Manchester United

[canuckblue]

Just post the goal please @Eggs

Video hadn’t been invented yet.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I’ve been watching football since the 1990’s, so I don’t remember the last time United were this bad

I didn’t think I’d ever see it

There’s a journo in the video below saying that only mismanagement would wreck Man United, and at the time that seemed unthinkable



It’s amazing how this stuff can happen

I don’t think Ferguson gets enough stick for it tbh

It was obvious that the team he won the league with in 2013 was considerably weaker than his past squads and he mostly won the league by default due to City, Chelsea and Arsenal not being at the races

He got one more title for the record books and then bailed on the rebuild, heading upstairs like a stone gargoyle looming over every new manager like the spectre at the feast

One thing Ratcliffe got right was getting rid of Ferguson

It was beyond time

He both gave that club everything and then laid the table for its demise by chumming up to the Glaziers and leaving an aging and average side for Moyes to inherit. Plus, he was the one pushing for Moyes in the first place, probably because it was win-win for him

If Moyes failed, then it just made Ferguson look all the better, and if he succeeded then Ferguson takes the credit for picking the right replacement

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Actually, he just about scrambled it over the line. A true poacher's goal.

I’m sure his teammates egged him on to put a shot in…

 

[summerisle]

Just post the goal please @Eggs

 

[Eggs]

Just post the goal please @Eggs

….i’d love to see a video clip of that goal but filming rarely happened in 1971. I remember it well, got the ball on the corner of the penalty area cut inside past one player and smashed it low into the far corner of the goal. I have the press cutting which said I ‘crowned an enterprising display with an excellent goal’.

Ah well, a long time ago now

 

[Frenk]

Fair dos that looks iconic. Has a presence and personality that the Wembly lacks.

Shame he's had to sack so many people and cut back everyone's perks to afford it though.

Oh and it might be bigger, but it won't be better than Bramley Moore Dock.

It’s hideous mate.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

….i’d love to see a video clip of that goal but filming rarely happened in 1971. I remember it well, got the ball on the corner of the penalty area cut inside past one player and smashed it low into the far corner of the goal. I have the press cutting which said I ‘crowned an enterprising display with an excellent goal’.

Ah well, a long time ago now

Well millwall didn’t play man United in 1971, so that rules you out of being Eamon Dunphy in disguise

 

[jerseytoffee]

Listened to a bit of the Ratcliffe interview and he seems like he loves the attention doesn't he!

Slagging off the current players and saying if they didn't do all these cuts they'd be out of business by the end of 2025 which is complete bs.

That new stadium is horrendous and they are run by a nasty piece of work in Ratcliffe, hopefully that club will continue to be wrecked from the inside out.

 

[Zezti]

I think it looks crap with that netting over it

 

[Vintage]

Mix of a circus tent and mosquito net over a bed. Kind of apt really esp for that blood sucking Ratcliffe

 

[longers]

The netting and towers make the exterior look like an eyesore but the interior looks fine. I notice they aren't going down the spurs/dortmund route of having one giant mega stand behind the goal. Im not sure why clubs don't go for a single giant stand behind the goal, i wish we had done it at Bramely Moore, it just looks way more epic and imposing than a two level stand

 

[Blue83]

The homer car of stadiums

 

[Ruairi77]

Here's a lame question.
How do you keep something like that clean?
It's the kind of thing that might look cool when built but will date veeery quickly and end up grubby and shabby.
Thats another thing Meis got right with us. I don't think BMD will look dated in 20 years.
Also, is Ratcliffe spending a fortune on Foster designs while ending snacks for ball boys?
How does this get funded.
You'd need a team constantly challenging at the top to make it any way viable, how do they balance the costs of a mega stadium and competitive team. They cant even manage a competitive team while spending nothing on OT

 

[Tipp blue]

I’ve been watching football since the 1990’s, so I don’t remember the last time United were this bad

I didn’t think I’d ever see it

There’s a journo in the video below saying that only mismanagement would wreck Man United, and at the time that seemed unthinkable



It’s amazing how this stuff can happen

I don’t think Ferguson gets enough stick for it tbh

It was obvious that the team he won the league with in 2013 was considerably weaker than his past squads and he mostly won the league by default due to City, Chelsea and Arsenal not being at the races

He got one more title for the record books and then bailed on the rebuild, heading upstairs like a stone gargoyle looming over every new manager like the spectre at the feast

One thing Ratcliffe got right was getting rid of Ferguson

It was beyond time

He both gave that club everything and then laid the table for its demise by chumming up to the Glaziers and leaving an aging and average side for Moyes to inherit. Plus, he was the one pushing for Moyes in the first place, probably because it was win-win for him

If Moyes failed, then it just made Ferguson look all the better, and if he succeeded then Ferguson takes the credit for picking the right replacement

City Not being at the races?, During United's dominance City were bouncing around between the PL, Championship and Division 1, Everton were more of a threat to United than city ever were.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Mix of a circus tent and mosquito net over a bed. Kind of apt really esp for that blood sucking Ratcliffe