Recent content by Vanrouge

My girlfriend got caught behind one of those barriers once. The surge knocked the breath out of her, and she literally couldn't breathe in. Getting everyone to surge back was easier said than done, as it required passing the message all the way to those at the back. A genuinely scary moment.

Lucky you to be there on that day! I'm now an ocean and a continent away from Old Trafford, but I miss being there for days like these. I sometimes think of Martial's debut against Liverpool and mourn what might have been. He could have been brilliant for us without the endless injuries. Makes...

Plus Martial scored a wonder goal of his own in that game. On his debut, no less.

The more I think about Amad's first yellow, the more it seems like a genuinely insane decision. So the ref correctly making them move the free kick back into their own half is an admission that Amad was ten yards away from where the ref himself believed the freekick needed to be taken from. So...

They invented dramatically urging "This shall not slip!" and then literally slipping in the following crucial game.

Agreed. A ludicrous decision. It seemed like even the VAR refs were bewildered by it!

Decent performance by United, given the circumstances. We made Liverpool look poor at Anfield. Definite double standard by the same ref who sent off Di Maria for touching him and letting Joe Hart get away with pushing his head into him a week later.

Hard to pic a favourite. Toone's if I'm forced to choose, although Ladd's was eye-catching too. Four very different and enjoyable goals.

The obvious one that sprang to mind is unfortunately a name our rivals sometimes give us: Manchester Untied

He sounds like some generic suburban English dad. Probably a nice man because he's never been tested. But aside from that and his frequent attempts at lyricism, the thing that annoys me most about him is that when he does that commentator thing of saying the name of the player currently with the...

You're replying to what was literally my first post in this thread. I haven't even offered an opinion! I was simply pointing out that although you seemed to be disagreeing with another poster, you also seemed to be agreeing with them (that the standard of comments here are atrocious, and...

So you're agreeing with lsd then? If the level of discourse on this forum is "a joke," as you believe, then it is indeed (according to you) at a similar level to that of the Daily Mail.

I thought it was decent too, but my gripe was that they made it seem like United fans didn't rally around him until the Inter Milan game where Becks was instrumental in Yorke's two goals. As if those two assets somehow redeemed him in our eyes. But that quarter final was in March 1999, long...

Yeah, I'd forgotten that too. It was shocking enough that he justified dropping Becks for a group game by claiming Becks didn't have his head in the game (what happened to keeping it behind closed doors?), and was only compounded by his comments after the red card vs. Argentina. It says a lot...

For sure, it almost felt like I remembered it because, like you, family members (especially my Grandad, who'd fought in the war) and close family friends talked about it so much and about the impact it had on the city and even the country. Sometimes I feel like I was there to see those newspaper...