Tonight's football thread

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Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry

Absolutely spot on Richard. I think the most annoying thing is the amount of moaning and "woe is me" stuff we're beginning to hear from them at the moment. They genuinely feel they've got it tough. Tough?!!! Sweet Jesus, can you imagine if they found themselves playing league games against the likes of Wycombe Wanderers, Macclesfield Town and Lincoln City?!! They've no concept of what tough is.

From what I can make of it, the new protest, Instead of wearing green and yellow scarves, appears to be going to Old Trafford matches dressed as a red seat (and smelling of piss).:p

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Ahh bad news Richard.. Danberts just cracked most idiotic post of the week... raise your game?

Danbert... try and find one post where I have done the woe is me??? I've heard very little from anyone to be honest. Even the BBC had an article on Moyes having old trafford support...

Go on just one... one woe is me comment about our situation? I'm not too worried, I think we'll do OK. we are sound financially, didn't spend millions like city.. have kept our soul.... again unlike city...

You are the one who croaks on about what it is to support a shite team..

Look a marriage is a marriage whether its too munters or two stunners... they still love each other.. luckily I fell for the elle Macpherson of football and you for the Fizz... I still don't doubt your relationship..

Iain your owners are mortgaged up to the hilt, if they go you are out of business.

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Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry

Absolutely spot on Richard. I think the most annoying thing is the amount of moaning and "woe is me" stuff we're beginning to hear from them at the moment. They genuinely feel they've got it tough. Tough?!!! Sweet Jesus, can you imagine if they found themselves playing league games against the likes of Wycombe Wanderers, Macclesfield Town and Lincoln City?!! They've no concept of what tough is.

From what I can make of it, the new protest, Instead of wearing green and yellow scarves, appears to be going to Old Trafford matches dressed as a red seat (and smelling of piss).:p

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You had a few seasons down there.. now the richest club on the planet and you croak on.. non-league football is tough... there's always a lower level, someone worse off.. even for City...

Honestly..

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Originally Posted by IainR

Ahh bad news Richard.. Danberts just cracked most idiotic post of the week... raise your game?

Danbert... try and find one post where I have done the woe is me??? I've heard very little from anyone to be honest. Even the BBC had an article on Moyes having old trafford support...

Go on just one... one woe is me comment about our situation? I'm not too worried, I think we'll do OK. we are sound financially, didn't spend millions like city.. have kept our soul.... again unlike city...

You are the one who croaks on about what it is to support a shite team..

Look a marriage is a marriage whether its too munters or two stunners... they still love each other.. luckily I fell for the elle Macpherson of football and you for the Fizz... I still don't doubt your relationship..

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Clearly you're not hearing it Iain, I am, and I'm loving it.

You're 9th in the league and a high percentage of your fans are cracking up. 9th? If they'd had to go through half of what we've been through in the past 30 years, they'd be selling their kids for 9th.

I've got to say though that your demise has been staggering this season and long may it continue. If that means by keeping Moyesee in place then so much the better. Surely it's no coincidence that as soon as he has left Everton they are playing some lovely football.

It's becoming laughable, the rag media in particular talkshite are wheeling out everyone and everybody to support the idea of wee Davey having more time. This morning driving to work I heard the Elephant man (Steve Bruce) saying what a good manager Gollum is and how he needs time.

Part of me hopes you implode spectacularly in some way but another side of me wishes you a long and painful decline, i suppose can't have it both ways.

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Originally Posted by Stagger

Iain your owners are mortgaged up to the hilt, if they go you are out of business.

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We're not.. we have debt... around 30-40% of the clubs value..

We are one of the most successful businesses in football...

I think chelsea and city are far more at risk.

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Originally Posted by IainR

We're not.. we have debt... around 30-40% of the clubs value..

We are one of the most successful businesses in football...

I think chelsea and city are far more at risk.

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Listen to yourselves. There's always someone with enough money and ego to take on any of the big clubs. It's supporters of clubs like Bury, Macclesfield and Wrexham that you need to feel sorry for.

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Originally Posted by IainR

I think chelsea and city are far more at risk.

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Rubbish, and you know it.


Iain It's been obvious to everyone that the Govan Piss Can had had that team over performing for the past 2-3 years.

The big, big question is, did he not spend or did he not have any money to spend (I suspect the latter but hope it was the former).

Personally this season I'm hoping you miss fourth place by 1 point. This will give your glory hunting fans a false hope that they can improve, the Glazers will open the purse strings under protest and Sir Davey will then waste the lot ensuring an even more disastrous season next year.

In Gollum we trust. Tick Tock. :p

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Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry

Rubbish, and you know it.


Iain It's been obvious to everyone that the Govan Piss Can had had that team over performing for the past 2-3 years.

The big, big question is, did he not spend or did he not have any money to spend (I suspect the latter but hope it was the former).

Personally this season I'm hoping you miss fourth place by 1 point. This will give your glory hunting fans a false hope that they can improve, the Glazers will open the purse strings under protest and Sir Davey will then waste the lot ensuring an even more disastrous season next year.

In Gollum we trust. Tick Tock. :p

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So are you now accepting he was a great manager..

Of course we have some glory supporters.. what are your gates now compared to when you were playing Lincoln? The same?

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Originally Posted by IainR

So are you now accepting he was a great manager..

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He was a bitter, rude, graceless, humourless bully with a vile temper who had an open and unrelenting contempt for referees.

There is no doubt however that his overbearing attitude did work in United's favour.

The record shows that in soccer's peculiarly imprecise manner of timekeeping, referees added more time to the end of games in which United were trailing than they did for any other club.'

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Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry

He was a bitter, rude, graceless, humourless bully with a vile temper who had an open and unrelenting contempt for referees.

There is no doubt however that his overbearing attitude did work in United's favour.

The record shows that in soccer's peculiarly imprecise manner of timekeeping, referees added more time to the end of games in which United were trailing than they did for any other club.'

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Yeah.. that was why we have 20 titles..

Honestly you really have to get over it.. even when you are winning you focus on us..

We'll be fine under Moyes, but I just hope the club acts with class and gives him 3 years. We have good young players, a few obvious issues to sort but I think that can change but we're in a healthy position.

If City's owners good bored, City would dissapear overnight.. we'll always attract new owners because we're an attractive company.

In fact I hugely undervalued the club, its probably over 2 billion according to forbes, so 350 million debt is less than 20%.. we're one of the few to pay the desired wages/turnover ratio.. of all the teams in the league we're about the most attractive financially.