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To the kid who was crying his eyes out on Tollington Park after Manchester United were beaten 1 - 6 by Manchester City.
I have a few things to say to you.
You were about 18, tears and snot are not a good look.
You sound like you come from London, so why support Man U?
And this is most important.
YOU FUCKING LOST lol I have not laughed as much in years, and seeing your tear stained snotty face put a bigger smile on my face than I thought it was possible to have. So thanks for making my day even better.
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Charitable much?
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That is me being charitable, I wanted to laugh in his face.
I am a Leeds fan and as such will never EVER show charity to a Manchester United fan.
At best I would be happy to piss on one if they were on fire.
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@Detritus, I am sure he is reading this forum and has taken your kind words to heart.
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This made me laugh a lot Detritus! Crying because of a normal league game is hilarious!
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Im a Leeds Utd fan and haven't considered Man Utd as a rival team for many years now thanks to DOL and P-Rids.
Its more about Cardiff and Millwall in The Championship, and used to be Huddersfield, Sheffield Utd in League One. A half empty Elland Road for Man U's recent visit suggests many feel the same. Always nice to see them take a pasting, but i definitely take more pleasure from the "bought" teams like Chelsea and Spurs getting spanked. Man U have unfortunately been good for 25 years, rather than 5.
PS: Went to the Pboro game on Saturday. Id forgotten how amazing it was to score and win with the last kick of the game. It went absolutely mental!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOT.
PPS: Nobody should cry over football, but if you do, thats ok its just a bit tragic.
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I agree, I have a semi soft spot for the Gunners so always like seeing Spurs get hammered.
We are not going to like Chelsea anyway further more now there cash rich and Ken Bates less (wish we were)
Millwall, Cardiff yes always.
As for DOL and Rids don't even want to get started on that.
MOT
P.S Our keeper worries me.
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You forgot:
4. It's just a game. -
Yes your right it is just a game, but it matters to people. It matters to me, its the only link to where I am from that I have and I have followed Leeds United through thick and thin, more thin than thick admittedly.
As life is god awful most of the time, murder, rape, bankers bending us over and shafting us left right and center, this "game" makes me happy.
That's what life is about, being happy or am I wrong?
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I went to Barnet-Southend last night. It was great fun, a short tube ride and £15 on the gate.
As long as you aren't too emotionally invested in how Barnet perform (as they were dreadful last night and most times I have been to see them), it's a decent little trip.
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That's a good idea! Think I will do that. I follow football but have never been to a match although I have got a ticket for the women's final in the Olympics.
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I've always thought it was odd how rarely Arsenal gets mentioned on this site - pretty much only in conjunction with gripes about parking restrictions. The club does a lot for the area, our pubs and restaurants before (and during) a game, and adding to the general jollity.
It is just a game, but a bloody great one and it brings people together on a regular basis like nothing else. Apart from religion, I suppose, but that does nothing for me. Except the sing-song, which I like, but the Arsenal songs are better than most hymns anyway. "What do we think of Tottenham?" being my all-time favourite.
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Completely agree Emine. I love the fact that we live in a football community, especially one so prestigious and with so much heritage. It brings an identity to an area. I love how local businesses show their allegiance/support through subtlties....the happening bagel shop with its posters and pendants, Hamlet cafe with its homage to Micky Thomas' goal against Liverpool, numerous pubs etc. Just makes you feel a bit closer to the community.
With all the positivity, im amazed how arsenal fans are so down on their team and what they've achieved/have. When Leeds played them in the cup in Jan i was lucky enough to go, and couldn't believe how they turned against their players so quickly. Do they not remember rubbing shoulders in the 80's with Luton Town et al, competing for that "lucrative" 7th or 8th spot. You weren't always this global footballing giant, be thankful for your success, stability and amazing stadium and enjoy it all.....some football fans are just content that their club still exists in these difficult times.
@andy. That sounds like a great evening out! Please confirm the brand of Pie and your marks out of ten if you had one.
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@Brodie J., and Andy,
Best pies at football matches? I would say Hollands , meat & potato is my favourite, especially for an early kick-off with a large tea
[ steak & kidney is also good but more of an afternoon or evening snack, definitely superior to Pukka pies with all the dry crust. [ you can buy Hollands pies in Asda apparently - and steak puds too - not such a great atmosphere but if you really can't wait to find one at a game ]
@Detritus - you also get Schaudenfreude on a stick, but only after the game. -
Arsenal fans are among the worst of the whingers. A sense of entitlement seems to have taken hold and we forget those long years when we weren't doing too well. Arsenal football, at its best - introduced, as those who want to get rid of him should remember, by Wenger - is a wonder to behold and those occasional flashes of beauty more than make up for the usual frustration. Anyway, how boring would it be to follow a team who won everything all the time, especially those who "buy" trophies.
N4 was never better (in recent times) than the night we beat Barca.
