All they are is a bunch of over-rated, overpaid whinging brats that were manufactured to where they are now by Murdoch and his Sky cronies (think about it-they hadn't won the title in 26 years, suddenly they did in Sky's very first Premiership season, and have done ever since). And the 'fans' aren't much better, they whinge every time they fail to win a game and the excuses come thick and fast-just like Sir Alex Ferguson (who only got his title after a Sun sponsored appeal). And why do more of them seem to go to Selhurst Park? Robbie Earle had to bite his tongue on Football Focus over that one-or he was being rather sarcastic. Since Wimbledon and Palace are in Division 1, a vast chunk of their support have to travel further than Croydon, a short train journey for them.
And isn't it strange that the players pick up more cards in Europe by refs they clearly forgot to bribe?
Beckham gets the sending off he deserved against Argentina and everone says Diego Simeone dived (irony clearly doesn't work on these wastes of human tissue), and when he went off against Necaxa in the World Club Championship, the first thing the BBC commentators said was that there had to be something because the ref was Argentine. BLATANT FOUL is what they should have said. And he dives more often than the U-boat division of the German navy in WWII. As do most of the team. Consistantly. Look at Nicky Butt against West Ham reserves for more recent evidence.
Also, they moan and whinge when the referee doesn't award them a penalty, but when Juninho was recently pole-axed at Old Trafford, it was the first penalty given at The Theatre of Morons in the league for SIX YEARS, the only other one in that space of time was in 1996 when Alessandro Del Piero smacked one in when Champions got in the Champion's League. And won it. Unfortunatly Juni missed it due to being in shock.
The recent bahaviour of their 'fans' has been appalling beyond belief. Firstly, during the minute's silence for the Hillsbrough victims, which was conducted at every ground, Old Trafford was the only exception, with chants of 'We hate Scousers', as well as '96 wasn't enough' clearly heard throughout the ground. Any other club would have the book thrown at them by the FA, a HUGE fine, the fans banned, and a public apology requested (enforced, actually). Not seen a sign of that yet, or ever likely to. It was even cut from the footage shown and hushed up. What if it had been somewhere like Stamford Bridge, Villa Park, Highbury or Elland Road?
On that subject, they are also the only set of supporters to cheerfully gloat over the fate of the 2 Leeds fans in Istanbul. Promtly getting dumped out of the "Champion's" League at home by Real Madrid (barely breaking into a sweat), where they booed Steve McManaman and Nicholas Anelka by the way, seemed to be the only form of justice that followed.
And anyoneone that uses the Yahoo Fantasy Premiership is doubtlessly familiar with the immature, pathetic, embarrisingly retarded bullshit supplied by Tom Bridges (I'm not even going to repeat his team name) on an all too regular basis. So, if you have any hardware-melting self-replicating viruses, the address is hooligan_nation_uk@yahoo.co.uk. Someone managed to hack their account since he's such a dumbass the P/W was more obvious than the plot twists in The Sixth Sense.
The recent match against Newcastle is another golden example. Losing 3-0, and all they did was have a go at the ref for not bowing down to them. And Roy Keane got a sending off when he usually gets away with career ending 'tackles'. If he went to Juventus (yeah, they'd waste their money...) he'd never play-he'd always be suspended for his actions, making Paul Ince's time at Inter look like a clean record.
And they will NEVER sign Gabriel Batistuta, just like they said they would sign Marcello Salas (joined Lazio), Rivaldo (still at Barca with Lazio interest), Edgar Davids (rooted at Juventus), Luis Figo (Real Madrid-World Record transfer fee) or any other World Class player-they don't want to tarnish their careers playing in a lesser league (depite what the marketing tells us). And to make sure of this, the recent treatment of Ruud van Nistelrooy is another example. Instead of completing an £18.5m transfer in order to show off, they told him he needed to have surgery on his knee and made comments about his fitness. He promptly told them to piss off and remained at PSV. And in case they tried to come back, he ruptured his cruciate ligament in training a few days later. Later they asked van Nistelrooy (not PSV, they rang the player at home, for Jah's sake) if he would like to train with them when he recovers rather than with his club angered just about everyone involved in football, using such a cloak-and-dagger approach to try to net him. Since they were told in no uncertain terms to 'fuck off', it could be that their arrogance will cost them as he moves elsewhere. Barcelona or Lazio, in other words.
