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grow up you mugs. modern-day football is simply a soulless money-making/embezzling exercise and 'fans' are just deluded muppets with a bizarrely inflated sense of self-importance. why anyone would feel some sort of attachment to a bunch of foreign millionaire football mercenaries is unfathomable.
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you are certainly right in your use of the word "hate" in this context .
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Fans of lower league teams (such as luton for example) leaning towards them because they're successful and on TV every week. 1.01 the OP cheers when they score.
If your team was in the Premiership you suddenly hate them as well. The refs, fergie time etc. Your team is up against a massive handicap before the game as started. Not to mention the media love-in Giggs winning SPOTY and Player of the Year without actually doing anything is a prime example. Thankfully this season there has been a turning of the tide, people are beginning to speak out. With 700m of crippling debt and a team full of mediocre players their bubble is about to burst. I can't wait. |
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I'm not a United fan but embitterred as they have the biggest worldwide support, the biggest stadium in the UK, the widest support in England and Ireland from Devizes to Dublin, are the most glamourous Club, have a fantastic tradition since "The Busby Babes" who were everyones 2nd Club, had "Law,Best and Charlton", had George Best the first "Pop Star" Footballer, have mountains of money, always play attractive Football in the 50 years that I have watched The Beautiful Game, have the most successful Manager of all-time in The UK and have won countless trophies lately and are known all over the world from Stalingrad to Saigon to Singapore to Swaziland.
I ruddy hate them but I'm NOT REPEAT NT "jealous"... Me? Jealous? I THINK NOT!!!! JEALOUS INDEED!:( |
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the short answer is that they are**.
Their**myness is projected in a myriad of different ways in all areas. |
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It is great to be Man U although my attending home, away, abroad games ended around 84, cameras, married etc. Just done the odd one since but nothing from 99. We had good times especially the pre season tours some stand out moments many of my friends still attend and know from the tales i am still missing fun. The night of the balaclavas, the taking of Glasgow Rangers to mention a couple . Anyone interested in reading a fairly accurate account of some of the escapades try Among the thugs by Bill Buford especially the chapter The day United took Turin.
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they are HATED THAT much
that poor Ipswich playing today are wished to get battered purely because an ex-man united sc** is managing them .. thats how much .... And Hoorays were heard when Ince, Southgate, Robson , etc , all did sh** as Managers and were sacked !! .... |
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southgate?
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anyway, signing in. manure fans are the worst in the world.
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strachan
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southgates quite a decent fellow - i think maybe because he hasnt been contaminated by man united**myness.
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While Fergie´s post match rants have become as tiresome as they are predictable, why are football fans still so naive about it? SAF may not be the world´s greatest tactician but when it comes to manmanagement and the psychological mindgames involved there is nobody wiser.
When Fergie rants it is usually for two reasons: the first is to make officials wary of making decisions against his team and to secure better treatment and therefore better chances for his team; the second is ´distraction´, to avert the spotlight away from a poor team performance/poor tactics/ team selection or whatever, onto the referee, a dodgy decision, lack of time added or whatever. How many times have you read the headline after a Man Utd defeat about a poor/unfit match official? Or a dodgy decision? Or unfair fixture list? Or terrible tackle? Rarely if ever is the headline about how badly Utd played. All this does is shield the players and SAF from speculation that they might not be good enough. Fergie often takes the heat so that his players don´t have to - not publicly at any rate. Love him or loathe him this is what a fully committed club manager does and Utd will lose much more than just a team manager when he goes. |
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Manoleeds 10 Jan 08:38
Because they call themselves United as if Sheffield United, Newcastle United , Leeds United etc didn't exist there is only one united :) |
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I think you might find that the proportion of the population that 'hates' Man. Utd. (or any other team, for that matter) is vey small. Most people have little real interest in football apart from watching it as a sport on TV.
I think the game in gebneral does itsself no favours by allowing unruly, ill-disciplined behaviour on the pitch and many of the matches are won or lost on incorrect refereeing decisions. Take control of the game, ref. Managers should take control of their players and punish foul tactics, including things like claimiing it's your throw-in when you know it isn't! Let's see it played in the spirit of a skilled, athletic event and may the best team win. Obviously I know nothing about Football. :D |
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big-game-player 10 Jan 14:54
Manoleeds 10 Jan 08:38 Because they call themselves United as if Sheffield United, Newcastle United , Leeds United etc didn't exist there is only one united big game player has just given a perfect example of why they are hated so much |