Recent content by chromepaxos

I'm 65 and still play 5 a side every week, and was playing 7 a side on a 1/3 pitch (ie across a normal pitch) until recently. It's great, but there are a few things to think about: - do NOT stretch cold muscles. If you don't have time to warm up, it's better not to stretch. Cold muscles injure...

Yep. The last thing we would want to do is something insane like believing in science and mathematics. Your understanding of military history is on a par with your understanding of football (not great, to be as kind as I can). If morale "usually" won battles, Kevin Keegan would be a general...

No, no. What you said, and I quote, was "Gary Neville is wrong on this one." I'm sorry your own words call you out. Similarly, your claim that you are a socalist is completely at odds with your desire for a salary cap. Salary caps are promoted by billionaire owners because their profits by...

This is exactly right. The idea that every former player who ever got a job in media is disqualified from having an opinion on something like this is childish and self-defeating. If you're spending your time criticizing Roy Keane and Gary Neville rather than Joel Glazer, you are the equivalent...

So you're so busy being sanctimonious yourself that you won't actually say that this is wrong? And your super-intelligent opinion is that there's no difference between Gary Neville and Roy Keane (genuine Man Utd icons), and the Glazers because they are all rich? Have you considered the...

This is a terrible way to view this. You are basically saying that the only founders of Newton Heath worthy of notice were the bankers and businessmen, not the players and workers who supported them. Newton Heath was formed by a bunch of mates in the Carriage And Wagon department of the...

I know it is comfortable to be a cynic and sneer at people who actually care about this stuff, but the "oh, it's just a continuation of what we have seen before so we should just throw up our hands and surrender" position doesn't add much value. Did we fight and lose in the past? Sure. Does...

My God, there's some confused thinking on here tonight. So, your argument here is that Neville is wrong because this is a continuation of what went before...which was us selling our soul to the Devil...which was also wrong...and we are culpable because we didn't fight...except we did...

That's twice you have cracked me up. Thank you.

Oh, no. It's the forum police.

This is horribly convincing. Bloody hell.

De Gea AWB - Maguire - Dopey - Shaw Grumpy - Happy Bashful - Sneezy - Rashford Sleepy Manager: Doc Ed will finally achieve his dream of turning Old Trafford into "an adult version of Disneyland." And yes, the idea that Ed will suddenly buy six players in a single window is a fairytale.

This is absolutely correct. I remember talking about what class he was and people arguing that he was lazy (of course), tended to fade out of games, and would only ever be a squad player. It was so perfectly Caftardish - lots of people with no eye for a player at all, but very confident in...

The problem is lack of structure throughout the footballing side of the club. Putting it down to just being about recruitment or the lack of a DOF ignores all the other areas in which we are crap. Our injury record is terrible: where is our world class head of sports performance and injury...

It's in the nature of negotiation that you get a better deal when you are in a position of strength, and a worse deal when weak. We are desperate, everyone knows we are, and unless we want to just keep rolling the dice on Championship players - basically turning ourselves into Southampton - we...