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What a crap season
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
It’s just abysmal from every angle you look at it. I’m just surprised the footballing gods didn’t throw a City/Liverpool CL final into the mix.
From the owners, to Chinless, to the pricks we have on the pitch to the haphazard approach to recruitment...it’s just very worrying. Can’t see any glimmers of hope and the result tonight just compounds it all. We are miles away. Doom!
It’s nights like these when I wish I was one of those dicks you meet at a wedding who says they’re “not into football” when you try to strike up a conversation.
From the owners, to Chinless, to the pricks we have on the pitch to the haphazard approach to recruitment...it’s just very worrying. Can’t see any glimmers of hope and the result tonight just compounds it all. We are miles away. Doom!
It’s nights like these when I wish I was one of those dicks you meet at a wedding who says they’re “not into football” when you try to strike up a conversation.
I feel stupid for letting football become such an integral part of my life. It is very immature to base real life decisions on a game some strangers play for businessmen who exploit you off your time, energy, money and peace of mind.
I don’t even know how to vent. This is how they felt when we were winning things left right and centre. Karma is a bitch. It just feels as though we haven’t got anything to look forward to apart from utter shit for years to come. Strap in lads.
Wasn't the Saudi thing a Facebook hoax?. Ed Woodward and Glazers are not going any where. Just hope they get it right this summer.
Please please let liverpool lose both trophies big time! That would make this season less shit at least, also the "let's all laugh at Liverpool" thread is so funny....
Fergie always used to say you have to learn to lose and right now we are on one hell of a learning curve with our own pitiful team and what’s happening around the corner and down the road.
Our time will come again and taking the flurry of blows we are currently taking, as painful as it is, is all part of it.
Our time will come again and taking the flurry of blows we are currently taking, as painful as it is, is all part of it.
Well said. That's correct. Football, much like life really, does indeed work in cycles.
Some times maybe good, some times maybe[…]:
Besides the point itself and hopefully the laugh it provides—speaking about cycles, in context: just take a look at AC Milan, the second most successful club at the continental stage.
All big clubs go through bad patches.
We won trophies. If Solskjær has never played for us before would you still be happy with him appointed? Would you be happy with Steve Bruce or Ryan Giggs?
I’m furious at myself for letting this get to me so much. When I take a step back and think about it all logically, who gives a toss but football just reels you in. I’m emotionally wrecked from it all. Seriously need the summer break.
Well said. In its barest form it really is only a game. I had serious health problems a few years back and it really put into perspective what really matters and how stupid it is to bother yourself over trivial things. I’ve never got as angry about united since. I’ll be angry for hours after a shit game but not for days after like I used to. We’ve had great times as united fans and these are sadly not great times. Now we are just one of the big 6 and clearly no way near being the best of it. The good times seem like they are miles away and they probably are but they will be back again one day.
Absolutely.
In a rather sick and twisted way, I'm sort of glad that more and more posters here are getting on board the 'this is karma for having too much success under Fergie' train.
This is simply because you'll only find peace at a time like this once you accept that in club football, success most often than not goes in cycles. We just have to soldier on, do the best we could, and see how things go from there.
We all just desperately need something to go our way. It's been nothing but pain since PSG.
Something, anything. A DOF. An announcement regarding clear plans for the future with a new team responsible for recruitment. Even an impressive signing. Anything.
Something, anything. A DOF. An announcement regarding clear plans for the future with a new team responsible for recruitment. Even an impressive signing. Anything.
So this is what rock bottom feels like.
It would have felt a bit better if we actually have hope in the future.
But we all know how it's going to go the next upcoming seasons. We'll still be shite while City and Liverpool will still be dominating.
I can bet we'll be with another caretaker manager in Jan.
But we all know how it's going to go the next upcoming seasons. We'll still be shite while City and Liverpool will still be dominating.
I can bet we'll be with another caretaker manager in Jan.
It was the hope that Oles first clutch of games gave us that hurts the most. It's like they just downed tools, inexplicable downturn in form. I can't actually believe what the actual feck has happened since PSG.
I can't lie I hate Liverpool doing amazingly well while we sit and watch and tonight, for me at least, Admire! Incredible stuff from the Scouse. But wtf were Barcelona doing for that corner? In fact wt actual f were Barcelona doing full stop? But much as I need and want to I can't take anything away from that Kop inspired performance.
Looking ahead for my own sanity I need to refocus on Utd... praying for a better equipped 2019-20. The absolute least is to avoid a repeat of this season's disaster.
What can Ole do in the face of this bitter, bitter wind? Big summer ahead...
