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People who complain about an offside decision because the player was only 1cm offside. "That's not the spirit of the rules!" they screech. Well you've got to have a borderline somewhere. There's got to be a point where they are, and a point where they aren't, offside. So all that you're...

Or, to put it another way, Maguire has a head like a 50p piece.

It's noticeable that when we are 'completely controlling' a game, we still have to probe and probe and probe to find a route through to a meaningful attack. And then we make one mistake, and it's absolute panic stations. Our opponents seem to be able to turn every piece of possession they get...

Why have we been playing Dalot and AWB switched the last few weeks? Have I missed something?

Just some geezer. You know they occasionally add things to the feed which members of the general public* have texted in. *i.e. idiots.

It makes this comment on the BBC site during the Liverpool game even more demonstrably laughable: "I've no sympathy for United "having" to play teenagers. Liverpool have done this all season, and it's why their teenagers don't look out of depth. Can't wait for this one." The whole media blowing...

I'm struggling to see the difference between that and how our current defence advance the ball. :D

To the OP question: No. It's in second place, behind the weirdness that is: You're allowed for your team to score directly because of your accidental handball in the opponents box as long as you're not the person who scores.

Sky showed the Spurs game from the end of the 98-99 season in full the other day. Justin Edinburgh is a name I remember - but I didn't recognise his face in the slightest.

I'm late to this party - but Sam Sodje was better than his older brother Efe Sodje* (Bandana man) and than his younger brother Akpo. What does that mean to the brothers theory? *At football. Not at defrauding charitable foundations.

It was amusing that after Maguire went off, the goal scored against us was largely because both our central defenders made what could be considered 'Maguire-esque' mistakes. (Stones header was atrocious too.)

As if it wasn't already hard enough - did he have to barge the ref out of his way too?

A recent one, but whenever I see a clip from last year with Sabitzer in it I am confused for a moment. I reckon next year the same will be true of looking back at this year and seeing Reguilon. It just doesn't really feel like they were ever United players.

Bloody hell. I didn't even remember posting this - but I pre-Mkhitaryaned Mkhitaryan by 8 years! Mind you, mine wasn't quite as impressive. There was no diving acrobatics, just a leg flicked out behind me. And it's a bit sad to recognise that I have continued playing every week in the 16 years...

Zero, given that every time we get into the positive we shit ourselves. I posted about this effect in the weird things about football thread a while back.