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Great post. A little something to smile about at last…long may it continue!
#ManUtd #ManUtdRoma
🚨 Matheus Cunha reveals what he told Shea Lacey after the youngster inspired Manchester United’s dramatic 3–2 comeback against Roma:
“Everybody is talking about my goals, but I think people should be talking about Shea Lacey. Because when you look at what happened tonight, you have to understand what that moment meant to him.
I remember sitting with Shea after training a few weeks ago. He wasn’t complaining, but I could tell he wanted to play more.
I asked him, ‘Shea, what’s bothering you?’
He said, ‘Nothing. I just want to help the team.’
I told him, ‘Then be ready. Because when your opportunity comes, nobody is going to ask how many minutes you’ve played this season. They’re going to expect you to do something with the ball.’
He smiled and said, ‘I know.’
But I don’t think he fully understood what I meant until tonight.
We were drawing 2–2 against Roma, the clock was running down, and everybody inside Old Trafford was desperate for somebody to make something happen.
When Shea came on, I remember looking at him and thinking, this is a lot of pressure for a young boy.
But the funny thing about Shea is that he doesn’t seem to understand that he’s supposed to be nervous.
The first time he got involved, he went straight at the defender. No hesitation. No passing backwards because he was afraid of losing possession. He wanted to make something happen.
I remember thinking, ‘Okay, this boy has come here to play football.’
Then came the moment for the winner.
When he received the ball, I started making my movement. And what impressed me wasn’t just that he saw the pass. It was the weight of it.
He didn’t smash the ball towards me and hope I could reach it. He played it into the exact space where I needed it.
Suddenly, I was through.
And when I scored, I remember thinking about how much courage that pass required. Because at that stage of the game, if he gets it wrong, everybody remembers the mistake.
But he didn’t get it wrong.
After the celebrations, I went looking for him. I found him looking completely overwhelmed.
I said, ‘Shea, what’s wrong with you? We’ve won the game.’
He told me, ‘I know. I just can’t believe it.’
I said, ‘Can’t believe what?’
He replied, ‘That I actually helped us win.’
And that was when I understood.
For us, it was three points and another important Champions League victory. For him, it was something he’d probably imagined a hundred times while sitting on the bench, watching other players and waiting for his opportunity.
I put my arm around him and said, ‘Listen to me. You didn’t come here by accident. You train with us every day. We know what you can do. Now everybody else has seen it.’
He was emotional, and I told him something else.
‘Don’t let tonight make you think you have to produce a goal every time you touch the ball. Just keep playing your football. That’s why you’re here.’
Because I know what’s going to happen now. People will start comparing him with other players, saying he should be starting every match, asking why he hasn’t played more.
But Shea doesn’t need all that pressure.
And Amad doesn’t deserve to be attacked because another player had a fantastic moment. We need both of them. We need everybody.
I remember telling Shea before we left the pitch, ‘You know what the best part is?’
He asked, ‘What?’
I said, ‘Tomorrow, when you come to training, nobody is going to treat you like the little boy waiting for his chance anymore.’
He laughed.
I told him, ‘They’re going to be asking you to play that pass again.’
That’s what Manchester United should be about. Young players getting opportunities, experienced players helping them, and everybody fighting for the same thing.
I scored the winner tonight, yes.
But when I saw Shea standing there with tears in his eyes, I realised something.
For me, it was a goal I’ll remember.
For him, it might be the night he finally started believing that he belongs here.
And I’m very happy I got to share that moment with him.”
