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Message for Lee Rimmer
Posted by Steve Turner on 3 January 2010 - 6:15pm.
and other Leeds fans - FANTASTIC RESULT!!!!
It is great to see the Manc Prima donnas get stuffed - especially on their own turf.
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Please be careful...
... some people may not want to know the result of a football match.
Why?
Because...
...they want to watch the highlights later without knowing the result.
Aah. I didn't realise people still did that.
it was 1 nil to Leeds
enough already .
Oh, isnt it just.......
Only trouble is, I can no longer truthfully say that I was there last time we won there.
Oh well, I can live with that.
Last out of the bag again in the 4th round draw. How often does that happen? (Twice in a row, I mean, obviously)
a trip to White Hart Lane
Sheev, Hep, nervous yet?
As
a Spurs fan - nervousness is a permanent state and disappointment an old friend. As someone said in another context - it's not the failure that kills you - but the hope.
To illustrate, few teams have been 3-0 up against Man U - at WHL and OT - twice in recent season and contrived to lose on both occasions.
So, yes the visit of another United - The Damned United - will be yet another cause for trepidation. And hope.
enjoy
sheepshagger
tee
and, indeed, hee.
Thanks
You comment has iced my happiness cake. Want some ointment for your sore loser spot?
There was only one winner today - and that was football. Oh, and Leeds.
I did the whole Likely Lads thing
The Under 11's team I manage had a 1:30 kick off in the Surrey Primary cup against opposition 2 leagues above us. I avoided the score and set the Sky+.
As it turned out, the boys played their best football of the season and lost 2-1 to a goal scored in the last couple of minutes. I set off home thinking that if Leeds could perform like that I would be happy.
I would have happily taken a close loss if we'd scored. A spawny win would have been brilliant. But the way Leeds took the game to Man U was just exceptional and has given me another little lift and a hope that we really have turned a corner.
ITV even managed to cover the interesting bits of the game and the only fly in the ointment was Iain Dowie referring to Manchester United as United during the commentary. That and the fact that Sir Alex cannot be sporting enough to do a post match interview.
Bring on the Spurs.
Man U as United.
I had a huge argument with a Man U fan about this. All Man U fans call their team "United" and hate the term "Man U". Apparently. So any other team which suffixes their name with United.. sorry. You can't use it. It is exclusively for the lot from Old Trafford.
Absolutely correct
Man U is an invention of the johnny-come-lately Sky Super Sunday generation who frankly know nowt. To the cognoscenti, there is only one United.
Only one United..
Leeds, by the look of it.
People have been calling
Salford's finest Man U since before Rupert Murdoch stopped being an Australian. They are officially the worst losers in sport*.
*not very gracious winners either.
Rubbish
Man U was used by both fans and non-fans of the Red Filth in the 70s.
But
why are we concerned with what Liverpool fans called United?
I've just watched the highlights
and Sir Ferg gave a very candid post-match interview in which he gave full credit to Leeds for a deserved win.
Apart from
the putting down to Leeds having luck and that Man U played terribly rather than Leeds played well. I thought it was quite good for a Sir Alex interview, in fairness, but still not a glowing example of got beat by the better team on the day. And where did the 5 minutes extra time whinge come from?
Fergusmoan
Have you noticed how he only ever moans about extra time when his lot lose? Strange, huh?
Good luck against Sp*rs in the next round.
It is a common tactic
Ferguson always criticises officals following a bad game as it ensures the focus is on him and not the poor performance of his team.
Bit cynical, but it works.
I agree
I agree; but he was clearly having a rant about the additional time to be played when the cameras were on him at the 90 minute mark and he asked the 4th official what was to be added. Presumably if they'd won with two goals in the very generous 5 minutes of additional time that were played, he wouldn't have mentioned it again?
I thought 5 minutes was generous too
Maybe Sir Alex did as well. Thought it should have been 3 like the rest of us....
Nervousness
and disappointment is also a feature of supporting my team Birmingham City. I recall a home game quite a few years ago now against Swindon when Glenn Hoddle was their player/manager. After an hour Blues were cruising and leading the game 4-1. Glenn Hoddle decided to switch himself to a sweeper role and started splaying 40 yard passes all over the park. In 30 minutes we turned a 4-1 lead into a 6-4 defeat and it remains the finest performance I have ever seen by one player. He beat us on his own (mind you our goalkeeper contrived to help him us much as possible).
Is it me or is Fergie doing his best to imitate a tomato these days?
