ScapeGOATs you remember

[horsechoker]

Carrick
McKenna
Lingard
Karius
Pogba

 

[Reapersoul20]

DDG
AWB
Maguire
Varane
Shaw
McTominay
Fred
Pogba
Fernandes
Ronaldo
Rashford
Cleverly

 

[horsechoker]

Also Sancho, Rashford and Saka for England

 

[sewey89]

Evra was a big scapegoat before 2007/08 I seem to remember. First game of the season he went on a decent run against Reading but his cross went straight to the keeper. Loads around me hurling abuse at him.

 

[Lay]

Fletcher at one point.
Hargreaves for England until 2006
Heskey for England

 

[horsechoker]

Fletcher at one point.
Hargreaves for England until 2006
Heskey for England

Beckham after FRANCE 98

 

[Sandikan]

A United player every time we go out of international tournaments.

 

[redDNA]

Riise for Liverpool.
Asamoah Gyan for Ghana/Africa.
Torres for Chelsea

 

[GodShaveTheQueen]

Fax machine

 

[horsechoker]

Fax machine

That was the real MVP

 

[Jeppers7]

Giggs amazingly in the 90s, suffered from Becks/Keane/Scholes consistency but nobody expected them to beat three players and cross the ball accurately at full speed. Pogba is the obvious shout from the current era. It’s all been his fault.

 

[KeanoMagicHat]

Most of the players in United’s midfield since Roy Keane. Even in the days we were successful the likes of Fletcher, Giggs, Cleverley would come in for a lot of abuse and since Ferguson Pogba, McFred, Matic, Fellaini have all had periods of being blamed.

 

[M Bison]

Fletcher was the biggie for me and i couldnt understand how he got a game initially, he looked miles off the pace and never looked United quality, who'd have thought it, SAF knew better than me and many other fans...

 

[Jeppers7]

Fletcher was the biggie for me and i couldnt understand how he got a game initially, he looked miles off the pace and never looked United quality, who'd have thought it, SAF knew better than me and many other fans...

Agreed. He was pooooor when he first started playing though and for a long time. I’d never have seen his upturn coming. That 18 month period around 2009 he was superb.

 

[Acrobat7]

Robben after THAT CL final. Bayern fans were loudly booing him for a while which was truly embarrassing. He redeemed himself with the CL goal though.

 

[bazza3727]

Agreed. He was pooooor when he first started playing though and for a long time. I’d never have seen his upturn coming. That 18 month period around 2009 he was superb.

I did hear that SAF had him lined up for a first team debut aged 16, but he broke his leg and then broke it a second time. Must have taken tremendous spirit to recover from those as a teenager. Not forgetting his more recent battles against colitis.

 

[Jeppers7]

I did hear that SAF had him lined up for a first team debut aged 16, but he broke his leg and then broke it a second time. Must have taken tremendous spirit to recover from those as a teenager. Not forgetting his more recent battles against colitis.

Yeah that’s true. SAF obviously thought extremely highly of him. I think it was actually league rules that stopped him playing at the time. I’m not sure he was ever going to be as good as that but perhaps those injuries had an impact.

 

[Wolf1992]

Pogba at United, quality player who i believe his reputation got tarnished after not winning much with United.

Beckham and Rooney at England NT, for not achieving anything

 

[U99ted]

Beckham after the 1998 World Cup.

 

[Vidyoyo]

No hate for John O' Shea?

 

[Conor]

Spacegoats.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

Evra was a big scapegoat before 2007/08 I seem to remember. First game of the season he went on a decent run against Reading but his cross went straight to the keeper. Loads around me hurling abuse at him.

During 2007-08 I remember Brown (in the first half of the season), Hargreaves, and Giggs (who tbf was having a poor season) all got a lot of shit on the caf.

 

[Josh 76]

Agreed. He was pooooor when he first started playing though and for a long time. I’d never have seen his upturn coming. That 18 month period around 2009 he was superb.

Crazy to think, but Utd would probably have won the CL in 2009 had Fletcher not been (wrongly) suspended for the final.