(P.S focus Utd but will be keeping one eye on Spurs/Ajax. Rooting for Ajax's young guns of course) Unless, as Poch claims, Kane (I think he's an incredible player) does get back in time I can't see Spurs getting past Liverpool.
Then I couldn't see Liverpool getting past Barca so wtf do I know?
2018-19 a fecking Nightmare of a season
I can't lie I hate Liverpool doing amazingly well while we sit and watch and tonight, for me at least, Admire! Incredible stuff from the Scouse. But wtf were Barcelona doing for that corner? In fact wt actual f were Barcelona doing full stop? But much as I need and want to I can't take anything away from that Kop inspired performance.
Looking ahead for my own sanity I need to refocus on Utd... praying for a better equipped 2019-20. The absolute least is to avoid a repeat of this season's disaster.
What can Ole do in the face of this bitter, bitter wind? Big summer ahead...
(P.S focus Utd but will be keeping one eye on Spurs/Ajax. Rooting for Ajax's young guns of course) Unless, as Poch claims, Kane (I think he's an incredible player) does get back in time I can't see Spurs getting past Liverpool.
Then I couldn't see Liverpool getting past Barca so wtf do I know?
2018-19 a fecking Nightmare of a season
The only way this season would've been worse is if we had been relegated and the club went into administration. Worst season I've ever witnessed in my life as a United supporter.
I'm in exactly the same place. Had a few scares in recent years but reasonably ok now. Football disappointment is only temporary and normally I can get over it by the following morning. However this season along with things outside football are combining to make me feel depressed for longer than normal.
It's all I've ever known since i was a kid. Utd was like one big family under SAF. I take football waaay too seriously and too have been seriously considering this going forward. It's not healthy to be getting depressed over a game which is there for entertainment after all.
Thing is, i don't know how to change, I can't just accept the lowering of standards. It was SAF's iron will to win/never give up that drawn me to the club in the first place.
I honestly don't know how to process it as long as the Glazers & Woodward still run the show. They aren't even in it to attempt to be the best football club they can be. They are the very juxtaposition to everything I hold sacred about the club.
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And wisely Liverpool hired Klopp after he had already done bits and proven himself with Dortmund, not straight from Mainz, who would have thought?!
After Fergie left and we started our ordeal through an asylum of useless managers, Guardiola, the best manager in the world at that time, was free and I hoped. But he went to City, the second worst of our rivals. Extremely disappointing. However we perservered with our attempt to get a manager capable of managing a big club like United but constantly failing.
Suddenly the second best manager, Klopp, was available. He went to Liverpool, the most hated of our rivals. We had nothing left to do except perservere. We then got the manager with the biggest head in football, who had had a lot of success in earlier times but had lost his mojo some time before.
Then, when we were hoping he would get the sack, a most promising, young manager became available - who had achieved great things at his only managerial position - Zinedine Zidane. Did the board go for him as the third best choice? Apparently not. We then got Ole, a real legend from our glory days but not a particularly inspiring managerial record. However when he started it looked absolutely amazing (far better than I could have hoped for). The Board appointed him on a permanant basis and Zidane went back to Real. Then the wheels came off again. I believe we must stick with Ole and see what he can do from the start of a season with a new team but I am not optimistic.
Suddenly the second best manager, Klopp, was available. He went to Liverpool, the most hated of our rivals. We had nothing left to do except perservere. We then got the manager with the biggest head in football, who had had a lot of success in earlier times but had lost his mojo some time before.
Then, when we were hoping he would get the sack, a most promising, young manager became available - who had achieved great things at his only managerial position - Zinedine Zidane. Did the board go for him as the third best choice? Apparently not. We then got Ole, a real legend from our glory days but not a particularly inspiring managerial record. However when he started it looked absolutely amazing (far better than I could have hoped for). The Board appointed him on a permanant basis and Zidane went back to Real. Then the wheels came off again. I believe we must stick with Ole and see what he can do from the start of a season with a new team but I am not optimistic.
If it makes anyone feel any better my 5 year old nephew who's mum and dad are Arsenal last night binned he's Arsenal shirt and told me to buy him a Man Utd kit. What he doesn't know is he will suffer just as much being Man Utd as he does Arsenal.
Not even done for me. Icelandic season has just started and my team is shambles having lost their 2 strikers and the manager quit because of mental health problems so I've got 5 months of bad football ahead of me until United is there again to disappoint me yet again.
And that's without having yet to see Liverpool, Chelsea/Arsenal and City x2 lift a trophy.
