Arrogant glory hunter who has the nerve to live just over 8 miles from Old Trafford. I decided to support Manchester United after they won the treble in 1999.

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Joined April 2011
Great win for @OfficialSGFC tonight against a good @WD_CFC team. Good to reverse the scoreline from the away fixture in August and even better to bring to a halt a run of four straight defeats. Well played boys. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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I think this book would be well worth a read even allowing for the awful subject matter. Good luck with the publication David.
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Can we count on your support in this matter Kay?
Replying to @JacobsBen
After city’s case is done. United need to be looked into. £1billion debt should NOT be allowed to happen.
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Youri Tielemans signs for Manchester United and magically turns into a fourth division footballer.
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Get that Berrada gone. 🇾🇪
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This is a good post. A bloody good post. 🇾🇪
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."
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Anyone who would like to attend the funeral of John Cunningham (Scotty) please be advised that the details are as follows. Blackley Crematorium Friday 2nd October at 10-00am. Wake - To be confirmed. 🇾🇪
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Booked a flight to Lisbon for the United match last night. The wife did that thing Women do when they shake their head and roll their eyes. You're never going to grow up are you? She said. Grow up? That's not happening is it lads? 🇾🇪
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It seems my view on Youri Tielemans being a bit underwhelming in the first two games wasn't a popular one. Fair enough people, it's all about opinions. I've got no doubt he'll be alright for the Reds. I've just not seen it yet. 🇾🇪
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Pretty surprised and pleased when United signed Tielemans but have to say after two games I'm not getting the feel for Youri yet. 🇾🇪
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Gerry the Geordie's team have had a more than decent start to the season but guess what? He's stressed about Man United. 🇾🇪
How in the fuck has that been given..... he controlled the ball with his hand....
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God knows we've signed some duffers in recent years but I've got a bad feeling about this guy. Why are Barca seemingly so keen to get shut?
🚨🚨🌕| NEW: Barcelona are said to value Manchester United target Alejandro Balde between £25.66m and £34.22m. [@sistoney67]
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"Community Shield winner" 🤣🤣
🏆 Premier League winner, Community Shield winner, Champions League runner-up, World Cup third-place finisher - all while playing over 5,000 minutes last season... What more do you need to do, Declan!? Daylight robbery! 🤦
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If only Bruno Fernandes fellow professional footballers had voted for him to win this award it would make it all the more credible and worthy. 🤣🤣🤣
Ridiculous… @_DeclanRice should have won this.
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Is this an injustice and a fix as well? 🤣
Bruno Fernandes is the PFA Players’ Player of the Year 🏆 Voted for by the players.
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After the first round of games in the new Premier league season I'm not sure any team has looked as poor as Manchester United with the possible exception of Tottenham Hotspur. 🙁
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Are we putting yesterday down to just a bad day at the office or do the problems run deeper than that? 🇾🇪
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Is that different speak for "we go again"? 🤣
Not the start we wanted, but there's much more to come from this group. We stick together and move on 🇾🇪
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Harry Maguire the only one to come out of that shambles with any credit for me. A really poor performance which I have to say I didn't see coming. 🇾🇪
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