keith wrote:I managed to get a £50 bet on a footy match today at 2/1 on a draw 30 minutes after the game finished !
Lynda wrote:According to one TV pundit any one of the top seven, apart from Southampton, could win the Premiership. I guess he didn't see which team was in 8th place. I wouldn't rule them out just yet.
Patience may be a virtue, but stubborn pride is a sin. How far into an error do you cut your losses and admit defeat?
I am all for giving a man enough rope but not so much into helping him tie the noose. We arrive at October with Manchester United languishing in the bottom half of the table. They have seven points to show from the season thus far. Seven.
They’ve already suffered more defeats than most title-winning teams endure in a season and are out of the title race before Halloween.
The likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton and Chelsea jostle for top spot whilst United find themselves struggling below the crease in the newspaper.
A woeful autumn follows a farcical summer for the club. Would any of their rivals have made such an unholy hash of signing a player so keen to join them?
They took an age to sign a midfielder who judging by his abject performance in the Manchester derby isn’t even up to it. He was about as effective against City as a broken Betamax. So much for the messianic afro.
The man in charge cuts an increasingly forlorn and befuddled figure on the touchline and at his excuse-filled press conferences.
As for the derby, it was nothing short of a disgrace. A comprehensive thrashing from their local rivals in the most one-sided game between the two in years. If anything the score line flattered the team in red. The fact that United’s solitary rebuke was the best goal of the match was scant consolation.
Outfought, outthought and outplayed. Whereas City look like a team going places, United resemble a rabble of overpaid strangers.
And so to the clueless man in charge...
An increasingly forlorn and befuddled figure both on the touchline and at his excuse-filled press conferences. The Scottish drawl that once seemed so definite and authoritative now comes across as tetchy and uncertain.
He was hired for overachieving at a smaller club with lesser resources. It may be cruel to say it but perhaps that was his level, because this certainly isn’t.
The job is too big for him and the task too tall. It’s all well and good getting the best out of hungry journeymen and committed workhorses, but he’s dealing with household names now in the full glare of the world’s media.
This is Manchester United and everything that comes with it. The riches, the glamour - and the pressure. Of course it doesn’t help that he must work in the giant shadow of his legendary fellow Scot, but that was always going to be the case.
When do you cut your losses? For me the time has come. He may only be six games into his fourth season at the club, but it’s time for Alex Ferguson to do the decent thing and resign.
The club are going nowhere and he’s fast becoming a lame duck. If defeats to Derby, Norwich and Everton in the opening five fixtures weren’t bad enough, losing 5-1 to City was the final straw.
What have the supporters to look forward to after such a dismal start? A decent cup run? As if.
Ta-ra, Fergie. Goodbye and good riddance. Get Villa’s Graham Taylor in to sort out this mess.
Lynda wrote:Do you think David Moyes is up to the job?
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