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  • #46
    Originally posted by Agathon
    I hope it all ends in misery. ManUre and their fake fans are a blight on the league and the sport.

    Justice will only be served when they are playing in the 3rd division of the North West Isthmian League before a crowd of six people and two dogs.
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    • #47
      Nice Threadomancy.

      Originally posted by Agathon
      And at least before, the big clubs weren't gerrymandering the competitions to make sure they played in Europe every season.
      Perhaps Agathon can explain how the team that is 4th in the EPL transfer-spending stakes over the last three years (and the team that are third, come to that) doesn't play in the Champs League, whereas the team that is eleventh plays in it every year.



      The idea that the old European Cup was a great competition is a myth, btw. There were about four or five decent teams in it every year, and a whole bunch of crap teams. Now the tournament (mis-named though it is) has all the best teams in Europe in it. The only thing they should bring back from the old tournament is the name.

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      • #48
        Do the ManU fans love the Glazers yet?

        What a great thread this has turned out to be.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #49
          The original premise of this thread was wrong anyway. United would never have become the all-conquering team of the nineties if they hadn't floated. In fact the club may have floundered pretty badly.

          I'm pretty relaxed about Glazer and have been from the start. It's not in his financial interests to screw the club up, and Ferguson still has money to spend. A good quarter of the Premiership is now in foreign ownership anyway.
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          • #50
            Originally posted by Cort Haus
            Nice Threadomancy.



            Perhaps Agathon can explain how the team that is 4th in the EPL transfer-spending stakes over the last three years (and the team that are third, come to that) doesn't play in the Champs League, whereas the team that is eleventh plays in it every year.
            Easy. Fat ****ing Fred was in charge at Newcastle.

            As if you needed to ask...


            And the 11th team is Arsenal, which suffers from the equal and opposite problem.

            On the other hand, they are Cockneys, so I guess it's even.
            Only feebs vote.

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Doddler


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              A witty post 2 years in the making.
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              • #52
                Originally posted by Agathon
                Easy. Fat ****ing Fred was in charge at Newcastle.
                He wrote lots of cheques, and the managers and players f*cked it up. You can't blame Sheppard for that.

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