Heartbreaking
80 秒从比珠峰还高的高空垂直砸进街道，这架载有九人的私人飞机在空中遭遇的，是高空物理学最残酷的死神陷阱：棺材角气流
最让人背脊发凉的是，整场灾难的导火索，仅仅是飞行员为了避开颠簸而做出的爬升决定。
这架载着九个人的私人飞机在 80 秒内从比珠穆朗玛峰还高的高空垂直砸向佛罗里达的街道，而整场灾难的起点，竟然是一个听起来无比合理的常规操作：向塔台申请爬升两千英尺。
很多人以为空难都是发动机当场爆炸或者零件空中解体。
但这架 Learjet 60 在三万五千英尺高空遭遇严重颠簸、机身挂着薄冰时，飞行员做了一个教科书式的标准避险决策：向迈阿密中心请求从 35000 英尺爬升到 37000 英尺，想彻底翻过这片恶劣天气。
他们做梦也没想到，高空物理法则给所有喷气机预设了一个极其致命的隐形绞刑架，飞行员管它叫棺材角。
在高空稀薄的空气里，飞机的安全速度窗口会被死死挤压成一条极其狭窄的缝隙：
飞得太慢，稀薄的空气根本托不住机翼，飞机会瞬间失速坠落；
飞得太快，机翼表面就会形成激波，导致气流剥离引发超速下坠。
飞机每往上爬升一千英尺，最慢的失速速度和最快的超速极限就会向彼此靠近一点，直到两个死神极限彻底撞在一起。
这架飞机的巡航极速是 0.81 马赫，平时就已经贴着边缘在飞。
狂暴的气流在极狭窄的窗口里剧烈拉扯，刚开始爬升几秒钟，地速瞬间从 437 节暴涨到 505 节，飞机瞬间冲破速度红线，带着近两万英尺每分钟的骇人下沉率直接倒栽葱。
最绝望的是超速和机翼倾斜同时发生时的物理恶魔。
一旦喷气机超速，气动中心后移会强行把机头往死里往下按，机头越低速度越快，越快机头被压得越猛；
只要机身带一点侧倾，原本向上的升力就会彻底甩向侧面，整架飞机直接被拧成急速下坠的夺命螺旋。
此时人类惊慌下的求生本能是拼命往后拉操纵杆，但倾斜状态下拉杆只会把死亡螺旋越勒越紧；
唯一生还的可能，是在云层里完全看不见地平线、超速警报疯狂尖叫的几秒钟内，顶住本能先把机翼完全改平，然后再拼命拉起。
可惜他们根本没有这个机会，
到最后的 8750 英尺时，下坠速度已经彻底飙到了每分钟超三万两千英尺，
相当于时速 360 英里垂直砸向地面，剩下的距离仅仅用了 16 秒就烧成了街道旁的一团火球。
无线电里只剩下迈阿密管制员一遍又一遍绝望地呼叫他们的尾号，再也没有任何回音。
David Hunt retweeted
Britain Owes No Apology for the Sins of Two Centuries Ago
There is something profoundly troubling about a British Prime Minister contemplating an apology on behalf of his country for events that took place two centuries ago. Andy Burnham says he is open to formally apologising for Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. He also acknowledges that today's British people bear no responsibility for those historical wrongs. Then why is he considering apologising in their name?
Slavery was a barbaric institution. Britain participated in it, profited from it and eventually helped bring it to an end. Those facts belong together. Yet Labour seems increasingly comfortable discussing Britain's historical shame while showing far less enthusiasm for defending its achievements. A nation cannot understand its history by examining only the chapters that make it uncomfortable.
Slavery existed thousands of years before Britain entered the transatlantic trade. African rulers and merchants supplied captives to European traders. Slavery flourished across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Some forms of slavery remain with us today. Yet Britain, which became one of the foremost powers in suppressing the international trade, now finds itself under renewed pressure to apologise.
In 1807, Parliament abolished the British slave trade. In 1833, it legislated to abolish slavery across most of the Empire, with full emancipation following in 1838. The Royal Navy subsequently spent decades intercepting slave ships, liberating captives and confronting traders along the African coast. British sailors risked their lives enforcing a principle that much of the world had yet to accept.
Abolition also came at an enormous financial cost. Parliament authorised £20 million to compensate slave owners, a vast sum at the time. The formerly enslaved received nothing, an injustice that deserves acknowledgement. Debt associated with that settlement was subsequently consolidated into government borrowing arrangements, with the relevant gilt finally redeemed in 2015. Britain's abolitionist history deserves to be remembered alongside its involvement in slavery.
But Burnham's proposed apology raises another question. What exactly would it achieve? Caribbean campaigners have already declared that an apology alone would be insufficient. Their demands extend to debt relief, development funding and other forms of compensation. Burnham rejects reparations while proposing more favourable debt arrangements for poorer Commonwealth countries. He must explain where ordinary development policy ends and historical compensation begins.
