Manchester United Thread

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I've ben watching the memorial on setanta this afternoon, what a team we lost,but the spirit of what that team stood for and how they played still goes on to this day.
R.I.P. The Flowers Of Munich
 
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Yeah I caught some of it and I agree, they installed the "win in style" mentality at United. :applause:
 
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Thats the mantra created by Sir Matt Busby,not only having the desire to win but win in style.That is also why you wont see us playing boring or negative football in any case.

February 6th 1958 - February 6th 2008

50th Munich Tragedy Tribute.

Lest We Forget.​
 
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RIP Busby Babes, was one hell of a team which could have played at the highest level in these days
 
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Schumacher said:
Man Utd fans:

Where is Silvestre? I haven't seen him in a while...
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He is still chasing that damn bird mate.

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this is brilliant credit to author...

Did you know Duncan Edwards Dad, I mean really really know?
It's just you've kept so many cuttings from all those years ago.
And were the babes the greatest, the greatest ever team?
Or just enshrined here in this history, just a bygone boyhood dream.
Now I know you idolised them Dad, you gave each one their own page, the pictures are well faded now, but I suppose that comes with age.

Dad, did Tommy Taylor really head a ball against the bar, which Harry Gregg collected, it had rebounded back so far?
And was Duncan Edwards really, the greatest of them all, with silken skills and feathery touch, thirteen stone and six foot tall?
Now there's a contradiction surely Dad, but I'm going to let it pass, but Billy Whelan must have played once, without first going to Mass.
And was Harry Gregg a goalkeeper supreme?
Were Eddie Coleman's hazy runs like red blurs on swards of green?
And Dad can you explain to me how it ever came to pass, that Roger Byrne, just five foot nine, covered every blade of glass?
Or how David Pegg whose swerving runs, like a scorpion you said, always struck the ball with venom, yet left no one for dead?
Or how it was that big Mark Jones could soar into the sky, yet still patrol his area, so that nobody got by?

Then there's the team of Sixty Eight, and Dad I'd like to know, how George Best was always missing, yet played five hundred games or so?
And how was it Bobby Charlton, who played so many vital roles, could be both a great goalscorer and a scorer of great goals?
Or how Denis Law had chipped a ball from forty yards or more, it came back off the crossbar, and yet Law was there to score?
What use was it that Pat Crerand could split defences with one pass, when the ball only ever landed on a sixpence on the grass?
And was Stepney's save at Wembley, the best you've ever seen, or was it just that it resulted in the fulfilment of a dream?
So now to Matt Busby, or Sir Matt as he's now known, from a mining town in Scotland, yet still one of our own?
Then finally there's the Munich clock, the disaster time still shown.
why do people say that they never intended coming home?

The boy looked up with pleading eyes, and his father gently said.
There's a lifetime of old memories in the scrapbook you've just read.
And of course there is some fiction, most fact, some strange yet true, that's what makes players into legends, now I've passed them on to you.

Those pictures may be faded son, but I can see them all so clear, as if it were just yesterday, and I hold each memory dear.
Now I've passed this scrapbook on to you, to treasure for all time, And you too will find your heroes and build to them a shrine,
and you'll add your bits of fiction, but don't worry son that's fine, to make legends of your heroes and then place them alongside mine.
And you'll understand in years to come, as you watch great United teams, why it is we call Old Trafford, The Theatre of Dreams.
 
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Presenting our latest starlet from Brasil...Number 34. Rodrigo Possebon.



United have high hopes for new signing Rodrigo Possebon, according to academy manager and reserves coach Brian McClair.

The Brazilian midfielder, who turns 19 next week, joined the Reds last month from Porto Alegre-based Sport Club Internacional. He has since been handed the number 34 shirt, but is likely to spend the remainder of the campaign plying his trade with the Reserves.

McClair said: "Rodrigo is a tall, elegant midfielder who fits into the idea of a modern footballer. He has very good ability and is a steady box-to-box player rather than your silky tricky midfielder.

"Our scout in Brazil, John Calvert-Toulmin, who recommended our Brazilian full-back twins Fabio and Rafael Silva, spotted Rodrigo and we've been impressed.

"His father is of Italian descent and so Rodrigo had an Italian passport. He's effectively European so all the paper work was sorted out easily.

"Rodrigo is young and he's come a long way from his home to England but he speaks very good English and he's settled in very well. He's very level headed. We're pleased to have him."
 
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i can consider scholes but u shud have seen the Tottehnham match and the earlier Man City match, tevez and rooney cudnt do much. Giggs was 1 good person but hes becoming old
 
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I think ManU are more than capable of defeating any side without Ronaldo. It just seems to me that when Ronaldo does not perform (vs Tottenham), they do seem a bit lost, as they expect him to come up with the goods everytime. They should beat Tottenham without Ronaldo but I think they have become a little too dependent on him.
 
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hahah this is funny gonna from an arsenal supporter, i remeber when we had the same arguments about mr henry! :)
 
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WE were not a one man team though - Ljundberg and Pires were banging in the goals - Vieira was there. Bergkamp. They were all there aswell when we were doing well.

Wen we were not doing well we relied on Henry fully.

Henry Is an Arsenal Legend - But there is no doubting in his last couple of years - he was holding back the team a bit.
 
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gomito#10 said:
hahah this is funny gonna from an arsenal supporter, i remeber when we had the same arguments about mr henry! :)
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That just shows no one is bigger than the team...if Ronaldo leaves tomorrow nani will step up...who would of thought Ade had it. ManUtd has talent waiting to shine I fear no one leaving ... Im a believer
 
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BobbyBox said:
WE were not a one man team though - Ljundberg and Pires were banging in the goals - Vieira was there. Bergkamp. They were all there aswell when we were doing well.

Wen we were not doing well we relied on Henry fully.

Henry Is an Arsenal Legend - But there is no doubting in his last couple of years - he was holding back the team a bit.
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no doubt, and neither is united
 
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United isn't a one man team - Just that one of their players is playing some Amazing footy at the moment.
 
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Watever! just remove Cronaldo and then see how they collapse.(the 3 games when he was banned at the beginning of season,2 draw n 1 lost), n if u remove our Top scorer Adebayor, we'll still play with Van Persie and Eduardo. Henry was definitely good, all those 49 games n stuff, but we even had Pires, Bergkamp, Vieria and others at that time whereas last season only henry was the potential scorer who performed poorly. but this season we have defenders like Gallas n toure also scoring. n if u think its funny that Cronaldo wont leave, he said he would like to play in Spain.
 
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rushilhalflife said:
Watever! just remove Cronaldo and then see how they collapse.(the 3 games when he was banned at the beginning of season,2 draw n 1 lost), n if u remove our Top scorer Adebayor, we'll still play with Van Persie and Eduardo. Henry was definitely good, all those 49 games n stuff, but we even had Pires, Bergkamp, Vieria and others at that time whereas last season only henry was the potential scorer who performed poorly. but this season we have defenders like Gallas n toure also scoring. n if u think its funny that Cronaldo wont leave, he said he would like to play in Spain.
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yeah van persie has been on fire this year...... and eduardo has lit up the prem since his first game
 
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