What gives you that idea? They’ve ‘only’ lost 9 of their 24 league matches this season, or about 38%.
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What gives you that idea? They’ve ‘only’ lost 9 of their 24 league matches this season, or about 38%.
Westmorlandspur
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United are not that good either. Surprised at Roy Keane saying they are hunting Spurs down. Doesnt usually come out with stupid statements like that.
I can potentially see 8 wins looking at our remaining fixtures. Nothing's guaranteed of course but if we were to take 24 points then United would need 30 or 31 points (depending on GD) which i can't see.
I can see 7 potential wins for United and i was generous with a couple of those.
I'd be surprised (and pissed off) if they finished above us.
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No team is going to have a perfect run to the end of the season, only two who could potentially do it would be Liverpool and City but with Europe/cup games coming up, they will be streched across multiple competitions.
We just need to take each game as it comes. All I know, is I would rather have the points and goal difference on the board than to be chasing heading towards the end of the season.
We just need to take each game as it comes. All I know, is I would rather have the points and goal difference on the board than to be chasing heading towards the end of the season.
Westmorlandspur
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They haven’t had Europe since mid december.
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United are shite. They managed to get by for a few years after Fergie, a lot of teams playing scared against the idea of 'Manchester United' and 'Old Trafford' rather than the dross in front of them and the decaying brickwork around them. But the scales have fallen from everyone's eyes now, that's why teams like Bournemouth can go to Old Trafford and batter them.
They're still good enough to beat a lot of teams on their day because they have individual players like Rashford and Fernandes who can create magic from thin air, but overall the squad is pretty mediocre and even the good players are incredibly inconsistent. Ordinarily I'd say first eleven comparisons lie somewhere between reductive and outright useless, but the disparity is such that I think it bears mentioning - there's a decent argument to say that not a single United player would get in our first eleven.
There is very little reason to think we should finish below them, other than outdated ideas of what Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur represent.
They're still good enough to beat a lot of teams on their day because they have individual players like Rashford and Fernandes who can create magic from thin air, but overall the squad is pretty mediocre and even the good players are incredibly inconsistent. Ordinarily I'd say first eleven comparisons lie somewhere between reductive and outright useless, but the disparity is such that I think it bears mentioning - there's a decent argument to say that not a single United player would get in our first eleven.
There is very little reason to think we should finish below them, other than outdated ideas of what Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur represent.
I think there have been ten full seasons since Ferguson left Man U, and in those seasons we have finished above them five times and they have finished above us five times.
In the ten (and more) seasons prior to Ferguson’s departure, we didn’t finish above them a single time.
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Agree. Utd are hilarious because of the media hype. A couple of games ago it was that Mainoo saved ETH from the sack against Wolves and now they are hunting us down (the gap then was 6 and the gap now is 6 so at that pace they can hunt forever)
People talking about how we’ve had some lucky results, well Utd weren’t good against Villa but scraped a win (pundits will tell us that’s what good teams do). They are just as likely to get beaten by Luton at the weekend and there be talk of disaster again.
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The FPL FDR is set at the start of the season and doesn't change. It still has Newcastle as a more difficult fixture than us despite performances this season, it still has Chelsea and United as a same level fixture as us.
Pay no attention to it in the real world..
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The supposed biggest club in the world have finished outside the top 4 in 5 of the last 10 seasons.
3 euro cup/ champ lge trophies. Madrid have 14 I think. No contest.
Keane and Neville are usually good pundits but have suddenly started talking Shite.
Had forgotten what a pain in the arse United fans were when they were good.
Our problem us that we can finish above them regularly but they have won 4 trophies in the last 10.
Europa, FA Cup and Lge Cup x2.
Depends how long porro and Udogie are out for.
Rosco1984
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have you factored in how shit they are? and that they just lost martinez and shaw?
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Can't imagine it's long if they're being assessed ahead of tomorrow's game
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Let’s win our game today first hey palIf Liverpool don't win today and we do does that mean we're in the title race 'again'
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This is the thread for idle speculationLet’s win our game today first hey pal
But I think I might have jinxed it anyway. Brentford defended well against us of course but are having a nightmare today FFS
