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He's been released from hospital and all his tests were clear.

Branthwaite for his pure quality but special mention to Young for the foresight to bribe the VAR officials.

As horrible as it was games like the Chelsea can happen, which is why I didn't subscribe the the opinion that that game showed the manager has lost the players like some had. However, if we'd put in another abject showing like that again today then I would definitely have started to lean more in that direction. If you can't get up after a roasting like that and show what you're about then it's a lost cause.
Fortunately, the players did respond and they didn't look like a set of players that have give up on the manager. They fought hard for everything, just like they did against Burnley.
I thought there was more quality and cohesion to our play than there was against Burnley though. That was a slog and a half but we had some really good passages of play today where we created openings, and I thought we were the better team on the whole.
That's not to say we were brilliant by any stretch of the imagination, we weren't, but it wasn't a smash and grab and we weren't gifted anything. We earned those three points and deserved them.
We probably did get away with at least one penalty, but the amount of ones that we've not gotten ourselves this season means I don't give a fuck. That feeling only increases because of how fucking horrible their fans are. I hope they get relegated.
 
Pickford - Add another top class save to his highlight reel.
Young - Got away with a few penalty shouts but generally I thought he was fine.
Tarkowski - Had a bit of a nightmare when in possession but when it came to clearing the ball with his fat head he was great.
Branthwaite - I can only assume him stepping out of the defensive line to meet the attacker is part of the plan but it made me very nervous about the space he left behind him! Apart from that, though, he was fanatastic.
Mykolenko - Could have offered more offensively for me but defensively he was very good. Often he was left on his own defending because McNeil was off elsewhere.
Harrison - Another one that could do better going forward but even that was better than it had before he was taken out of the side. Really worked hard for the team today as well, which goes a long way.
Gana - Absolutely outstanding. Tackling, harrying, hustling, intercepting, taking the ball up the pitch, scoring from outside the area (what the actual fuck?!). MOTM by some distance.
Doucoure - I was very underwhelmed with him. His effort and work rate were much better than they have been recently, which is great for us, but on the ball he was very sloppy.
McNeil - Until he scored (cracking goal by the way) I thought he was having another poor game tbh, but once he got that goal he came alive and then could have had another one.
Gomes - If he hadn't gone off then he'd have been pushing Gana for MOTM for me. I thought he stood out like a sore thumb because he was comfortable with the ball, taking the ball under pressure, and then being able to pass it to a team mate.
DCL - He worked his bollocks off for the side. Didn't get many chances in the game but he really should have been hitting the target with the one he had in the second half.

Hope City absolutely batter them in the final

Hope City absolutely batter them in the final

To be fair, United have played like a championship side for about half their season

I’m so glad you were very wrong. I’m sure you are, too. 

Truly, watch the disallowed goal for Coventry. The ones defending the goal are Wan Bissaka, Eriksen and Fernandes. Shocking defending

To be fair, United have played like a championship side for about half their season

To be fair, United have played like a championship side for about half their season

To be fair, United have played like a championship side for about half their season

From what I'm watching, I'd beg to disagree 😂

Coventry

Thought that must be a spoof account when I saw it.
Whether sour grapes or grasping it'll do them no favours.

I think that’s a give us our 2 points back and we’ll forget about it. 

There was a massive amonit of pressue on that game. That win in just a massive win all around. 
Great to see McNeil getting a goal, lets hope that given him that drive to have a few more pops at goal.
I can enjoy the rest of the weekend. 
This result and Luton's yesterday make the Liverpool game a bit of a free hit now for both players and fans to try and actually enjoy the game .

No - with Bayer drawing against West Ham the other day they've officially been undefeated the longest out of any club in the top 5 leagues of Europe. Nobody has been undefeated both domestically and in Europe across a season either. 
It would be an impressive achievement with Bayern given how long the run has gone on for, its absolutely insane what he's done with Leverkusen who were battling relegation when he took over. 
Despite his ties to Liverpool, I'm so intrigued by what Xabi Alonso does with his career. He's clearly another world class manager in the making.

Considering we don't have emerging talent it must've been a redundant job anyway .

Not dressing anything up. Unless he's actively coaching them to finish and pass well in training but bottle it when it counts, then I'll take it all back. But there's only so much you can do with those factors (and more) that are part of the overall problem before you look clueless. Honestly don't know anyone who would get this group performing as individuals and a team with the cloud hanging over the club and the years of bad mentalities in and around the club.
I've defended him in the past because the players were creating chances. But even the chances have dried up and I've not noticed much change in tactics (partly because he hasnt got a squad to change around) so it can only be in the players heads to improve things. 
But all that aside, if we could afford to sack him he would've been gone already and I would be pissed off that yet another manager with yet another style hasn't been given time rather than be annoyed at losing him. I think thats always been my stance, i can defend circumstances but I get angry with the situation and keep insisting on 1 manager just for that 1 element of stability.
Whichever new owner we get will have him out the door on day one (he might already know this and maybe that's affecting him too, though he doesn't seem the type to me). But who turns this groups head around? Genuinely don't know and maybe a fire sale is going to be beneficial, so long as we have a manager in place.
That's not me accepting the poorness of our play, that's me recognising we're in a shit place and if I thought changing the manager would improve things, I'd be supportive of it. But I don't believe it will beneficial.

It's not acceptance of average at all, it's realising that reality is reality. And the reality is for us that we're pretty shit and that it's going to take a long time to improve to the extent that we challenge for anything remotely looking like success.
We're nowhere near chasing success currently but what I want us to chase is progress. That means finishing at least one place further up the league every season, possibly getting through to a further round in each cup (possibly because knock-out competitions are hard thing to get through).
What it doesn't mean is getting irate because the team isn't challenging for titles/cups all because we won a league in 1987. Times change. You have to realise where you currently are and where you want to get to. But it takes time and you need to have a bit of perspective.
Now, that does not mean that I don't want to get back to what we once were. Nil Satis Nisi Optimum means a hell of a lot to me, I have it tattooed on my skin. Nothing but the best is good enough is a fantastic motto to follow and we absolutely should live by it, but 'the best' doesn't really mean actually being the best of all. It means being the best you can be and the best we can be is not the best of all.
We need to learn to walk again before we can run.

If this country is the picture of reason, the world is truly fucked beyond repair!

I think a lot of people would love to replace Biden, myself included, but he's still a significantly better option than Trump. I find it crazy that someone would say that Biden is trying to destroy the US and that Trump isn't/wasn't. It was absolute chaos under Trump. He's the most polarizing president we've had in my lifetime by a wide margin. We are still feeling the negative effects of his one term. He's also a career criminal and should've been no where near the White House in the first place. The diehard Trump fans don't really care about politics or making the country better -- it's more about "owning the libs" to them. 

He comes across as a very nice lad.  I'd love to see him get fit and and make his comeback with us. 
 

Must've heard all the armchair managers online moaning about hoofball and thought he'd try and appease them. 
Turns out, there's a reason we play hoofball 🤸🏼‍♂️

Must've heard all the armchair managers online moaning about hoofball and thought he'd try and appease them. 
Turns out, there's a reason we play hoofball 🤸🏼‍♂️