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  1. Also when a pundit for the 99 Cup final, said he wanted Man United to win.
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    Dogawful Officiating

    He's from about 6 miles outside of OT. There's practically no way you're going to pick a non league side as your team really. He can declare what he likes really, unless they find him in a man u top how would they prove differently? Greater Manchester/Lancashire is a bit funny as there are shit loads of teams who are in the 92 but usually "lower league" - you then get shit loads of people from these places who follow these clubs but also follow one of the Manchester clubs - Oldham/United, Altringham/City etc etc. I fucking bet this cheating cunt is Alty/United.
  3. Back then, it being a new competition, it was considered by many a director/board and the media and indeed fans in general (no doubt many of our own fans back in the day too), as a pointless competition where even the European Cup was still regarded with a certain disdain in many quarters as inferior and somewhat beneath the myopic superiority of our our domestic competitions. But to those that knew football, managers, especially the newer breed, players who considered representing their country abroad as the highest honour and fans not easily swayed by the xenophobic and self righteous opinion of the media filled with hacks who once saw the typewriter as the enemy to the pen, it was a tough exciting competition and equal in many ways to the European Cup in terms of quality and the path to glory. Football was quite different back then, Malmö were a crack European team for example and when we won the Fairs Cup so were we and had that team been added to by someone more ahead of the times or keeping of the times back then like a Revie or a Clough, the Fairs Cup winning team could have been moulded into league and European cup champions. Look at the gates, the battles, the scenes when we brought it home, it wasn’t just some throw away competition or meaningless trophy. The mackems and others may mock it today or try and day it wasn’t a proper competition, but that’s sour grapes. We thought we would walk it and although we won it, we soon realised just how big an achievement it was given the quality of opposition, the competitiveness of all those that entered it and what it took to win it. Again, the scenes speak for itself. Ask any of those surviving players today what they think about this so-called loser trophy and they wouldn’t swap it for a league title or an FA Cup and I don’t think those fans that were lucky enough to see us lift it would either, not then and not now. Sadly UEFA have devalued their competitions in a sporting context over the years, but to win any piece of silverware today in Europe is still a mighty feat to achieve whether it’s Real Madrid in the CL or Chelsea in the Europa League. Although their spoilt fans will probably regard their success in that as highly as winning the reserves league... It should also be noted that Don Revie rated Ujpest Dozsa highly as they'd knocked Leeds out and predicted they'd hammer us in the final.
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    Sunderland

    All of the fuckers screaming 92'ers at us but didn't think of Watson, Todd, Baxter or Raich Carter.
  5. To be honest when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s it wasn't that different - it was always leeds/arsenal/Liverpool at the top and a good season for us was a cup run. It's alway been money or occasionally an outstanding manager/perfect storm that's rocked the boat. However I don't remember it being as bad as only winning 10 or 12 games if you're lucky (though 42 games helped that). I think what has changed though is the pervasive negative approach by too many teams.
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    Epic NUFC photos

    He's holding off two players with one hand and Nobby Stiles who was hard as fuck with the other. Fucking rock of a man.
  7. If petulant, generally harmless stuff like this was consistently punished regardless of who the player is and who they play for, there are a few players who would have had quite a few regular bans. I'm thinking Rooney, Bergkamp, Cantona, Aguero, Keane etc etc.
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    Dogawful Officiating

    I'm fucking sick of watching a game with bobby madley reffing and hearing the commentator saying something along the lines of"well that decision probably should have been given Newcastle's way and on another day it might well have been." With another referee it would have been, he's a cheating cunt. On the basis of consistency alone thinking of the Colo one he should have sent Keane off.
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    Sunderland

    Oster shooting kids with a bb gun. Chris Brown sex tape.
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    Sunderland

    Someone should mention that the highest the cunt ever finished was the same position as the Monkey's heed - and that hardly marked the start of a dynasty.
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    sunder↓and

    If we'd beaten them twenty times in a row it wouldn't detract one iota from the pleasure I'll derive if the cunts go down.
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    sunder↓and

    I wanted him sacked for being shit. I want him hanged from the Tyne bridge for his Derby record.
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    New TV Deal

    It's impossible for them to do that under current laws. There is no law preventing them from showing 3pm Saturday KO's. There is an agreement between TV broadcasters and the FA to not show any live football between 3pm and 5pm, but no law. It is often incorrectly reported to as a law though. As for the argument, I see no reason why season ticket holders shouldn't be given a stream for away matches, or at least let the clubs themselves and possible a select number of pubs near the club to show away matches. I know Sky can control content on a postcode basis so they could do it if the 3pm agreement was moot. I've always considered it a bit untested and presumptive anyway - if I controlled a non-league club and was told I'd lose fans who'd rather watch another team I'd bid them farewell.
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    New TV Deal

    I've been hoping for about the last 3 deals that Sky would offer "season tickets" for individual teams for all games. I guess there are clubs who are scared home attendances would suffer but they could easily restrict it to outside a certain distance to allay that.
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