Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel on twitter: Sad to read that fans has turned on Moyes & SAF, I understand everyone's frustration but I don't like the reaction. What happened to "We stand UNITED in good and bad times"? Since when have plastics stood "united" over anything other than easy glory? It's a complete myth that United stand "united" over anything, as the near future is going to aptly demonstrate, as player after player deserts the sinking ship and recent plastics revert to supporting Chavs or £ity.
Last time Utd played Bayern, we lost 2-1 in Munich then went 3-0 up at OT in the first half and looked set to batter them before Rafael got stupidly sent off, they scored twice and went through on away goals. Then there was 1999! This time Utd will do well to keep the aggregrate defeat down to less than 5 goals. But if Utd can muller Leverkusen, the only conclusion you can draw about the strength of the Bundesliga is that there's quality right at the top.
"It's a complete myth that United stand "united" over anything" TBF this is the first time since 1990 that we have seen an empire have a bit of a wobble. And plastication was hardly infecting the Poool supporter base. This, together with the instant gratification with no cost mindset of society today, will make for good social science if Man Utd do go the way of the Poool before them.
Do you have no ambition? Why only stop at where we dropped to? I feel this United team has the potential to go all the way down to the bottom under the guidance of Moyes, certainly as the rats flee the ship and Moyes replaces dross with more dross
"Why only stop at where we dropped to?" More than 2 decades without a league title would be enough. Embellishing it with stuff like 'and their average league position over that time was Nth' etc, does not inflict further torment upon their supporters. What is more interesting is how their support may melt away in the face of such woes.
Actually, that's a good question. I think it's probably a little bit too early. I mean, there is a remote possibility that United fans won't go the "next-year-will-be-our-year-and-have-you-seen-what-we-did-in-the-dim-and-distant-past" route taken by Mousers, and I think we ought to give them the benefit of the doubt. We'll definitely need an "Arsenal Watch" thread, should Whinger walk at the end of the season, as I can see the Gooners on this site hitting new heights of rose-tinted delusion, especially after the long-awaited North London Power Shift has consigned AFC to London's footballing graveyard of dreams.
[video=youtube;YYh1tAMLDRM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYh1tAMLDRM&list=UUBTy8j2cPy6zw68godcE7MQ[/video]
Isn't that the same guy he interviewed after the Chelsky game ?? Not much of a balanced range of opinions with the same "talking heads" , is it.
In the name of balance, what were the feelings among the old hands during the final years of St Nicholson ?? The team was getting worse year by year during the 70s. He apparently was disenchanted by stuff like the hooligan problem. Did any of you ever feel perhaps he had stayed on a bit too long, and it would have been better to get someone in sooner and keep his memory unblemished ?? Similarly for the Goons and whether they would accept the equivalent of Spurs 1975-79 if it meant they then get a rebuilding that led to the Spurs of the 1980s.
I think a few years in the wilderness can do clubs and their fans some good (except Mousers, of course, who are a lost cause, hence the general hilarity surrounding them and their pipe-dreams). Perspective and humility are necessary virtues, especially in the modern game. A string of mid-table finishes and the odd brush with relegation ought to do the Gunners and Gooners the power of good.
I know that I took the piss out of that bloke after the Chelsea game, but he looks ill. I get pissed off at bad results, but he looks like he's on his last legs.
The plastic Utd fans have turned on Fergie http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/26/sir-alex-ferguson-abused-fans-appointing-david-moyes
Liverpool name a full strength team ahead of the weekend game with us Sunderland start with Cattermole so there could be casualties!
The only really successful handovers from one really great manager to another that I can remember is Shankly to Paisley to ***an to Dalglish at Liverpool.
