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West Ham top four Binners? What have you been smoking today?!

Who’s gonna get sacked first? Silva, Ole or Poch?


 
Posted : 05/10/2019 8:03 pm
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Word on the inside at WH lane, there is a “domestic” issue in the dressing room.
Lfc = the new Man U!
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Posted : 05/10/2019 8:08 pm
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Interesting stat re 90th minute winners in the Premier League era - Liverpool have scored 9 more such winners than any other club. Maybe surprising given the ‘Fergie time’ thing. Depends on the game context I guess.


 
Posted : 05/10/2019 8:13 pm
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Well they look better than Chelski, Spurs, Arsenal or United. Mind you... so do Burnley.

What’s worse than all that though, is that the scousers seem to be displaying the kind of form that wins premierships. 3 points last weekend against Sheffield, only through a goalkeeping howler, then 3 points today it they didn’t really warrant either (and before anyone has a go, that was from the lips of my scouse season-ticket holding mate).

That’s how you win titles

I can’t ****ing cope with Liverpool winning titles again. The 80’s were bad enough, as a united fan. I can’t cope with it all again


 
Posted : 05/10/2019 8:14 pm
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C’mon man, you’ve had 30yrs off!

I think Chelsea and Arsenal will complete the top four.


 
Posted : 05/10/2019 8:45 pm
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I don’t think you fully appreciate how traumatic it was? 😉

Anyway... Leicester will be in the top four. Arsenal can’t finish in the top four no matter how Kevin Keegan they get. Not with that defence

Prediction:

Liverpool
City
Leicester
Chelski


 
Posted : 05/10/2019 9:12 pm
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good job that isn't Arsenal's strongest defence then Binners .


 
Posted : 05/10/2019 10:11 pm
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It’s the way Arsenal play that’s the problem. Trying to be clever and playing it out from the back looks absolutely suicidal against teams like Liverpool. And there’s always a potential howler waiting to happen, like against Watford, where they passed the ball straight to Cleverley, in front of goal, who side-footed it straight back in. It’s mental! But they do it every game.

Anyway... everyone looking forward to open expansive display of fast-paced, creative attacking football that United v Newcastle promises to be? 😉

Oh... and having just watched MOTD Brighton were indeed brilliant yesterday. A well deserved win


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 12:28 pm
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Juventus and Milan game will be a good to watch!

I’m a united fan and know the players are good but don’t play well in a team.

I expect them to draw or lose today. It was like that in the late 80’s but they were always a good cup team until it was turned around by Ferguson.

I was so happy when Big (Racist) Ron won the FA cup. Good old Sparky.

Real Madrid and Barcelona had to adapt. Utd haven’t.

Liverpool as much as hate them, are a great team.


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 12:45 pm
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Var needs to be tweaked, the "clear and obvious mistake" wording really needs to be tidied up. It seams to be interpreted as "ok I can see why he gave it even though it was wrong so it will stand", it should be either right or wrong, and if it really can't be decided after a few viewings then let refs first decision stand.

Whereas the offside decisions are being sold as 100% accurate to within a few mm, but they showed on espn the other week, you can't tell which frame captured closest to when the ball leaves the foot. The runner is often moving quicker then the ball at that point, and if you then have defenders stepping up, within 3 frames you can have a player a foot onside, the next frame a mm offside and the next over a foot offside without knowing which should really be the right one. This is where they actually need to go back to giving the advantage to the attacking team where it isn't 100% clear.


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 12:53 pm
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Three wins in a week for Wolves!! So much for second season syndrome and Europa league fatigue. Now looking forward to watching The Toon and United, could be a great game?


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 5:01 pm
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Wolves played really well, defended fantastically and got the tactics just right, hard to see why they were where they were in the league from that performance. I expect to see them rise towards the upper positions. There problem long term might be keeping hold of the players, Connor Cody among others has got to be being looked at by champions league teams. I would have him at city in the next window.

City didn't play badly, some sloppy passing in the first half, but they need another tactic now to break down teams that defend deep in numbers, either they need to give the opposition the ball a bit more so they aren't all just camped in the box, or they need a striker who can score headed goals.


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 5:14 pm
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I know it sounds absurd, but i think the owners at Wolves have high hopes and big ambitions for the club longterm. The current players feel part of the project and I believe and truly hope that the likes of Coady, Boly, Neves and Jota and the rest are hoping to reach the Champions league with Wolves.


