@woody2000 – sod neutral! Go and watch it in a reds pub! We always do the White Lion on (ironically) Liverpool Street, across from the Air and Space museum

It’ll be great in there today, and nice to sit outside before kick off

You could nip down the road to the Sawyers Arms for the second half in a full on Blues pub

I’m up in Keswick so will be finding a suitable boozer to watch it with my ABU wife.

Well, I suppose I’m technically a Red, paid up member so I can get the odd match ticket for my Utd mad mini Red 😁

Can I wear my Bradford city shirt? 😉

Will be in Manchester this afternoon, can anyone recommend a “neutral” pub to watch the game? Probably a big ask I guess

Manchester Piccadilly?

As long as United lose I’ll be happy

ABU

for my Utd mad mini Red

I blame the parents!

Ah! Anyone But United. Gotcha.
I’m no lover of the 10 Hags, but **** Citey and their dodgy sports-washing wealth. Up the reds.

@woody2000 I’ve recounted the story before about a man mountain of a gooner who used to stroll into the White Lion in his Arsenal top and plonk himself down in front of the telly in the White Lion for the United Arsenal games (at the height of the rivalry

Never got any grief as it takes some stones to do that!

I blame the parents!

He’s made that decision all by himself 😁

Faster than Di Matteo?

Is that the quickest ever? GET IN!!!!

5 touches, including the kick off.

Oh dear. How can that be given?

Not been in the game, but Varchester United are back in the game 😂

The handball law needs looking at.

How is he meant be jumping and turning like that with his arms by his sides?

Yep look at any activity that needs a jump, you have to throw your arms up to get leverage.
Laws made by non footballers.

I wasn’t expecting that half-time scoreline after the first minutes. Some finish, that, by Gundogan

I can’t comment on the penalty because the handball rule seems to change by the week, so who knows? It’s literally anyones guess? Why not just toss a coin to see whether it is or not?

Ah well. Long trudge back to the home counties.

When that first goal went in I thought ‘oh Christ! here we go again…’ so I’m just glad we gave them a game and it wasn’t an embarrassing scoreline

Like most United fans, I had pretty low expectations of us getting anything today

But overall it’s still been a good season though, so I’ll take that over the shambolic mess that was the end of last season

Yep look at any activity that needs a jump, you have to throw your arms up to get leverage.

A decade of pogoing punks begs to differ

A decade of pogoing punks begs to differ

When was the last time a pogoing punk high jumper won an Olympic medal?

You didn’t say to Olympic standard, you said any activity that involves jumping has to use arms for leverage. It would be a shit technique for trying to clear a bar 8 feet off the ground, equally Fosbury flopping onto a phlegm covered floor at the 100 Club would get funny looks

Horses for courses, innit?

Wind your neck in I was joking. However if you ever played football you’d know right well to steady yourself and gain leverage you use your arms.

you too fella, I’m taking the piss as well.

If you ever played football……

about 30 years at various levels up to very low level semi-pro, and then when my knee got too **** to kick any more did almost 10 years in the middle too. I know exactly what you mean and I also think I’d have a pretty good idea of what constitutes artificial arms raised vs what is necessary to actually jump properly. I have sympathy as an ex-ref, we don’t write the laws, just apply them, and as soon as people start using “judgement” then there will be complaints about lack of consistency. Can’t win either way. Personally I think the law is rubbish, but that’s what it says and the officials therefore got the decision ‘right’ today.

Yep I have similar pedigree. Top local sides around Reading, at school trained with the Reading team. First team at University including beating Stoke city one year at our annual friendly. On a Thursday night.
Then switched to rugby.

where were you then to be playing Stoke? Keele?

Yep, Keele. Annual game.

So you know Nello?

Yes I do. I commented on this a while back, the film kinda missed out on the fact he made some of the female students a little nervous.. sometimes. Not quite creepy but one notch down. This was the 90s so probably would be more relevant now.
He remembered me last time I was there about. 10 years ago.

Spurs sign Postecoglu, another reason for me to dislike them, lets hope he gets them playing better and staying on their feet a little more than usual.

This really tickled me…

Tottenham close to signing Ange Postecoglou. For those who are asking who that is……..Tottenham are a wee Club in North London 🤣🤣

— Andy The Chee (@dundeeandy) June 5, 2023

😂

He’ll have money to spend when Kane goes to Real. I do hope he maintains the Spurs tradition of spaffing the lot on a selection of absolute donkeys

EDIT: the latest is that they’re after Maguire, so that’s an excellent start!

selection of absolute donkeys

Nah, he won’t sign anybody from Sevco.

Big Ange likes hard running, energetic, attacking football. At least Spurs should have an identity back.

It’ll be interesting to see which,if any, Celtic players he tries to take with him.

Hopefully none, i know there’s rumours of Kyogo, but he’s not at that level if Kane goes, Jota will always be mentioned and i think he’d do well, Hatate is that willing runner in midfield he likes, but lets hope he goes with another set of players, he’ll know who he’s after.

Will Kane go to Real though – he’s in sight of Shearer’s record now?

That’s his dilemma innit? He knows he’ll never win owt with Spurs, whoever the manager is.

Like United, the problems run far far deeper than who’s in the dugout, shouting at the players, as Conte helpfully pointed out.

I’m just hoping that with a more no-nonsense manager, every Spurs game might look a bit less like this…

Well if the picture was truly Spursey, one of them would bellyflop.

Fair play to the Celtic fans. They’ve been very amusing on Twitter

Ange Postecoglu has promised to bring
Champions League football to White
Hart Lane he aims to have BT Sport installed by September pic.twitter.com/Gt7CEmvSh7

— Eric J Wilson (@eckylad) June 7, 2023

Fair play to the Irons! European champions!

Yeah well done West Ham! A shame the fans had to spoil their biggest night though, idiots…