Bubz27
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Signing Reguillon for some of you.
You must be kidding.When there was a blackout when I was watching United vs Arsenal in my home Kazakhstan because my jealous neighbour who couldnt afford a TV destroyed a nearby utility pole with his tractor motor
Seeing people encouraging United to ditch one of their youth products was low, I agree.Reading some of the comments from Manchester United fans in the MG thread is pretty high up to be honest.
How was that not directly linked to United?Though not directly linked to the club, the Aguero goal.
Other than that, I think the 5-0 drubbing by Liverpool at Old Trafford was really tough to take.
I think it was 5-2…Leicester 4-2 a few seasons back. Not so much that game in particular, but where it confirmed we'd sunk to. That felt pretty hopeless.
7-0 is the obvious worst result but I probably felt the most angry after that 2-1 second leg defeat v Sevilla in 17/18.
What I meant was ‘not a United game’.Seeing people encouraging United to ditch one of their youth products was low, I agree.
How was that not directly linked to United?
I think it was 5-2…
There have been a lot of low points recently, difficult to choose 1 so I’m going with an older one.
Celebrating like feck when Schmeichel scored an acrobatic volley against Wimbledon, only to later see the offside flag up and we were out of the cup.
Oh god I remember that. I was in my mate's bedroom, a city fan, and I went fecking ballistic. Shouting my head off and jumping around the room like a deranged gibbon for a full thirty seconds. Then I saw it had been disallowed and felt a combination of absolute dismay and total embarrassmentCelebrating like feck when Schmeichel scored an acrobatic volley against Wimbledon, only to later see the offside flag up and we were out of the cup.
True. When SAF came back from the States, a new convert to the Glazer project. It was a bit like seeing a weaker side in a much-admired crush. I always felt my lows overshadowed though, by the experience of the previous generation… Munich must have been horrifying. Puts it all in context, like Hillsborough or suchlike for others. It’s a game, despite what Busby or Shankly may have thought. A modern low … the prospect of Quatari sportswash (pretend) owners of the glorious club of the Babes.SAF fighting for a horse….set up the slow downfall of United.
Absolutely been absolutely shit since they had to take over control from The Boss.The day the Glazers bought the club. Not one single person i know wanted them here. Nothing else comes close.
this was it for me.. there was one game in particular I just hit peak apathyVan Gaal's boring 0-0 first halves.
It was so mechanical and dire that I used to take a walk for the first 20 minutes of the game only to come back with no surprise whatsoever that it was still 0-0 and the ball was passed boringly around in midfield to death.
This is it, the rest of the dark moments are a consequence of this event, over a fecking horse.SAF fighting for a horse….set up the slow downfall of United.
7 used to be my favorite number too.Its been a succession of s-t since Sir Alex retired and at most of the worst moments Liverpool have been there with an exclamation point. I am not going to quote individual incidents. You lot all know what they are.
It really didn't.SAF fighting for a horse….set up the slow downfall of United.
I mean I kind of get this.... as I don't really get how Chelsea won that game in the absolute slightest... but United have "bottled" far worse, in my opinion, should have been finalists in 2002 & 2004 - when going out to vastly inferior teams to the 2 you mentioned. All 4 still sting for me though, all 4 of them, and the injury crisis that allowed Kaka free reign in 2007. But these are first world problems!Thinking of SAF’s last few years (not exactly darkest moment as we still won a lot), but more than the declining quality of the squad since 2009/10 it was our newly caught bottling bug which really bothered me. Red card against Bayern and Madrid and we totally collapse.
Meanwhile Chelsea play Barca 2012 (a better team back then than Bayern 2010 or Madrid 2013) in Barcelona with 10 men for 55 minutes and still knock them out.
Then 2011/12 was the pinnacle of our bottling. At least we won the title back in 2012/13 with some glorious comebacks so happy ending.
I’d argue more that SAF going, David Gill quitting at the same time was a killer blow, and Moyes then sacking the back room staff to appoint his own was a killer blow. All that club knowledge, winning pedigree and high standards was wiped out in one summer. No wonder the club faltered. It was the blind leading the blind with our once successful squad trailing in their wake.Sir Alex retiring.
It wasn't just an icon leaving the club, it was far greater than that.
SAF has his DNA woken into the Manchester United quilt. When he left, it tore the club apart.
Might seem dramatic, but the club is now a shadow of what it was, on and off the park.
I don't know if the club will recover.
Immediately after SAF left, most of us still believed we were just a manager and couple of signings away from glory. A decade later, most of us have come to terms with the fact that we're not going to be top dogs until we have new leadership and make better decisions as a club, irrespective of the manager or the players. I think this shift in belief happened for different fans at different moments - this thread in itself lists so many of those moments.I think the final 1-2 weeks leading up to Mourinho's dismissal were the most painful I felt about United.
Don't know why. or maybe I do?
All the shit that's been accumulated since the Moyes and LVG days, leading up to us appointing the person I disliked the most in world football, ending up quite expectedly in him self-sabotaging, the entire club being toxic...
I'm still addicted and will never stop being a supporter, heck I spend so many hours writing and reading an internet forum about United...
But I put myself in a much more "remote" place emotionally after Jose.