This is part of a wider failure of confidence in Britain's political leadership. Labour ministers appear more comfortable revisiting the country's historical failings than defending its inheritance. National pride is too often treated as something requiring explanation, qualification or apology. Meanwhile, the country faces mounting pressures on public services, living standards, housing and national security.
The British people alive today neither owned the plantations nor authorised the slave ships. They inherited a country whose history contains cruelty and courage, exploitation and reform. They have every reason to learn that history honestly, without being expected to assume personal guilt for the conduct of distant generations.
Burnham says today's Britons cannot be held liable for historical wrongs. He should stand by that principle and explain why a formal apology is necessary. Britain's past requires honesty, perspective and moral seriousness. It does not require an endless procession of national apologies.
A Prime Minister's duty is to represent the British people of today, not burden them with the guilt of centuries past.
David Hunt retweeted
I’ll never have a second team but if I did it would be Bayern Munich after playing ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ on German soil to salute Harry Kane. Lots of stadiums in England wouldn’t play it for risk of offending someone…so hats off to Bayern! 🫡 🇩🇪 🏴 🤝
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Manchester United need to be freed of the yoke of the Glazers. That’s obvious. Been saying it since 2005. But how? It’s difficult to force regime change. A few United fans suggesting they’d welcome relegation as it would make the Glazers consider selling up. It might make them more likely to hold on as a PL club worth far more than EFL. A few fans suggesting a boycott of games - but why should loyal fans stop watching their team? And the club could simply get tourists in if a few games missed.
A boycott of the megastore and catering is obvious (and already done by some fans) but that would also hit staff and temporary workers. Chants and banners make a point to the world how reviled the absentee Glazers are. But probably won’t worry the distant Glazers. They can point to money invested in transfers (and spent badly) but it’s not their personal money. It’s money generated by the fans.
United have some very influential fans’ groups, fanzines, forums and pods. Would lobbying the Independent Football Regulator about whether the Glazers are “fit and proper owners” (in old parlance) have any effect? At the very least, there is a strong case for lobbying the IFR and Government about updating legislation to preclude debt-based takeovers (the IFR has an advisory role to Parliament).
It’s certainly a national embarrassment that the most high-profile representative of the national sport has such substantial debt and such deeply unpopular owners associated with it. Sadly, like a stubborn stain, the Glazers will take some shifting. #MUFC
#ManUtd Hats off to the United fans at Stamford Bridge. Brilliant display. Meanwhile, a Martinez ban can only be a good thing. If I’m his boss, he never plays for United ever again and he gets sold in January. He really doesn’t seem to care and his lack of discipline today is a toxic example of the cancerous attitude running through this squad. For a team to fold like such a cheap deck of cards in the second half is absolutely shameful. It does seem that their mental and physical preparation has been second rate from preseason onwards. The entire club needs a rebuild, not just the playing squad.
#ManUtd United should have been 3-0 up at half time. They miss all of their chances and then inevitably, they fold in the second half.
Boringly predictable.
David Hunt retweeted
❗️🗣️| Roy Keane goes off on Manchester United’s owners on The Overlap
“They bought a football club and turned it into a spreadsheet. The Glazers didn’t fall in love with the club. They looked at the numbers, saw the revenue, saw the global brand, and thought here’s a machine we can strip for parts. That’s not ownership. That’s asset management with a scarf on.”
“I played for that club when it meant something. You walked through those doors and you felt the weight of it — the history, the people who’d bled for that name before you. Sir Matt Busby built something out of rubble after Munich. The fans carried it through the wilderness years. Alex Ferguson turned it into the biggest club in England, maybe the world”
“None of that was about money. It was about identity. Then the Glazers came in with their leveraged buyout and loaded the club with debt to pay for their own purchase.”
“Think about that. They used the club’s own money to buy the club. Every year since, the profits that should’ve gone into the pitch, into the academy, into keeping the best players, went to servicing that debt and paying dividends.”
“Seventeen years of it. And when the fans finally had enough — when they broke into their own ground to say enough is enough — the Glazers didn’t listen. They just put the club up for sale like it was a house they were tired of. No apology. No accountability. Just a press release.”
“Then along comes Sir Jim Ratcliffe. And I thought, finally, someone with football in his blood. Ineos. A serious operation. A man who’s won trophies in other sports. Surely he’ll understand what this club is.”
