Someone's having a real laugh - gollum?

[Trumo]

 

"Hoo many trofees have ah gort? It could be, lake, sex, it could be...nun. It disnae matter. Wort matters is that ah am."

[Trumo]

 

Rooney in secret Chelsea deal shocker.

[Dr Nowt]

The Telegraph's Manc correspondent missed something during the re-write he obviously did when Bent scored:

 

Manchester United's predictable approach under David Moyes is not good enough to see off Fulham

 

So much for 'Glory, glory Man Utd' - an inability to win games coming from behind says everything you need to know about David Moyes and this group of players

 

David Moyes's Manchester United have struggled when falling behind in matches this season Photo: GETTY IMAGES

 

By Mark Ogden, Old Trafford

6:08PM GMT 09 Feb 2014

 

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As Manchester United’s downtrodden players left the Old Trafford pitch at half-time against Fulham, ‘Glory, Glory Man Utd,’ boomed out of the PA system.

 

Never mind that David Moyes’s players were trailing 1-0 to a Fulham team who had started the day rock bottom of the Premier League, the rebel-rousing United anthem was given an airing, perhaps in a desperate effort to lull the home supporters into a false sense of security that everything would be alright in the second-half.

 

They are getting used to hoping in vain at the Theatre of Dreams this season and Fulham were simply the latest team to make it feel more like a torture chamber.

 

Just when a rare fightback victory looked set to banish the gloom, Darren Bent’s equaliser in the fifth minute of stoppage time took the wind out of United’s sail and plunged them back into misery.

 

When Steve Sidwell put Rene Meuelensteen’s team ahead on 19 minutes, slotting past David de Gea after the United defence parted like the Red Sea, it was the 13th time in the Premier League this term that Moyes’s players have fallen behind.

 

On eight of those occasions, United were unable to turn the tide and drag themselves back into the game.

 

Only Sunderland, Stoke City and Hull City had succumbed to United in the league this season after taking the lead – proof, if required, that Fergie Time elapsed for United when Sir Alex Ferguson vacated the stage last May.

 

What does that say about Moyes and what does it say about his players?

 

Ferguson’s success at United was built on his readiness to gamble, to be bold and the inner belief that his team never lost, but merely ran out of time.

 

With Moyes, regardless of this win, there is rarely the sense that his players will produce what United were once renowned for, those late fightbacks and points snatched from the jaws of defeat.

 

Perhaps it is the predictability of United’s approach play – the aimless bursts down the wings in an attempt to cross from the bye-line (81 crosses in this match) – which gives opponents the confidence to sit back and frustrate.

 

Despite the acquisition of £37.1m club record signing Juan Mata – wastefully deployed on the right flank at the start of the game – United showed little inclination to carve Fulham apart through the centre of the pitch, with quick interplay between their highly-rated forwards.

 

And that has been the same story throughout this season. Aside from the fightbacks against Hull, Stoke and Sunderland, it had been a sorry tale of failure.

 

Fulham will go down as another of those dismal days when United simply could not get themselves over the line.

 

So much for glory, glory Man Utd.

 

[Megadrive Man]

http://www.caughtoffside.com/2014/02/09/exclusive-man-united-set-to-sack-david-moyes-and-look-to-bring-in-sir-alex-ferguson-as-short-term-replacement/

 

It begins...

[Dr Nowt]

Sherwood and Monk are certainly blazing a trail.  Young managers with no previous experience seem to be en vogue at the moment. 

 

Giggs perhaps?  Keeps the cost down.  Would also actually have the respect of the players, and though not as a manager, he's obviously got that Ferguson-like addiction to always winning, which even translates to his home life.

[rubble-rouser]

I don't think Ginsoak would do it. Physically being up to it after his hip replacement would be difficult. The humiliation of stepping in after th pleas to give Gollum time would be humiliating, and at what point would he let go?

[rubble-rouser]

 

Rooney in secret Chelsea deal shocker.

Look at the size of her cock!

[Dr Nowt]

Moyes has used the phrase "mental softness" in his post-match.

 

Will unravel even more quickly if he goes down that route.  Too quickly in fact.

[rubble-rouser]

Moyes has used the phrase "mental softness" in his post-match.

 

Will unravel even more quickly if he goes down that route.  Too quickly in fact.

Sadly true - blaming the players is the beginning of the end. He'll be at the fans next.

[index1000]

 

"Hoo many trofees have ah gort? It could be, lake, sex, it could be...nun. It disnae matter. Wort matters is that ah am."

That's just fucking disturbing!

[Stickman]

I find it astounding that he is still in a job. I guess its good to see owners who dont load the gun too quick though. His poor fucking wife.

Kinda ironic that Americans would have a problem loading a gun.

 

Anyone know if Mata will get a medal if Chelsea win the league, even deluded Dave can't take credit for that...can he?

[Guest davelfc]

This has a real danger of going south faster than their fans on the way home.

[stringvest]

Look at the size of her cock!

 

Andy Carroll hits a new low.  Tugging himself off with his crutches.

[Dr Nowt]

If Ferguson did come back, just saying if, imagine Rooney's face.

 

[Elite]

He really is a self righteous, detestable cunt and will find himself on the premiership manager merry-go-round after the mancs sack him.

[PestiRed]

He'll never get a decent job again after this. He'll end up at relegation-fighting clubs for the rest of his career, for around a quarter of the money that he was on at Everton.

[Dr Nowt]

 

What do you mean my appwoach?

[Dr Nowt]

Just read a United fan say that giving Mata to Moyes is like giving their nan an iPad.

[bossy]

It's funny watching his desperate smile during interviews, I have no sympathy for him.

 

I also enjoyed red cafe users asking where the 5 minute stoppage time came from.

[Dr Nowt]

 

Interesting choice of headline directly under the bit about Gollum. 

 

Shame about the "...at police club" part.

[Dr Nowt]

[Dr Nowt]

 

I've seen less traumatised Vietnam vets.

 

Agent Orange indeed.

[Guest davelfc]

Moyes, who said his players were "hurting", added: "There was only one winner in the game, and that was Manchester United."

 

 

He's been listening to all that shite about being a winner with the bitters for over 10 years, without actually winning anything. 

[PestiRed]

Moyes, who said his players were "hurting", added: [/size]"There was only one winner in the game, and that was Manchester United."

 

 

He's been listening to all that shite about being a winner with the bitters for over 10 years, without actually winning anything.

 

He's actually managed to downgrade. At Everton he didn't need to win trophies to be a winner, now he doesn't even need to win matches against the bottom-placed team

[The Golden Eel]

Moyes, who said his players were "hurting", added: "There was only one winner in the game, and that was Manchester United."

 

 

He's been listening to all that shite about being a winner with the bitters for over 10 years, without actually winning anything. 

Is that real?