Fecking bottlers.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Those of us old enough to remember Arsenal challenging us in the 90s will know the traditional Easter collapse is almost as reliable as the Scouse boom bust cycle.
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Hopefully the wheels will fall off now. This felt like one of those season-defining games.
Yes. World Cup window simply delayed it.
They've bottled it ever since they knew they couldn't beat City. Now they're going to games already knowing they won't win the league.
Was coming here to tag you anyway.
Just shows how stupid Arteta’s tactics were in the FA cup game. A few Arsenal fans were bleating saying the opposite but since then they’ve lost to Everton and City (again) and dropped points to Brentford. They’ve scored 1 open goal in 4 games.
How long is Jesus out for still?
It's a good job they already won the league in January...
But seriously it's so funny seeing that weasel Arteta bottle it
But seriously it's so funny seeing that weasel Arteta bottle it
Two goals scored in the last four games, including the dodgy penalty from tonight. Not exactly firing on all cylinders like they used to. Nketiah is a hindrance.
A couple of tricky away games coming up.
A couple of tricky away games coming up.
2023 years
Count Dracula (Emery) with the final nail in the coffin on saturday.
Peace be upon him.
Tbf we should have gotten all 3 points against Brentford but what can you do. I'll just cry about it a bit longer.
Good to see them get a humbling tonight. Hope that’s the done now with 1pt from 9 available and confidence broken.
If they had won tonight and their other game in hand we would have been 11 adrift so pretty pleased with that result.
I think we are bang in this title race.
If they had won tonight and their other game in hand we would have been 11 adrift so pretty pleased with that result.
I think we are bang in this title race.
They aren’t winning against Villa. I’m sure of that.
Momentum is huge at this point now. City are gaining it whilst Arsenal aren’t. This is City’s title now, expect them to win the league by quite a few points.
Thought they were by far the better team in the first half, should of been leading if not for Tomiyasus error.
An Emery win would be superb, even moreso if that ends up being the one that really sends them off the rails
Yep if we win every game left but we won’t..a top striker in Jan would have made all the difference.
As much as I enjoy an Arsenal collapse, lets all keep in mind that a) they've a game in hand, b) they don't have as crowded a fixture list as City, and c) they've played the best football in the country all season until the last couple weeks.
D) they snowballing points......ie bottling it
They are starting to implode. City just need to keep the pressure and the league is theirs.
Arsenal did well to keep it going as far as this in the season though.
Hopefully the implosion keeps going on and we laugh at their insufferable fans at the end of the season.
Arsenal did well to keep it going as far as this in the season though.
Hopefully the implosion keeps going on and we laugh at their insufferable fans at the end of the season.
"An incredible battle between two great teams"
- Mikel Arteta
- Mikel Arteta
Well said !United are playing 3 games a week to your 1
No excuses you’ve completely bottled it
Do they get the “ Played the best football till January trophy ?
he meant City vs City B in the warm-up"An incredible battle between two great teams"
- Mikel Arteta
Happily giving up momentum in that FA Cup tie has absolutely buggered them. It was a rookie inexperienced and daft error in judgement. Bless.
We are still in the thick of it. We're just 5 points adrift, that game in hand for arsenal at this point doesn't matter much.
Why is that an absolute requirement? We're only 5 pts off city, who still have arsenal to play again. We have to better than the other two but if you look at the league table both post our awful start and the restart after the WC, we are pretty much the form team in the league.
How do you count 3 games to our 1?United are playing 3 games a week to your 1
No excuses you’ve completely bottled it
Ah how much can Arteta be disliked, apparently a lot.
Tbh - there's nothing to be upset about. Ball's still in your court (as your game in hand is v Everton I believe), I just think Arteta's decision making in the FA Cup game were counter-productive and have unnecessarily destabilised your team in the last few games.Tbf we should have gotten all 3 points against Brentford but what can you do. I'll just cry about it a bit longer.
No I'd rather just keep laughing at the weasel Arteta bottling under the pressure, we all knew the collapse would come it was just a matter of time
You’re only playing league games currently right? No cups games to play and you even have a game in hand in the league
Think United have been averaging 2-3 games a week solid for over a month straight
Can't stand him, he's got the ego of Pep without the success to back it up
We're still in 4 competitions while having to play an extra 2 games due to coming second in our el group stage.
You lot are just in 2 at this point.
But surely if your counting say Weekend, Midweek, Weekend as 3 games, then we would count weekend to weekend as 2 games?
You were right about the FA Cup game in the end.
I don't think it is helpful to build a winning mentality by identifying scenarios where you are ok to lose. You could argue that Sir Alex did that with the FA Cup, but by then he had already developed a trophy-winning mentality in his team. Arteta and Arsenal are not there yet.
I never expected Arsenal to go the distance. They've punched way above their weight and have no business being in the position they were in with that team. It was a result of Chelsea and Liverpool collapsing, United being in transition, and City having a sub-par season. Feels a lot like the year Leicester won the title. Arsenal simply don't have enough of the kinds of players that belong at the top.