Blast from the past

[Bulletnut]

For the nth time... WHU broke the rules to sign two world class players. Had they not broken the rules, they would have had worst players playing for them. An independent panel found that that was enough to have made the difference between us being relegated and WHU being relegated.

So it was not a question of them just breaking the rules in a "financial way". If we had discovered that Gerrard and Rooney had been involved in various convoluted and illegal sexual activities and we had blackmailed them into signing for us, we would have been acting equally illegally and I am sure the skills of those two players would have got us the extra goal we needed to avoid relegation.

Darwood you can point out for the nth time plus one that West Ham broke the rules but it won't make any difference. They got the required number of points/goals to stay up and we didn't, and whether that was as a result of cheating or not is fast turning into ancient history. It's what's happened since that I'm more upset about, and you can't blame any of that on anyone other than our own lack of planning/execution.

This topic is even deader that the Ched case but still we harp on about it. Surely it's time to move on isn't it?

Good Luck today lads, Mr. Clough you're winning this sceptic over and while it aint pretty, I think you just may be the best thing to happen to us in a long while.

 

[Bulletnut]

This is a bit like reporting on a murder trial by suggesting what a crap life the victim would have lived if they'd not been murdered.

Not being a legal eagle that one has me scratching my head a bit

 

[Darren]

Darwood you can point out for the nth time plus one that West Ham broke the rules but it won't make any difference. They got the required number of points/goals to stay up and we didn't, and whether that was as a result of cheating or not is fast turning into ancient history. It's what's happened since that I'm more upset about, and you can't blame any of that on anyone other than our own lack of planning/execution.

This topic is even deader that the Ched case but still we harp on about it. Surely it's time to move on isn't it?

Good Luck today lads, Mr. Clough you're winning this sceptic over and while it aint pretty, I think you just may be the best thing to happen to us in a long while.

Of course it's ancient history and of course we have to move on, but some of us find it a strange argument that United had only themselves to blame for their relegation when an independent panel found it was WHU's cheating that did for us.

As someone else said, there have been masses of self induced fuck ups over the last few years. The 2007 relegation wasn't one of them.