Dec 05
United’s £100k+ Christmas party, useless Shorey, Arsenal will stumble and of course, Rooney is better than Kaka
A quick round up of the top United news of today (and yesterday).
As Marco reports, the Manchester United players are preparing to spend over £100k on their Christmas party. I’m pretty sure that Arsenal players will be getting together for another evening playing flutes and dancing to Brazilian table drums (with the highlight of the party coming from Fabregas and Flamini re-enacting their Arsenal goal celebrations), but then again, that’s the price you pay for being boring as fuck on top (not talking about the football, mind you).
On a serious note, considering that a major chunk of this team is going to grow up together in the nest 4-5 years it’s good to see the United players bonding. Some might consider this as players taking their eyes off the target, but a well-rounded life is key to being a better footballer, and well, I can’t in good conscience say that partying hard is bad 
There are other stories as well (I’ll come to Arsenal soon enough): Nickey Shorey is being rumoured as a potential January target for Manchester United. Bollocks. If anything, players like Simpson, Evans, Pique and O’Shea deserve more games and they should be playing across the back four, subbing for Brown and Evra more often. It’s unfortunate that two of our defenders are permanently on the doc’s table and that leaves us a bit thin across the back, for sure.
Perhaps after the Christmas run of games we’ll be able to judge better if we need a new player, but we have 10 quality defenders on the books already (4 mentioned above, Brown, Rio, Vidic, Evra, Neville, Silvestre), surely if any money is to be spent in January, it can be spent on renewing contracts for a few key players (or buying a striker to reduce our dependence on Saha).
Maradona says that Rooney is better than Kaka – IMO this is more of a takedown for the Brazilian Kaka than it is praise for Rooney. To be fair, even Rooney was more consistent and performing at a better level overall than Kaka last season, so Maradona does have a point.
And lastly, Sir Alex says again that Arsenal will stumble. Sure they will, but I don’t want us to sit around and wait – we need to start closing off the easy games and turning things up a notch in the big games, because so far this season we’ve been stuck in 2nd gear (remember the start?).
Roma are up next week, Liverpool on the next weekend, will be interesting to see which team Fergie sends out to Rome.
Alright then, that’s all for today, over to you guys.
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- Fast and hard, fast and hard.
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You are a bit of a stupid idiot aren’t you?
Arsenal are not boring. I remember Eboue dressing in a tiger outfit and scaring adebayor last Christmas!
Arsenal are the BEST!
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cool………..sign anelka!
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Any blog which mentions how great an asset O’Shit is is clearly flawed.
Sorry, but United are over the hill now. Ronaldo’s one season of wonder is well and truely over (and he wasn’t even the world’s best player in that season… shame
), Giggs, Scholes, Neville, VDS and Saha are all set for the scrapheap.
What’s the chances of ol’ Purple nose getting the tick-tack from an american dictator desperate to keep up with his Chelsea equivalent? He’s clearly lost it.
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[Goofle]
It is so obvious you are lost soul [arsenal fan]. what do you mean. lets see how u play this night without Fabregas, Hleb and flamini in your middle.
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[Digginho]
Maybe when next you come into another blog to rant, come in with your head straight and with facts. The world best player has not been selected. Kaka is european footballer of the yr. And for the legends you mentioned, we have capable replacements for them.
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Rooney better than Kaka ! Not even in the top 20 best players in the world.
English fans need to get their feet on the ground if we want to improve and qualify for the next competition.
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Eduardo
When you have something reasonable to rant about, and use your head without bias. you can post again How can u say rooney is not top 20 in the world. Apart from fabregas. which of your players could be grouped in the same category as him. Better go think of the next game and your injury list
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here come the Scientologist(ars fans);)
seriously guys you aren’t going to win the prem, you know this right.
Glory man united
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Well said gator
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can we get this guy already
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What the Hell! Have we been raided by the second lowest life form on the planet other than Scousers? Yes! It appears we have a few ArsenHOLE fans who have decided to bless us with their comments. Two words for you mates, SOD OFF!
Goofie; The name says it all. Go back and crawl under the rock you came from you pillock.
