birmingham?

 

Exactly. If Danny was standing upright, draw a line from the bottom of his armpit horizontally through his arm. The outside point of that line then becomes the point which the VAR line has to be drawn. The other part of the equation is the exact point where Bertrand’s boot touches the ball, to play it through to Danny. At no time did the VAR replays show that moment, because it was between frames, so the goal should have stood because the benefit of the doubt should have gone to us.

We wuz robbed!

 

https://www.thefa.com/football-rule.../football-11-11/law-12---fouls-and-misconduct

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