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axisus · October 2016

quarky said:

http://www.football365.com/news/sky-sports-viewing-figures-down-by-19-per-cent
Ouch.

Hooray! I'd love all the big money to crash and burn.

chrispy108 · October 2016

scrumhalf said:

Up front we're too small and ponderous. It took Townsend to run at them and try and create something.

If only there was a big English centre forward currently captaining his team, creating and scoring goals.

Mental to take half a squad of small wingers/forwards and no big man.

joeyowen · October 2016

As a United fan I believe I'm allowed to comment again?

What a shite match though, piss poor from both clubs

ash96 · October 2016

joeyowen said:

As a United fan I believe I'm allowed to comment again?

What a shite match though, piss poor from both clubs

Me too!

I only saw the second half and we looked alright for the first half of it. Once we got the goal though we did just get more and more boring. Shaw looked good in the 2nd half, but apparently he was awful in the first?

That being said, I'll take a Sh*tty 1-0 win over getting spanked 4-0 again.

axisus · October 2016

We have Mourinho now, 1-0 is par for the course.

quarky · October 2016

I would rather win in the league, but always good to get a win over a rival. Burnley are my second club, but god I hope we get a good win on the weekend. I won't even pretend to know how to fix the side, but we need Shaw (even if he was poor defensively last night) for pace, and need to sort out Martial. Theoretically, Martial, Mata, Rashford, behind either Ibrahimovic or Rooney, with Carrick sitting behind should be good enough and fast enough for most of the teams we have to play, at least going forward. It just doesn't seem to work.

jpttaylor · October 2016

Was tempted to watch the United-City game but felt it was better to show my loyalty and watch West Ham-Chelsea. What I thought might be a dreadful game was actually thoroughly entertaining for the most part.

That said, all I can see being reported today is how all West Ham fans are scum because of the violence yesterday. Such a shame.

mudslide73 · October 2016

That new stadium isn't helping you Irons is it? The Hammers fans at work are horrified at the plastics and loons you've attracted. Mix that with the security issues....

Brize · October 2016

mudslide73 said:

That new stadium isn't helping you Irons is it? The Hammers fans at work are horrified at the plastics and loons you've attracted. Mix that with the security issues....

Apparently, the West Ham and Chelsea fans did agree to fight a mile away from the match. Unfortunately, that was still within the stadium.

jpttaylor · October 2016

mudslide73 said:

That new stadium isn't helping you Irons is it? The Hammers fans at work are horrified at the plastics and loons you've attracted. Mix that with the security issues....

The naive part of me assumed that with the club having 3 years to plan this, they'd have done it correctly. As it stands, you've got a tiny family area and a relocation policy from Upton Park that's put the hardcore contingent in the same areas as them.

That combined with the security issues has made for a few disappointing months on and off the pitch. Results being better might have helped a bit, but the police were always going to need to develop a plan for the stadium. For their first big test, I thought they did really well, all things considered. No arrests outside of the stadium which I would have thought would be much worse for the away fans.

I personally don't have a problem with the "new" fans. The morons that insist on standing up and singing "where were you at Upton Park?" are just dumb considering that we consistently sold out the old ground, so we were always going to attract the fans that couldn't get season tickets at the old ground.

A year or so and half of these issues will go away or die down. Everything's still new at the OS and like a pair of new jeans, it'll take some getting used to at first but then it'll be fine.

joeyowen · November 2016

Kill me now. What the flying fuck is with this lineup?

Advertising for walking football?

joeyowen · November 2016

Well I stand corrected....

axisus · November 2016

I just don't get why our last 3 managers keep playing Fellaini. Hopeless most of the time. I haven't seen the match yet, but Mourinho seems light years from being able to set up a team so far. Still hoping for top 4 this year, but scraping in is the best we could hope for really.

chrispy108 · November 2016

They play Fellaini because the "club" won't/haven't bought any viable alternatives.

The managers since Fergie aren't running the club the same way he was.

jpttaylor · November 2016

Yet another match where Morgan Schneiderlin goes home, looks into the mirror with tears in his eyes and wonders what he did to deserve losing his place to someone with the touch of an elephant.

joeyowen · November 2016

#freeMicki

quarky · November 2016

No comments about the game last night? Not a terrible game I thought. Neither team looked fantastic, and the 3-0 was totally undeserved. Scotland looked good at times, but didn't score. England looked good at times and somehow managed to score three. I think a 1-1 or 1-0 would have been a fairer result. Or maybe I am being harsh on England.

It just amazes me that England seem to almost drift through qualifications good results and then can't produce when the tournament starts. Either because things don't go their way, or they just can't impose themselves.

axisus · November 2016

I'm so underwhelmed by England these days, I forgot to put the tv on.

Nunogilberto · November 2016

I put the TV on to watch the England game, but I saw the same old players starting, the fact that it was on ITV and that they had Ian Wright among the pundits. Recipe for boredom and mediocrity.

Plus Clive Tyldesley does my head in; if the cameras pick up Rooney at any stage of the game, he's liable to scream "Rooooooonnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy" no matter whether he's on the ball or not.

EricTheWeary · November 2016

How come Scotland were managed by a Donald Trump lookalike?

Not as interesting a game as the score line might suggest, Scotland were particularly poor.

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