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The Awesome Berbaslug!!! wrote:


I feel that Rio played into their hands by taking the bait, but I also think the coin would still have been thrown even if he had done an impression of Denis Law from 1974.

Your gloating ended in tears last season, Berbaslug.

when was I gloating? when It looked like man utd were going to win the league, I was just feeling relief that man city weren't going to buy the league. It's a shame that we didn't manage to put it off for a year, because it's pretty clear that they're a busted flush.

Man U go further into debt to buy one of their main rival's best players (again) and it's City who get the "bought the title" jibes, I see ...

Still, Man City now out to 2-1 to afford to buy it again, at Willy Hills. I might have a bit of that. There's a way to go this season yet. Maybe they'll buy Stevie G in the transfer window and he'll finally get a Premier winners' medal. Stranger things have happened.

As I said a couple of times above, it's absolutely fair enough to argue that I misinterpreted Ferdinand's gesture, and it's entirely possible that you'd be right to do so.

Rogin the Kitten Minder wrote:


Manchester United haven't gone further in to debt.

Rogin the Kitten Minder wrote:


Arsenal could hardly have been considered "title rivals", and most of the United fans on here argued it was a £24m waste of money, when other areas of the squad more urgently required strengthening. The more pertinent question is why City have failed to build a Chelsea-level legacy, abjectly failing in Europe, and underachieving domestically.

I've made my misgivings about the signing of van persie clear, primarily because I don't remember man utd buying one of their main rivals best players before. If you think you're a rival of man utd, and they buy one of your players, you're probably heading for the championship.

Dwight Yorke? Andy Cole? David May? Eric Whatshisface?

Obviously those ones slipped under the Berbaslug radar.

Villa? Really? and Newcastle had started the 1994-5 season like a train, but they had fallen well off the pace by the time they sold andy cole. They also were enthusiastic sellers and used that money to rebuild their team.

David May, and Eric Cantona were surplus to requirements at their clubs when they were sold, and describing united and leeds as title rivals in late 1992 was a bit fanciful. Mid table rivals might have been closer.

David May? Hahahaha.

Man, Rogin is on glue today.

"and most of the United fans on here argued it was a £24m waste of money"

I didn't. And I was right. You daft fucking 'nanas.

I'd misremembered when you bought Yorke, I'd thought it was closer to when they were pushing you for the title in '93 and then beat you at Wembley in '94.

And David May, EIM, well you did spend over a million to buy him (when £1m was a lot of money) from the team that had just finished second to you in the league; if that's not under the definition of what I referred to I'm not sure what is!

meregreen wrote:


The photographs of the incident clearly show where Ferdinand is standing, i.e. well over on the far side of the pitch, bang in front of the away section.

Rogin the Kitten Minder wrote:


Could have been worse, Ferguson could have spent a slightly bigger amount on Joe Allen and Fabio Borini.

Rogin, David May was never one of Blackburn's best players.

Fan behavior in that corner (wankers corner) has always been a disgrace. Probably similar in other grounds - these fol get seats there so they can have a go at the opposing fans.

The way this should get fixed is by consistent policing - not just at the derby - trying to filter the idiots out. I am sure that plenty of games go by where the idiots make themselves known but no action is taken. Then the derby comes up and they raise their game at being an idiot.

The starting tone of this thread, as those Ferdinand was the first player to be hit by something thrown by a fan was way off track, but it was started somewhat in the heat of the moment.

The solution isn't going to be closing the ground (which would likely achieve little) or putting fences up (ice hockey style this time, maybe?) - just constantly filtering out the folks who do stuff like this.

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Just listen to yourself.

And my apologies for being "meticulously polite". I thought you didn't like me swearing. Now I'm too polite for you. Are you always so pompously indecisive?