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@brodiej - the pies were pukka and they also served Bovril. There are proper terraces, too. However, the magic of Barnet is to be found in the bacon sandwiches served at 'the Bacon Butty' hut. £2.50 and proper white bread doorstops.
@emine i support Swindon Town, so I am not troubled by following a club that wins things all the time.
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Where did you see this kid crying?
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Some fans will have the cake and eat it too.
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'Arsenal' are like the 'Wimbledon' who play in Milton Keynes, and should be treated as the commercial migrants they are rather than anything to do with the local community.
(I pretty much hate football in the first place, but when it's that brazenly just an expression of corporate greed, I find the situation especially egregious) -
MUCK
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@ADGS. Uh, thanks for that. Great post. It had everything.
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So if 'Wimbledon' are still in Milton Keynes in 90 years, will it be right to start renaming the place Wimbledon? And that's in Milton sodding Keynes, as against somewhere which already had history and soul and character to be erased and overwritten by the incoming corporation like Highbury.
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If you ever want a free beer tonight is the night, there should be a lot of happy gunners about.
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Went to another obscure match over the weekend. Leyton Orient vs Hartlepool. By car you can get there in 20 mins and its quite an interesting drive. Plus you can park next to the ground. It was £25 in, but that was made up by the incredible range of half time delicacies. Pies, pasties, burgers, all your favourites! :-). The ground itself is a bit weird as it was redevloped with 4 blocks of flats in each corner...there were people having a bbq on their terrace with someone taking a corner kick 15ft away from them. The football was bad, but im used to that. Unfortunately there was a band. I remember when Leeds United biined "the band" that had formed in the kop when after a chant of "stand up if you hate the band" all the members stood up as well as 35,000 others
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I've been along to Leyton Orient a few times too.
Pretty easy to get to by public transport from here and the ground has an odd charm to it. Always been able to turn up and buy a ticket on the day of the match too, which I like.The football is pretty awful though. They make even my beloved Partick Thistle look like real masters of the game... -
@ andy. Off the back of this i ventured to the FA cup tie of Barnet vs MK Dons last Saturday.
Loved it. Proper old school club, massively sloping pitch, ridiculous open terraces, apathetic home fans, completely naff hospitality suite, tannoy announcer in a sheepskin jacket in a hut on the halfway line! Missed the Butty Hut but saw a long queue outside it. 20 mins on the northern line home. Great afternoon.
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Arsenal v Leeds in the cup oh joy, not only are we going to get beaten. It's by the club pretty much at the end of the road.
I think it might be shown on TV but the question arises what pub should I pick to watch the match in?
MOT
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football blo-dy hell...as fergie once said...
best goal ever - gazza playing for england and flicking the ball over the head of the scottish player and then slamming the ball into back of the net - and then the dentists chair celebration - in euro 95
england (5) germany (1)... the dvd of this game on sale in tesco in sgr for years after...
dalglish - no7 for liverpool ,keegan and john barnes...
gazza's tears as he realised that he would be banned from the final as he got a yellow card..
stuart pearce sticking the ball over the bar then roaring "come on" as he avenges it and scores for england years later...
glenn hoddle - best england player ever...
player to watch - england and man utds phil jones - good sitting midfielder...
avb - sent alex and anelka to play with the reserves after they both put in a transfer request - avb the jury is out..but he should not be putting players like anelka in the stiffs...1st team cfc players are shocked by this...
who has put on £10 for spurs to win the prem? shame gareth bale doesnt play for england...great player...
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err is that a wind up? it was Euro 96
Germany 1 - England 5
And Glen Hoddle? He was good but as good as Moore or even Beckham in his pomp?
And best goal Davd Platt against Belgium in Italia 90
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detritus - no not a wind up.i am being serious...
yes it was a home game for germany so germany (1) england (5)
phil jones - the man utd player who plays centre back - he played for england in an international match recently as a sitting midlfield player and he was great.Good first touch,pace,intelligence,pass and move,puts his foot in,sticks his head in and other cliches...
ahsley young,the man utd player ... he has pace and drags opposing players out of position...a threat4 england...
fabio overlooks micah richards at right back for england...but thats crap-ello...
arsenal need to buy in the jan transfer window...gary cahill centre back needed as mertesacker not all that in central defence for arsenal despite his height and caps for germany...
carry on
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Don't follow Man U enough to comment on him but he does look like a good player, the loss of Vidic is a loss.
As long as Leeds dont lose players I dont care who goes where, but the gunners do need some one in the back and a few teams need a new keeper.
England will struggle without Rooney in the first 2 games, I can see us loosing to France.
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We will get slammed at the Emirates, but we'll have a great day out. Thats what i said last year and we almost won! Same again please.
