Manchester United Thread

[zee24]

RIP


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[andy1967]

For those who might not have read this beautiful poem before(source:anonymous):

Did you know Duncan Edwards, Dad?


Did you know Duncan Edwards, Dad, I mean really really know?
It?s just you?ve kept so many cuttings from all those years ago.
And were the babes the greatest, the greatest ever team?
Or just enshrined here in this history, just a bygone boyhood dream.
Now I know you idolised them, Dad, you gave each one their own page,
the pictures are well faded now, but I suppose that comes with age
Dad, did Tommy Taylor really head a ball against the bar,
which Harry Gregg collected, it had rebounded back so far?
And was Duncan Edwards really, the greatest of them all,
with silken skills and feathery touch, thirteen stone and six foot tall?
Now there?s a contradiction surely Dad, but I?m going to let it pass,
but Billy Whelan must have played once, without first going to Mass.
And was Harry Gregg a goalkeeper supreme?
Were Eddie Coleman?s hazy runs like red blurs on swards of green?
And Dad can you explain to me how it ever came to pass,
that Roger Byrne, just five foot nine, covered every blade of grass?
Or how David Pegg whose swerving runs, like a scorpion you said,
always struck the ball with venom, yet left no one for dead?
Or how it was that big Mark Jones could soar into the sky,
yet still patrol his area, so that nobody got by?

Then there?s the team of Sixty Eight, and Dad I?d like to know,
how George Best was always missing, yet played five hundred games or so?
And how was it Bobby Charlton, who played so many vital roles,
could be both a great goalscorer and a scorer of great goals?
Or how Denis Law had chipped a ball from forty yards or more,
it came back off the crossbar, and yet Law was there to score?
What use was it that Pat Crerand could split defences with one pass,
when the ball only ever landed on a sixpence on the grass?
And was Stepney?s save at Wembley, the best you?ve ever seen,
or was it just that it resulted in the fulfilment of a dream?
So now to Matt Busby, or Sir Matt as he?s now known,
from a mining town in Scotland, yet still one of our own?
Then finally there?s the Munich clock, the disaster time still shown.
why do people say that they never intended coming home?

The boy looked up with pleading eyes, and his father gently said.
There?s a lifetime of old memories in the scrapbook you?ve just read.
And of course there is some fiction, most fact, some strange yet true,
that?s what makes players into legends, now I?ve passed them on to you.
Those pictures may be faded son, but I can see them all so clear,
as if it were just yesterday, and I hold each memory dear.
Now I?ve passed this scrapbook on to you, to treasure for all time,
And you too will find your heroes and build to them a shrine,
and you?ll add your bits of fiction, but don?t worry son that?s fine,
to make legends of your heroes and then place them alongside mine.
And you?ll understand in years to come, as you watch great United teams,
why it is we call Old Trafford, The Theatre of Dreams

[zee24]

Confirmed! Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic says he's leaving Old Trafford after eight years
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/confirmed-manchester-uniteds-nemanja-vidic-3119884

[thered]

Well another blow looks like we will struggle for mickey mouse cup on a Thursday night now, carraghers getting to the point where he can barely keep his smug grin hid on sky

Funny how it gets easier to take the 5hitter you become, a bad result was a killer now its becoming a not suprising event. What boiled my pi55 tho is that after 80 min of possesion and doing very little we scored 2 in 2 minutes then started to sit deeper and not push anyone forward. Why did we let them have the ball? why did we not carry on attacking we started to sit and hold and it cost us again

why dont we go for another and another, we are that scared of losing its affecting the way we play, we should never start sitting back against a bottom team after taking the lead its not the UTD way and its not the 11 players who were left on the pitches strengths which was to score goals and get us back in it not track runners which is why we should have kept the pressure on

play to your strengths if you brought them on to score goals and stretch fulham why change it when we score?

[Hob]

Moyes has turned us into Everton. Everything is just ok /average, ****ing boring. He is getting on my nerves with his scripted answers that he's used for years.
This is now beyond a joke.

[southpaw]

Moyes has turned us into Everton. .

You wish

[aftermath]

I aint suprised, Moyes is a scouser.

[Bulld0g]

I thought he was born and bred and played all his football in Scotland.

[alom5]

I can't stand by him..... He ain't got a clue. Ferguson only choose him so the next manager doesn't or even have the thought of eclipsing him.
He took over a title winning side, and he's got them playing like relegation teams. You just have to look at the other managers who have taken over, mourinho, Martinez, poyet, pulis, Sherwood, the squads thru took over weren't the best but they have a plan of what to do..maybe not Sherwood,,😆, but he's winning. Moyes just don't have a clue., he's only used to stop the other team and that's not how it works at Utd so he's Foo OK Ed. The strategy against fulham - crossed it in the box and it's bound to go in... Everyone knows to try something different, and you got some players who can do it but.... Moyes 🐵

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[mikk]

Yes the buck stops with Moyes but the players have to take a lot of the blame, and who signed those players? Rooney's work ethic stands out in a bunch of players that seem quite happy to just 'turn up' on matchday and collect their cheques at the end of the week. It has been said here before, bar a handful, they are just not good enough and unless he is allowed to cut the cancer out and bring in some young players it will be more of the same.
My question:who would you keep? Answers on a postage stamp..

[thered]

bollox double post

[thered]

These players walked the league last season and the only thing thats changed are moyes and his coaching team.

They are a manager and coaches who are unfamilar with having to win every game, they are trying to tell players what to do but they have not done anything themselves. Fergie had total respect and belief Moyes comes from a background of being solid and winning nothing, im not sure the players are playing for him and im not sure they believe in his methods

They were already top dogs what does moyes and round know is what i expect they say if not in public at least between themselves

[mikk]

Bollox, very average players that Fergie somehow got punching above their weight, there is probably more technical ability in the City second team than United's best. And yes I follow Utd.

[terryc]

quite agree with you mikk, and yes, im a red too.

[aftermath]

I thought he was born and bred and played all his football in Scotland.

he lived as a scouser for many years, apart from the accent ,he has tasted the Scouse life, therefore he will still have a love for Scouse land. And i would say he is just like a typical scouser that wants us to fail.