“But what did we get? We got the same thing wearing a different badge. Ratcliffe came in talking about efficiency, about cutting costs, about restructuring. He started selling off pieces of the club’s soul — minority stakes, commercial rights, the very things that made United feel like United.”
“He brought in his own people, his own culture, his Ineos way of doing things, as if a football club is a chemical plant that just needs better management. It’s not. It’s a living thing. It’s the fans, the history, the noise on a Saturday afternoon. You can’t spreadsheet that.”
“And here’s the part that really gets me. The Glazers and Ratcliffe are two sides of the same coin. One group bought the club to extract money. The other bought in to run it like a business. Neither group asked the fans what they wanted.”
“Neither group sat in the stands and felt what it’s like when United win. They talk about passion from boardrooms. They talk about the club’s future while making decisions that hollow it out from the inside. The Glazers took the money. Ratcliffe is taking the identity. And the fans are left holding the ticket stub for a club that doesn’t exist anymore.”
“I don’t recognise this team. I don’t recognise this club. They’re chopping and changing and getting rid of everyone in the background which is fine, there’s a business side to it, we know that. But when we’re discussing Man United these days, it’s more like a business than a football club.”
He’s not wrong. Except that tons of us have been saying the same thing about the incompetence of the ownership and management for over a decade and nothing has changed. Recruitment has been amateurish. You cannot continue to buy second rate players and expect first rate results. The list of terrible decisions by those above the coach is a very long one. Example: they could have signed Caicedo before he went to Brighton, but no…he is one of the players who will hurt United this weekend. Their decision to hire ETH was ridiculous to begin with, let alone their handling of his expensive dismissal etc etc Utterly depressing
🚨 Roy Keane on Manchester United keeping Michael Carrick:
“You’ve just been humiliated by Bournemouth at Old Trafford. You’re near the relegation places, haven’t won in eight league games, and the people running the club decide to carry on as normal.
Carry on with what? What exactly are we protecting?
I keep hearing that Michael Carrick cares deeply about United. Of course he does. He played here, won trophies. Nobody’s questioning that.
But since when did loving Manchester United qualify you to manage Manchester United?
There are 70,000 people at Old Trafford who love the club. Some have watched this rubbish for years. Maybe give one of them the job.
I’ve said from the beginning I didn’t believe Michael was the right man. That’s not personal. But this is Manchester United, not a job you hand somebody because he’s a nice fella.
And the people above him are an even bigger problem.
I’ll tell you what I imagine those meetings are like.
Somebody walks in after Bournemouth and asks, ‘Right, what are we doing about the manager?’
Another fella says, ‘Well, the supporters were still applauding him.’
So what?
They were applauding a former player who gave years to the club. They weren’t celebrating getting battered by Bournemouth.
But I wouldn’t put it past this lot to think, ‘The crowd still likes Michael. Maybe we can get another week out of him.’
That’s the level of leadership we’re dealing with.
And now they’re sending him to Stamford Bridge. Chelsea are better than Bournemouth. They’ll punish you if you turn up like that again.
What bothers me is that the people running United seem to have started negotiating how badly they can afford to lose.
I can almost hear it.
‘Michael, listen. We know Chelsea are a good team. We’re not expecting miracles. Just make sure it isn’t another humiliation.’
And somebody says, ‘If we lose 1-0, at least we can call it an improvement.’
An improvement?
You’re Manchester United!
When I was there, if somebody came into our dressing room suggesting a 1-0 defeat was respectable, he’d have been told to get out.
We lost matches. We got beaten by better teams. But you went into every match believing you could win. That was the minimum.
Now the people making decisions seem to be hoping the next defeat doesn’t make headlines for too long.
That’s not ambition. That’s damage limitation.
Look at the supporters travelling to Stamford Bridge, spending their money, taking time away from their families. They’ll still turn up believing United can win. They’ll sing and demand that the players fight for every ball.
How can the supporters have more belief in Manchester United than the people paid to run it?
And don’t tell me sacking another manager won’t solve everything. Of course it won’t. Recruitment has been poor, leadership has been poor, and too many players have got away with unacceptable performances.
