The Official Manchester United Thread (Vol 9)

[Warby80]

CellarDoor said:

ChevyChase77 said:

Adam B said:

Warby80 said:

Play acting?

James got hammered twice, the second time enough to draw blood, yet you think it was a dodgy Var decision when your player throws himself on the floor after Iindelof tickled his calf?

If Origi stayed on his feet then there is every chance he puts pressure on Mctominay and he does not make the pass to James, but no, he throws himself on the floor instead…

Origi made a meal of it of course, but it was clearly a foul

Edited by Adam B on Monday 21st October 13:00

Ooooh no it wasn't.

The only people saying it was a foul are former professional footballers, commentators and pundits.

Most of the “pundits” seem to be a long way down the road of, contact = foul. Which is a bit of a shame.

Can you imagine Gary Neville for example holding his hands up and saying yep, that was a foul, if it was him making the tackle?

[wjb]

BMW A6 why are you obsessed with mentioning people's nationality when you're insulting them?

[Gone a bit AMG]

wjb said:

BMW A6 why are you obsessed with mentioning people's nationality when you're insulting them?

Did you type nether regions and it auto corrected?

[Gone a bit AMG]

wjb said:

BMW A6 why are you obsessed with mentioning people's nationality when you're insulting them?

I’ve taken the trouble to read back through A6s’ posts. 83%* have homo erotic or sexual connotations. He mentioned Klopp being German in 2 which translates to less than 0.532%* of his posts.

Did you have a point to make? Or were you wrongly trying to score one?

• I’ve used the M3SYE sauce of statistics. Yes I know it’s source. I just didn’t want to confuse him.

Edited by Gone a bit AMG on Monday 21st October 18:22

[Adam B]

Warby80 said:

Can you imagine Gary Neville for example holding his hands up and saying yep, that was a foul, if it was him making the tackle?

GN was in the sky studio when it was debated and said (I paraphrase) - in order to be neutral I have to imagine the roles reversed and imagine if that was a United player who was kicked in the calf - it was a foul.

I don't blame the ref as his view was blocked, a VAR with balls would have given a foul, but they have been castrated - this cock up was nowhere near as bad as others though eg the penalty foul by Vertonghen on Watford player

[anonymous-user]

Gone a bit AMG said:

I’ve taken the trouble to read back through A6s’ posts. 83%* have homo erotic or sexual connotations. He mentioned Klopp being German in 2 which translates to less than 0.532%* of his posts.

Did you have a point to make? Or were you wrongly trying to score one?

• I’ve used the M3SYE sauce of statistics. Yes I know it’s source. I just didn’t want to confuse him.

Edited by Gone a bit AMG on Monday 21st October 18:22

First post I've seen complaining about him mentioning nationality the other posts are hilarious , I think some posters think they're gonna catch ' the gay' if they read a post with the word cock in it

[Gone a bit AMG]

Adam B said:

GN was in the sky studio when it was debated and said (I paraphrase) - in order to be neutral I have to imagine the roles reversed and imagine if that was a United player who was kicked in the calf - it was a foul.

I don't blame the ref as his view was blocked, a VAR with balls would have given a foul, but they have been castrated - this cock up was nowhere near as bad as others though eg the penalty foul by Vertonghen on Watford player

We are fking VAR up in the premier league. It worked in the World Cup. We have made it more subjective. A ridiculous decision. Mike Riley needs moving on. Sharpish.

[wjb]

Gone a bit AMG said:

wjb said:

BMW A6 why are you obsessed with mentioning people's nationality when you're insulting them?

I’ve taken the trouble to read back through A6s’ posts. 83%* have homo erotic or sexual connotations. He mentioned Klopp being German in 2 which translates to less than 0.532%* of his posts.

Did you have a point to make? Or were you wrongly trying to score one?

• I’ve used the M3SYE sauce of statistics. Yes I know it’s source. I just didn’t want to confuse him.

Edited by Gone a bit AMG on Monday 21st October 18:22

Got better things to do than point score with faceless people on the net, but here we are...

There's plenty if you go back a lil further than the end of your nose.

