When I read the first sentence there I thought 'fecking hell, TR is being surprisingly nice there'. Then I read the second
ITT: Poster who doesn’t want to waste emotion returns with emotional buzzfeed essay insulting fans
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Unnecessarily long post but I agree with the gist of it. In any case, I'm certain he'll fall out with half the squad, drag the club and players through the mud before getting sacked before end of the season anyway. It's just about how much damage gets done and how well prepared we are for the replacement process
This is the most fecked up pseudophilosophical rant on football I have ever read or heard. Mixing gender studies, social studies, new-leftish vocabulary, anti-Trump agenda, anti-redneck politics in football discussion will always be a bad idea. Calling football-tactics far left or far right? What type of ignorance on politics lead you do that?
P.S. Of course, your rant surpassed some right-wing bshit that I heard in my life : for example, a PAOK fan mixed ancient Greek god Mars, Alexander the Great, Byzantium and other nativist and nationalist bshit in his own football rant.
P.S. Of course, your rant surpassed some right-wing bshit that I heard in my life : for example, a PAOK fan mixed ancient Greek god Mars, Alexander the Great, Byzantium and other nativist and nationalist bshit in his own football rant.
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The fact that most of the posters on the first page shitting on the write-up are same the people who'd go 100% "amazing post mate", "well written, considering all the negativity on the forum" for a post which is pro-Mourinho, but just as "badly" written, has me curious about the write-up.
The mere mention of it, when it was clearly to do with football, albeit a poor metafor, and not meant as derogatory offends you?
As a man who's two grandfather's fought in the 2nd world war, one making it back and the other not making it back, I find your faux offence offending.
Jesus won't these people stop at nothing to promote their left wing agenda these days?
Such a long post and no tldr. I applaud anyone who read the entire post.
At the end of Monday's game the fans did themselves and United proud, it was a great moment of class from fans who have been used to almost constant success. Watching your team get beat 3-0 on a work night and staying to show support afterwards has nothing to do with Donald Trump, showing support for a manager and the players despite not enjoying the football that is on offer does not alienate young fans, pulling out your debit card to pay a hefty sum for a season ticket without hope if seeing the league title raised is not some act of right wing "top red" bravado.
It all comes from the fact that this club has given us all some of the most magical moments from the time we were children. There is a type of bond there that saw us take record crowds to the second division.
I think Jose is the wrong fit for the club at this point, I will keep going and keep supporting the team though. If you feel that puts me in the dark ages and makes me a detriment to our club then we disagree.
You say you have boycotted the club. You truly, truly won't be missed.
It all comes from the fact that this club has given us all some of the most magical moments from the time we were children. There is a type of bond there that saw us take record crowds to the second division.
I think Jose is the wrong fit for the club at this point, I will keep going and keep supporting the team though. If you feel that puts me in the dark ages and makes me a detriment to our club then we disagree.
You say you have boycotted the club. You truly, truly won't be missed.
Personally, I'm waiting for the movie.
This is genuinely the most hilarious thing I've seen today.
We must drive out the fascist invader like comrade Stalin before us. United fans of the world unite!
We must drive out the fascist invader like comrade Stalin before us. United fans of the world unite!
Some say it’s the prologue.
Mate, you've just created a scenario that has (afaik) yet to happen and treated it as a fact in the same sentence. That's just silly.
Have I been redirected to RAWK?
TL;DR
If Mourinho is Hitler does that mean Ferguson is Von Bismarck?
Moyes is obviously Wilhelm.
Moyes is obviously Wilhelm.
Fully agree. Sums up my feelings as well.
A couple of years ago... the OP was desperate for us to sack LVG and get Mourinho in.
What a way to come full circle.
What a way to come full circle.
Honestly, i was exhausted after the thread title (no clue what itt means), looked at the picture, read Sevilla - Aftermath, then i stopped.
How far did you get?
Many, myself included, were desperate for this move. Mourinho hasn’t lived up to what we hoped he would have. It is what it is.
Many of us wanted Mourinho back then and now want him out. We thought the risk was worth it because he would bring success despite his antics and questionable footballing style. Since he's not bringing success, losing in incredible fashion, and the atmosphere is increasingly toxic, it's reasonable to want him sacked.
As a rule, if I don't get paid for marking, I don't read essays.
@MJJ
Digging out a post from over 4 years ago. Really? Anyhow not sure what that proves as at no point do I suggest I'll boycott the club and stop providing my support (which is the reason I don't like @Raees post by the way, not because he has an opinion)
I appreciate the little fan club I have on here but this must stop!
Digging out a post from over 4 years ago. Really? Anyhow not sure what that proves as at no point do I suggest I'll boycott the club and stop providing my support (which is the reason I don't like @Raees post by the way, not because he has an opinion)
I appreciate the little fan club I have on here but this must stop!
Some strange comparisons and metaphors, but I actually thought OP was reasonable post. I get what he's saying, though I get why it turns some people off. I'm starting to think that a re-focus on our club's ethos is going to be a top priority.
Im sorry. I don't mind some of his points and actually understand him but can't accept boycotting the club you supposedly love and throwing digs at the match going fans.When I read the first sentence there I thought 'fecking hell, TR is being surprisingly nice there'. Then I read the second
Just can't relate to it or those feelings.
