Watford FC 1-2 Manchester United - 15/09/2018

Cassetti.

 

Abdi

 

Almunia

 

Watford are a work in progress, I think: They have very much made their own fortune at the start of this season; but Spurs should have beaten them and arguably so should have Palace. The former had the wrong spirit and the latter can't finish to save their lives. But the 100% record means that the team must believe more and more in themselves and their coach and that is vital in a team game.
Who knows which Man U team will turn up - there are some very good players there - for me Felaini, Young and Lukaku particularly. Pogba = extravagently talented but also a bit of a w**ker. Their coach is nowadays decidedly weird but his track record shows that he knows what he is doing - even if nobody else does.
It's already been said on this thread, they could win, lose or draw - who knows. But if this reads negatively I still have a strong feeling of optimism that I can't shake off.

 

This is a great, great post. It’s so hard to explain this sort of thing to people who don’t ‘get it’. Well done for nailing it.

 

The thinly-veiled racism certainly makes him the perfect candidate.

 

Manchester United are one of the biggest football clubs in the world. Have been since Munich. They have support everywhere from Scandinavia to Africa, to Devon, to up your road and yes.. believe it or not, Manchester.

To think they are all plastic glory hunters is a shortsighted mistake. Ive met plenty who are into their club as much as we are.

 

Very good, but you forget to add how, after they lose, Mourinho takes the team to Watford Junction to take the train home. They book a special from..... Southern Trains

 

In our first season back up we played Man Utd on the same weekend as my father-in-laws birthday. He's never been to Old Trafford so as a potential present we offered to take him up there, have lunch at one the stadiums restaurants, do a tour and then watch the match. He didn't really have much interest. Odd.

 

Of course. His real name is Crispin Rees-Kremlin and he only stopped being posh after he was expelled from Eton

 

Depends on your definition of "proper fans" The yardstick is usually match attending supporters. So they'd have to enlarge Old Trafford somewhat if they did!


They have millions of followers.. worldwide. No most of them havent been to Old Trafford. Though that's somewhat at odds with the other accusations of them all heading home to London after games.. you know if they havent been there.
Thing is they have such a large following that the "proper fans" as we know it get diluted down so much as to be indistinguishable. Same with every big club. Do they have plastic glory hunting fans? yes. Do they have genuine match going fans? also yes. They just have more of everything.

 

My first game was in ‘94? We were proper cack then too. #properfansunite

 

I thought you were going to say at half time.

 

There was odd machine gun celebration.

As appropriate as when Smalling went to the Christmas party as a suicide bomber.

 

I had said this out loud, with a Partridge ‘derr’ face, even before I’d scrolled down.

 

Almunia.

 

One of the Tristram Hunt types?

In the polemical mouths of Momentum, the posh boys are subjected to the most fearful Cockney Rhyming Slang abuse.

 

Is your anus aching after sitting on the fence?

I’m told Harrow favours an opinionated poster.

 

Fingers crossed you can convert the fresh meat.

 

No wonder Gueds loved the private plane.

 

Last season there were as many Utd fans on the train back to London as there were Watford. Maybe it was because it was the last game of the season against a little team and they could get tickets?

Anyway, it got me thinking. What is it about Southerners that makes so many of them glory hunters. How many Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal tops do you see north of Nottingham? None, ever, according to my Northern mates.

 

Walk into any pub in the land and you're sure to find either a Man Utd or Liverpool fan with some story about how their dad's friend's uncle used to work with a guy whose girlfriend's brother supported Utd/Liverpool and he was massively into vintage cars, just like he was. So he started supporting Man Utd/Liverpool too.

Really odd how I've heard dozens of these stories, but none of them end up with the guy supporting Halifax, Stockport or Burton Albion. Always Liverpool and Man Utd.

These people aren't proper fans, and there are loads of them.

 

I see loads of Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal shirts well North of Nottingham.. in Norway

Dare i say it but the two big North West clubs are way bigger in terms of support than any from the South. Two reasons i could give you for that are the Munich air disaster, which started United's worldwide following.. and the fact Liverpool dominated the game for a longer period than arguably any other club.

 

Also, not living in Liverpool helps perpetuate the mystique.

 

If Spurs can beat United so can Watford. And with Lindelof likely to start after playing against Burnley a 2-1 or 3-1 win.

 

Maybe Steve Finn can help us out by providing a scoreboard.

 

Mine was in 68 at the start of the first golden age.

#FurphyPlasticsUnite

 

You are not a real fan unless you have been to Workington on a Tuesday evening in November.

 

Lol at people predicting us to get any points on Saturday - even heard one bloke on radio saying Watford 'must be slight favourites going into this game'.

Man Utd's second string cost way more than our first team, and the money spent on the squad over the last decade is eye-watering.. The team that will face us are all on massively higher wages (and for good reason) and they are all regular members of international sides.

They have a proven multi- league winning manager, training facilities and staff that make ours look amateurish and a stadium 5 times bigger than ours.

We will lose - just a matter of how many.

Even a 0-1 would be a laughable result, given the gulf between the two sides.

 

Lehman Brothers were also highly paid internationals

 

Carlisle away on a Tuesday night is also a good measure.