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Cake day: October 28th, 2023

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  • People keep referring to violence. It isn’t the 80s anymore, unless it is a high profile game between two big rivals or you go out of your way to rile and antagonise you’re unlikely to get anything other than a few verbals. It’s highly unlikely you’re going to get filled in as an American Liverpool fan sitting in the Fulham end or whatever.

    But just don’t do it. It’s a shit, dickhead move, especially if you’re wearing colours and actively supporting the away team.

    If you do do it then we least be respectful.






  • The description of Fergie in the OP post is extremely one sided. I presume the OP is younger and didn’t follow football during Fergie’s reign.

    Fergie was arguably the greatest manager and greatest man manager ever. He treated his players as his children and they looked up to him as a father figure. He nurtured them, protected them and guided them.

    He was so successful because he fostered a winning mentality where every player bought into the team ethos. No player was bigger than the club. It didn’t matter how good you were, if you weren’t prepared to dig in and fight for your team mates there wasn’t a place for you at the club.

    He nurtured Beckham from a teenage boy and had a special relationship with him. Beckham wouldn’t have had half the career he had without him. What you see as controlling is actually Fergie keeping him on the straight and narrow.

    Beckham is presented in a certain way in the documentary but he was no angel. At various points throughout his career he saw himself as above the club and above his team mates which goes against everything which made Man United so successful. He said himself in the documentary that he craved fame and publicity. With the haircut, he was a massive celebrity figure - partially because of the hair - and shaving the curtains off was always going to generate publicity. There’s nothing remotely comparable these days. But he orchestrated it to keep it secret until he stepped on the pitch at Old Trafford knowing the eyes of the world would be on him for non-footballing reasons and effectively used the club to generate publicity for himself.

    He didn’t control who he could see, either, but rightly felt his relationship/marriage was distracting him from football and was within his rights to move a player on who wasn’t fully committed.

    Without Fergie you get pisstakers like Pogba and 2021/22 Ronaldo running the club and poisoning the dressing room. Bearing in mind he already got shot of one and nurtured the other into one of the best players of all time.


  • You are absolutely right that it is nigh on impossible to pinpoint the exact moment the ball is played.

    In which case, isn’t it great that we have VAR? We can freeze it down to within a fraction of a second - beforehand we relied on the lineman potentially 50 yards away being able to look in two places at once.