It’s that day of the week when Manchester United fans don’t have a lot to do. Given that we’re in the Champions League, and have been every single season since 1994, our midweek football is out of the way by Wednesday at the latest.
So, with not much else to talk about, we’ll cast an eye over football played in the lesser European competition, the Europa League.
After losing their last two league games on the bounce, Manchester City were hoping for a change of fortune against Lech Poznań. The Polish side are currently 14th out of 16 in the poor Polish league, having lost half the games they’ve played this season.
Roberto Mancini (who is currently two points worse off than Mark Hughes was this time last season, 7 matches before the club sacked him) decided to play a weaker side away in Europe, although, you would have to argue every player on City’s team was better than every player for their opponents. On paper.
Shay Given (£5.9m), Micah Richards, Wayne Bridge (£10m), Pablo Zabaleta (£6.45m), Joleon Lescott (£24m), Dedryck Boyata, James Milner (£26 million), Shaun Wright-Phillips (£8.5m), Adam Johnson (£6m), Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Adebayor (£25m) were in the starting team, with Vincent Kompany (£6m) and David Silva (£25m) coming off the bench, at a total cost of £143m.
Still, that didn’t stop them from slumping to a 3-1 defeat.
With a difficult trip to West Brom to come this week, you have to wonder what shape they will be in by derby day…
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Hope they dont lose to West Brom as we would inevitably lose the derby. Whats the chances of them losing 5 in a row????
wonder what Fergie will do for Wolves
surely he has to play best 11, then take off Scholes, Berba etc when and if we are 2 nil up
the dippers losing as well
embarassing
Worth mentioning is also fact that Poznan fired their coach yesterday.
massive club.
blue moon is rising lol
@ piru
Worth mentioning is also fact, that new Lech Poznan’s coach is Jose Maria Bakero, who was good player, but is shitty manager. He was manager of Polonia Warszawa and was sacked after 5 or 6 matches
Fucking Shitty City got hammered 3-1 tonight…..Mancini you’ve been found out….hahahahahah cunts.!!
Classic,pure humour.
I was not sure what to watch tonight for the biggest laugh, I thought will I watch something on comedy gold, like only fools and horse’s.
I decided no there all historical.
Havent laughed so much watching how far the mighty Liverpool have fallen.
Pure comedy gold.
Cmon Napoli lets knock the wind out of those donkeys.
@ PHZ
Well, he wasn’t that bad I Polonia Warsaw. From nothing he made a pretty decent team. If there’s someone to blame, it’s Polonia’s president.
‘sayyid’ incorrect – we would pummel them and give sh-tty a 5th loss on the trot. there poor form is of no concern to the way united goes into that match. we’re improving every week…hopefully we will have a full squad to choose from
if the dippers lose today that would make entertainment for today absolutely complete LMAO
@ piru
bakero had loads of money (as for Poland) for new players and blew it.
But it doesn’t matter – tonight Bakero is my hero. I was laughing seeing Mancini’s face
@sayyid
Mate, they really can lose 5 in a row
Very funny, but hate to say gonna be routing for the scousers come the weekend, or even better all the rats spontaneously combust, injusring several chelsea players irreparably!
Don’t crow yet, lets get the bitters stuffed in the Derby first.
There was one season we didn’t play Ch.League football. But we’ve participated in the tournament non stop since 1996…
Other than that, KRAC: Keep Roberto at City.
And KRAP: Keep Roy at Pool.
It’s not even sad, just very, very funny.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Drilling for oil, plumbing new depths, yet I’m not amazed that they never cease to amaze me.
Surely, in their desperate hunt for some silverware, they should be going for everything.
The gods are favoring United in every which way since Wayne Who?neey showed his true colours. I BELIEVE… I BELIEVE…. this is our Invincible Season…. get behind the team …. we will do an unbeaten Quadruple this year defying all expectations. What a great feeling it would be to do that and sell the Scouse come this summer.
in the 1995 season United did not participate in the Champions League – they “only” made it to the UEFA-cup where they got beaten by Rotor Volgograd (Schmeichel scored at Old Trafford).
@Costas, it’s not KRAP, it’s KWAP = Keep Woy at Pool haha
Ngog on fire again as per.Firing blanks ooot his arse.
And they say this boy will come good.Cum…. hmmmm.
When is this erection of coming good gonna happen.
Its fucking priceless.
And that nameless cunt on the pitch, blasting over from 10 yards.
Makes my fucking evening.
kimblim says:
in the 1995 season United did not participate in the Champions League – they “only” made it to the UEFA-cup where they got beaten by Rotor Volgograd (Schmeichel scored at Old Trafford).