And what does this say about their 'gorious' youth system? It doesn't exist, that's what. Or all the big names, only Beckham and Giggs are from the youth policy, Beckham being poached from Tottenham, the likes of Scholes and Butt probably the same. Top scorers Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke are at a combined fee of £22m from Newcastle and Villa respectivly-Yorke unsettled by media speculation that always happens when they want a player, and which always works. Crewe Alexandra only survive from selling all their young talent that comes through, whilst Leeds and Liverpool have recently been using their youth policies to their advantage-Hell, even Tottenham have had some youth success, although admittedly a few were poached from lower league clubs. Leicester and Wolves also made a nice packet from selling strikers from their policies (Emile Heskey for £11m and Robbie Keane for £6m respectivly), yet at MUPLC, where is the young talent they produced up front?
The fact is that they are killing the English game at a rate that hooligans can't keep up with with their monopoly-as well as making it look like the Scots Premier with double the number of teams. Only people who quote The Sun as messiah have a go at the SPL when they can't think of anything better to say, without realising what happens outside their back door. While I'm on the subject, how comes they seem to get more Sky cash every season? No wonder so many teams do their best yo-yo impressions, the balance isn't fair on them (they get NOTHING in their first season), so teams like Leicester, Coventry and Southampton should be respected, rather than despised for upsetting the applecart every season. Especially since they don't have an 11.5% share by Murdoch behind them. Am I getting at something here?
The way they monopolise all media coverage of football in this country is nauseating beyond belief. Match of the Day should be renames The Manchester United Match because they always get the main game, even if it's against cannon fodder that they can beat easily-and still it's built up to be a big achievement. Well excuse me, Spurs beat Watford 4-0 (better than the 4-1 scoreline they had), but did we get any attention from it? No, of course not. And if that isn't bad enough, there is the fact Feckham and his dumbass wife won't get their retarded personas out of the goddamn papers.
Who cares if he has his bastard's name on his boots? Won't make him able to run with the ball for a change, only leave an inverted Adidas logo and 'Brooklyn' on some poor player's ankle. And they clearly don't realise how stupid they look. Can the bubble burst NOW before they run in the next General Election? No-one cares!
Finally, we beat the useless bastards 3-1 at The Lane in October, and they diverted attention with all the Roy Keane talk. And The Treble-didn't deserve to even be in the Champion's (sic) League in the first place (Arsenal, Double, ring any bells? And Bayern also won the group phase, bet you'd all forgotteen that, huh?), and the win was a horrific fluke, with Carsten Janker deciding the net wasn't the ideal location for the ball on numerous occasions in the last 20 minutes. They didn't even beat Juventus in the semis in any way, shape or form. And the song was originally 'Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur'-they can't even create original chants. Whaddya expect from a bunch of 12 year olds?
And there's still more to add. After Tottenham signed Sergei Rebrov (HA!!!), suddenly they're 'buying' French international keeper Fabian Barthez (what, don't they have enough?), which smacks of trying to get the spotlight away from the upstarts. And their 'fan' pages are glorifying Ipswich's return to the top flight, since last time they won 9-0 at the Theatre of Schemes. Also lost 3-2 to them, this when they went down with the lowest points total in Premiership history (until Watford bettered it), so that means a significant percentage of those were won whilst Blackburn and Everton pissed on them to take the silverware to a credible location. If only that happened every season.
Into the new season, and when they lose a 2-0 lead to West Ham, to a mass chant of 'You're not singing any more', they just sulked off without warning, leaving MotD without anyone to fawn over in the post-match analysis. Well, the players usually just get straight on the bus and ignore the fans afterwards (although I admit Beckham takes time to sign autographs) just shows their attitude towards those they bleed dry daily.
After Keegan resigned as England PR man, it seemed that normalcy and a manager admitting we SUCK SO MUCH ASS would take over. So in comes Peter Taylor as Caretaker, and for his first match, he goes one better than KK. Rather than Vice-Captain, he names Feckham captain of the entie squad against Italy. Promptly we were useless, as organised as Connex South Central, and lost. But at least Rino Gattuso had the right idea. He punched him out in the middle of the pitch, and got away with it. Not incompetant refereeing, the ref wanted to see it. Obviously he'd been at a ManU.com match in Europe and they gave him a hard time because it wasn't going their way.
And as for them representing England when they play in Europe, so we have to support them, the Club vs Country row suddenly becomes a lot easier. I support the club from whatever country they happen to be playing.