And to think I was concerned about United being in the
'spoiler' role.
Today's Admin-
Title Countdown:
23 wins down/ 6 to go. (Adjusted from the 30 season win target to 29.).
76 points down/ 18 to go. (Adjusted from the 95 point season point target to 94.).
Liverpool-
P 32 PTS 76 F 83 A 22 GD + 61
City-
P 31 PTS 74 F 72 A 20 GD + 52
Current Unbeaten League Run-
13 games: W 11 D 2 F 33 A 6 CS: 9.
As stupendously brilliant as L'pool were tonight, my God Utd are beyond utter garbage. And that's being kind. I mean we had it bad in the 90's crossing over from the arl First Division to the PL. But it was never anything like as bad as this. No fight. No ideas. A manager who talks a good game. But in reality is just as utterly clueless as his predecessor who we put 5 past this season. And this is the man they are trusting to turn the club around ..... A club that is as dysfunctional from top to bottom as it has been in any period since the great Sir Matt Busby stepped down in 1969. They could
SERIOUSLY blow our 30-year title drought out of the water as they continue to lurch from bad to just amateur abysmal. I've never in may life time seen a Utd side this bad. With absolutely no organisation/ game-plan/ fight/ effort/ idea ..... pretty much anything you can think of that makes a competent football team they don't have it. And it's even worse behind the scenes. I've also never in my lifetime heard Utd's away support
SO quiet. One thing they've always given the team is superb backing away from home. Always respected them fr that. But tonight, they gave absolutely nothing. (Bar a bizarre reaction to a nothing chant about Ferguson calling them out, to come back with the low life
'The S*n was right, you're murderers!' ..... Poor and unprovoked lads. REALLY disappointing after the Ronaldo respect.).
The apathy among the fans sums up the absolute carnage Utd are marred in. F knows why any up and coming coach, as ten Hag is touted as, would want to associate themselves with that mess where he'll neither get the time nor be allowed from those above him to do what needs doing?
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But at least he'll secure his family's future and return home to Holland in a few years a very rich man off of Utd. As much as I'm naturally loving Utd being more in the mud than Thatcher, with absolutely NO signs of them getting out of it any decade soon, it actually, on the other hand, really saddens me. Yeah, the rivalry will always be there and among the most heated in World football. But Manchester United are a proper football club who Liverpool, as a club, has always had a great relationship with. Without wishing to sound arrogant or disrespectful to any other club, as they ALL have a part to play in the community they serve, there's really only two clubs in England that matter. Us and them. The two biggest , most successful English clubs and the biggest rivalry in the land by a Country mile. But it's hard to even class it as a 'serious' rivalry anymore when we are volleying them all over by a combined 9- 0. Embarrassing isn't the word and I just don't see that changing over the next 5/10 or longer years.
When we step back from mocking them, it really is sad to see such a great football club as Utd in this state. I truly believe we're witnessing the beginning of a LONG end for them before their cycle can even think of coming around again. And tonight just hammered that home in glorious technicolour which is what has me venting on them now. WE need a strong Utd to push us. Both clubs are at their best when one pushes the other. But that just isn't the case now. And it's honestly proper sad to see.
What was beyond brilliant tonight for the rivalry was the awesome showing of solidarity behind the Ronaldo family's tragic loss. You fear that they'll aways be some idiot who goes the wrong way and disrupts things. Or the message wouldn't have got out to everyone though the day about the respect planned for the 7th minute. But to have the whole ground rise as one, in deafening applause, which was joined by a booming YNWA ...... Honestly, that's one of the proudest moments I've had at the match in a long time. Standing up and doing the right thing is always something we should aim for as we hold ourselves to the highest standards as supporters. And we did that and then some tonight.
City could learn a LOT from that on how you conduct yourself at the match after Saturday's disgrace from them.
Martin Atkinson ...... Just F off and retire will you please? The more you hang on, the more inept and cringe worthy embarrassing you get as an official.
10/10 for every last L'pool player and manager. I won't signal out individuals as that was as awesome a team performance as Utd were pitiful.
We've done our job. Now the balls back in City's court to respond.
*Sings
'Libpool, Top the League, Libpool Libpool Top the League!'
Up the relentless Red machine!
FTT!!!!!