But you don’t keep making the wrong decision because you’ve made wrong decisions before.
If Michael isn’t the right man, make a decision. If you believe he is, explain why. Show some leadership.
Instead they’re hiding behind a man who served the club brilliantly as a player, leaving him to face the cameras while everybody else disappears.
I don’t feel sorry for him. I only feel sorry for the supporters.
Because the frightening thing about United isn’t that they’re losing matches.
It’s that the people in charge are starting to behave as though losing is perfectly normal.”
If this isn’t the final indictment of the entire club then I give up. You have to start with completely new ownership and change right across the board. This has been the story on repeat since David Gill left and the Glazers hired the utterly incompetent Woodward. Downhill ever since. btw incredibly childish to leave Bruno on the bench for the entire game.
The current mentality in the organization is not a winning one. It’s actually suicidal.
#ManUtd
🚨I don’t think people realise just how much DAMAGE INEOS have done to Manchester United in less than THREE YEARS.
We were promised a new era. Proper football people making proper football decisions. A clear vision, a long-term project and an end to the absolute MESS we’ve been living through for years.
Instead, somehow, they’ve managed to make things EVEN WORSE.
Just LOOK at what they’ve done:
• Explored replacing Ten Hag, kept him, then sacked him three months after spending around £200m
• Dan Ashworth left after five months, reportedly over the Amorim appointment
• Backed Amorim after a 15th place finish, then sacked him after a reported breakdown with the hierarchy
• Ratcliffe said Amorim needed three years in October, and he was gone by January
• Matt Hargreaves leads transfer negotiations, with a background in sports marketing
• Called Carrick an interim, then gave him the job, reportedly against Vivell's advice
• Went into a Champions League season without a left-back or proper squad depth, and now we're talking replacements in October
• A new manager would be the fourth permanent boss under INEOS in under three years
• Wilcox could still have a say in the next appointment, reportedly wanting Eddie Howe
• Ratcliffe called out constant managerial changes in 2024, then repeated the same cycle
• Sold McTominay and signed Ugarte, despite reports Ten Hag wanted to keep him
• Made hundreds of staff redundant while spending millions reversing their own decisions
• Ended Sir Alex Ferguson's £2m-a-year global ambassador role
• Raised members' tickets to £66, removing concessions for children and pensioners
• Moved season-ticket holders out of their seats for more corporate hospitality
• Scrapped free staff lunches, cut bonuses, removed free travel to the FA Cup final, and cancelled the staff Christmas party
Different owners, same story. We deserve better.
David Hunt retweeted
🚨Michael Carrick HAS TO GO tonight. This is absolutely SHOCKING. Jason Wilcox & Omar Berrada need to GO too.
We can’t keep the ball, we offer ZERO attacking threat, and this team is an embarrassment to watch. Whoever decided to sign Santos and Tielemans should be shown the door alongside Carrick.
Bring in Julian Nagelsmann and let him UPSET EVERYONE at this football club. We desperately need someone who won’t tolerate this nonsense.
#MUFC
manutd.com/en/mutv/videos/de… Love Michael. But there is nothing “powerful” about this statement.
I know that he is to a degree limited in what he can say publicly and obviously cannot call out a terrible ownership, but this is nothing more than the usual regurgitation of the tsunami of excuses the club has been operating under for the past 12-13 years.
He can start by admitting that the team hasn’t even been performing basic tasks, have not shown enough intensity or urgency. They are not putting in the “hard yards” and are running way less than each opponent. It’s simple. The team looks disjointed, unfit. It’s actually amateurish the way the team and the club are performing at the moment. So…after the inevitable defeat by Bournemouth, what then? How about buying everyone at Brighton? That club is run so much better in every department, that it should be a cause for massive embarrassment at ManUtd. Wake up. #ManUtd @MrTomMcDermott @henrywinter @UtdForever7 @DieHardUtdFans @ManUtd @manutdirishreds
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People saying it’s Manchester United’s worst defeat in the Champions League since the 4-0 loss at Camp Nou in 1994. I was there for that and knew something was up when I saw Peter Schmeichel having a coffee in the press room an hour before kick-off. The 4-0 was bad but there were excuses, the 3+2 rule, Schmeichel sacrificed, and the quality of Barcelona – Romario, Stoichkov, Koeman, Guardiola.
