[QUOTE=“Horsebox, post: 993462, member: 1537”]That will be temporary, pal. The guy is a fucking fraud.
Young not Van Gaal.[/QUOTE]
Time will tell.
Half time now and the band stand is rolled out for the half time entertainment.
[QUOTE=“Captainshan, post: 993439, member: 41”]http://vipstand.biz/soccer/vip-2b1e4-manchester-united-real-madrid
The team goal from United there. Sublime. 
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Savage goal alright Shan.
Once United don’t lose this in 90 minutes they will play Liverpool in the final on Monday.
OMG. The drama !
Real are giving United a game here so not done and dusted.
Ronaldo warming up on the sideline. I hope Real give him a few minutes.
115,000 at the match. Some crowd in fairness.
Bringing CR7 on for a few minutes to give the crowd their money’s worth.
Shows he does what he wants after Ancelotti saying he wasnt playing in this game yesterday.
Chicharito seals its. Bring on Liverpool on Monday.
Lovely ball from kagawa. I’d love him to come good this season.
Will he be at United in September?
If he is happy with his current role then he will be. He is never going to start for United though. I dont think United would stand in his way if he wants to go.
Hopefully.
Safe to save United are grand as they are, can’t see them needing any further signings.
Robert Van Persie - still a class guy after all these years.
[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 996770, member: 377”]Robert Van Persie - still a class guy after all these years.
http://www.thesportbible.com/pictures/a-couple-of-manchester-united-fans-unhappy-with-robin-van-persie-after-this[/QUOTE]
Thats pure cuntish, poor fucking kids, bad enough they have to support that mob in the first place because of their auld fella.
More good news for success starved Manchester United fans. Silverware will be on display on the very first day of the season. Diehard fan Rory McIlroy just after confirming exclusively to Greg Allen on Morning Ireland there that he will be at Old Trafford for the season opener on Saturday and will come out onto the pitch either before the game or at half time with the Claret Jug and the Wanamaker Trophy. What a start to the Van Gaal era that promises to be.
What a cuntfest that promises to be
John Nicholson from football 365. Sums up what I think about United this season.
This time last year David Moyes was collecting his first Manchester United trophy and United fans everywhere were busy telling us that he was the man to build a new United empire. Those who saw Moyes for the limited and self-evidently inappropriate choice he clearly was, knew it would end badly, but United fans wouldn’t have it. They were blind to what most of us could see: the inappropriate track record, the lack of success and the fear in his eyes. When we said he’d turn them into Everton, the majority of United fans didn’t believe us. They said we were just blindly bigoted against United, but with delicious irony, the lack of sight was in their own eyes. They stood, self-appointed in the role of being against the immediacy of the modern world; except they weren’t and that was frankly a daft notion, anyway.
They wanted to give Moyes time. ‘He needs at least 18 months,’ one reader declared about 12 months ago. Imagine that. Moyes still in charge of United until after Christmas. Ridiculous. But, as many of us knew it would be, that was all forgotten as results nose-dived. Moyes should have been hounded out by outraged supporters by Christmas; only blind loyalty prevented that from being the case. They must take much of the blame for the failures in the second half of the season.
But that’s the trouble with tribal loyalty to a football club - it blinds you to things which are obvious to outsiders. So many United fans totally misunderstood how inappropriate Moyes was. All they wanted to do was brand critics as ABUs and that shut down the validity of the criticism in their mind, but we were right and they were wrong and their humiliation was season-long, so it has understandably made them view success this season as unlikely. They fear embracing a new manager having had their blind faith abused so recently.
But it shouldn’t.
Those seeing this season as a desperate scramble for fourth are underestimating their own side just as they over-estimated Moyes. They are once again blind to the realities. They have cause to know more than most just how quickly things can change in football. Just as their decline may have seemed unlikely 12 months ago, a climb back to the top now also seems equally unimaginable to many of them.
But it’s not.
It shouldn’t be forgotten that United played much worse than their par last year. Moyes wasn’t just a poor manager in terms of training and tactics, he stripped the belief out of the club. Everything Moyes and his staff did was wrong. Don’t let history be re-written, the side that Moyes inherited - while not the finest ever - was a damn good side. No side wins the league which isn’t a damn good side. The wholesale destruction turned them from winners to losers, but they were not innately as bad as he’d made them. That seventh-place finish is fooling a lot of fans into thinking there is a much bigger climb back to the top than is the reality.
If you can go from first to seventh with largely the same squad, you can certainly go from seventh to first with an improved set of players, especially when lack of European football will prove a huge advantage later in the campaign. Liverpool almost did it last year without a defence. This United side is still substantially a title-winning side. That seems to be forgotten. Older players have been replaced, better players added. There are question marks in some areas, there always are, but the negativity that Moyes brought to the club will not be repeated now that a grown-up not imbued with awe and fear is at the helm.
United fans shouldn’t let the same ridiculous, blinkered attitude that led them to believe Moyes was The Chosen One (and doesn’t that still sound hilarious?), lead them to believe United have no chance of winning the title this year. That would be a big, big mistake. They’re not coming from as far back as it would appear. United are viable title challengers this year just as they would have been last year if they had not taken any notice of the previous manager’s daft notion to appoint someone who had never won a trophy. ABUs should take no comfort from last year. United, with Louis Van Gaal in charge are already back and make no mistake, they’ll take some stopping.
Zaha is absolutely useless