Wandy

This is what you get when you make ticketing more accessible to any Tom, Dick or Harry, to the detriment of the hardcore of the fanbase. Expect to see more of these dickheads at matches as the club progresses. Just another reason to give the hierachy stick over the ticketing shambles.

He absolutely should not be going away for international duty. We should be telling Southgate to fuck right off.

Bournemouth really ballsed up when they got rid of O’Neil, he’s an excellent young manager.

Must admit I would have loved to have been at Anfield for that cup game but it was just before my time. Interesting that we sang YNWA occasionally back then. The only time I ever experienced it was on the last day of the 88/89 season at Old Trafford, when we had already been relegated. The whole day was just a singalong for us and we took immense glee in winding up the Man U fans by singing it constantly.

Yep, this is why it’s so frustrating for those of us who have witnessed what it used to be like. I was at two of the games on that vid, Spurs away in the cup in 87 and Everton away in 88. The noise was like that throughout the entire 90 mins. I’m not saying match atmospheres can get back to that level but surely there can be something that at least gets reasonably close. But the club have to help make it happen too.

It’s been commented on quite a lot how these days we sing ridiculously fast. I don’t remember us being like this back in the day and I was wondering if it was just my memory that was tricking me. Well, this video confirms that it wasn’t, and we did used to sing songs at a pace where people could actually understand what was being sung.

They absolutely are our rivals now, especially when we play them. The City version is superb and Man U should have it thrown at them by every team they play, as payback for the mocking their support dished out at various stadiums for 20 years. Payback time.

Dear me, that’s fucking shite.

Jesus, we have some doylems in our ranks mind. It’s not difficult to work out what the proper words are.

Surely you misheard that? It’s “Glazers staying 10 more years”….

It's happening mainly because the ticketing has been handled shambolically this season. A system has been created whereby people who were nowhere to be seen two years ago are now getting tickets ahead of those who have been going for years through all of the hard times. I have some sympathy for the hierarchy at the moment. The club has become an absolute monster again, like the 90s on speed, and it must be bewildering for them trying to keep up with the progress. But this cannot continue, & by the start of next season this has to be sorted. A proper loyalty system need to be in place for away matches so that dedicated away fans get priority over johnny-come-latelys who go for a day on the piss. And the ballot for home games needs binning off, with the queue brought back together with freedom of seat selection.

Dortmund don't have safe standing like the UK though, do they? It's literally just traditional terracing.

Just reading the comments on NUSC twitter and seems like there was real chaos in the terraced away end. Some of our younger folk getting a taster of football in the 1980s. Except without the great atmosphere in this instance.

All to play for still. Bring it on. A draw at PSG and beat Milan and we have a great chance.

Probably watched the match through their phone camera as well.

We have morphed into a generic fanbase. Sing when you’re winning and mute when you’re not. Add in that we’ve got one of the most limited and plagiarised songbook and you have a pretty grim conclusion.

True, but it’s the only way of communicating directly with the club right now.

I really think as many people as possible have to go to this NUST AGM coming up soon, with the club’s fan liaison person there. They need to be under no illusions about how pissed off people are with the ticketing situation.

Post some links?

And our owners, by default. And therefore at us too for welcoming them. Fuck em.

I know what you mean by that. The people in our away end were not animated in the slightest. Clear as day that the away end was full of people who have probably barely been to an away game in their life. Pretty fucking infuriating tbh.

It’s got to be sorted out, no two ways about it.

Yeah I thought their support was mundane at best. Even the noise they made had an emptiness to it, totally out of sync with the rhythm of the game. They can suck my balls with their moralising demonstration over money too. They’ve been challenging in the top two of their domestic league whilst also playing CL football consecutively for years. If their club had been ran like ours has for decades then they’d likely be receptive to oil money too, the patronising cunts.

All this talk of hoping to finish 4th, if we can’t get out of this group, needs to be put to bed. You never, ever turn down the chance to keep playing in Europe if given the opportunity. Bollocks to the risk of injury & fatigue, the experience will be invaluable.