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Someone's having a real laugh - gollum?

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Just a comparison from the weekend games.  

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Knocked this together. I was bored.   [YOUTUBE] [/YOUTUBE]

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Exactly.  If he was a less deluded and sour individual he'd have given it the big swerve.  Instead he's talked about how when the time comes he'll be doing plenty of shouting, just as he crowed when t

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Admittedly, United's current position is very amusing, but some on here seem over obsessed with them. Personally, I'd rather just concentrate on L.F.C.

 

They have been laughing at us for over 20 years mate, its just nice to be able to do the same.

 

I watched their game live on Saturday and the funniest thing about it is that they have had their Andy Carroll moment: Fellani.

 

28 million on him is proving to be a disaster, he was shocking and gave the ball away loads of times. He was also targeted by Southampton who pressed him every time he got the ball and made him look shit.

 

Signings like that are the start of a demise. We have done it ourselves and once you start to pay big money and very average players its hard to recover. Its hard not to laugh...

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So now he has retired they feel they can take shots at him.Where were they the past 20 years except firmly up his arse

 

Quite.  Was always going to be that way wasn't it - as many of us have said, the Jimmy Savile of football in the regard that everyone knew but nobody had the balls to say. 

 

Still, this sentiment will definitely be out there, but most of them will keep schtum unless the trickle becomes a stream.

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I can't stop smiling! For those who say we shouldn't - fuck off!

 

I've been waiting for this long-enough and will treasure every fucking minute of it. Poking fun at that incompetent twat Gollum and their support, consisting of, mostly, inbreds every chance I get is the least I could do for the long years of misery I've had when the demented one was in charge. It's only fair.

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I can't stop smiling! For those who say we shouldn't - fuck off!

 

I've been waiting for this long-enough and will treasure every fucking minute of it. Poking fun at that incompetent twat Gollum and their support, consisting of, mostly, inbreds every chance I get is the least I could do for the long years of misery I've had when the demented one was in charge. It's only fair.

 

Spot on, I'm luvin' it!

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The bit below in bold is priceless, must have been as excruciating as a sketch from The Office.  I read elsewhere there was even initial talk - quickly dismissed as unfair - of them asking Moyes to go up and accept Ferguson's crystal trophy for him. 

 

"Dad couldn't be here tonight, but thanks from all the family for this clock, which he'll love." 

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sir-alex-fergusons-autobiography-further-2478373

By David McDonnell

 

Sir Alex Ferguson's autobiography further casts the great man's shadow over David Moyes
22 Oct 2013 08:53

 

Ahead of a crucial Champions League game for United, everyone will only be talking about one thing

It says everything about the sense of anxiety and unease at Manchester United over the revelations in Sir Alex Ferguson's autobiography that the club has seen fit to move the time of today's Champions League press conference.

 

United's pre-match press conferences for European home games have always been held at 2pm the day before, in the Europa Suite at Old Trafford. The time was as set in stone as Ferguson's refusal to attend post-match Premier League press conferences in the second half of his United tenure.

 

But the publication of Ferguson's account of the last 14 years of his glittering United reign, and the inevitable controversies that will accompany his undoubtedly incendiary revelations, has seen the club shift the time David Moyes will face the world's media.

 

With Ferguson holding a press conference at 1pm at the Institute of Directors in London's Pall Mall, to mark the publication of My Autobiography , United have decided to bring forward Moyes' press briefing to 1.30pm. Coincidence? Not a chance.

 

With details from Ferguson's book and press conference embargoed until 2pm, the move by United ensures that Moyes, for today at least, will not have to face any tough questions about the disclosures Ferguson has made in his book.
 
Of course, Moyes will not be able to avoid being probed about the fall-out from Ferguson's account, given he will face the media after United's Champions League game against Real Sociedad on Wednesday night, as well as at his usual weekly media briefing at the club's Carrington training ground on Friday.

 

But changing the time of his pre-match media address at least ensures Moyes will not become embroiled in controversies ahead of a match which, with every underwhelming United performance under his watch, has assumed huge significance.

 

After the disappointment of conceding an 89th-minute equaliser to draw 1-1 with Southampton on Saturday, to leave Moyes with just one win from his four Premier League matches at Old Trafford since succeeding Ferguson, he was subjected to another uncomfortable experience the following night.

 

Moyes was among the guests at the annual Northern Football Writers' Association awards dinner on Sunday at Manchester's Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel, an occasion from which Ferguson, due to be honoured for his 13th Premier League title and longevity at United, pulled out at the last minute, citing family commitments.

