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Sunday May 2: Well at least we didn’t lose. The game getting called off didn’t bother me too much as it was nice to not have to watch it, but we really should be awarded the points for that as it’s a fucking farce. They couldn’t fulfil the fixture because their fans invaded the stadium (or were allowed in by club staff, depending on which account you believe). Sorry, that’s a forfeit and we should be awarded the points. Anything else is unacceptable, but Sky aren’t going to have that and we all know they call the shots. Bizarrely, I’ve seen a lot of “good on them” and “this goes beyond rivalry, we should stick together” type sentiments from Reds over this. I’ll simply say FUCK. THAT. How come these fucking scrotes are being hailed as some kind of noble warriors fighting for better rights for football fans across the nation? It’s mad, I don’t get it. Am I missing something here because I just don’t see it. They aren’t fighting for fans rights, they aren’t leading some movement against leveraged buyouts or demanding reform of the ‘fit and proper owners’ guidelines. They don’t give a fuck about leveraged buyouts other than the one the Glazers did. They don’t care about ‘fit and proper’ owners just as long as they have one. So spare me the ‘we need to stand together’ bullshit because when we were fighting Gillett and Hicks what were they doing? Waving American flags and chanting USA from the away end at Anfield, that’s what. The Glazers have been there donkeys years and for most of that period the majority of their fans tolerated it because they were winning. They had a home game a couple of days ago so where was this protest then? Half of these cunts didn’t even know why they protesting. Some of the ones I saw interviewed were going on about the fucking Super League. Y’know, the Super League that isn’t happening. There is no fucking way United fans did what they did today because the Glazers wanted to be part of a European Super League. Not a fucking chance. In fact, had the Super League idea gained traction and the Glazers had said they wanted no part of it, Old Trafford would have been filled with the very same mutants today kicking off about that. Look at the footage of it. Look at the faces of those inside that stadium. As if they are there because of the Super League. Come on! They have every right to want the Glazers out because the Glazers pulled a Gillett & Hicks and bought the club with a loan that the club are now paying off. They’re paying a shitload of money every year just for the pleasure of being owned by the Glazers, so yeah you wouldn’t be happy about that. But…. It’s the world’s smallest violin playing just for the mancs and their ‘plight’. The Glazers have taken a billion quid out of United apparently. Obviously you wouldn’t be happy about that as a fan but it’s not that straightforward. United’s revenues are up massively because of the marketing and sponsorship deals the Glazers have brought in and they would therefore argue that they’re entitled to take their cut. Their cut is wildly excessive but it hasn’t stopped them spending more money on players than ANY OTHER CLUB IN THE WORLD. You can go on all you want about how it’s about time fans stood up and said enough is enough and that change will only happen when drastic action is taken. Talk about fan solidarity all you like and tell us how we should back United fans in their fight against greedy owners. I can sort of see some logic in it (but not much) but my instinctive reaction is to once again channel my inner Mr Pink and say… The Glazers have been there 16 years and - other than a hard core minority - United fans have had zero appetite for getting them out. You know why they are protesting now? Because City are winning loads and because we have a title and a CL in the last few years. It’s that simple. The Glazers are doing nothing different now than they have done for 16 years. In fact, they're spending more than they ever have. The only thing that has changed is they aren’t winning titles now and have had to watch us and City hoovering up big prizes. That’s what today was about. It wasn’t a ‘protest’ it was a fucking hissy fit because they aren’t top dogs anymore. Those who protested back in the beginning, fair play to them. The rest of these bandwagon dickheads can fuck off though. You know what most of these Man United fans want? They want their own Sheikh Mansour. They want to be bankrolled by someone who will massively outspend City. They might try and pretend otherwise, but that’s what most of those cunts on the pitch today want and if it happens they’d be insufferable in their gloating about their spending power. I genuinely can’t get over