I get the people who are saying they were hopeful about Mourinho before he arrived but I just had a look through this guys posts around that time and he was talking about a Boycott all the way back then because of Van Gaal. He loves a boycott this lad.
I also saw him commenting about how hilarious he found it when Jose said he would smash Wenger's face in. Toxic masculinity indeed. The truth is that if we were winning most of these lot would be Jose's biggest fans.
I've also had family who were affected by World War 2, one of whom was tortured and bore a lifelong hatred towards a certain people because of it. I find your faux offence at my offence offensive.
Glad you’ve pointed that out. Said it before -peak Jose was a genuinely great football manager - an icon and inspirational. His football wasn’t pretty but it wasn’t ‘bad’ football, it was similar to say Atletico now and I’d argue even more exciting. I was hoping in a supportive environment which he has more than had in the first two seasons, would get him back to that standard not to mention I brought into the fact he genuinely cared about this club because it meant something special to be able to replace SAF. I sincerely hope after this role whatever happens, his legacy still remains undininished because even the greats of the game have their day. Not everyone can be Fergie and leave on a high.
Exactly the same spot! Then I just looked at the various sub-headings for a laugh.
Then you're not a supporter. You're instead, one of the 'consumers' Woodward likes to wax lyrical about.
It's pretty simple really. If you can't support the club in its difficult periods, you don't deserve them in the better periods.
I'm personally not a fan of Jose at all, and would rather he wasn't here, but I will never go to the extent of not going to the games or lend my support. Utd is an institution that goes far beyond a manager we don't like.
It's weird because I was never sold on him... not even back when it seemed like every man and his dog wanted us to hire him.
I'm still not sold... but whilst he is our manager, he has my support 100%.
Yeah I feel you. I actually don't hate him, and wouldn't stop supporting the team and manager, but I can tell that this is not going to work out. If we are to be without success for a while, let's at least get back to a style that we can all be proud about. We WILL get success sooner or later. Our resources are too vast to not be.
Easiest example to find since we all hated moyes
Surely win at all costs supporters who don’t really care about the principles of the club and what it represents are more consumer like. They show zero loyalty to their players and jump down their throats juar because of some bad results or because their manager has told them to (despite being presented with evidence to the contrary).
I’m not boycotting the club because it’s not successful.. we were less successful under Moyes and LVG and I didn’t boycott the club then. It’s a principled stance on the fact that the manager has crossed the line several times in his comments about the club and the manner in which he exposes to the media re: inner workings of the club and blames his players even when he is to blame and then flips 180 citing fake news when the media has turned against him. I refuse to support that way of working. It’s not Manchester United.
If you care for the club, you want what is best for it. Why would I want to support someone who is abusing the club whenever it suits him to further his own agenda.
I understand why you are upset but I don't understand why you would boycott the club? Do you consider that by not taking actions, the club is complicit? I have to admit that I don't understand how people can be behind Mourinho when he seems to consider his own past greater than United's, maybe I have the wrong impression but that's how I see it.
I liked the post, you remind me of myself writing during last year of Mourinho in Madrid haha.
I didn't understand everything but sound a bit like the madridistas and "Pseudomadridistas" that he used with the press.
However I think most of the fans can openly criticize Mourinho ,or at least it is the idea that I get after reading the forum.
I remember an atmosphere more tense years ago(I mean in Madrid,dividing fans/press).
In any case when you signed him you knew his "contras", that acquired style of criticizing the players,the theatre with the press and you knew that you were going footballistically to the extreme right.
I didn't understand everything but sound a bit like the madridistas and "Pseudomadridistas" that he used with the press.
However I think most of the fans can openly criticize Mourinho ,or at least it is the idea that I get after reading the forum.
I remember an atmosphere more tense years ago(I mean in Madrid,dividing fans/press).
In any case when you signed him you knew his "contras", that acquired style of criticizing the players,the theatre with the press and you knew that you were going footballistically to the extreme right.
A bit hard to take anyone seriously who apparently is already boycotting United under Mourinho. Feels very entitled.
Ferguson was the fecking Godfather for feck’s sake. The one major difference between Fergie and Mou is Fergie made an inner circle of managers in the North West, blew a lot of smoke up the fans’ backsides and intimidated the media to always have a better perception.
Ferguson was the fecking Godfather for feck’s sake. The one major difference between Fergie and Mou is Fergie made an inner circle of managers in the North West, blew a lot of smoke up the fans’ backsides and intimidated the media to always have a better perception.
Boycotting the club is perhaps the wrong phrase. Boycotting this current project is perhaps more accurate representation. Of course the club is complicit, Ed has messed up majorly on several occasions (I wrote threads years ago about how he was a idiot and not capable of handling football operations) but end of the day, I can’t boycott the club eternally and someone like Ed will remain a part of the fabric of the club for years to come and he might be a moron but I think he does actually what wants best for the club albeit he has been woefully misguided in his approach and is out of his depth. I can be pissed at Woodward which I am but I don’t dislike him on a personal level or think he’s an unprincipled cnut or the club for that matter. I don’t buy this narrative that the board are evil greedy miserly money men who have prevented Mourinho from a fantastic final year of this three year project. Once a new manager is appointed - pretty sure large amounts will be spent again. As much as we can retain our global status on the back of Busby and Sir Alex’s achievements, profits will always increase if the club is successful on the pitch too.