[Tomkin]

Diouf is one of the nicest footballers outside of the game!

Ex Bolton goalkeeper coach Fred Barber got us some tickets for a Bolton game in like 2006 or 07 and we got to meet some of the players after, and the only one to make a big effort with us was Diouf, always liked him ever since...Massive cunt on the pitch though.

Hate today, Manure away, always laugh it off as a non game all season as I know we'll get dicked but for some reason when the game comes I always have belief we're going to get a result then United score after like 5 minutes and I'm miserable for the rest of the week. First time since promotion I haven't got tickets, just hope I don't run into some "united fans" later on tonight...seems less of them now City won the title though

[BANKSY]

AVB vs. Di Matteo .

Shits about to go down.

[Rush]

left United out of my multi. Have a feeling that Stoke could pinch some points considering United has been playing woefully (yeah i am aware that we've been worse in terms of results ).

[Chain Gang Soldier]

Chelsea better beat Spurs. We will never hear the end of it from AVB if he wins.

Also we need a win bad today. Seriously we have to at least ducking Reading. Even its it 1-0

[Skybs]

La Liga has been a little boring lately, so I've decided to go back and watch PL games. PL is a much more competitive league anyway.

Really looking forward to Chelsea x Spurs.

[5th-Horseman]

Honestly wanted to say the same thing about AVB. He reminds me of a guy who has recently been fired from WWE and does a shoot video slagging off who he was working for. The comparison is also valid as absolutely no one gives a shit apart from him and about 5 other people.

[God™]

Originally Posted by Mr. Snrub

tee hee

[Rush]

Doesn't change the fact that AVB still got treated poorly by the club. Amusing to see all the mad.

[Joel]

I don't want to lose this game at all. But I am kinda intrigued in what AVB's reaction will be if Spurs win. Will he consider his career complete and retire in the post press conference?

Nah Rush. Shit results = the boot. FA Cup and Champions League wins vindicates the decision. Silly to say otherwise. Very silly.

[5th-Horseman]

Originally Posted by Rush

Doesn't change the fact that AVB still got treated poorly by the club. Amusing to see all the mad.

And he managed the club badly.

AVB isn't some kind of martyr figure. He was a manager who Abramovich paid through the nose for who, yes, didn't get all the support he needed from players/management. But also (in a massive point people choose to generally ignore) deployed innane tactics that didn't fit in any way shape or form with the players he had at his disposal. Playing a defence anchored at the halfway line with "pacemeisters" like John Terry was fucking stupid. Benching Frank Lampard in favour of an unproven, un-tested Spanish youngster was fucking stupid. Completely failing to man manage anyone at the club sucessfully was fucking stupid. Trying to play fluid, Barca-esque football with Didier Drogba up front was fucking stupid. Alienating solid players like Anelka and Alex to the extent that they asked to leave the club, when we had a thin squad was fucking stupid.

And most of all the fact he never addressed any of the issues that was causing us to lose and draw most of our games and the fact he denied anything was going wrong and effectively hoped that by putting his fingers in his ear and going "LALALALA" things were going to turn around.

AVB is a good manager, undoubtedly. He sure as hell didn't show it with us though. Claiming he was some poor figure ousted by the evil players and ruthless Abramovich is a woefully innacurate claim. These things go both ways and AVB was not living up to his end of the bargain either. The proof is always in the pudding, an FA cup and the Champions League. I would say without equivocation that we would have not won either if he had stayed the season.