Troll Posted Monday at 12:42 Share Posted Monday at 12:42 12 hours ago, SteV said: If Man Utd were to finish 17th, would it be fair to consider this, pound-for-pound, the worst league campaign in a major European league in living memory? Â West Ham in 2003. Â Team contained the likes of David James, Sir Les, Defoe, Di Canio, Joe Cole, Kanoute, Glen Johnson, Carrick, Bowyer. Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingxlnc Posted Monday at 12:51 Share Posted Monday at 12:51 It’s Juve getting relegated in terms of prestige etc even though they didn’t actually have a bad league season  Although AC Milan have had a couple of lower half league finishes particularly the Kluivert season and then in the 2010s.  Deportivo and Valencia are not as decorated as Man U but they’ve had plenty of bad seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted Monday at 12:56 Share Posted Monday at 12:56 10 hours ago, Fatwax said: The vast majority of baiting and wind up posts from Froggy are in response to people tagging him trying to wind him up when they lose or similar.  People can’t have it both ways by winding him up and getting nothing back. It just so happens that he’s much better at winding people up than many on here.   I mean, the Internet is full of cunts, we established that a long time ago. I don’t see why we have the need to drag the whole place down in response. Just let it go. Everyone is pushing 40. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groundhog63 Posted Monday at 13:58 Share Posted Monday at 13:58 Everybody knows all Brexit Jim is doing is streamlining the club. Making it more efficient and a better proposition for when he, and his INEOS, finally buy out the Glazers......er.......oh, hang on.......fuck!!!! Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fountain Posted Monday at 15:35 Share Posted Monday at 15:35 3 hours ago, LaurentRobert said: Schalke's collapse from CL semi-finalists to relegation will take some beating Blackburn, champions in 95, relegation in 98 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Posted Monday at 16:05 Share Posted Monday at 16:05 Just a few shouts Napoli 86, 90 champions and effectively the best team in the world, 89 UEFA cup winners. Serie B by 98. Serie C a few years later. Sampdoria CL final 92, cup winners cup winners 90, finalists 89, semi-finalists 95 - relegated 99. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fountain Posted Monday at 19:09 Share Posted Monday at 19:09 Ipswich promoted 1961 Won the league 1962 Relegated 1964 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Posted Monday at 20:26 Share Posted Monday at 20:26 (edited) 4 hours ago, The Fountain said: Blackburn, champions in 95, relegation in 98 Was a big drop off in the immediate seasons too.  Bombed a Champions League group of Legia Warsaw, Rosenborg and Sptk Moscow and were midtable in the PL 95/96 (previously been 4th, 2nd, 1st) Were in a relegation battle as early as 96/97. Edited Monday at 20:28 by Jonas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted Monday at 20:30 Share Posted Monday at 20:30 Marseilles were champions of Europe when demoted to the second tier on technicalities (well bribery charges) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted Monday at 20:33 Share Posted Monday at 20:33 2 minutes ago, Wolfcastle said: Marseilles were champions of Europe when demoted to the second tier on technicalities (well bribery charges) Â Does that not count as that European cup was taken away from them? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted Monday at 20:38 Share Posted Monday at 20:38 2 minutes ago, El Prontonise said: Â Does that not count as that European cup was taken away from them? I thought it was initialy but at some point it seems to have became canon again - and the stripping never gets mentioned Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteV Posted Monday at 20:50 Share Posted Monday at 20:50 I think the major difference now (due to finances) is that there is generally such a gulf within the top divisions that no established elite club should should really find itself in the bottom half, let alone close to the relegation zone. Â It takes incredible mismanagement to get in that situation. And Man Utd are a fantastic example of that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis H Posted Thursday at 19:01 Share Posted Thursday at 19:01 “Stingy Jim Ratcliffe's desperate cost-cutting measures at Manchester United continue to reach new lows.  Not content with hundreds of redundancies, raising ticket prices and scrutinising every club purchase, from vegetables to sellotape, now he's come, at long last, for the freebies.  Charities linked to the club, who previously received free tickets to home matches, were informed by email yesterday that the Man Utd Foundation would no longer be covering the expense.  Given that charity tickets are rather limited in the first place, it's a particularly Scrooge move, even for Sir Jim.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyCisse Posted Thursday at 19:14 Share Posted Thursday at 19:14 They’re making themselves even more unlikeable and I wasn’t sure how that was possible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted Thursday at 19:40 Share Posted Thursday at 19:40 On 22/04/2025 at 06:33, El Prontonise said:  Does that not count as that European cup was taken away from them?  On 22/04/2025 at 06:38, Wolfcastle said: I thought it was initialy but at some point it seems to have became canon again - and the stripping never gets mentioned The European Cup wasn’t stripped off them at any point - their French title was, though; that was the competition they were caught cheating in Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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