A corner turned for Man United? Don’t make us laugh…

Matt Stead

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Before the comeback…
I’ve worked it out! At the final whistle, Jose will run to stands in front of where the board sits, and tears off his jumper to reveal a Chelsea t-shirt underneath.

The plot twist is revealed – this was all designed as a master plan by Abramovich to bring down United from the inside, with Jose in some kind of crazy, modern day Keyser Soze role.

Seems legit, right? How else would you explain a Pogba, Smalling, Matic back three?
Alex, Reading.

 

Remember the days when Sir Alex would just dismiss Newcastle as ‘a wee club in the North East’?

Good times.
Aniruddh, MUFC, Pittsburgh 


Dear FA,

Please can we play Man United next?

Yours,
Southampton FC.

 

After the comeback…
Dear FA,

No need to rejig the fixture list after all.

Cheers,
Southampton FC.

 

Relieved rivals
Thank goodness for that. For a second there it looked remarkably like Jose was going to get the sack, we want him at the helm for many average years to come.

Think about it; how excited did everyone look at OT for beating a team in the bottom three. Amazing and strange scenes indeed.
Barry, LFC, Cape Town

 

This one’s for Davos Seaworth…

José went into the match against Newcastle a dead man walking. If he had lost the match, Ed pulls the trigger without a moment’s hesitation.

A comfortable win would do little to help either. It’s only Newcastle after all. Ed might shrug as he pulls the trigger this time (It’s definitely a trigger, not a button or a phone call. I have insider information.) but he wouldn’t have been impressed.

José though is nothing if not cunning. His plan was to emulate, nay upgrade Klopp’s Master Plan from midweek. He instructed his team to play the entire 1st half at 70% effort. The team agreed to this, naturally. The shrewd F365 readers amongst us would notice that this meant they could play the 2nd half at an incredible 130%.

José would orchestrate a comeback to stir up the loins of fans pining for the good old days. Fans would chant his name and call for Ed’s head louder than ever. Who would have the nerve to sack a man after that? He lives another day. Genius!
Nic, MCFC (Ed’s sacking him right now, isn’t he…)

 

Lucky boys
Regardless of the much improved second half performance, Jose should be f**king grateful that the Ashley Young handball wasn’t called. Dreadful officiating. Tiny margins and that…
Stu, Southampton

 

No corner turned
Despite the thrilling 3-2 win in Fergie time, I’m not convinced that Man United have turned a corner. I’m convinced the players were led to believe by reports that Mourinho will be sacked no matter the outcome and so they decided to show up for work knowing the big bad boss won’t be there long enough to catch them clocking out early.

First of all there was no plan and United were caught out by two simple throw-ins. When things started to unravel, Mourinho decided to substitute Bailly after just 18 minutes on the pitch. And in his post match presser, he said that players were scared to play. So who’s responsible for instilling confidence in players? José is the one who bought Bailly and the other defender whose name I can’t remember coz he hardly plays.

The sad thing is that the team will now embark on a few wins until we lose again. And then the recriminations start and José is fighting for his job. Rinse and repeat. Meanwhile, our rivals are falling over themselves to laugh at our misery after many years of hating our guts coz we won so much. Fans have been brainwashed by Mourinho and they refuse to leave his cult. I fear for their safety…
Keg Breezy (Waiting for Mata’s blog, not) Nairobi, Kenya

 

How on earth has Mourinho manufactured a situation where a last-minute victory against a team with no wins all season, having been two goals down from the tenth minute at home, has strengthened his position?

That happened back in April. United were two goals down to Man City within half an hour, their bitter rivals needing a win to claim the Premier League title in record time. But United rallied, scored three second-half goals, and laid down a marker for this season.

Six months on, and while the result and the nature of the game is the exact same, it is the team in 19th, not 1st, who United are coming from behind to beat. Absolutely nothing changed after they beat City in such inspirational circumstances. Why would it now?

This is not a corner turned. This is an example of how far they have fallen, and how far they will continue to fall.
Flange

 

Another team played
Mourinho is a shitty manager but Benitez is a really really really sh*tty manager.
Jamo(now I just know Arsenal are going to lose to Fulham tomorrow) Kenya

 

Siss…oh no
I’m 16 mins into the Spurs game. In my life supporting Spurs I have never seen a player more difficult to watch than Moussa Sissoko. It’s not even whether he’s playing well or poorly. I just hate watching him play. He’s the fingernails on a blackboard of football players to me.
Neil (Watch him score a hat trick now) THFC