Roy's View From... View From Man Utd

[Bladesince59]

I don't mind who wins the PL this year as long as it's not these tossers or Klopp's lot,
Thanks Roy - UTB

 

[PokerBlade]

Just read this......
“Clubs like Burnley and Sheffield Utd and even Wolves have become good at defending with 7 or 8 players and it is hard to break down. Giving away 2 stupid goals didn’t help and we didn’t get the break on the Martial one.
I think not having home crowds helps them as it’s harder to build intensity.”

This prat has just opened his mouth and said the exact opposite of reality. How have we become really good at defending? 16 other teams don’t think so! It’s been laughable at times this year, but credit to the team last night as they never gave up.

As for the home crowds comment, I went to the Luton Shelton game at OT a few years back, it was like a morgue nearly all the game. A ManU fan I know said they just aren’t interested in playing teams like us and just go to fill in an afternoon. They just expect to win and sit chatting to each other. Reality is the COVID/ empty stadiums effect really helps the teams with technically talented players in top vs bottom matches. Playing at OT is usually a bit of a ”cup final / fa cup” atmosphere and we, as fans really back our lads superbly home and away, and can inspire and drive the team forward.

As Rio F said on BT last night, intensity, chasing down players etc. is a must ask and was missing for some of their key players. I think we wanted it more. UTB.

It's hard to know how much the fans really affect games but it's a general principle of game theory that removing any uncontrolled variable (or any variable that increases "luck" or randomness) favours the more skilled player. If fans have a role then it's in motivating players and pressuring opposition. The more of those factors you remove (when neither side has fans it's even) the more the ability of the player is key. Big upsets in chess are rare because there's so little outside influence. And it's why things like a shoddy pitch favour lower opposition by adding an element of randomness to passing and shooting.

If fans have an impact then I highly doubt it would leave Man U worse off.

 

[N20 Blade]

I don't mind who wins the PL this year as long as it's not these tossers or Klopp's lot,
Thanks Roy - UTB

So Man City then?!

 

[Bladesince59]

So Man City then?!

In preference - just.

 

[Harry's Game]

Without Sheffield United there wouldn’t be ANY United’s

 

[BarcaBlade]

May all your Viewsfroms be blessed. Can't have been easy this season, but I'm sure this one gave you as much joy to compile as it did for me to read.

 

[Boxer Blade]

Is Jesse still coming

 

[Varkanoid]

No we are not "enticing" enough for him.

Thanks Roy good read.

 

[INTAKE BLADE]

Cheers Roy

 

[Greenwich Blade]

What an internet attention seeking tit on the right.

He sounds like Terry Jones playing Brian's mum.

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

If any of our fans on the Kop were as constantly negative as that about our players, they'd get chinned.

I know he's in his bedroom hamming it up for his YouTube celeb/influencer bollocks, but calling your players twats every 5 minutes is pathetic. He's supposed to be a fan, not somebody riding on their backs for his own celeb status.

Look at the effort that Beans / Roygbiv put in for their Bladespod, or the Four Blades in the Pub , to get a couple of thousand hits. These entitled twats know that there are millions of Man Utd 'fans' all over the world, so they can get thousands of likes / views etc just by farting into a ManU glass.

Sounding like an old man, but it is wankers like that, that spoil football and make it all so plastic, giving short termism a bad name.

Support is about thick and thin and chuff knows, we've had plenty of thin. The best song to bait away fans with surely has to be; "Where were you, when you were shit?" but some of these wanabee plastics actually think that a single home defeat is a tragedy / disaster etc etc.

Twats, the lot of 'em......

Can't fault this Coco. I just don't get why people do this. Have they no pride or identity? Why do they only admire winning and cash? FFS.
Well done Roy, your brilliant efforts continue to be much appreciated!

 

[Rob86]

This couldn't have come against a "better" club. Soulless, plastic and utterly money oriented. Solskjaer moaning about ref decisions (at a game where VAR would be totally on it) and giving us no credit at all just about sums them up.
My very good workmate is a lifelong Citeh fan, is about as unplastic as possible, and thought we had a good gameplan and were good for the win. Mind you, she really hates Manure so she may have had her rosy coloured specs on.
She was very kind about us, and thinks we were awesome last season, but I think her comments about Saturday possibly being a hard game for her team may be her just being nice to me!!
Oh, and Sheffield Wednesday are about as relevant to her as Oldham or Rochdale. Well, a bit less actually!
Awesome result, UTB!

She wants your babies

 

[Numpty's Dusty Ruts.]

She wants your babies

We're both a bit knockin' on for that sort of thing!

 

[Jon Bon II]

‘’It’s the shock result of the Premier League season. Sheffield United have beaten Manchester United and won here at Old Trafford for the first time in 48 years. Back then it was Tony Curry and Alan Woodward tonight it’s Kean Bryan and Oliver Burke’’

Currie. As in Edwina not chicken bhuna. It would be rude not to point it out.

 

[Grappler]

Vinnie Jones.....Once a Blade, always a Blade.......

 

[kgchezzyblade]

Apologies Roy (Andrew) for copying your idea but just had to share some comments from last night’s BT commentary

‘’Jagielka hasn’t put a foot wrong’’

‘’Chris Basham has been faultless’’

‘’all 3 centre backs have been outstanding so far’’

‘’Well organised defensive display for Sheffield United’’

‘’Fleck has had a really good game in midfield’’

‘’Chris Basham is sharp as a razor’’

‘’Lundstram, Norwood and Fleck have given the back line tremendous protection’’

‘’They have been defensively sound’’

‘’Headed away by the evergreen Phil Jagielka, he’s been magnificent’’

‘’Top, top goalkeeping by Ramsdale’’

‘’Burke is such a handful’’

‘’The pink wall has been impenetrable’’

‘’Absolutely outstanding for Jagielka he probably won’t be able to walk for a week after this one’’

‘’Man of the match Phil Jagielka. Amazing performance for him staying so conditioned and read the game superbly’’

‘’He’s beaten to it by Ramsdale’’

‘’Fleck – how good has he been?’’

‘’It’s the shock result of the Premier League season. Sheffield United have beaten Manchester United and won here at Old Trafford for the first time in 48 years. Back then it was Tony Curry and Alan Woodward tonight it’s Kean Bryan and Oliver Burke’’

Tony Currie!


Not Tony Curry!!




Should know better but I am blaming not being able to see his name on the South Stand!

 

[Speedracer]

Vinnie Jones.....Once a Blade, always a Blade.......

Brilliant.

 

[The Crab]

He sounds like Terry Jones playing Brian's mum.

He's not the Messiah.............

 

[BettingBlade]

This bloke sounds like Alan Partridge Is he from Norwich?

He definitely plays on the Partridge thing. I don’t mind him though tbh because I think he’s almost half taking the piss out of the whole you tube thing and he kind of sees it for what it is. He knows it will wind people up and I think he expects to get laughed at every now and again.

Fun fact: he used to be a police detective.