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 5:26 pm
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I’m now getting really, really bored with saying ‘that’s the worst United performance I’ve ever seen’ every week.

Still... Mrs Binners says she’s going to take me out for a beer with her winnings from betting on a Newcastle win

Fair play to Longstaff. He had a great game and a cracking finish. Good luck to him.

He looked absolutely made up in the post-match interview. His premiership debut, scoring the winner against United at St Janes’s, his mum and dad up in the stands and being given man of the match by his brother, all Newcastle through and through. Absolutely brilliant!


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 7:27 pm
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St Janes’s? Bloody auto-correct. I meant the two-trackies-for-a-tenner stadium, obviously 😉


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 7:49 pm
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Steve Bruce's first win against Manchester United as a manager. Tonight was his 23rd attempt.

I. was hoping for Manchester United win, so OGS could say they have turned the corner and he gets say 5 -10 more games before the board vote of confidence . He is a dead man walking Shirley?


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 7:55 pm
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United are now so flailing and rudderless it’s difficult to see where we go from here

I can’t see sacking the manager or not sacking the manager making the slightest bit of difference.

The club is absolutely ****ed! This has been in the post since the Glazers took over.

Maybe it’ll take us finishing in 16th to get rid of the parasites and allow the club to get back to where it should be - concentrating on what’s going on on the pitch rather than a new washing machine partnership in Papua New Guinea


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 8:06 pm
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Whats the situation with the youngsters at United? I had Frank out by Christmas before the season started but it seems that putting his faith into the kids has paid off. This can only be seen as a bonus for Chelsea because I doubt that without this current transfer ban they would have been given their chance.


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 8:19 pm
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Matty Matty Matty Matty Matty Matty Matty Longstaff
Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Sean Longstaff
( sung to the There's no Limits tune)
Still interested Man U ...you probably can't afford either of them now !
Great result and what a prem debut from the boy !
I saw him on his first team debut in pre-season at Hibernian and thought even in that friendly that he was a player ..and they hopefully can become our centre midfield pairing for years to come ..if fat bastard doesn't cash in on them ..


 
Posted : 06/10/2019 9:04 pm
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This guy nailed it re United

https://twitter.com/justinmoorhouse/status/1180874823557406720?s=19

Very pleased with Chelsea, we just need to tighten up the defence and we are sorted.


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 10:27 am
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West Ham have never won the league but the sheer elation of avoiding relegation on the last day of the season is hard to beat.

Forget winning the champions league Man U fans , the real drama is in the relegation battle ,as you will soon find out.


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 10:39 am
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Yes & the spurs fans are very quiet this week too. Harrumph.

I have nothing to say, and besides, it's very hard to type with your head in your hands! 🤣🤣🤣


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 11:15 am
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It does look like Pochettino no longer wants to be there, almost doing a Mourinho and trying to engineer an exit. I wonder if Utd or Madrid made an approach towards the end of last season or in the summer that was just dismissed by Levy.


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 11:20 am
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the real drama is in the relegation battle ,as you will soon find out.

Years ago at the height of the Fergie reign I remember talking to friends who were mocking the plight of Leeds United at the time (after the downfall of the O'Leary / Ridsdale era) and I said it'll happen to them too at some point but, although I might inwardly smile a little, I would hate to see them be relegated.


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 11:24 am
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And another thing (now directly comparing to the overspending Ridsdale era Leeds United), what on earth will happen to Manchester United should they actually be relegated (or even just have a really bad season). Much of that much-needed sponsorship revenue will dry up, the prawn sandwich-eating fans will lose interest, gate receipts and tv sales will drop. And with them having the levels of debt that they have, they could implode under the burden.


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 12:52 pm
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*Ipswich Town fan sticks head over parapet*

😉


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 12:57 pm
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And another thing (now directly comparing to the overspending Ridsdale era Leeds United), what on earth will happen to Manchester United should they actually be relegated (or even just have a really bad season). Much of that much-needed sponsorship revenue will dry up, the prawn sandwich-eating fans will lose interest, gate receipts and tv sales will drop. And with them having the levels of debt that they have, they could implode under the burden.