Yes that was the year both Milan clubs, Barcelona et al where in it too.
A dangerous thing to do, writing we City off. I’d wait till we beat them, then give the cunts dogs abuse.
the problem with city is that after all the money the spent they still look like a team in the same class as spurs if not worse.i can only think the person responsible for all the players bought is gary cook mind you no manager in the world would spend money on 7 strikers when they only use 1 in their formation or spend 25 million on a player like lescott.infact look at their team now they real dont have class players like modric,vdv or bale, all they have is is one of the most unprofessional captains ever who suprisesingly cost more than zidane and only had 22 goals to show for it.
Obviously not gonna judge on one game but seen half a dozen and seriously hope hamsik isn’t getting scouted. Just my opinion but does nothing whatsoever for me. Just another ridiculously heavily tatooed lad with a silly fuicking hairstyle and no better than what we have. Wish pleat the boring cunt would stop banging on bout stevie me. The cunts form has been poor for bordering on season and half now. No passion with him anymore. A shadow of the player he was. Have ya heard em chanting attack attack? Yeah right who with n gog. A big fat joke. That’s another fucker some were crying out for. Meireles. Shite. Appreciate what we have with perhaps a midfielder in summer.
I still think they show 100% of their performance when they play us (just like any other team does). It’s like they’re possessed by quality players for 90 minutes and then they come back to the real form (the shitty form).
FFs the Starfish strikes again.
He aimed to fucking hurt the Napoli, goalkeeper.
Wobbery wobbery I say.
Cmon Napoli.
oh what a night!!!!!!!!!!
city never fail to provide me at least one deep belly laugh per week at their expense. tonight’s was priceless
Oh god. Me and my big mouth. See the cunt with his finger to his lip. Horriblle bastard. You would think he had won the league. As for pleat and turncoat steve bower saying he just never gives up. Well he fucking did against the rentboys.
Hey lads, I’m from Poland, warsaw, so let me clarify one thing. Bakero is good coach, he was fired after 4 wins 1 drwa and one lose. Everyone knew he will be, as soon as he will lose first game, couse owner of polonia made up his mind that he whant his friend Janas at charge of his club. Things that are common in poland, you just couldnt believe.
Let’s hope we can grab 3 points with wolves, they playing well lately, and lets hope Liverpool will have some pride left to play they best at anfield with Chelsea, still have in mind that disgrace they put up last seasen, with gerrard passing ball strait to drogba.
Exactly King Eric, I fucking hate the cunt with a passion.
did you hear that Nob head of a commentator, say you know he is gonna shoot when he pulls his socks. Valuable commentary, informative.
I ask that self same knob head, what does he do when he drops his crusty boxers.
ohhhhhh yes I remember, ask some Jail bait, scouser tart!
To be honest I cannot think of a duller cup competition than the Europa league. FFS I have not even heard of more than half the teams taking place and I have been around for a while! Perfect mind you for the likes of shitty and the dippers but I do not even bother looking at the scores
My nite just destroyed.
Cunting cunt, fucking cunt.Stupid fucking cunt.
ohhh now you hear the scousers sing. Been as quiet as fuck at Analfield all night.
Fuck of you glory boy hunters.
Its the fucking shitey Europa league.
i put my money on you wont even be in that crap comeptition next season.
Enjoy you history, thats exactly what you are.
United for ever, good night goodbye and over and out, 10/10 and all that shit.
who is the hot looking woman sitting next to the liverpool owner??
Red Scot
On the bright side mate this is a blessing in disguise, at least they should be fired up for the rent boys now….. one can only wish right?
Ahaha Shupa Schteve….cunt
this is how it feels to be city……pathetic….
Well as the matter of fact Lech Poznan is one of the best sides in Poland. They have pretty shitty season so far but there were champions 2 seasons ago. Happy to see them up their game to dismantle “The Project” LOL. ;D
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Channel 5 commentators have no shame. The support commentator was one shameless cunt, claiming every foul by a Napoli player to be a sending off. Starfish with the finger on his mouth towards the Napoli travelling band, what a dickhead. Just watch him assist Drogba this weekend. Classless. They will always be classless.
Was that really Steve Bower on commentary? Can’t say I blame him though. He doesn’t work for MUTV anymore and he has to be fair…
@Mark Moore
Lol, touche. Woy is safe for now.
@Moscow is my heaven
Should we expect another “cracking” atmosphere from the Anfield faithful on Sunday? Like the one we heard when Stevie Me gift wrapped Chelsea the title?
