Soccer - Who do you support?

Ah Rolo my good friend.

Great to see you posting here again even if it is to remind us you still follow Leeds United 😂😂😂

Gerry.

Like myself, Rolo is one of the original members on this site from 2005.

Come on the Villa

Not easy being a Man U fan at the moment 😓😓😓.

Another shocking result tonight.

Going to be interesting to see what develops after tonights disaster.

Loved Jose's interview after the game.

Re Man United.

The moment that Woodward and the Glazers seemed recently to indicate that the commercial success and bottom line profit is more important than success and flair on the football pitch was the moment that has condemned United to this turmoil and dreadful start to the season.

They also refused to back Mourinho in the transfer market.

Mourinho is not blameless either having signed some dodgy players but like any successful enterprise the inspiration and enthusiasm must come from the very top and in United's case it's not there right now.

And all this Pogba/Mourinho disagreement is a smokescreen to what's really happening inside the club.

I believe Pogba as well as other committed players now realise United are a money making commercial business and moving away from the traditions and culture that made the club such a success and a club you wanted to play for following in the footsteps of United legends.

Sure be a profitable financial success but base it on what's being served up on the pitch. Not in boardrooms or stock market movements.



Edited by Biker Pat - 28-August-2018 at 19:02

As a footnote to my above post. I believe soccer in England, as in the Premiership, will die out as a sport eventually.

All the foreign investment in clubs is bad for the sport, especially the fans, as most of these "owners" have no real historical or passionate involvement in the club's.

Immediate success is the goal, spend and spend whilst ignoring the real source of a club, it's youth and academies.

Once the local well runs dry, which it will, because kids will see no future in the football clubs, then soccer as we have known it and loved it will die.

Edited by Biker Pat - 28-August-2018 at 19:24

At my age I've followed soccer for 50 plus years.

Am unashamablely a Man United supporter but anyone who knows me I have always given credit to our opponents.

If I was a kid today with football aspirations looking at the English football scene I couldn't see myself breaking into the top English clubs, so why bother?

Take the George Best story and others like it. When is that ever going to happen again.

Yep, it's all kicking off again Pat.

Meant to say, we never got down to see the Liam Miller tribute match in the end, something else came up meant we didn't look for tickets even. I assume it happened, went well, etc - never heard any more about it ?

Annette dropping small hints about another trip to Old Trafford, we'll see how we're fixed a little later in the year ... have to start saving for Slane! (will he never learn sez my wife )

Lol! Just realised the Liam Miller tribute match hasn't even happened yet, and me wondering who won!!! Scarle' or wha' ! hmmmmm ... Not really !