Match Day Thread Manchester United vs Liverpool

Luv woke up.

 

You're entitled to your opinion, and you can't help your gut feelings.
As I'm sure I often seem ridiculously optimistic to some I'd just like to explain my attitude: I don't really expect us to win in games like this, nor do I ever think it's a foregone conclusion that we'll lose, no matter how high the odds are stacked against us. It's football, and anything can happen.
Given that any outcome is possible, it comes down to what you focus on - whether you choose to be optimistic or not. Personally, I can't see the point of putting myself through days of fear and apprehension over something that hasn't even happened yet, and that I have no influence over.

I actually really look forward to games like this, the excitement and anticipation of these fixtures is what football is all about. It is a bit of an emotional roller-coaster ( and I'm just as depressed as anyone when we don't perform), but that's what makes it compulsive.

As has been pointed out, Utd aren't any better than us atm- home advantage might swing it, but why be defeated before we even start?

 

That was yesterday after I had read the Fire and Water chapter of The Hobbit, last night I was reading Jane Eyre my lad is doing it as part of his A level and I promised I'd read the books with him, so with the bleak setting within the orphanage in my mind I'm now full of self doubt.

 

Will they be letting us use their bogs now and will we be letting the Utd lot use the bogs at Anfield ??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-34213950

 

I thought you'd been reading him Ibsen by the tone of this morning's post.

 

Or R.S. Thomas.
He was a miserable twat.

 

I did offer to read him Jane Eyre but he said "it's about a girl I don't want to her that, can I read my Batman comic instead?".

 

****ing sheep shagger as well

 

Yeah, more appropriate for luv than the Nordic gloom of Happy Henrik.

 

Actually never heard of him/her

 

Welsh poet. Died 10-15 years ago. He was constantly carping about the "Anglicisation" of Wales and seemed to want to keep the country in the Stone Age.
Ironically, he wrote all his work in English.

Wiki has this jolly opus:

Evans? Yes, many a time
I came down his bare flight
Of stairs into the gaunt kitchen
With its wood fire, where crickets sang
Accompaniment to the black kettle’s
Whine, and so into the cold
Dark to smother in the thick tide
Of night that drifted about the walls
Of his stark farm on the hill ridge.

It was not the dark filling my eyes
And mouth appalled me; not even the drip
Of rain like blood from the one tree
Weather-tortured. It was the dark
Silting the veins of that sick man
I left stranded upon the vast
And lonely shore of his bleak bed.

 

Version with players Van Gaal actually uses?

#ruinsplayers #ruinsclubs

 

Is De Gea #confirmed? Last time he played for Man Utd he threw the ball into his own net. Twice.

 

I like it.

 

We may be sh*t but I'm still buzzing for this fixture.

I think our team is now better equipped for these big away games now, so don't see it as a straight forward United win.

Personally, I don't know what will happen. Both teams aren't great so all 3 outcomes are possible. I suppose it comes down to who wants it most, and given our thumping last week, surely we'll be up for it.

 

Hmmmm.....interesting to see how we all work. I'm expecting to get beat....so while I'll be briefly miffed if we do, it's simply not as bad as when I expect to win (like against west ham, for example). Am a realist by nature, so usually just go with what I see and never lose any sleep about it. I still look forward to all games. I think if you can be optimistic about any game and not feel totally deflated when you lose, then it's the perfect place to be as a fan. Unfortunately (and I sincerely don't like this about myself sometimes), even if I try to be optimistic in matches like this, logic kicks in and rebalances my expectations!

All that said, 2 years ago, when Suarez was banging them in from all angles but we were defending like a bunch of clowns, I didn't know if I was coming or going!! Seems a long time ago now!

 

He wrote this other one. It was dedicated to you

There once was a fluffy likkle sheep
that got molested by this ****ing welsh creep
he slipped it his shaft
and practiced his craft
of always going balls deep

 

Very eloquent

 

That must be one of his later, existentialist works.