the sympathy they are being given in some quarters. Newsflash: They are second in the league with the highest wage bill in the country and they’ve spent more than anyone else in the last few years. They broke the world transfer record to re-sign a player that had left them for nothing and they paid £80m for Harry fucking Maguire. In a few weeks time they’ll be playing in a European final and will no doubt spend big again this summer. So fucking spare me this “the Glazers are ruining United” nonsense. I know full well what the Glazers are. I also know that these are first world problems that United fans are bitching about. They aren’t Newcastle. Or Blackburn. Or Sunderland. Or Portsmouth. Or Bolton. Or Bury. The absolute fucking gall of these entitled arrogant cunts making out they’re being so hard done to. They’ve spent over a billion quid on players in the last decade. You know what their problem is? They want to be able to spend TWO billion. Maybe all those supporting their protest and saying ‘good for them’ need to be careful what they wish for, because the Glazers are the only thing standing between United making Man City’s spending looking like FSG are controlling their purse strings. So I can’t stress this strongly enough. Fuck them. I’d rather set fire to my own face than back those cunts. Monday May 3: Heard a Red from a well known fan media group on the radio today saying “we sympathise” with United fans and that “they have good reason to want their owners out”. I’m sick of this shit now. I’m seeing it all over twitter too. Reds being all magnanimous and taking the moral high ground by backing United fans. Fuck that shit. So many are racing to try and reach the top of Mount Righteous but I’m more than happy with my place in Tribal Valley. People have lost their fucking minds. Showing solidarity with the same fucking rats who sing “the Sun was right” and holding up “Vote Boris” pictures with “Self Pity City” on it. Even the cunts on the pitch yesterday were chanting about scousers. And don’t tell me “it’s just a minority”. Is it fuck. It’s usually the entire away end and when it’s at Old Trafford it’s tens of thousands of them. All these Reds going out of their way to publicly support their ‘cause’ is making me sick. And now it appears we’re allowing them to rearrange the game at their convenience, possibly even to a time when they’ll be allowed to have fans in. So just to recap here. They invade their own stadium, fight with police, run riot inside the ground damaging the pitch and TV equipment, break into Covid safe areas, cause the game to be postponed and as a result of that they get to rearrange the game so they can actually come in and watch?? Fuck this shit. I’m livid. If LFC agree to this they’re fucking pathetic. Imagine them fucking bellends singing their anti-scouse songs all game while our lads no doubt shit the bed like they do every fucking time they go there. It’s quite fitting though I suppose. The fly on the top of the turd that this season has been. All those Reds backing what happened yesterday and wanting to stand shoulder to shoulder with these fucking twats, maybe think about that when you’re listening to the fucking shit they’ll be singing when this game is played. I want them to go under. To go out of existence. If that happened I’d celebrate so fucking hard it’d probably kill me. But I’d die happy. Tuesday May 4: Just caught up on this yesterday from Simon Jordan on Talksport…. “Gary Neville is a barrack-room lawyer who sits on PFA panels, who says salary caps are something football needs to have, while behind the scenes he’s talking about the fact the PFA should never allow salary caps to try and control football finances. “The centre of all of this is money, and the irony of this is Manchester United fans will say it’s not about money, but they’re making it about money because the Glazers are taking money out of the club. “The hypocrisy of the argument that ‘football isn’t all about money’ while you make it all about money, because it’s all about how the Glazers are taking money. “There is a selfish nature in football and it pervades football full-stop. The Premier League, despite the promotion and relegation system, has decimated English football – 90 per cent of TV revenues go into the Premier League and the other ten per cent is left for the rest. “Neville sits there advocating independent regulation – why? Because he’s one of the intellectual capitals behind independent regulation with David Bernstein and he wants a seat at the top table. “The hypocrisy of his ownership of Salford when he got a billionaire owner in there who is funding Salford who are, to my mind, losing money left right and centre, who probably breached financial fair