The last match

[Wilderat Heart]

I was thinking about being a blade what you gain what you lose emotionally more than financially I actually understand the poster who said He felt like now might be a good time to stop because there are times i've felt like that as well. I was one who felt going up in our first season back was potentially a bad idea but now our team, although still probably short, feels better equipped, I make no apologies for the way I feel and it doesn't depend on my general feelings at the time. When I have suffered from depression. united regardless of where they are have always been an outlet for my feelings. A defeat feels terrible however I am feeling. One thing that feels unique to united (I'm sure its not) is their habit of doing things at the last possible moment. How many promotions and relegations have been decided on the last day. Sometimes clearly its losing playoff finals but often its the last match. I was there when we played Walsall, Wigan, Chelsea away. Promotions often seem to have happened a match early, apart from Leicester of course. So my point is if we do get relegated is it better psychologically for it to happen earlier so you can get used to the idea and not be heartbroken. Huddersfield fans for example had a party towards the end of the season because they knew they were down. On balance given the chance I would snatch your hand off for the chance to stay up by winning the last game of the season. I will take the heartbreak if I have to' sometimes being a blade is about rolling with the punches, but please United just this once can you be safe nice and early.

 

[Paisley Blade]

I was thinking about being a blade what you gain what you lose emotionally more than financially I actually understand the poster who said He felt like now might be a good time to stop because there are times i've felt like that as well. I was one who felt going up in our first season back was potentially a bad idea but now our team, although still probably short, feels better equipped, I make no apologies for the way I feel and it doesn't depend on my general feelings at the time. When I have suffered from depression. united regardless of where they are have always been an outlet for my feelings. A defeat feels terrible however I am feeling. One thing that feels unique to united (I'm sure its not) is their habit of doing things at the last possible moment. How many promotions and relegations have been decided on the last day. Sometimes clearly its losing playoff finals but often its the last match. I was there when we played Walsall, Wigan, Chelsea away. Promotions often seem to have happened a match early, apart from Leicester of course. So my point is if we do get relegated is it better psychologically for it to happen earlier so you can get used to the idea and not be heartbroken. Huddersfield fans for example had a party towards the end of the season because they knew they were down. On balance given the chance I would snatch your hand off for the chance to stay up by winning the last game of the season. I will take the heartbreak if I have to' sometimes being a blade is about rolling with the punches, but please United just this once can you be safe nice and early.

And so say all of us .

 

[coaxingstar71]

We'll be sweating on European Qualification in the last match of the season and then working out the permutations depending on who wins the FA Cup.

 

[COME BACK CHED]

The earlier {if} we stay up , the earlier we party for me , lets have another party if we stay up , that is how big a achivement it would be , most expect us to fail .

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

It's the hope that does your head in...

 

[ucandomagic]

We love football precisely because there is no such thing as the last match. It is the part of our life that matters hugely to us, and yet over which we have no control. As you get older your Blades memories form into blocks. The last 10 years started at Wembley losing to Burnley and ended hugging strangers and watching a guy fall through a bus shelter after the Ipswich game.

So the next game is the start of a new block, but there will always be another next. As a post above says It is the hope that kills you - but it’s also the hope that keeps you alive. Almost nothing else in life gives you that Saturday morning feeling in your stomach - and we get that every week.

I remember relegation in 76 - going down weeks before the end of the season is much worse than being in it to the end. Football is about raw emotion - good and bad - not about having nothing to fight for.

Pre season starts Friday - another “last game” is history and the “next game” is here. Saturday morning feeling 10 times stronger, with the whole season’s hopes, dreams and fears ahead!

Absolute Fucking Magic