Insulting people and calling them stupid is not the style we like to use on this blog. You have forced me to reduce myself to the lowest common denominator which is like you and start throwing insults. If you don’t like United than go back to the shit hole blog you came from AND TAKE DIGGINHO WITH YOU. We don’t mind fans of other teams coming on here and debating with us but when all they can come up with is rude comments that lack any clarity or intellectual grounds, then they can, once again SOD OFF! YOU’RE A SAD LITTLE MAN AREN’T YOU?
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Gator; Getting Huntelaar would be a dream come true. I have been pushing for this guy for a year now. He’s far more than just a good bicycle kicker, he is just an instinctive goal scorer who also has a great ability to trap balls and first time them into the net. United are not good at taking half chances. They have to be full chances or nothing. Huntelaar scores half of his goals from what look like half chances. We can only hope that SAF sees the light and buys this great Dutchman.
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Huntelaar completes the puzzle for us lads, hes KlAAS! Fingers crossed
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grognard for someone from canada, you dialect is very similar to an englishmens,
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Adil Alhinai; I have very strong English roots having spent a lot of my life growing up with close friends from Manchester. While hanging around them and their parents you actually pick up a lot of the dialect and start using it. Before you know it, you sound like an Englishman. I’m often caught using terms like pillock, sod off, tosser, wanker etc quite often. Watching a lot of my all time favorite show Black Adder helps too. These early roots have a lot to do with my passion for football. When you are raised by a former Panathinaikos player (late 1930′s)and are surrounded by Englishman and Greeks all your life, you can’t help but be influenced by the great game.
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I am a HUGE fan of Huntelaar. He’s probably my favorite player outside of Manchester. He’s the out-and-out striker that I think we need dearly. And actually, I’ve used him in my starting Man Utd formation on FIFA 07/08 for quite a while now (sorry Carlitos). Would it not be great to have “the bicycle kick king” in Manchester?!
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I can only drool of the one and only ronaldo playing with the new ronaldo the new ronaldinho and the new van nistelrooy.
…oh yea and sod off to the scientologist
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alan smith alan smith alan smith with the assist to nic 2 points off the gun club. come back any time and tell us how great you guys are.
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Haha, those Arsenal fans really chose their night to come on here taunting us didn’t they? This guy who calls himself Eduardo in particular – his namesake had a particularly interesting night tonight. I especially loved when he gave the ball to Newcastle to allow them to score. How much did he cost?
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yeah, first of many points that Arsenal will drop. They are not used to conceding…
Great stuff.. 4 points behind. Game on!
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Go go Butty Smith..he costs 2 points and that Sir Alex is a prophet, we will hit top gear next weekend!
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fergie was right..his predictions coming true..united will be top by jan 1…and all the arseholes..please crawl back into the holes u came from..
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{jameso}
last eve before i left for my exam we had predicted a draw for arsenal glad to see it came true, arsenal really sucks without fab n hleb. man utd still rules, playing the we are without our key players and still four points off and am sure by christmas we shall have overtaken them.
i predict a win for them against boro but a draw again versus chelsea, we only need to beat derby 7nil(fergy pliz field the firing squad and blindfold them and command them to shoot on site, i see anderson getting his first goal in that game) and also beat the dippers then arsenal bye bye..
i also think that arsenal plays well when things goes their way but when they start stumbling, they really stumble..
seems like i missed the arsenal fans here coz i’d have luvd to debate last nyts match with em.
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and bout the party..they don have a game till sunday so what wrong with the lads having a good time.. only prob i have is that they should invite their WAGS we dont want players playing everton bringing domestic problems from home since i know the WAGS wont take it lightly.
and its also very good for bonding, sometimes i admire how arsenal players have bonded off the field and it can be seen on the pitch.
its still a rumour though
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[Man utd Jaluo]
It horrible, but i watch arsenal games (hoping thy would loose). I have come to see that without Hleb, arsenal’s 1 touch football is no where to be seen (wigan game & now newcastle). If i could see Sammy, i would give him 2 kisses (sure SAF would do that for us) he has done it for us again.
But i would disagree with you on the boro game. I see another draw, cos those same players would not be back 4 that game, and playing the no of games they are playing with a depleted squad, they just can’t cope. I see u toping the league after theLIVERFOOL game. Cos watching the game, the chelsea players would now believe they can even go & beat them at the emirates. They were awful in the 2nd half against Villa. But newcastle did not allow them to escape after another bad game 4rm them.