play, and all of this is being utilised by Gary Neville to advise a soap box wrapped in hypocrisy. “Yes, these owners and the ownership models in football right now are flawed, but why are they flawed? Why has it got to his point? Because of the greed across the board in football and the hypocrisy embodied by people like Gary Neville.” Holy shit that’s amazing. That’s even better than his Ryan Fraser rant last season. Round of applause for that man, absolutely nailed it. You know what’s worse than the proposed Super League and the behaviour of those United fans at the weekend? Hearing Gary Neville soapboxing about it. Fuck that little rat. I’m muting the twat now. Not gonna watch when he’s a pundit and I’ll mute if he’s doing commentary. Ideally I will be able to live the rest of my life without ever having to listen to a Gary Neville opinion on anything. Imagine that. Bliss. I’m still seething about all this shite though you know. Each day I feel even more strongly about it. I’m so sick of seeing Reds doing this “be the bigger person” thing and thinking that backing them is the right thing to do. It fucking isn’t. I suspect a lot of it is down to this naive thinking that we might be on the cusp of some sort of football fan revolution where we can take back our game and fuck all the billionaire owners off. I’m telling you now, there is zero percent chance of this happening and the most likely scenario here is that the only club who will benefit from it will be United if the Glazers sell up to China or the Saudi or some other cunts who will just bankroll moves for Mbappe, Haaland and whoever else they want. The bottom line is the rich always get their own way. Always. That’s how it’s always been and how it always will be. Unless they’re up against someone even richer. Like PSG losing to City tonight. It’s happening isn’t it? They're going to win a competition they had been banned from. Hopefully there's enough medals left for the players after the lawyers have been given theirs. Wednesday May 5: That video of the manc screaming abuse at Souness and Carragher. Jesus Christ. Carra actually went to bat for them too, even after that. Personally I’m far more on board with Souey’s stance of “shut up you crying, entitled cunts”. The best bit of that video is how the manc completely loses his shit because of the contemptuous sneer Souness gave him. It immediately went from “scouse cunt” to “ARROGANT SCOUSE CUNT” as Souey got right under his skin. Meanwhile, SOS had a meeting with Billy Hogan yesterday (and they didn’t need to smash up Anfield to get it). They want fan representation on the board and for FSG to pay any potential fines for the failed ESL thing out of their own pockets and not with club funds. Both fair enough I’d say. Tell you what though, being the fan on the board has to be the worst job in the world. Imagine the grief you’d be getting, especially at our club where you have a ‘legacy fan’ v …. actually what did they call the newer fan? I can’t remember so I’ll just call them ‘fifa virgins’. Being the fan on our board would be an absolute nightmare so if that happens good luck to whoever it is. The United game has been rearranged for the 13th May which means we play them on the Thursday and then West Brom on the Sunday. United play three times in five days but the middle one is against Leicester so you know that’ll be the ressies getting a run out as they get everyone rested up to face us. I’d be fuming about this if I thought there was even the tiniest chance that we could catch Leicester, but we’re shite and probably won’t even catch West Ham, so this news was met with a shrug from me and no more. It doesn’t really matter and I’m not going to moan about whatever team Solskjaer picks as we only have ourselves to blame for this. Be funny if they kick off and cause it to be called off again though as surely we’d have to be awarded the points then. If it does go ahead it’ll be good practice for next year as we’ll be doing a lot of the ol’ Thursday / Sunday thing. So every cloud and that. Meanwhile, Chelsea comfortably beat Madrid to reach the final. And now they’re the only thing standing between City and a European title. So, *deep breath* One man went to mow, went to mow a meadow, one man on his dog, went to mow a meadow. Two men went to mow, went to mow a meadow….. *ten minutes later* Supporting Chelsea is a last resort but that’s where we’re at. City are the last club on Earth I want winning a European Cup. They weren’t even meant to be in it in the first place. The only reason they are even playing is because they can afford better lawyers than UEFA. No team has ever deserved success less than these cunts but it feels like we’re the only ones saying it as nobody