Wouldn't happen, MUFC are a massive worldwide brand with no shortage of people who'd get their money out, whether it would be the right people is another point though.

Look at Rangers and Juve crowds when they were relegated, Rangers consistently had over 40,000 in the 4th tier of the backwater that is scottish football....


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 1:10 pm
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The January transfer window is going to be mental. Any striker who's managed to find the back of the net within the last twelve months, or any old donkey who can get through 90 minutes without putting one in their own net, is now going to have a price tag of seventy-hundred-squillion pounds. Countless clubs will be sat back awaiting the call from Ed Woodward, as they inhale the pungent aroma of desperation

We're no doubt about to pay hundreds of millions for players that will make Fred look like Messi. I predict that January will deliver our own 'Liverpool buying Andy Carrol' moment. And I have to confess that I didn't stop laughing for weeks when they did that


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 1:16 pm
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Wouldn’t happen, MUFC are a massive worldwide brand with no shortage of people who’d get their money out, whether it would be the right people is another point though.

Possibly not but certainly not impossible and I would hate for it to happen - despite being a lifelong Leeds fan, I am not a Manchester United hater but they do have massive debts that they could struggle to service without wholesale change should their 'top four' rank disappear for a prolonged period.


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 1:17 pm
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Shearer knows it

https://twitter.com/CentralFootie/status/1180952693692604416?s=19


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 9:06 pm
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😳😊


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 9:23 pm
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Shearers analysis is clear, concise and depressingly accurate.

I intend to watch the Liverpool game alone, from behind the sofa, having disabled all social media, smashed my phone up and possibly faked my own death


 
Posted : 07/10/2019 9:40 pm
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What on earth is going on at Spurs then? Are they attempting to be even more crap than us?

Anyway... the match of the weekend is later. We've got mates round this afternoon for a birthday party and to watch the footy. A quick calculation of the guests shows that its me and binnerette number one (who is already sporting her United shirt) 6 bloody scousers, one of whom is my dad (yes... that has led to many family arguments) and a selection of ABU's.

Its going to be a long afternoon.

In an attempt to place the most preposterous bet imaginable I've put a fiver on a United win (at 5/1) and a couple of quid on Fred to score the winner (at about a miilion/1)


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 1:24 pm
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What on earth is going on at Spurs then?

Levy seems to have dirt on who evers running VAR.


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 1:27 pm
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Indeed. It doesn’t seem to be sorting any of the more questionable decisions (ie: a clear penalty) and then dissolving into total farce.

I wouldn’t be happy if I was a Watford fan


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 1:48 pm
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Likewise Binners, Life long Red here who also fears for the amount of grief that will be coming my way tomorrow from all the New City fans in the workplace, a long afternoon instore,with more harsh langue aimed at the LED box in the corner and disconcerting looks from the wife.


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 3:14 pm
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Indeed. It doesn’t seem to be sorting any of the more questionable decisions (ie: a clear penalty) and then dissolving into total farce.

So, Binners, are you more, or less, of a fan of VAR right now?


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 6:18 pm
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Klop’s face lol


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 6:18 pm
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I just don't understand how you can overturn one but not the other.


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 6:20 pm
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Loving VAR right now!

I’ve got a house full of unhappy scousers. Happy days! 😃


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 6:21 pm
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I just don’t understand how you can overturn one but not the other.

Because the first one the Liverpool player was barely touched and should have been carded for a dive.

The second one, the ball touched his arm, it is now a definitive rule, and he doesn't have to gain any advantage from it, so as long as that touch exists it isn't a goal. This one is a poor rule IMO.


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 6:24 pm
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Handball and a dive, basically


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 6:32 pm
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The second one, the ball touched his arm, it is now a definitive rule, and he doesn’t have to gain any advantage from it, so as long as that touch exists it isn’t a goal.

try explaining that to Watford.


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 6:41 pm
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I’d have taken a point every time before kick off

Best United performance I’ve seen this season. Worst Liverpool performance I’ve seen in a long time. Thankfully.


 
Posted : 20/10/2019 7:28 pm
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Liverpool haven't been convincing in their past few games IMO. They have been dependent on some lucky moments to win the games, and today they didn't get one. They have been on such a winning run, they have allowed some complacency to creep in, they seem to only realise that need to put an effort in for the last 15 mins today.


 
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