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i really wish that yo prediction bout boro comes true. with chelsea they are jus another boring lot and what arsenal will do is attack them and chelsea will do what they do best,retreat and defend the whole game since arsenal will be without there attack minded mids who know how to break defences i only see them playing out a draw.(chelsea really sucked playing westham)
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Fergie has been in this situations b4, it is a known thing that injuries always come in the course of a season, arsenal’s woes have just started. Even if their players (HLEB, FAB & FLAMINI) come back 4rm injuries, do you xpect them to perform well at 100%, definitely not against a team like chelsea (thy r on a run as well & want to catch up too).
Again i see us toping after the liverfool game. After that no looking back (Back where we belong)
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[ Man utd jaluo]
Chelsea knew how to play arsenal when they had a full team. Now that they are without key players, anything can happen mate. West Ham remember is a well balanced team. Ars-hoos are disjointed right now mate.
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i must admit its fun seeing them (arsenal) crumbling down. ooh what a relief and fergy was right predicting tough times ahead for the, i see the pshycological warfare is really affecting them, fergy summed it up well “even arsenal know that they will lose points”
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I second ur comment #29 mate
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We are all getting a little ahead of ourselves and to be honest we are starting to sound like Scousers. The talk of Arsenal’s fall from grace is just rubbish. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t believe they have lost yet in the EPL and we have lost two games. Don’t get me wrong, I hope that the Gooners fall from grace with a thud, but all this burying them before they are dead is just nonsense. Lets overtake them first before we start celebrating in the seats.
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let me correct u there grognard. i dont see whats wrong with celebrating when our rival stumbles and rem its only a weeks high which is tottally dependant on the next game whether they drop points again or not or our team gains ground on them.
i think the championship then would be boring if we would be watching and waiting till the end of the season to celebrate. and what jameso and i r doing is what builds the passion we got for our teams.
again we are jus saying what we’d prefer to c in the next coming weeks and there aint nothing wrong, i mean guyz bet about almost anything and anything in EPL like who will score the first goal in the weekend so whats wrong with us trying to reason and figure out when arsenal will lose the top spot to us.
p.s i have no kind words for them gooners
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Grognard: Nobody wins as far as you concerned. Lighten up . Its great to see areshole stumble. When we drew earlier this season everyone was laughing. Now its payback time.
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We have to celebrate Arsenal’s draw. It is as simple as that. In a close fight you celebrate on 2 occasions: when you win and when your opponent stumbles. Furthermore, Arsenal’s stumble adds fire onto our side. Because it means that if we win our next 2 games and they stumble again during that time, we shall only be separated by a thin line. Arsenal could stumble against ‘Boro. They are meeting a Boro side which is in the same circumstances as Newcastle. After a string of poor performances Boro’s manager Gareth Southgate has his head on the wanted list and so he will tell his guys to out there and fight it totth and nail. I expect another draw at least….
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Hiram and Jameso, I can’t believe you actually think there’s a possiblity of Middlesborough drawing with Arsenal, true Hiram the circumstances are the same but the big difference is that Middlesborough have very few premiership quality players, Mido and Woodgate and possibly Downing, Arsenal have the quality even without Hleb and Fabregas( whom by the way is likely to be playing aginst ‘Boro anyway ) to beat a relegation team, there’s only a small chance that they won’t beat them. But I expect a draw against Chelsea, possibly a loss. And I think Grognard just means it would be stupid for us to celebrate a draw and then maybe end up drawing and falling even further behind in the next match,possibly against Derby (haha that would be the result of the season), you know? But Grognard they have reason to be happy, the draw was unexpected and therefore a pleasing result for our fans.
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this site is called redrants..so all those tru red fans out thea come on and lets rant.
to all man utd fans there, if u aint happy arsenal drew yesterday put your hands up and if r indeed happy, come and lets rant,,grognard hope yo getting the point.
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[Comma]
Hiram is just trying to say what Man utd jaluo & i r saying mate. Boro is going into the game with arshole, in the same circumstances as newcastle did (to be honest i did’t xpect dose geordies to produce that result]. Same wit borough. We all know what it is to play a team who r fighting relegation (West Ham last yr; Bolton ds yr).