else seems to be arsed. I see Madrid fans aren’t happy with Hazard who was laughing and joking with his old team-mates at full time. I don’t blame them for being pissed off as I would be too. He’s been a fucking flop but the lack of self awareness to be doing that on the pitch, in front of cameras, is staggering. One TV presenter went on a massive rant about it and said “Hazard has spent two years taking the piss out of Madrid. Two years. Kilos overweight. Unable to beat any defender. Many of you are saying, another Bale?" Another Bale? The same Bale who won you two Champions League finals? Fuck me, I don’t like Gareth Bale but the lack of respect he gets from Madrid is staggering. Being the most arrogant club in a world that contains Manchester United is some going. Thursday May 6: Arsenal had the chance to reach the Europa League Final tonight. All they needed was a 1-0 win at home to Villarreal but they served up a damp squib 0-0 in which it looked like they weren’t even trying to score. No urgency, no effort, no emotion. They’re a fucking disgrace. I’m glad they’re out because they had no chance of beating the mancs in the final. I don’t give the Spaniards much chance either but at least they aren’t Arsenal. Hey guess what? Chelsea are being linked with…. wait for it….. Mo Salah. Get the fuck outta here. I don’t know what’s going to happen with Mo and whether we’ll give him the contract he wants, but one thing I’d be fairly confident in stating is that he isn’t going back to Chelsea under any circumstances. For one thing, they don’t need him. Why would they splash out on massive wages for him when they’ve got more forwards than they know what to do with? Their strategy seems to be to buy up as many boss players as they can aged 24 and under so why would they move away from that to sign Mo? And why would we allow it to happen? The suggestion is we want to move him on to finance a move for Sancho. That might be true (although I doubt it), but selling him to Chelsea? If they do that, heads should fucking roll. The more likely scenario here is that Chelsea just go and sign Sancho and we’ll be once again shopping at ASDA, or more likely buying Neto. Friday May 7: Loads of content around today about the 4-0 Barca game. Turns out it’s the anniversary of it today. I didn't know, but my instinctive response when I saw all that today was to roll my eyes and cringe a little. It reminded me of how we’d be bombarded with Istanbul stuff on May 25th for years and years afterwards and the more shit we were the bigger the Istanbul obsession became. This is probably just me, and I’m not judging anyone who posted stuff about it or who enjoyed reading it. There’s nothing wrong with it, I just don’t like seeing it when we’re shite. It’s fine when we’re doing well, but when we’re shite it just feels lame as fuck to me. I want no part of it. It’s like “yeah we’re shit now, but how good was this?”. If we were doing well now I’d lap up this Barca stuff today, but it’s hard to explain. All those years when we were fucking rubbish and then Istanbul Day came around, it didn’t make me want to relive it and celebrate, it just pissed me off that we were a million miles away from it and that’s how I feel today. I worry that we’ll be back in the pack, winning fuck all and then every year when May 7 comes around it’ll be “CORNER TAKEN QUICKLY ORIGI!!!”. This season better be a fucking one off. In the PL tonight, Leicester were beaten 4-2 at home by Newcastle which in theory is good for us. It’s not though is it, because there’s absolutely no chance that we win our last five games, and that’s what it would take. Especially since the little fucking goblin basically said today he’ll be resting everyone when they play Leicester so he can play his best team against us. He didn’t say it in so many words, but the implication was clear. I’m not even mad. He can field whatever team he likes as we only have ourselves to blame. Win just two of the six home games we lost on the spin and we aren’t in this mess. Don’t give up late goals in our last two games and we’re in a much healthier situation. Be mad at that, not at Solskjaer playing the hand he’s been dealt. The pathetic situation we’re in right now is of our own making. There are legitimate excuses for not challenging for the title. There is no excuse for us being below Spurs (who have been so dire they sacked their manager) and West Ham. If we win our games in hand we’ll be just three points back of Leicester. We won’t though, will we? We have five games left and there is more chance we win none of them than there is that we win all five. Still, on the bright side there is only five games left and the misery is finally over. …. and that was the week that was.