The Football Thread 2021/22: England thrown to Hungary lions

[Qikz]

Abacus is right, Newcastle should be beating Man Utd away

The thing is, Man Utd are absolutely rubbish and are there to be taken down whilst Ole is the manager.

They themselves also have far better players and are hamstrung by a fool who is in charge.

Newcastle are in the relegation zone now, deservedly, so it's not just this game. We have a human blood clot in charge, who sets us up in a defeatist way because he knows he is out of his depth and is waiting for a pay off.

Compare that to Wolves last week - 9 times out of 10 they would win that game.

Us? Just circling the drain with a defeatist coward who openly admits to not believing in tactics in charge. He is the perfect Mike Ashley manager - grateful to be in the job, and with no intention to even compete.

Last season’s second place finishers are “there for the taking?” Come on now.

Coming in here to say as someone who only kind of supports Man Utd I really don't understand how anyone can say a team who came second last season are gooseberry fool now. Like I guess this affects other sports as well and maybe they're not doing as well this season so far, but since when is 2nd place in the premier league bad?

[Jenuall]

There for the taking m8

[Tomous]

Unrelated but United currently have the longest unbeaten away record in English football ever (28 matches)

[Benzin]

Think the main thing to consider is that Man Utd aren't the fearsome juggernaut they were once upon a time. If you play it right against them then it's not a difficult team to beat due to the weak midfield and defence (though Varane should go a ways to making this less of an issue).

However this has kinda been the case since Ferguson left. And they're still getting those results which even when they're gooseberry fool they still win. Leading to utter frustration on the other side.

[Corazon de Leon]

That's still not right though, they lost six times in the league last season out of 38 games - joint best in the league with Man City. Their problem was not being able to turn draws into wins, not that they were too easy to beat.

[Tomous]

I feel there's some middle ground between Fergie's fearsome juggernaut and there for the taking though

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I feel there's some middle ground between Fergie's fearsome juggernaut and there for the taking though

This is the internet, there's no room for nuance. Everything is either 100% perfect or 100% gooseberry fool.

[Corazon de Leon]

I feel there's some middle ground between Fergie's fearsome juggernaut and there for the taking though

Absolutely. Nobody's arguing they're anywhere near the levels they hit under Ferguson but it's ludicrous to suggest that they're easy to beat, or there for the taking.

[Jenuall]

They lost 6 or more games in a PL season on 8 occasions under Fergie.

EDIT: though for completeness two of those times were during 42 game seasons.

[Peter Crisp]

Man United have only beaten Luton a couple of times in the last decade.
Rubbish and just proves how good Luton are.

[Moggy]

Man United have only beaten Luton a couple of times in the last decade.
Rubbish and just proves how good Luton are.

[Corazon de Leon]

Man United have only beaten Luton a couple of times in the last decade.
Rubbish and just proves how good Luton are.

I'm assuming the joke here is that they've only beaten Luton a couple of times because they've only played them a couple of times?

[Denster]

Whenever there is any kind of debate i always wait for crispy top come in and mention Luton.

[Cuttooth]

We need Jenuall to work his magic and show us the frequency of Peter Crisp mentioning Luton over the years.

[Oblomov Boblomov]

Peter Crisp's posts in here are the best thing about the thread

[Moggy]

We need Jenuall to work his magic and show us the frequency of Peter Crisp mentioning Luton over the years.

241 times.

Which is shocking, I would have bet it was a few thousand.

[Peter Crisp]

Man United have only beaten Luton a couple of times in the last decade.
Rubbish and just proves how good Luton are.

I'm assuming the joke here is that they've only beaten Luton a couple of times because they've only played them a couple of times?

Why would Luton give a gooseberry fool about that crappy cup? I bet they played the youth team that day.

[Peter Crisp]

We need Jenuall to work his magic and show us the frequency of Peter Crisp mentioning Luton over the years.

241 times.

Which is shocking, I would have bet it was a few thousand.

That's actually not all that bad really.
It's maybe a few times a month so I'm not as delusional as I thought.

[Jenuall]

We need Jenuall to work his magic and show us the frequency of Peter Crisp mentioning Luton over the years.

241 times.

Which is shocking, I would have bet it was a few thousand.

That's actually not all that bad really.
It's maybe a few times a month so I'm not as delusional as I thought.

Happy to run those numbers for you at my end if you want a different outcome, my script is basically a random number generator anyway

[Jenuall]

Ugh Champions League is back again? Just so gooseberry fool for the fans