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Nogbad_The_Bad 
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 Posted: April 24 2014 at 09:58 |
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I wouldn't trust the Glazers with punching their way out of a paperbag. They are wholly responsible for saddling a previously well run profitable club with massive debts resulting from their leveraged buyout. The perfect solution for me would be the underperformance of ManU to increase the financial hurt on the Glazers and force them out.
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Chris S
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Posted: April 26 2014 at 18:09 |
The Man Utd players should all be ashamed of themselves, except De Gea. Suddenly performing like that with Moyes gone......what a disgrace!!! 
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: April 26 2014 at 21:25 |
 Chris S wrote:
The Man Utd players should all be ashamed of themselves, except De Gea. Suddenly performing like that with Moyes gone......what a disgrace!!! |
Partially true, they did suck hugely for almost the entire first half before being awarded their routinely very soft penalty against the east anglian superpower that is Norwich City.  The expression hire and fire is often overused in connection with chairmen and boards of directors as although the former do hire managers, it's always the players who actually get them fired. Most clubs don't appear to have the remotest idea what they want when they interview candidates for the job. You can't really put a strategic plan into place with less than a season in charge can you? Even now, after Moyes' unsuccessful reign is over, no-one is any the wiser as to Ferguson's rationale behind choosing him as successor or what the club's long term goals might have been?. Moyes is ideal for a club with limited resources who want
to seriously punch above their weight. That ain't Man Utd, or any of
the other leading clubs in Europe.The hiring of the class of '92 to take interim charge merely smacks of fan appeasement. I'm sure Ryan Giggs and Paul Scoles will make very good managers in the future but let them earn their stripes like everybody else on the muddied fields of Division Two beforehand eh? I think it a great shame that Moyes will be forever prefixed with former failed Man Utd manger before his every mention in the media. He deserves better (but so do Graham Taylor, Glenn Hoddle and Steve McLaren frankly)
Maybe we've reached the stage where it's only the press decide which coaches are employable or unemployable, players and agents really run clubs and chairmen and shareholders pay their blackmail to stop them working for the competition?
Edited by ExittheLemming - April 26 2014 at 21:30
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 07:04 |
In the aftermath of Chelsea's valet bus parking service at Anfield, I thought the post match interview from Andre Schuerrle was quite revealing (or the interviewee is a supine idiot):
We felt it was brilliant, a perfect game. We did exactly what we needed to do and what we were told to do. We needed to show we could be in a fight, a battle, and win it. If that means we have to be willing to do something that takes a yellow card then we have to be ready to do that for each other, and I'm happy to do that.
So he admits they cheat and are instructed to cheat (and people wonder why his club are loathed in some quarters?....)
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 10:37 |
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Taking a yellow card isn't cheating. It's part of the game.
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Ian
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lazland
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 11:11 |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Taking a yellow card isn't cheating. It's part of the game. |
Hardly playing within the "spirit of the game" though, is it?
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tszirmay
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 11:39 |
I just hope 'the Spirit of the game' gets a swift action plan going and refs crack down on the swan diving competition. If I wanted to see platform diving I would watch the Olympics! I am getting so tired of seeing Oscar worthy playacting by so many star players. Even Rooney feels compelled to do it, as if he needed to.
As for Man U, I think the players did not like Moyes and simply 'let go of the pedal' which is easy to do when you drive a Ferrari!  As for Chelsea, they are England's version of Juventus = very successful but very crooked......... 
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Nogbad_The_Bad
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 11:58 |
lazland wrote:
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Taking a yellow card isn't cheating. It's part of the game. |
Hardly playing within the "spirit of the game" though, is it? |
I don't think anyone has played within "the spirit of the game" since the 1900's.
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King of Loss
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 13:56 |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
lazland wrote:
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Taking a yellow card isn't cheating. It's part of the game. |
Hardly playing within the "spirit of the game" though, is it? |
I don't think anyone has played within "the spirit of the game" since the 1900's. |
I thought they did play within "the spirit of the game"?
These days they call it "the spirit of a couple million dollars"?
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The T
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 14:12 |
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I can't believe the tragedy going on in Munchen right now....
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 14:35 |
The T wrote:
I can't believe the tragedy going on in Munchen right now....
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It's all your fault you know and Chelsea will be joining them no doubt
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 14:48 |
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Yes Bayern so far have surrendered. Makes for a fun second half....a few more Madrid :-)
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 15:00 |
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The only thing I'm looking forward to now is Robben getting over frustrated and commiting a couple of fouls getting sent off and sent to the naughty step.
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 15:02 |
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As much as I used to like BM, this tiki-taka/stupid passing is getting on my nerves, so well done RM.
They are simply tooooo slow...
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 15:37 |
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I like the fact that Ronaldo finishes off the embarrassment by waiting for the wall to jump and then sticks the free kick under their legs haha!
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 15:45 |
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Taking a yellow card isn't cheating. It's part of the game. |
Bollocks, this is PC in reverse, cheating is now pre-emptive infringement right? (and bullets are anti-ageing tablets ) Thank you ghost of Don Revie
Edited by ExittheLemming - April 29 2014 at 15:49
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The T
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 16:07 |
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 16:20 |
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The T
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Posted: April 29 2014 at 16:42 |
Yes.
I'm the type of fan of my team (and anti-fan of my nemesis) that, after the joys of watching my team win, come the joys of watching my nemesis lose. It doesn't reach the level of quasi-hatred that I have for a certain team in my country of origin, (especially because Real Madrid has had some great players like Zidane or Roberto Carlos, and at one point pre-Mourinho the team itself were respectable), but it's still there. No Decima for me please.
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Posted: April 30 2014 at 03:21 |
I enjoyed seeing Bayern get a pasting, mainly as I seem to have developed an extreme dislike for Manuel Neuer. Football would be nowhere near as enjoyable without such irrational prejudices. Probably due to his habit of appealing for non-existent offences when a goal is scored against him like he did with the second last night. It's like he's saying "I'm an invincible keeper and there must have been some form of illegal subterfuge to get the ball past someone as great as me!" And then he was beating the ground like a petulant toddler when the third goal went in. Suck it up Neuer, you lost to a better team!
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