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2012-13 English Premier League/Cups Thread - GAME OVER YEEEAAAHHH!!!!!!!

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#1 ·
Old thread got too big. Leave the memories alone.

I think MAZACAR deserve to feature in the first post :mata :hazard :bosscar2

:rvp and :javy for carrying United.

:dzeko for saving City.

:suarez1 for just being Suarez.

And finally some BRAVE lads :hesk2 :barry (We need some current BRAVE VILLA smilies)

Let's see if we can kill this thread before the end of the season.
 
#8,769 ·
We went around the world and took a bit from each of the best training grounds around the world and installed them into ours which opened in the summer. I've been there and it's seriously unbelievable. Most of the players, ex-professionals, coaches etc who have been there have said it is the best they have ever seen, although they COULD just be saying that, I doubt they would lie, like Holtby for example, new arrival come out and said it's the best training facilities he's ever seen, though of course he could just be saying that as he has just signed.

Seriously, it's fucking impressive, it really is.
 
#8,767 ·
I see that WOOLCOCK has been educating the football thread masses about statutory rape. It's odd that this subject has been discussed so much on WF these past two days, first rants and now here. Got to say that I didn't realise that Wagg was Dutch.

We also dodged a bullet when the Gent striker Ilombe Mboyo turned us down in January. That guy was part of a group that gang raped a 14 year old girl. Footballers, hey?
 
#8,778 ·
There's a footballer in Australia that had sex with a 12 year old girl. I'm pretty sure he can't leave the country now because of it.
 
#8,799 ·
A perfectly feasible option, though I have no doubts any number of Chelsea/West Ham/Spurs/Millwall or any other supporters could have made up those jeering. It gets to the point when the likes of Derby County and other irrelevant teams in terms of rivarly are trying to use Munich as some form of taunt against United fans. Liverpool have it much the same with Hillsbrough.

To think, 20th January 2014 will mark 20 years since the passing of the illustrious Sir Matt Busby. How he took a broken and depleted team marked by the death of 8 players and within a decade had managed to rebuild the team, develop new promising talent whilst recovering from his physical and mental injuries from the plane crash and win the European Cup against a great Benfica side is nothing short of remarkable.
 
#8,802 ·
Nobody's perfect :side: . Although he was pretty damn close. Two of my favourite quotes from him:

"Resting in Interlaken, Germany was one thing and facing Old Trafford another. When I approached the ground and moved over the bridge along which our supporters had squeezed fifty abreast in there tens of thousands to shout for us I could scarcely bear to look. I new the ghosts of the babes would still be there, and there they are still, and they will always be there as long as those who saw them still cross the bridge, young, gay, red ghosts on the green grass of Old Trafford."

"Winning isn’t everything. There should be no conceit in victory and no despair in defeat."

Duncan Edwards tbh
Regarded by those who witnessed him as one of the finest prospects English football has ever produced. Anyone of that time swears by him as arguably the most naturally gifted player United have ever produced.

Sir Matt:

"I rate Duncan Edwards the most complete footballer in Britain – perhaps the World.’

He was a Colossus. Whatever was needed, he had it. He was immensely powerful. He was prodigiously gifted in the arts and crafts of the game. His temperament was perfect. His confidence was supreme and infectious. No opponent was too big or too famous for Duncan. A wing-half, he could have been a great centre-half, or a great forward striker. He would have been one of the great leaders with his sheer inspiration. If there was ever a player who could be called a one-man team, that man was Duncan Edwards. His death, as far as football is concerned, was the single biggest tragedy that has happened to England and Manchester United. He was then, and has always remained to me incomparable.

We looked at Duncan right from the start and we gave up trying to find flaws in his game. (Remember – this was Edwards when he was just 16 years old). Nothing could stop him and nothing unnerved him. The bigger the occasion the better he liked it. While other players would be pacing up and down the dressing room, rubbing their legs, doing exercises, and looking for a way to pass time, Duncan was always very calm. He was a good type of lad too. Duncan didn’t want to know about the high life. He just wanted to go home or to his digs. He just lived for the game of football.
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Sir Bobby Charlton:

"I find that I think about Duncan a lot. I have seen all the players who in their time have been labelled the best in the world – Puskas, Di Stefano, Gento, Didi. John Charles and all the rest – and not one of them have been as good as Big Duncan. There was no other player in the world like him then, and there has been nobody to equal him since. The man was incomparable.

Sometimes I fear that there is a danger that people will think that we who knew him, and saw him in action, boost him because he is dead. Sentiment can throw a man’s judgement out of perspective. Yet it is not the case with him. Whatever the praise one likes to heap on Duncan is no more than he deserved. He was out on his own at left-half and a First Division player in every other position. There was no one else to start with him.

I am not a person to dramatize things or dispense fulsome praise. It is not in my make-up. A man is a good player or he is not. A few are great, and they deserve respect. But Duncan Edwards was the greatest. I see him in my mind’s eye and I wonder that anyone should have so much talent. He was simply the greatest of them all.
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Sir Stanley Matthews:

"Duncan Edwards, the boy-man, made his début for Manchester United at 16 and was an England regular by 18. You could play him anywhere and he would slot into that position as if he had been playing there season after season. For all of his tender years, he was the most complete player of his time and it was a tragedy that his life was taken in the Munich disaster of 1958. When the going was rough, Duncan would be as unmoved as a rock in a raging sea, but for all of his considerable size, he possessed the most deft of skills"

Jimmy Murphy:

"Duncan was the Kohinoor Diamond among our crown jewels. Whenever I heard Muhammad Ali on television say he was the greatest, I had to smile. There was only ever one greatest, and that was Duncan Edwards. There was nothing that needed to be coached into him – even at such a young age of 16 – he simply had it all."​
 
#8,803 ·
I heard him described as Rooney and Gerrard rolled into one. Not bits of each other's best games, but the complete package of both.

Though 11 was my usual number for my school and later the Sunday league team I played for, when I dreamed of rampaging through the midfield for United, it was always in the number 6 jersey.
 
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