United's 4-1 loss to Como is worse. No excuses. No energy. Just a terrible performance, bordering on the spineless, summing up all the lack of leadership and responsibility-taking at the club. So much wrong about the club, from the Glazers with their debt, to the board and naïve recruitment. The team crying out for full-backs and a back-up striker and splurging money on midfielders, including a reserve from Chelsea and a player in Tielemans whose best years are behind him, who needs legs around him and whose main attraction was arguably his release clause.
The dysfunctional, divided nature of the United family absolutely summed up by Bruno Fernandes during and after the game. A captain who failed to raise his own game or rally his players. A supposed leader who has now questioned his manager’s tactics.
Michael Carrick's tactics and changes can certainly be questioned. He may eventually pay the price for the shambles in Como. It's cheaper than shipping out the under-performing players. But Carrick is not the real problem. He doubtless sees players who lack his passion for the shirt. He could be forgiven for looking at Wilcox and Berrada and thinking how badly he was let down in the summer transfer window.
And he's on the brink. Manchester United may be ousting the one individual who cares most about the team and the club. Which sums up the total mess they are in. #MUFC
Limoges Residents Grieve City Hall Damage After Protests in France nytimes.com/video/world/euro… via @NYTimes 😢😡
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🚨🎙️ Gary Neville on Manchester United’s 1–1 Draw Against Leeds United:
🗣️"Absolute garbage. Honestly, I am sitting here looking at this, and it actually makes me feel physically sick to my stomach. We are talking about Manchester United, for goodness sake! And now what? We’ve got people actually sitting on television, looking at a 1–1 draw away at Elland Road against Leeds, and trying to spin it as a 'fair result' or a decent point? Are you genuinely having a laugh with me?!
Just look at how low the standards have sunk at this football club. How low has it actually gone? It is lower than the dungeon! We are sitting here staring at a pathetic return of just 7 points from 7 games! Seven points out of twenty-one! That is relegation form, let’s call a spade a spade. That is completely and utterly unacceptable for a club of this magnitude.
You look at the performances, you look at the lack of spine, the lack of identity, the lack of basic urgency—it’s an absolute shambles from top to bottom. People are walking around that pitch like they don't even understand the weight of the shirt they are wearing. Fans are accepting a point at Leeds like it’s a trophy because expectations have been dragged right down into the mud. It’s an embarrassment, it’s painful to watch, and until everyone at that club wakes up and realizes the absolute mess they are in, this football club is going to keep rotting from the inside out. Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable."
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🚨 Roy Keane doesn’t hold back:
“I listened to Carrick after the match. Fresh start. Purpose. Good run coming. Brilliant. What about bloody winning a football match?
Seven games, one win.
That’s Manchester United we’re talking about.
And we’re supposed to sit there and be encouraged because the manager thinks he saw some positives? I must have watched a different game.
People will say I’m being harsh on Michael. I said it when they gave him the job: I didn’t think he was the right man.
I said it when he was winning games, so I’m certainly not changing my mind now because he’s drawn with Leeds.
Being a decent fella and having played for the club doesn’t qualify you to manage Manchester United. That’s not how it works.
You look at the team. Bruno’s here, Cunha’s there, Mbeumo’s up front. Players being shifted about, and for what?
What’s the idea? I don’t mind a manager trying something, but when it’s clearly not working, do your job. Change it.
You can’t stand there for 75 minutes watching the same rubbish and then come out talking about a fresh start.
And don’t get me started on the players. They’ll be disappointed, apparently. They’ll be hurting.
Good. They should be. You’d swear running back, winning tackles and making a simple pass were special achievements now.
They’re the basics. You’re being paid to do them.
Someone said to me, ‘At least United didn’t lose.’ Jesus Christ. Is that what the club has become?
Do United get a point for turning up as well? Leeds get a draw against Manchester United and we’re talking as if United survived some great European side.
Then you look across Manchester. City have won seven out of seven. Arsenal are competing.
Brighton are selling their best players every summer and still playing better football than United. Brighton! And fair play to them, they’ve got people who know what they’re doing.
That’s the embarrassing part. It isn’t luck. They’ve got a plan.
At United, every six months it’s a new manager, a new system, a new explanation.