Klopp being German
Origi being Belgian
Your own James being Welsh
Deltona constantly being referenced as Dutch. (He's not alone there)

And many more.

Feel free to ignore it, just thinking out loud.

Edited by wjb on Monday 21st October 19:29

[BMW A6]

I shall consider myself admonished.

No more mention of people's nationality.

My scouse chummy.

[Abarth595turismo]

How much would we get for Pogba and who should we buy?

[anonymous-user]

Abarth595turismo said:

How much would we get for Pogba and who should we buy?

If ZZ keeps his job maybe about 100m if anyone else comes in about 50p

Literally anyone

[Abarth595turismo]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I think we need a holding midfield enforcer, Wanyama?

[BMW A6]

Sheffield Utd going above us with a win.

Which I think is better than Arsenal moving away from us, in the battle for 4th.

[mickk]

Abarth595turismo said:

I think we need a holding midfield enforcer, Wanyama?

Wait, you're serious, where do you want him dropping off?

[Murph7355]

BMW A6 said:

Sheffield Utd going above us with a win.

Which I think is better than Arsenal moving away from us, in the battle for 4th.

Let's hope we can get to some early 90s form (Blades fan here).

[Alpinestars]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

McT could do that. We are far more in need of an attacking MF player a la De Bruyne.

[Gone a bit AMG]

wjb said:

Gone a bit AMG said:

wjb said:

BMW A6 why are you obsessed with mentioning people's nationality when you're insulting them?

I’ve taken the trouble to read back through A6s’ posts. 83%* have homo erotic or sexual connotations. He mentioned Klopp being German in 2 which translates to less than 0.532%* of his posts.

Did you have a point to make? Or were you wrongly trying to score one?

• I’ve used the M3SYE sauce of statistics. Yes I know it’s source. I just didn’t want to confuse him.

Edited by Gone a bit AMG on Monday 21st October 18:22

Got better things to do than point score with faceless people on the net, but here we are...

There's plenty if you go back a lil further than the end of your nose.

Klopp being German
Origi being Belgian
Your own James being Welsh
Deltona constantly being referenced as Dutch. (He's not alone there)

And many more.

Feel free to ignore it, just thinking out loud.

Edited by wjb on Monday 21st October 19:29

I’m still struggling to understand. What am I ignoring? Is there something wrong with using a footballers nationality whilst discussing them on a football forum?

If I was to,be asked to vote for my favourite Ronaldo....should the question anything other than the Portuguese or Brazilian one?

[mike74]

ORD said:

All true. But it’s a bit silly to bang on about a ‘foul’ that was actually a cringe-inducing dive.

If we're talking ''cringe inducing'' then shall we discuss Daniel James and his new, frankly bizarre not to mention irresponsible, habit of falling over and playing dead for a few seconds? (After diving first)

[wjb]

BMW A6 said:

I shall consider myself admonished.

No more mention of people's nationality.

My scouse chummy.

Gone a bit AMG said:

I’m still struggling to understand. What am I ignoring? Is there something wrong with using a footballers nationality whilst discussing them on a football forum?

If I was to,be asked to vote for my favourite Ronaldo....should the question anything other than the Portuguese or Brazilian one?

The point I tried to make, which was clearly a waste of time, but I'll try again, was that when someone is insulted, by calling them a snowflake, or an idiot or the c word or whatever, it's unnecessary to mention their nationality. The insult is enough surely?

For arguments sake, there's a difference (in law) between calling a French lad a "stupid c word" and calling him a "stupid French c word".

Your Ronaldo comparison isn't relevant, as you're not showing any hostility are you? You're just identifying one or the other.

Was the identification of a nationality necessary in any of the examples I gave?

No.

Edited by wjb on Tuesday 22 October 06:04

[NRS]

mike74 said:

ORD said:

All true. But it’s a bit silly to bang on about a ‘foul’ that was actually a cringe-inducing dive.

If we're talking ''cringe inducing'' then shall we discuss Daniel James and his new, frankly bizarre not to mention irresponsible, habit of falling over and playing dead for a few seconds? (After diving first)

He literally runs into people and then throws himself down. People will start ignoring him, so when he does get properly injured it’ll be his own fault when there is no stop in the game.