And Grog, loosen up. Are u trying to tell me Derby will take a point away from us. Hell no mate. Let me remind of our fixtures & Arsholes fixtures, to show you were the confidence is coming from
Arshole
Vs borough (A); Vs Chelski (H); Vs Totehnm (H); Vs Pompy (A); Vs Everton (A)
Man Utd ( Champions )
Vs Derby(with Paul Jewel, rem Wigan) (H); Vs Liverfool (A); Vs Everton (H); Vs Sunderland (A); Vs West Ham (A)
Do you now see where the confidence is coming from mate.
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Comma
Point of correction mate, against Borough it is the same team dt will play. thre would still be no fabregas, Hleb, Flamini. They r racing to be fit 4 d game against chelski.
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[ Grognard ]
Not satisfied yet. Well you should have seen what i went thru at the office wen we lost to both Man City (wrong side of manchester), and bolton( damn those suckers). I am really enjoying myself with the Arshole fans around me now. (telling me the title is wrapped up). Imaging saying somthing like that in December.
Fellow red ranters lets enjoy burying those arshole fans. Grog i am suspecting you have a relation who is an arshole fan.
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[ Man utd jaluo ]
Well said mate, maybe Grog has a soft spot 4 those arsholes.
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“Boro is going into the game with arshole, in the same circumstances as newcastle did (to be honest i did’t xpect dose geordies to produce that result]. Same wit borough. We all know what it is to play a team who r fighting relegation (West Ham last yr; Bolton ds yr).” I just pointed out that the difference is Middlesborough have no goalscorers, West Ham last year had plenty, and Bolton always have a chance of scoring with Anelka, there is a big difference. And how do you know that none of the players will be back? I just assumed at least one or two would be back as they are all minor injuryies. And Man Utd jaluo is it that hard to spell normally, rather than ‘u’ and all the rest of the shortened crap. But Jameso you make a good point about the fixtures, the futures looking bright
But we all always had faith that we would finish ahead of Arsenal anyway.
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conor as long as u understand what u r reading whats the prob.
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Conor
Sometimes you do not need a proven goal scorer. a lucky break from a corner, a set-piece or something, and you get a goal. On the update on the injury list. The arshole fans confirmed to me mate, and i read in one of the dailies. those same players are out of the borough game.
On Man utd jaluo’s rants. i guess they r ok, common mate give a guy a break.
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I think Newcastle played brilliantly. Great result.
Don’t worry guys. Arse-nal just need to draw 1 more game. Don’t particularly care which one. They still have to come to Old Trafford, remember?
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It amazes me how many of you cannot read and how quickly you can just jump to conclusions. I just got roasted over the fire and almost accused of being an Arsenal supporter because I suggested a little controlled optimism and restrained passion because we were still behind them by four points. Instead I got criticized by gamblers and blokes who can’t handle the stress from Gooner fans at work. NOT MY PROBLEM!
And JUST1N, payback only happens when MANCHESTER UNITED beat Arsenal. Not when somebody else does it for us. Grab a pair and learn to fight your own battles instead of having your one legged sister from Newcastle do it for you. So how is that for lightening up?
I come from a culture where winning is everything and celebrating like you are a champion when you are in second place is the sign of brain disease. I have no problem celebrating United and it’s climb to the top but just last week some of the same people were complaining and crying that the Gooners were going to walk away with the title because we lost to Bolton. I say to all of you, grab a shot of tequila and take a Valium because you need to calm down a bit and get the hell off my case.
Claiming that we should not get ahead of ourselves and stop burying a very strong opponent is nothing less than what SAF would say but because it was me, I get roasted over the fire for it. Well that’s fine I guess. I don’t mind. What I do mind is being completely misunderstood and then accused of being either an Arsenal supporter or one who bows down to one. That was pretty fucking low considering the contribution that I have made to this site and the clear allegiance I have to United.