 

It was inevitable that Ferguson would be feted on the night, given the indelible imprint he left on the country's football landscape after more than a quarter of a century in charge at United, and a mawkish video tribute, glorifying his achievements, accompanied by commentary from his close friend and fellow Scot Sir Sean Connery was relayed to the 400-odd guests in the banqueting room.

 

If that wasn't enough to have Moyes glancing for the nearest exit, then what followed surely did. Compere and comedian Vince Miller, a United fan whose intentions were no doubt honourable but ultimately misplaced, urged the guests to rise to their feet and afford Moyes a standing ovation for having the courage to succeed Ferguson, which they duly did.

 

The awkward gesture smacked of a sympathy vote, when set against the backdrop of the problems Moyes is experiencing early on in his United reign, and provided further proof of why the spectre of Ferguson was always going to be impossible to escape, for whoever succeed him. Which brings us back to the book.

 

Ferguson left Moyes with enough problems to resolve on his departure, in particular the thorny saga of Wayne Rooney's future, which dominated the summer agenda at United, without muddying the water further with a book that could reignite the entire issue, depending on what the 71-year-old chooses to reveal.

 

While inevitable targets in Ferguson's book, such as ex-United skipper Roy Keane and former stars David Beckham and Ruud van Nistelrooy, will not cause Moyes any undue worry, given they have long since left the club and are not his concern, the extent of Ferguson's account of his fall-out with Rooney will surely be the first index entry he, like so many, will thumb to.

 

All the noises from Old Trafford are that Ferguson has chosen to tread carefully with regard to his account of the breakdown of his relationship with Rooney, the player's alleged transfer request – which Ferguson declared live on Sky after his final game in charge at Old Trafford – and why he felt the England star lost his focus and edge last season.

 

Ferguson, it has been claimed, is mindful of not revealing anything in his autobiography that would deliver a whole heap of fresh problems to Moyes' in-tray, particularly where Rooney is concerned, but the book risks its credibility being called into question if the former United boss glosses over the truth of why he fell out with arguably the club's most high-profile player.

 

There are those who feel Ferguson's book has been rushed out with indecent haste, that it would have been fairer on Moyes were his predecessor to have waited a while longer before publishing his memoirs, especially as the man he hand-picked to succeed him is still finding his way in the job and experiencing some early teething problems.

But the reality for Moyes and United is that Ferguson's long-awaited book, 14 years after his last, Managing My Life, released in the warm afterglow of the historic 1999 Treble triumph, is out today and is set to dominate the front and back pages throughout the week.

 

Moyes will undoubtedly swat aside talk of the book causing him undue hassle, maintaining his reverential line on Ferguson, which he has chosen to follow ever since he took over at United. Given Ferguson's roll-call of honours and iconic standing at United, as well as his new-found role as a director and ambassador, Moyes could hardly go the opposite way.  But it would be foolish to think that Moyes has welcomed the timing of Ferguson's book, given the scrutiny and pressure he currently finds himself under.

 

Ferguson once said that when his time as United boss was up, he would walk away from the club and ensure he did not make life hard for whoever followed him, a mistake the club made when Sir Matt Busby first stepped down.  Moyes will not admit it of course, but it is tempting to think, this week of all weeks, he may wish Ferguson had stuck to that original plan.

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The awkward gesture smacked of a sympathy vote,

 

But this is how it always is with Moyes. He's always treated like some over-achieving Special Olympics kid who crosses the finish line in last place with Chariots of Fire music playing in the background.

 

 

but the book risks its credibility being called into question if the former United boss glosses over the truth

 

Glosses? Slur? More like asphalts over it.

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But this is how it always is with Moyes. He's always treated like some over-achieving Special Olympics kid who crosses the finish line in last place with Chariots of Fire music playing in the background.

 

 

Hahaha it's funny coz it's true!  He plays up to it as well though, the fucking lizard.

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“It was similar to Southampton when we had the game under control with a minute to go and then we conceded from a set piece. We can’t keep dropping two points and we could have played better, but it’s a tough place to come after international duty and I would have taken the result before the game.”

 

 

Further cementing himself as their Hodgson

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-would-bought-world-beater-2485387

 

Fucking Micky Phelan having a pop at moyes now. He must have forget they left poor moysie with Wilfred Zaha.

Brilliant. Can't understand with all those trophies under his belt why the whopper isn't in work.

Hope Slur bites back and we see a bit of blood on the carpet.

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