If anything spoke of the level of ambition, insight and innovation amongst the people who run this city, its this. When are the horse and carriages to Bramley Moore starting? Absolutely pathetic
Twitter needs a big red block button for these angry reds. Since them and the media turned the City game into Darth Vadar v Luke Skywalker, and Darth wellied his lad all round the fucking house, their unbearableness has gone through the roof. Shout out to the mad analogies though
Our wingers have been OK at best this season. Yesterday they were dreadful. Massively missing Ndiaye. Dibling, Johnson & George aren't fit replacements. Decent subs at best. Finishing with no left back, right back or centre forward is grim. Going to be a hard watch this season
You'd do well to find a goal in any top division with as many pieces of dogshit defending as this one. Hull looked like a mid table team from the division below. But if we made that many mistakes in 20 seconds against a Sunday League team, theyre going to score. Absolutely shit
Easy to forget just how good he was. From 19-22 he was outstanding. Koeman got criticised for correctly pushing for more from him, and somehow got the blame for the way it turned moody. He must surely look back and wish he'd stayed here.
Spot on. Stopped looking at fixtures when booking holidays as Im not arsed about missing them anymore. The buzz has gone forever. Its not the team, theyve been shite for half a lifetime. Im still fucking off to Newcastle and Brentford on work nights but I'll be jibbing that soon
A long read, but its the truth!
I genuinely think we are watching football loyalty slowly die and I don't know what replaces it.
I've followed Man United home and away for decades. Thousands and thousands of miles, trains, cars, coaches, hotels, stupid kick off times, days off work and an absolutely frightening amount of money.
But forget the money for a minute because you can always earn more money.
You can't get the time back.
Weekends away from your wife and kids, family things you've missed, holidays planned around fixtures, getting home at stupid o'clock then getting up for work a few hours later.
And none of us were forced to do it. We did it because we fucking loved it.
When the fixtures came out you didn't think do I fancy that game?
You thought right, how am I getting there?
That's the difference.
And lately I've noticed more and more people I've known through football for years saying the same thing.
"They can have my ticket."
That's not normal.
These aren't people who started supporting United because they won a trophy last year. These are lads who've been everywhere following them.
And before rival fans jump on with the glory hunter stuff, that doesn't really wash anymore either.
Yes, Manchester United were ridiculously successful. We were spoilt for years and I'll never pretend otherwise.
But we've been mediocre for the best part of 12 years now.
There are kids going to Old Trafford today who've never seen Manchester United win the league. For some of them, United being bang average is basically all they've ever known.
What glory are they hunting?
They're still going.
Their dads and mams are still taking them. They're still buying the shirts, travelling away and growing up supporting United.
So this isn't about demanding we win the league every year.
Football fans can handle losing. Fuck me, we've proved that.
It's everything else.
You can have a Saturday night kick off now where you're £100 for a train, £100 for a hotel, ticket, food, drink and you're basically writing off 24 hours of your life. Sometimes you're fucked for work the next day as well.
And increasingly you sit there thinking...
What am I actually getting back from this?
Not trophies. I don't mean that.
I mean from the relationship with the club.
Because it doesn't feel like a relationship anymore.
It feels like a transaction.
You're a membership number. A ticket account. A customer.
And if after 20, 30, 40 years you finally say fuck this, you can have my ticket, it doesn't really matter.
Someone else will take it.
Probably someone who'll spend more money while they're there.
They'll buy the shirt, go in the Megastore, buy the experience, take the photos and maybe pay hundreds more for something that used to simply be part of going to the football.
Financially that might make perfect sense.
But I think football is playing a very dangerous game.
Because the people you're slowly replacing aren't customers.
They're supporters.
They're the people who went when it was brilliant and went when it was shit.
The people who knew everyone around their seat.
The people whose dad took them and who now take their own kids.
The people who didn't need a "matchday experience" because the fucking match WAS the experience.
And I don't even think this is just Manchester United.
I'm hearing supporters from other clubs saying exactly the same things.
Maybe we're just further down the road than some.
Football is becoming an event.
A day out.
A product.
Something you experience once and stick on Instagram.
And maybe that's just the future. Maybe old fuckers like me need to accept it 😂
But here's the bit I'd worry about if I ran a football club.
People aren't as angry anymore. They're just losing interest.
There's a massive difference.
Angry supporters still care.
They protest. They complain. They sing about the owners. They demand change.
When someone who's arranged their entire life around football for 30 years suddenly says...
"Know what? I can't be arsed going."
Not being funny but if you go to away games you'll know you come out of Stamford Bridge to similar at Fulham Broadway, or Gunnersbury after Brentford, or White Hart Lane after Spurs and so on. Nobody moans. 1 yr of moaning hasn't changed a thing here and another year wont either – at Liverpool, England
What a fucking disgrace you are @merseyrail 😂😂
How hasn’t this match day situation been sorted yet, people fighting on the platform, people on crutches terrified, kids crying all because use are fucking useless
Youd struggle to convince anybody that this is true, but during our last proper spell of good form where we looked like a proper side and we were twattting everyone for 4s 5s and 6 at home, Holgate was a regular in the team and Koeman was manager. – at Birkenhead, England
Danny Ings and Antony Martial are free agents. That's where we're at. From a forward line of Beto, DCL, Chermiti and Broja, that wasnt good enough, to Barry. On his own. In the space of 12 months. Ive seen some shit in my time but that is a level of incompetence beyond anything – at Liverpool, England
















