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Is there anything on record regards their plans for us, and what happens if those plans change? It seems we have a lot of supporter representatives getting chummy with the face of the ownership, not so many actually asking questions and clarifying their plan here. Should this not be what the Trust are for?

If that Man Utd fan with the Hillsborough shirt doesn’t represent them at all, I imagine he’s getting a fair bit of stick and being told to fuck off by those around him?

“Not long after, Mike Ashley bought the club, quickly becoming despised by just about everyone, which engendered sympathy and empathy: at some point, fans of every team have hated their owners. The Ashley era became a cause celebre, a 15-year slog to get the noble club of Milburn and Macdonald and Shearer away from the clutches of the Sports Direct magnate and his giant mugs.“ This is like something you turn a blind eye to when it’s submitted by a Year 8 child

Leaving aside the awful writing, it’s just simply untrue that people liked us or felt sorry for us when Ashley was the owner.

Reading their forum, I was surprised to see so many of them hate the stadium. Really hope whatever happens we stick with SJP

Sounds like a class day. I used to live in Carlisle and was fairly regular there, though find it almost impossible to keep up with anything outside of results when I’m not in the country (though I did watch both games in the semi). Confident of a win on Sunday?

Who gives a fuck

The worst part is the hypocrisy.

Taylor is from Shields isn’t he? He reminds me so much of the type of canny lads you used to see in the Sundial and Marine on a Sunday night. Podgy fellas, usually a couple of giggling lasses in tow, holding court with a sort of chippy, olde timey vernacular and outlook. For some reason carried themselves as way older than they were. Nice people, but not natural broadcasters. The type of person that would hold up a phone to show you something amusing while you sat with a rigid grin hoping it would all be over quickly. The way he embraces whatever lame meme is doing the rounds- Cans, Mad Dog- is fully on brand for this type of figure. It’s all harmless but it’s also shallow and cast iron insight free. I mean, is it just me that finds it a bit weird that as the host of our most prominent podcast, he doesn’t appear to attend our games? There was one game- Man City, maybe?- that he didn’t even watch on TV. He had better things to do I suppose, and good for him, but if he is not a trained host and is not particularly invested in the club, then why does he have such a plum gig in the first place? After we beat them 6-1, I listened to the Spurs podcast. Danny Kelly is not Dick Cavett but the increase in professionalism and quality offered by having an actual broadcaster was noticeable. He knew when to bring people in, he knew what angles to explore, he knew how to keep the show going. These things look easy, which is why every human in the world now hosts a podcast or has a YouTube channel, but they’re not and the listening experience is greatly improved by having somebody who is trained to do them. Caulkin is just not funny. It is not a crime to not be funny, unless one attempts to be- and he does, with punishing regularity.

Anybody who wanted away tickets could have had them too, they all went on general sale

Agree completely. Please fuck off with your patronising social media shit, I don’t like you.

On the topic of a speculated new shirt sponsorship deal

Pretty sure he does have a go at both of them, yeah. pointless getting annoyed about this. It’s the deal we have made.

Did the full story ever come out? What actually happened?

Nah, you’re spot on mate. I keep making this point about 2009- the entire country was chuffed

What did it say underneath the flag in the East stand?

Can we stop with this ‘United’ shit please?

Good lad

For those watching on Bein, it was a beautiful moment when the commentator almost instantly confined the VAR check was done and the goal stood as the celebrations were going on. Little to no delay.

I don’t want to be that guy, but this has been especially noticeable on the Totally Football podcast. Whenever our game gets coverage it tends to centre on the failings of the opposition, and there was some posh public school cunt on the other day (they must have a conveyer belt churning out these people that waste daddy’s money and their privileged education on writing and talking about a game) who made two unprompted digs at Howe, talking about finding it amusing when arsenal cheated their way to a win the other week. Now, the house style of the podcast is to be somewhat sardonic but I am not imagining that we are the only team that gets their journalists explicitly saying that they want us to lose games. Something about Millwall smashing Blackburn’s coaches? Better mention the rest of their fans who are great. Man Utd fans campaigning for a ‘full sale’? Somewhat understandable. Racism, financial cheating, managers screaming into the faces of fourth officials, all of these topics get a measure of balance and nuance. Newcastle’s gamesmanship? Objectively bad. The only time Man City’s ownership is mentioned is either alongside ours, or ours are added to the conversation in a general lament for a game that had been going just fine until October 2021. And besides which they never really delve into the ownership too deeply because only one party in the equation actually takes money from sportswashing and it’s not the fans who are paying to watch games. We do occasionally get Natalie Gedra saying nice things about our Brazilian players, with her lovely voice and face, but there has otherwise been pretty much zero credit to either our manager or any of our players. Entire game weekends, with us winning by three, four or five, go by with barely a mention. Brentford gifted us, Fulham were down to ten and what on earth were Spurs thinking? It’s all good, though. It was a similar story when we went down in 2009- when the nation’s hatred for us felt at times bizarre and at other times rooted in a very specific geographical agenda. So now we know what it’s like to be shit and hated and mint and hated. And I know which one I prefer.

Shocking that wednesday got away with a straight red in extra time too

Does the maths change at all on Saturday if Man Utd lose?

Eh? We didn’t finish in the bottom half did we? sorry- just checked. So we did. Howe out

Yeah but all the PRETTY PASSING last night

Simply divorce your wife.