And that's without having yet to see Liverpool, Chelsea/Arsenal and City x2 lift a trophy.
This might help...
Liverpool get done over as City beat BHA with last kick of the game. Deeny with last minute winner to undeservedly sneak the FA cup, Ajax with a total football masterclass wins Champions League. Utd get their shit together in 2019-20. Sorted
All still possible
Don't worry lads. Next year is our fecking year.
It's an absolute nightmare.
It SHOULD be the kick up the backside that we need but I don't think any of us are convinced it actually will be.
It SHOULD be the kick up the backside that we need but I don't think any of us are convinced it actually will be.
Aye whatever helps you rage at night lad.
I feel the same.
Yesterday, I went to cancel my MUTV subscription but then, as soon as I did so, they offered it to me for half price IE £3.50 per month and I thought "£3.50 per month, for that I can watch the preseason games, I can see how the kids get on, I can see our new signings" and so I as I hit the "AGREE" button I realised what a stupid git I am.
Id give them more than 5 months before whining like a bunch of spoiled cnuts is what Id do. But sure what the feck do I know ive only been supporting them for 35 years.
You put a a slight smile on my face and that is not an easy task considering I look like something satan created tonight.
The worst thing is, we do not even know what is in stock for next season, it could get even worse. We are losing the only player who has been consistent in terms of performance and spirit even if he may not be a world beater (read Herrera) and likely to lost players who have great quality (read Pogba, De Gea). While we will remain stuck with players who are past it or do not have the right attitude. Let us be realistic, we are not going to be shipping out 10 players and buying 10 new players, it is going to be done over 2-3 seasons, even other things go as planned.
Now, we are not even sure if Ole is indeed the right man, we don't know that yet. Does he have the tactical acumen to take us to where we belong? The worst case scenario would be that this sort of form continues into next season, partly due to the quality of players we have and partly due to Ole's own shortcomings. Teams like Wolves, Leicester (since Rodgers took over) and Everton(who finally seem to have found their mojo under Silva) are going to make our PL games every week even more difficult. The worst scenario would be that we languish in mid table or bottom half and Ole gets shown the door. Where do we go from there? We have to do another re-start.
The most important thing at the moment is to hire the right man for the DoF and plan for the long term before we start buying players. It should not be some ex Legend just for a romantic emotional factor. We have wasted a lot of money over the past many years and unless we have the right man overseeing transfers we are likely to head into this wilderness era for a longer time than we think. The immediate future does look very uncertain and I am very scared.
Now, we are not even sure if Ole is indeed the right man, we don't know that yet. Does he have the tactical acumen to take us to where we belong? The worst case scenario would be that this sort of form continues into next season, partly due to the quality of players we have and partly due to Ole's own shortcomings. Teams like Wolves, Leicester (since Rodgers took over) and Everton(who finally seem to have found their mojo under Silva) are going to make our PL games every week even more difficult. The worst scenario would be that we languish in mid table or bottom half and Ole gets shown the door. Where do we go from there? We have to do another re-start.
The most important thing at the moment is to hire the right man for the DoF and plan for the long term before we start buying players. It should not be some ex Legend just for a romantic emotional factor. We have wasted a lot of money over the past many years and unless we have the right man overseeing transfers we are likely to head into this wilderness era for a longer time than we think. The immediate future does look very uncertain and I am very scared.
You jumped out the bushes with passive aggressiveness and a pot lid to defend Ole, and now you’re trying to moonwalk your way out of it by saying I’m the one raging
you’re cuteMight get worse next season too.
I'd feel better if I had hope for us returning to the top. I have no hope or expectations next season.
Think we'll be manager searching again next year.
I'd feel better if I had hope for us returning to the top. I have no hope or expectations next season.
Think we'll be manager searching again next year.
Truly is the worst possible timeline
The beginning of the end started when woody decided it's a smart idea to put a fecking urinal sponsor on our sleeves.
Never have I ever wanted a season to end and go away sooner. But its still not fast enough.
Hate to say it but next year will be even worse. At least this season we played some CL football and had some memorable nights. Next year we'll be in the stinky Europa League again while being forced to watch yet another City/Liverpool title race and will most likely head into the new season with Liverpool as freshly crowned champions of Europe. I'll have to see what we do in the summer but I think I most likely won't even bother watching next year. Maybe just look at a result here or there but I just can't take this shithousery from us anymore.
We're the richest club in the land and top 3 in Europe and we are 6th in the league.
We're the richest club in the land and top 3 in Europe and we are 6th in the league.
And so many of us were laughed at for expressing our worries in preseason. Too many short sighted United fans.