The fact that I choose to enjoy and support the team with composure, intelligence, sobriety as well as respect for my opponent should not be seen as threatening. After all, it was I who first let a couple of Arsenal fans have it the other day on this site. I guess that makes me soft on them. Only an asshole and an illiterate would think that. But then I don’t come from a country where thugs meet at the end of a game to beat the shit out of each other because they don’t support the right team. Yeah, I guess that makes me soft.
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Grognard
That is going over the board; & no one said anything bout u being an asshole or anything. I have heard bout ur legendary contribution to d site and seen 4 myself. But for u to go to d extent of insulting fellow united fans show u don not hav respect 4 us ranters. Really disappointed in you.
What i would not take is u shiting our great country mate. At least we r bringing the premiership to u suckers. why don’t u go sell ur own league and see if anybody would buy it. Some of us were born into this tradition and we passionately support our team. (BEING BATTERED IN ROME BY THE POLICE AND ALL) guess you were not there, or else u would understand. I guess pple like u started supporting the red devils when times were good, so what would u know about when the team wasn’t winning anything. Yes mate we r passionate cos united blood runs thru us and we xpect 100% contribution from our players (letting dem know heroes who have worn d shirt b4)
So next time mate u wankers want to get personal do not go near abusing our great country cos we sweat tooth & nail to go watch our beloved team or clubs. That is why u lads go to watch Bristol city games, A stadium is full when Hull city is playing cardiff. Not cos u r one of the lucky *1 billion* viewers who the prem is being beamed to.
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Grognard
I guess mate u r fucking noble man & would apologize to all brits 4 that statement, or if not, u would have lost my total respect. UNITED FANS DO NOT SHIT OF FUCK THEMSELVES !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Grognard
Lastly we r not loosers. I for one am a fucking investment banker mate. But i would even give up my job to do anything for my beloved tem. FOr one mate, i would travel with the team (hope to be at the roma game even if it dosen’t matter). Again cos the united blood is running thru me that is why i wouldn’t take any shit 4rm the fucking wankers (arshole fans) from work, and i would definitely not go as fucking low mat to dis my fellow mates. WE DESERVE AN APOLOGY 4RM YOU.
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[Jameso]
I understand where you are coming from. But the facts you mentioned is not going to change what Grognard really thinks. Honestly, I didn’t see where he demeaned England – it would be great if you could quote it.
Secondly, the fact that he mentioned he is from a culture where winning means everything itself speaks for it. You can’t really expect him to be supporting Hull City can you? You were lucky to be from Manchester, hence you must certainly feel privileged over the other united fans from abroad who would have to rely on Television.
And about Arsenal dropping points, yes, it is a perfectly good feeling to see that. It’s nice to rub it in to your Arsenal mates at work. But is it wrong for someone to come forward and express caution? I remember Chelsea fans going over the moon last season when we dropped points. But, you’d have to think all that was a little premature, wasn’t it? My point is, you are free to rejoice or be cautiously optimistic… but none of you have the right to drive it in people’s heads that your opinion is the opinion. That goes for either of you — the one who thought rejoicing was cheap, as well as the one who thought that rejoicing was great.
We have our right to be entitled to our opinions. And Jameso, don’t go around asking for someone to apologise. If you do have such an issue, contact me. I’ll resolve it.
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RR
Am sorry but i loose it wen i read other pple tryin to shit us, i quote Grog as sayin ” Only an asshole and an illiterate would think that. But then I don’t come from a country where thugs meet at the end of a game to beat the shit out of each other because they don’t support the right team.”
That in itself mate is an insult.
I didn’t say Grog supports hull city. I said brits are fucking passionate supporters of their teams. That is why you would see a stadium is full when Hull City is playing Cardiff or when Bristol city is playing a cup game with preston. We brits r passionate bout our teams. tradition that dates back to the 1800s. wen some of these teams were on a roll. It is just a pity TV audience makes the big teams now get bigger (not that am complaining- Fucking bless SAF)
some of us have seen evrthng supportng our team (need i mention again, the roma game in Italy last season )
Again RR, i pologise mate if i went over the fucking board. Guess i let my emotion take over me fucking brains. But i wouldn’t stand and see fellow ranters insult us man utd fans. We shouldn’t do that.
Welcome back RR. Hope what u did wasn’t too hectic. I for one missed ur topics. Don’t get m wrong ur mate did a fantastic job.
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