Manchester United vs Leeds United Match Thread

[1964white]

Oh I've never smoked...

Nor me!

[whiteswan]

Yes. Was to be expected even though DCL should really have made it safe.

Didn't he make a fantastic save for a certain scum goal off the line? Has anyone mentioned that

[malcolmw]

I have only just peeled myself off the ceiling!!

What a game. Should've been at least 3--0 at halftime and dead and buried. But oh no, Leeds have to keep it frikkin interesting for the 2nd half.
Okafor - man of the match of course - how can you score twice for us at Old Trafford and not be.

Darlow deserves a very special mention for keeping us in the game a number of times.

The only one who I thought was not at his best was Aaronson. Of course his work rate was huge, but he is just not very productive right now. But still - gave his all. He should be on the bench when Stach is back with Tanaka staying in the starting 11.

I have to mention Cunha - what a piece of work. Huge dive outside the box, then swears at the ref when he gets yellow for it. Then does the same thing when he drills a ball over the bar that missed Darlow's gloves by about a foot. Then does a massive screaming roll and writhe getting Justin a yellow. What a dick.

The hair pull send-off - Hmmm.... a bit soft - yellow maybe, but for me not red. But I'm going to take it as Karma for all the crappy ref decisions that have gone against us this season. (it didn't actually work in our favour, it just galvanized them)

With 6 to go and 6 points clear of the drop, my highly sophisticated mathematical algorithm (involves rolling a pencil down the desk) says we will add 7 to 8 points, Spurs and West Ham will do the same, and Forest will add 9 or 10.

So if we don't bottle it against the bottom 2, we should be fine. I just hope we don't try to "keep it interesting" right to the end.

[malcolmw]

Quiet Ian, he's sh1te, haven't you heard?

Well you could add fuel to the whole damnation of Farke thing by leading people to the stats table that is circulating showing Farke's stats Vs Bielsa for their first 100 games.
Farke wins every one:
games won 57 - 56
games lost 18 - 27
Games drawn 25 - 17
goals for 181 - 161
Goals against 85 - 97
Clean sheets 45 - 40
PPG (Championship) 2.02 - 1.91

I will now sit back and wait for the "Yes, but's.........." to roll in.

[Sean_Nile]

Enjoy the unreality of it. No finer feeling than when the dark horse romps home.

[Sean_Nile]

Ploddyball makes old trafford ours. We owned it.

[Sean_Nile]

Too much Guinness i n Dublin.

[JoeDenver]

Could someone explain the difference between a 5 minute session of passing the ball around while the crowd chanted Ole, and ploddyball tactics.

Too funny. But truth be told there is some nuance to their use. One is used when we’re ahead in matches (pretty rare for us). The other is used when we’re generally even (0-0).

[Sean_Nile]

Too funny. But truth be told there is some nuance to their use. One is used when we’re ahead in matches (pretty rare for us). The other is used when we’re generally even (0-0).

Ploddyball is a neologism designed to infuriate and disparage at the same time. It is unsheathed when Farke plays his favourites. It is weilded when subs are made to late... when attacking subs are made instead of defensive. When one point per game is derided. When the formation is all wrong. When the team is threadbare, and the recruitment team are accused of being a failure, and no singings were made in January

To paraphrase Shakespeare... Ploddyball is dead, long live ploddyball.

It died at Old Trafford to a resounding chorus of Olé. As a barbed dart from the devil it has completely lost its power, made a mockery of when Leeds executed a training ground knockabout. You can't tell me we were not having a laugh.

You accuse us of playing ploddyball, well suck up this exhibition of high class ploddyball that sent the Manure fans ballistic.

It was a poetic statement a moment to be enjoyed as the manchester players ran around like headless chickens.

It was the ultimate humiliation as they rushed around chasing shadows.

[rich_leeds64]

Someone posted a stat on X this morning saying that it’s exactly 1919 games between our wins in the league at OT and our number 19 scored twice.

I haven’t any idea, or time to count if this is correct but if it is it’s quite amazing

[Chilli D]

What's with all this blocking people bollocks? Jeez, we should all be celebrating a massive win and there's people having snide digs and others blocking people.
Really quite sad actually.

[Madron]

He should be complaining about the stupidity of his player. It is a bit soft but those are the rules. You could understand the player doing it if there wasn't VAR in place and you thought you could get away with it but to do it with all the camers is just stupid, even more so given where the offence took place and the non-existent danger of the situation.

My thoughts exactly, red card isn't for the hair pull. Its for being so stupid as to do it

[CUSSIE01]

Behave, who could be bothered.

Always the victim, are you Fernandes in disguise?

It’s sad that after a win at Scumland that some are talking about blocking people

[Finnatic]

Someone posted a stat on X this morning saying that it’s exactly 1919 games between our wins in the league at OT and our number 19 scored twice.

I haven’t any idea, or time to count if this is correct but if it is it’s quite amazing

And we were formed in 1919

[1964white]

Didn't he make a fantastic save for a certain scum goal off the line? Has anyone mentioned that

Many fans don't recognised the defensive work of our defenders let alone the likes of Calvert-Lewin, Aaronson,etc.

[1964white]

It’s sad that after a win at Scumland that some are talking about blocking people

Fans arguing after a famous victory at the theatre of

[hector]

It’s sad that after a win at Scumland that some are talking about blocking people

I tried blocking everyone..........

But as a mod.... The system won't let me!!!!

[WhiteRose]

I’m actually ashamed that Rio Ferdinand ever played for us, as I said last night every player who signs for scum turns in to a c*nt and he’s the number one example

[1964white]

Too much Guinness i n Dublin.

Michael Normanton on the Propaganda episode of The Square Ball will have a field day later this week.

[1964white]

I tried blocking everyone..........

But as a mod.... The system won't let me!!!!

And me

To think, we have to read the majority of the posts.

It doesn't work for us at all my dear Hector!