*Official* English Football Season 2005-06

[Craig]

Why not?

If you invest your time and money into the club then in my opinion you are entitled to express your opinion. Be it by booing the players, the team or doing what Inter Milan fans did yesterday when they did not attend the derby.

If you clap and cheer mediocrity and praise such a thing you will be nothing more than Mick McCarthy or the Sunderland fans who seemed so punch drunk and oblivious to their plight but taking if you are a glory hunting Man Untied fan you should shut the hell up and know your role.

I agree.

Frankly when they lost to Juventus I think the lot of them gave up and we had another reported bust up against Villarreal.

Coppa Italia here we come

 

[GIMH]

Scaly - may I just politely ask you why the rest of us are not objective?

I don't support Man U and I don't support Liverpool. I watch an awful lot of football (it's a habit that costs me thousands of pound a year let's just say), and I know what is good and what isn't. All opinions are subjective but Fowler's record does speak for itself, always managing to score against Man U when they were at their peak, Arsenal, and the likes.

If you wish to disagree, fine. But how does it make you objective and me not?

 

[Craig]

Because it does no good whatsoever to anything. If they've played crap, they know it. They don't need telling. Put your rubbish in a bin, go home and take your anger out on something inanimate.. It makes you look like a very, very sore loser.

I'd rather be a sore loser and a winner then be a loser full stop.

 

[BoyBrumby]

4 minutes of stoppage time, but I just can't see it happening. As far as I'm concerned, Manchester United just lost the Premiership.

And I think this one's on Ferguson. The side he chose and the way United have been playing, taking so much time to allow Sunderland to gather all the players in the world to clog up the box while United try to go straight down the middle... just awful.

Have to give Kelvin Davis most of the credit for mine. He was absolutely superb last night.

 

[Craig]

I think he's a paper billionaire, in that he has it in assets, but not in the readies to actually buy the club.

Either way, the fact he's a billionaire shows that he's pretty good at what he does, so there was no reason to think he'd do anything but good business at the club.

Of course he is.

But your mind does wonder if he is so rich and takes out a loan to buy a club. Put it this way the amount they are debt when they were brough I think you can understand some fans concerns how much debt they are in as it is a lot of money - enough to probably feed Africa for a year or two at least.

If somebody brought Coventry and put them into a lot of debt you wouldn't hold the slightest concern?

 

[marc71178]

I wouldn't notice the difference to be honest, we're already in so much debt as it is!

 

[Craig]

Is it papertalk or is Zlatan Ibrahimovic likely to join Chelsea in the next transfer window?

 

[Craig]

I wouldn't notice the difference to be honest, we're already in so much debt as it is!

Ok your a debt free club and your team is a big club for arguement's sake?

 

[marc71178]

I wish.

To be honest I don't know how I would react, but 1 thing is for certain - I wouldn't react as pathetically as the so called fans who did when he took over.

It's bad enough that they don't understand the principal of a public company, but the death threats etc are sickening.

 

[Loony BoB]

I agree with marc, some Man Utd fans acted pathetically at the takeover. You can express distaste all you like, but the place was partially owned by Glazer in the first place, and he wasn't one of the two major shareholders that was causing Manchester United all sorts of trouble. Man U was never really a public company. It was a company that had four major shareholders and a bunch of fans making up the numbers - most of which happily sold out to Glazer, too. Glazer doesn't understand how to be charismatic in the UK but that doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's doing.

There's an article out there somewhere that says it pretty well, I'll see if I can find it...

EDIT: Here it is - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8305-2130260,00.html

 

[BoyBrumby]

1-0 to Chelski. Looking like the d*ream's over for ManUre.

I've had terribly mixed feeling about the title chase for the past few weeks; in my weaker moments I find myself almost rooting for Moan U. It soon passes but it's a weird feeling. Another season of dominance by the Siberian Petrochemical Select XI & they might usurp United in my "teams wot I hate" list.

T*ttenham will always be number one tho.

 

[BoyBrumby]

2-0. Goal from Fat Frank. Good news for my dream teams too.

 

[Neil Pickup]

I'd rather be a sore loser and a winner then be a loser full stop.

Which has nothing to do with booing your side after a 0-0 when you're second in the Prem.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ha. One from the poetic justice corner:

Portsmouth striker Lomana LuaLua fails to recover from the ankle problem he sustained celebrating his goal against Arsenal in midweek, so Svetoslav Todorov replaces him.

God doesn't pay his debts with money....

 

[marc71178]

What an idiot - even worse as he was my one transfer for the round.

 

[BoyBrumby]

What an idiot - even worse as he was my one transfer for the round.

Ouch. Sickener. Reckon you can overhaul Anthony for 2nd?

 

[roseboy64]

Which has nothing to do with booing your side after a 0-0 when you're second in the Prem.

TBH Sunderland played well. If they did that every game they wouldn't have been relegated this season.

 

[Neil Pickup]

TBH Sunderland played well. If they did that every game they wouldn't have been relegated this season.

i.e. the booing is utterly unjustified.

 

[roseboy64]

Yeah pretty much.

 

[marc71178]

Ouch. Sickener. Reckon you can overhaul Anthony for 2nd?

Nope, but my other leagues are tight, so I need some big weeks - got to plan ahead with transfers I think.