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I agree but it will be a Snoddy brace
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i would like to hear more about trips to lower league clubs;and the pukka pies or other pies they serve at half time...especially the romance of the FA cup,was good in the old days when lower league teams knocked out the old division one clubs...
bordiej says " i take pleasure from chelsea fc getting spanked" - roman abramovich thinks he is the manager and is treating cfc like he can do anything he wants with it...which he can as he owns cfc...bad4 football...he sacked ancelloti which was a disgrace...ancelloti was a good manager...
for me i think if all these players are fit and not banded unlike rooney then these players are good for england
rooney up front on his own - or wellbeck from man utd..
ashley young on the left,milner,gerard,strurridge - doing well down the right for chelsea...obviously gerard injured and rooney on a 3 match ban for england
wilshere - injured for arsenal but a lively midfield player - wilshere puts his foot and his head in and is quality arsenal player - walcott has pace but sometimes lacks intelligence...
ashley cole and lescott and jagielka and micah richards with hart in goal dont like jt as he is sluggish now
for me parker is a good defensive midfielder but he does put his foot in too much and gives away too many free kicks and lacks a yard hence phil jones of man utd being an option
lamps - maybe he will go to la galaxy like becks as avb does not fancy him perhaps...lamps is sluggish but he scored 20 goals a season in past which is better than many strikers
jt - as cfc are playing a high line maybe his lack of pace will be exposed - but he has never had any pace so maybe its avb who has got the tactics wrong...
as for arsenal - wenger - i would like to see what he buys in the january transfer window - maybe he could learn from harry redknapp who hung on to modric...
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Fair result tonight. I thought we battled really hard and it was a bit lucky that we hadn't let in 5 by the time Mr Henry popped up and knocked it in the corner. I do have to ask....What's his beard all about though?
Other observations...1. 356 - number of times the word "mug" was used2. 246 - number of times the word "mug" was used to describe Arshavin3. I saw Arsenal fans eating Arsenal branded boxes of BBQ chicken wings in the ground? No pie.4. Most expensive football shirt ever "Oxlade-Chamberlain". You would need an extra large just so it could go on the arms. -
Re Arsenal v Leeds.
It was a poor game to watch. Leeds should have had more of a go instead of waiting til they were 1 down.
A pal told me some facts about the Henry goal -
He scored with 12 mins to the end
Henry's 12th game against Leeds.
His 12th goal scored against Leeds.
Henry's shirt number 12.
In the year 2012.
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I think we were trying, the difference is that we're a bit shit so it might not have been obvious
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We woz robbed.
We are a tad shit I admit, but Leeds United are the greatest team ever.
Childish rant over.
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Hmm so we sack Grayson and get maybe Warnock god I hope not.
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This wasn't a surprise, although doing it after the transfer window seemed a bit daft. We have been poor for about 12 months now, and most wins have been undeserved, which hid the bigger problems. SG having an affair with someone at the office also doesn't lay great foundations for a winning atmosphere.
So, the name circulating in Yorkshire for the last few months has been Di Matteo. Not sure he's right for our club though. Warnock would be a good fit for us. He's widely hated, as are we, but im not sure he's technically very good. What he did with QPR last season was oustanding though, and for that reason i'd give him the nod.
The big news is how on earth did MKdons get Smith over us? why did we not go in for him?
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As you say, its the norm now that in order to improve your chances of success you can spend loads of money. Man City have done this, and good luck to them. I remember visiting Maine Road when they were in old money division 3 and they still had 25,000 coming to watch them play Grimsby in the rain. Bet they didn't see this coming.
As an aside, the Manchester United team that played Sunderland on Sunday had a transfer value of over £200m. Man U are a very good side, but there is no doubt that they are buying their (lack of) sucess.
Starting 11
Phil Jones £17,000,000
David De Gea £18,900,000
Patrice Evra £5,500,000
Michael Carrick £18,600,000
Antonio Valencia £16,000,000
Ashley Young £17,000,000
Wayne Rooney £27,000,000
Rio Ferdinand £27,550,000
Giggs £0
Scholes £0
Evans £0
TOTAL £147,550,000
On the bench
Demitar Berbatov £30,750,000
Javier Hernandez £6,000,000
Rafael Da Silva £2,500,000
Ji-Sung Park £4,000,000
Nani £13,500,000
Owen £0
TOTAL £56,750,000
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Of course they have big money players but those players came for the history, the club, the great manager. Not the money.
Man city bought literlly everybody worth buying within 2 years.its ridiculous because it doesnt give anybody else a chance. Football is about the game, it shouldnt be just about the money. Who could compete with wages when they dont have a limit? You say 200 they say 300. You say 300 they sy 400.
Dont think they wouldnt give messi 1/2 a million a week if he would actually come to such a club. Only thing is he wont come.imagine the wage ronaldo would be given?
Its great we have another team to challnge it makes the league interesting. But there should be a limit on transfers, wages and club losses.i cant remember the amoint but man city had millions in loss last year. They were making no money but staying afloat because The owner is so rich.
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Yes, i agree on everything you've said. Please accept an open invitation to become a Leeds United fan. Your expectations will never be high, a big money signing will be if they bring in a new pie supplier. Every game you play you have a very good chance of winning or losing. And, you will only ever have to learn one song. Its more fun being shit.
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