A tad harsh on Steve Bower KE, he has to commentate somewhere. The only thing I never understood, he had a dream job, working on mutv and a United fan as well, he decided to leave.
why is steven gerard’s nickname stevie me
LOL @ Costas re the atmosphere
@willierednut
Yeah, next to Paddy. What’s better than that, lol? I used to like him at MUTV actually.
do we start calling rooney wazza me now??
@CedarsDevil
The same thing happened today. Only this time it wasn’t a case of Livepool fans mistaking their stadium with a library, as much as it was a case of the Napoli fans being very loud…
Its amazing a fortnight ago we were being told the balance of power in Manchester was shifting, eh? Since the Rooney rubbish our team hasn’t looked more united and City’s hasn’t looked any less. One bad result and it all starts to fall apart just as I thought it would. The massives dont look like they could buy a win even with all the petrodollars in Arabia…
Costas
The final nail in the coffin for them as a football club. Chelsea may have won the title at Anfield that day, but Liverpool lost something bigger… LMAO at your atmosphere comment!!
Thursday nights are just boring period – mind you watching chuck is good so it’s not that much of a failure
Over and out wonderful reds – Wolves here we come…
please, come on, i know its a really dumb question, but can comeone please tell me why man utd fans call gerrard stevie me
@bryanrobson’s my hero
Puts his transfer in, transfer out. In, out, in out shakes it all about. With Stevie its all about Stevie. Me, me, me, me, ME!
The power never was shifting, but also premature to write them off at this time. I always said their weakness could be the manager, I’d expect a change in the summer, especially if they get fourth place.
@ Costas
Thanks for that update. Mind you I did have the game on tele but I never even bothered switching to it, I was enjoying a good movie instead. Now I get the comments about stevie holding his finger to his mouth towards the away fans LOL. Given the circumstances I guess it will be the same when chelsea are in town at the week end, I am sure stevie and co will ‘do’ their best to get a result
@bryanrobson’s my hereo
Sorry. Yeah that’s pretty much it. His ego is bigger than Benithez’s weight…
thanks- United4eva.
in scouseland there are no shortage of immense tossers. so for him to stand out as a prize tosser…
@CedarsDevil
I didn’t catch the entire game either. But Napoli fans were very vocal. Shame their team fell apart in the end. I don’t know what I can expect from them this Sunday. Given our next two away games, it would be nice if Liverpool made themselves useful and stopped Chelsea in their tracks.
@Moscow is my heaven
And who can forget the “Gary Neville or Chelsea” banner. Didn’t exactly hide their preference…
Before I go what the fuck was FSW on about the other day talking about milk?
I thought Mourinho was weird once upon a time – but Agent B is taking the fucking piss…
@willirednut
If we beat City next Wednesday Mancini is gone. To the world that would show that all this talk about blue moon rising was a lot of b.s. and a red dawn is on the horizon and I don’t think the Sheikh’s could take the embarassment.
@ MG
How are you mate? regarding the FSW, actually it was Sir Alex who drove him absolutely mental, the guy is beyond repair and should be institutionalised
I cant get on the Bluemoonrising site anybody else getting in I know they shut it down sometimes after a bad result,maybe that’s it.
I have been thinking about Mankini and what it would take for the Arabs to fire him. I think their main goal is a top 4 finish and as long as he is there(and given Spurs and Pool’s woes, they have a good chance of finishing 4th), his job is safe.
However, if they do end up firing him, I hope that they announce it just before a game and then have his successor watch from the sidelines…
@ Costas
Good points, going to WBA will not be easy for them, as for mankini (Love the name btw) I would rather he is fired after we beat them…. As for forth, seems a tough ask, I think Spurs will pip them to it again, well at least I hope so
I wonder what the odds are on their next manager being in the same boat as Mankini this time next year…
Regarding that other tosser Benitez, I think you might be spot on about SAF driving him mental, he reminds me of Herbert Lom as Clouseau’s boss in the Pink Panther.
We need to win our game this weekend, then hope West Brom to win against city this weekend,
we need liverpool to win against chelsea and newcastle to surprise arsenal.
But we must win ours first. If all goes as planned we cover a lot of ground quickly.
Then hopefully Fletcher and Nani will be back for the midweek game,we must win .
Ok magazine in thier interview with Colleen and her eecentric husband mentioned his new 110k a week salary.Interesting.
few facts: Manutd follow strict financial rules,the key to our success ,from the on field success.
We have paid very few players in the 100k range. beckham,rio,ronaldo,ruud as examples
we do not go beyond 50% of revenue on salaries.usually keep the figure at 40 to 45%.
last accounts say its 46%.