The same people upstairs tell you they’ve learned lessons, and six months later we’re having the same bloody conversation.
Who’s holding them accountable? They appointed Carrick. They built this squad. They can’t keep hiding behind whoever’s sitting in the dugout.
And I know what people will say. ‘Roy, you’re always negative.’ Negative? One win in seven!
What would you like me to do, congratulate them?
The supporters are spending their money, travelling around the country, watching their rivals fight for titles, and they’re being asked to applaud a draw at Leeds because the manager saw a bit of spirit.
I want United to win. I want Carrick to prove me wrong. But he has to earn that. I won’t sit here and lower the standards just because I played with him.
If you’re not good enough, you’re not good enough.
And if the people running Manchester United think this is acceptable, then they’re an even bigger problem than the manager.”
#ManUtd Graeme Le Saux blabbing on about Fernandes while Ampadu is running around clogging people all over the place with no booking…come on Darren England
This ref is a f-ing joke. Utterly ludicrous. It wasn’t even a foul!! He and VAR have a clear bias against English teams, and what he has been calling against United is so bad, it looks like he has been bribed. Absolutely scandalous. #ManUtd
#ManUtd watching this Man City Liverpool game, once again highlights how far behind United are in terms of their talent and squad depth. The uncomfortable truth is that there are only 2 or possibly 3 players that would make either squad.
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🚨Gary Neville on Luke Shaw and Manchester United’s first-half performance against Tottenham Hotspur:
🗣️ Gary Neville:
“First of all, Michael Carrick has got a hell of a lot of explaining to do. He kept players behind during the international break to work with them, prepare them and get his ideas across. And this is what we get?
From the first whistle, Tottenham were aggressive and ready to attack. Within the opening minute, they were already carving Manchester United open. They pressed, moved the ball quickly and exposed spaces that should never have been available.
United looked as though they’d only met each other five minutes before kick-off.
I’ve watched Manchester United for 35 years, and this first half is right up there with the worst I’ve seen. No control, no structure, no urgency and absolutely no evidence of a team that understands what it’s trying to do.
And then we have Luke Shaw.
Honestly, it’s painful watching him struggle like this in a Manchester United shirt. Tyrique George gave him a torrid time against Chelsea, and today he’s struggling to cope with Mohammed Kudus. Every time Tottenham attack that side, you feel something dangerous could happen.
Shaw is experienced, but experience means very little if you’re consistently being beaten one-on-one and leaving your teammates exposed.
If Sir Alex Ferguson is sitting in that stand watching this, I can only imagine what he’s thinking. This club was built on intensity, aggression and fighting for every ball. Yet United can’t string passes together while Tottenham look comfortable taking the game to them.
Where is the game plan? Where is the midfield protection?
Tottenham are pressing United into mistakes, and United cannot find a way out. The midfield looks leggy, the passing is poor, and nobody seems capable of taking control.
This is where Carrick needs to make serious decisions. If Carlos Baleba can bring more energy, strength and ball-carrying ability into that midfield, then Carrick needs to consider how to get the balance right. You cannot keep watching the same problems unfold and expect a different result.
And then you have Matheus Cunha gesturing towards the supporters, seemingly telling them not to boo the team.
I understand that players don’t want to hear their own fans booing them. But what exactly are the supporters supposed to applaud? They’ve paid their money and watched their team look completely outmatched.
The fans aren’t demanding perfection every week. They’re demanding effort, organisation, commitment and a team that understands the badge it is wearing.
You can lose football matches, but when you look this disorganised, lose individual battles and your opponents appear to want it more, the criticism is inevitable.
I don’t want to hear that these players need more time without seeing signs of improvement. Time is important, but there must be a clear direction. What exactly are we building here? Because in this first half, I haven’t seen an identity.
Carrick has to take responsibility, but the players cannot hide behind the manager. If you’re wearing that Manchester United shirt, you have a responsibility to compete. If you can’t handle the pressure of playing for this club, we have to ask serious questions.
Cunha can tell the supporters not to boo, but the best response is to give them something worth cheering.
Are the supporters supposed to pretend this is acceptable? Because if this is the standard Manchester United are setting for themselves, we’ve got a much bigger problem than one bad first half!”