Sir Alex
is someone I admire for his exceptional talents but I do not respect for his approach to the game. I think its a shame he can't balance his act a little better.
His approach to the game being...
play attractive football, win trophies, present a curmudgeonly public face which amusingly gets up people's noses but is at odds with your private generosity and sensitivity to people both within and outside of the game.
Yep
There are those who can do all that without the curmudgeonly public face. I respect them more.
He's the Van Morrison of soccer!
I met him once
He was indeed a friendly man. However, I feel he often goes too far in his criticism of referees.
Really?
The Leeds fans were chanting Fergie time! Fergie time! as the 90 mins were up.
Whatever his achievements, he's an unpleasant bully when it comes to his treatment of referees and officials.
And how come he's the only manager that doesn't have to give the BBC interviews? All just because their investigative journalists were foolish enough to expose some of his family's 'dealings'. It's petty and pathetic. I'm stopping right here 'for legal reasons'.
I think the no interview thing is funny
he'll talk to paragons of broadcasting virtue like Sky but not the BBC and then he has to send the "Mouth of Sauron" to dissemble to match of the day.
He took the arse following something Alan Green said.
And has refused to have anything to do with the Beeb since. Which seems fair enough to me. Alan Green is a tool of the first and finest water and the sooner someone high up at 5live realises this and kicks him in the direction of his true home at TalkSpurt the better 5live will be.
Fergie, BBC & Green
I thought he banned BBC TV cos of a Panorama investigation that nailed his football agent son, and then BBC Radio cos of something their cricket and West Midlands football correspondent said?
I can't decide about Alan Green. I cannot abide his constant slagging of referees and yet I miss him when he is not commentating on a game I want to listen to. Maybe that says more about many of the other 5Live commentators.
Being a City Fan
I am of course pleased and hope to inflict more misery on them in the Carling Cup
Yep never thought I'd say this
but well done to the donkey sanctuary. Especially as we couldn't even beat scunthorpe yesterday.
again
enjoy it while it lasts
it's United or Man united or even Manchester United
Manchester is RED
Well Done Leeds
I don't care if the victory was against the red noses, Chelski, the Arse etc., it was just good to see one of the 'big boys' humiliated by a team who wanted it more.
I'm not a Leeds supporter, so I'm not gloating, and the red noses aren't really significant in my eyes, but did Ferguson have to whinge about there being only five minutes extra time?
......and, is Wes Brown the worst player they've sent out in recent times.... they may have a "defensive crisis", but the groundsman could do a better job.
Man Utd haven't had a decent central defender
since Bruce and Pallister
Stam? Ferdinand?
Vidic?
They've not done badly, considering...
Unfortunately
It was one of those matches where I'd have liked both teams to have lost.
Fans of other Yorkshire teams will now have Leeds United rammed down their throats by Yorkshire TV (LUFCTV) even more than usual.
No doubt a half an hour special about the phoenix rising FFS.
yep we beat Liverpool & Chelsea
in the cup and that didn't even get a mention in the highlights package in the year end round up of "the glamour and magic" of the FA cup.
Somehow it being 'Leeds United' diminishes the result
This was a Division Three team beating the Division One Champions, away.
Man Utd played close to their strongest available side; Sir Alex didn't shun ITV, he was giving his team a right royal slagging; first time I'd seen Beckford, good prospect indeed, and despite the terrible 1st touch the most incredible recovery to score.
Of course the historic precedent suggests
Leeds will now sell Beckford to Man Utd for peanuts, enter another period of decline and Beckford will be be the catalyst for a Man U renaissance.
Good as Beckford is
I'm not sure he's good enough to get into Man Utd's first team, let alone lead their renaissance.
I'm not sure they need a renaissance anyway.
Grayson is a great manager
articulate, down to earth and has got Leeds playing decent football.
I was impressed to see he's even managed to get Andy Hughes playing reasonably well, Hughes was was certainly one of the worst players I have ever seen in a Reading shirt - so all credit to the lad Grayson.
Fergie did have to get in his usual rant though - apparently the decision to add only 5 minutes of injury time was "an insult to the game and to the players".
I suspect
only 11 felt insulted.
Fergie - A Gift for Comedy
It is always enjoyable for the neutral to see a big boy of the Premiership humiliated. They do not come any more humiliating than the above result. The comedy highlight was the Fergie interview. If his face had been any more maroon it would have set on fire. I think incedescent with anger would cover it. I do not think the Man United dresssing room would have been a nice place to be. Nor the Fergie mansion later that day. What a way to start the year.