The best United would have offered rooney is 100 to maybe 180 k. 100k from united revenue and the rest from sponsorship revenue. The news reports of 250k is rubbish. Gary earns bout 50 k a week , and O’Shea wud probaly get in that region or maybe 60k. Lots of the media reports r crap.United would not danger thier financial structure for anyone.No one is bigger than the club. They will also look at the overall future when they do this. If the four pillars like VDS ,Gary,Scholes,Ryan retire there will be at least 200k a week saved in salaries.Reinvested back into other players.
Now I have said few times in here this season will decide many careers at United.Carrick is back on track,Nani is on fire, Gabriel is starting to shine, looking good,still feel only few new signings will happen,andmabe young players too.
Feeling good,Hoping the week will smooth out as we desire.
mmmmmmmmmm
looks like somebody’s gonna get the sack soon…
Chief Inspector Dreyfus!
I hope to always think of him when I see fsw.
Smokin’ xol!
im happy for jagillenio bazzilak they are really doing well..
Thursday night …. chanel 5…. Thursday night ….channel 5
One of my favourite chants from last seasons dippers game.
Form goes flying out of the window on derby days though. We have to just keep focus and be alert. I quite liked out performance against spurs, it’s the sort which we need against the better sides. It’s remarkable, our unbeaten run, though it seems nicer to hear on the back of victories instead of a string of draws!
I love this team to bits and whatever some may say Im hoping Mr Ambition gets sold. I can’t see him in our team- it’s disgusting. I’m sounding like a broken tape record, but I’m utterly disgusted thinking that a disrepectful idiot would pull on our shirt again. Life without Mr Ambition isn’t going too bad is it? I’m personally delighted with Nani. More like ecstatic. The boy’s had a total change and deserves a big pat on the back.
Here’s betting that Stevie me would do another backpass for drogba to score. Brilliant.
@ sayyid :Hope they dont lose to West Brom as we would inevitably lose the derby. ………
Do you think we are inferior to City? We are United, we can mix it with the best and the poor and I for one expects to win each match no matter who is making our starting 11 or who we are playing against. For you to think that coz City wont want t lose to us and if they get a bad result then we are in a fix is selling us short.
If we lose, God forbid, you will be among the fans slating the team. Search yourself man and know how big your club is and it doesnt matter who we face and in what form they are in.
Well, with no footy on there’s always the comedy channel (5). Citeh, comedy gold.
As shitty continue to be.. the only thing that can keep mancini happy is tevez…. and vice versa ..
or maybe the arab sheikh can drop in for a 3some LOL XD
@KingOfStretfordEnd
Good point about the form. I can remember quite a few times where City were being well…Shity and were going on losing runs, only for them to pick up their game against us. It’s still their cup final…
Brilliant, im gonna give a certain someone a lot of stick today at work.
£143 million!!! What a joke.
That team placed 4th in the Polish league, Legia Warsaw – now there’s a blast from the past. I remember listening to BBC Radio 5 after school back in 1991 as Fergie outfoxed them in the Cup Winners Cup semi final first leg over in Poland and put the tie to bed. They were good days.
Don’t know if it’s already been mentioned but there’s a slight error there Scott. We didn’t qualify for the Champion’s League in 95 – 96. After surrendering the title to Blackburn on the final day of the season we went on to be knocked out of the UEFA cup on the away goals rule despite a cracking injury time strike from Peter Schmeichel to maintain our longstanding European unbeaten record at Old trafford at the time.
I agree with willierednut, we shouldn’t gloat just yet, I’ve a feeling they’ll turn up for the derby and wouldn’t be surprised if they beat us. I hope not of course, but I’ll reserve my gloating for when we have beaten them in the league twice.
What about their other sub last night? Left back, Kolarov or some such, 19.5 Million. Team Bridge!
Thursday night is comedy night.
Have you heard what Man-kini has been saying after their great result…..
“Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has called on his side to remain united after slumping to a third straight loss with defeat by Lech Poznan.”
Fuck off, we’re United, get your own name!
North Stand, Tier 3, Back Row; I was thinking the same myself when I saw them at fourth. They wore these green kits with a white square infront of the sponser for some reason. The days of Blackmore. Webb and Sharpe!! They were good days indeed!
Almost 80 comments and no “tick tock nonsense? What happened to our noisy neighbours?
I don’t remember United playing Legia, but I remember us playing Widzew Lodz in the qualifying rounds of the Ch.League in 98. On the road to a certain night in Barcelona.
There just a one man team. Without Tevez they just crumble
Money can’t buy you love… or success!
We all know that form goes out the window on derby day. However, that only applies to when you have players that are actually interested in playing for your club! We lost to teams containing Dickov, Goater, Wright Phillips because, crap as those players were, at least they bought into the idea of respresenting City.