On this day in 2009
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Hahaha - oh that nasty Rafa - all he ever did was get in the way ofus being successful.
Thank fuck we got rid of him - we're so much better off now.
Eh, dont put words in my mouth, Im just saying Rafa cost us the title this year and no, not because of the "rant"
Anyways I was at that match and I reckon it's up there in the top 1 away games I've ever been to. Me and my eldest lad who was 13 or something at the time. The whole thing was great... Even getting in we had aggro with the twat security and it just raised the needle level. They had some utter mong singing West Virginia, it was mortifying, I didn't know whether to laugh or shit my pants or what but I did get the feeling that we would fuck them. The bar under the stand was off its head, one of the loudest prematch singsongs I ever heard despite the lack of beer available.
Then Ronaldo scored and it all felt oddly familiar. But then we twatted them and it was just the best. The place was beyond rocking. For some reason I had two really posh yanks next to me and they were a weird counterpoint to the madness, they were loving it, but clearly on that razors edge between excited and petrified. Gerrard made Evra look like a milk float, battered him for pace and won the pen. Then the long ball to Torres. Then the free kick and the Dossena lob. It was just fucking nuts. At the end they locked us in for an hour and the whole stand got smashed to bits. Every seat demolished, it was great fun and educational for both my son and for the yanks.
Following the game I walked over to the Lowry because my bird was picking us up to go to my mate's birthday in Leeds and I took my lad into this bar called Lime which is part of that Trafford village thing, wall to wall with despondent mancs. I told my son to keep his mouth shut and I'd just order in my best pie eating shit shovelling accent. Anyways I went to the bar and the guy asked if I'd been to the match and I nodded and asked fur a parnt of sarder and a glass o curk. He said 'it was terrible wasn't it?' and I couldn't stop myself from going 'no, it was fucking boss lad' and he just looked at me and gave me the drinks. I swilled it in one and we legged it, jogged over to the Lowry and pretended to be going the theatre and got a glass of wine while we giggled to ourselves about one of the best afternoons of footy I've been to, one I'll always thank Rafa for.
Then Ronaldo scored and it all felt oddly familiar. But then we twatted them and it was just the best. The place was beyond rocking. For some reason I had two really posh yanks next to me and they were a weird counterpoint to the madness, they were loving it, but clearly on that razors edge between excited and petrified. Gerrard made Evra look like a milk float, battered him for pace and won the pen. Then the long ball to Torres. Then the free kick and the Dossena lob. It was just fucking nuts. At the end they locked us in for an hour and the whole stand got smashed to bits. Every seat demolished, it was great fun and educational for both my son and for the yanks.
Following the game I walked over to the Lowry because my bird was picking us up to go to my mate's birthday in Leeds and I took my lad into this bar called Lime which is part of that Trafford village thing, wall to wall with despondent mancs. I told my son to keep his mouth shut and I'd just order in my best pie eating shit shovelling accent. Anyways I went to the bar and the guy asked if I'd been to the match and I nodded and asked fur a parnt of sarder and a glass o curk. He said 'it was terrible wasn't it?' and I couldn't stop myself from going 'no, it was fucking boss lad' and he just looked at me and gave me the drinks. I swilled it in one and we legged it, jogged over to the Lowry and pretended to be going the theatre and got a glass of wine while we giggled to ourselves about one of the best afternoons of footy I've been to, one I'll always thank Rafa for.
Then with all due respect you are talking directly out of your hole. Just saying.... since when by the way can you have a scripted and timed rant??
Fuck the mancs. Fuck the FA.
We were boss that season trophy or not... reading people blerting on about winning 4-1 at old toilet as a negative.
For fucks sake.
It is conceived of as a melt down because that's how the narrative goes given we lost games after it. The one had nothing to do with the other. If we got more out of our team or had made some better purchases the season before, we may have won enough games after the rant for it to be construed differently.
Great story. I enjoyed reading that.
Ditto and yeah, pretty much.
.... because getting more than 86 points in a season is the norm for us?
hahaha.... nice one....
I was best man at a mates wedding that weekend back near Coventry, both of us mad Liverpool fans, used to catch the scouse express from Stafford station on saturday mornings together back in the day. The yank boss who didn't understand such things wouldn't let me nip off work and catch the friday flight so i had to fly on the day of the game.
Set up in Valencia airport drinking a 5.50E pint of carling, the beginnings of a speech in one hand, just before boarding the mancs scored their peno ...walked off despondent to the plane... flying into Manchester.
Plane lands shortly after the games finished the pilot comes on the intercom and says "for all those interested it finished 4-1 at old trafford... he left just enough of a pause in his sentence to allow all the manc fans on the plane to begin to celebrate and Liverpool fans to look around to see who else was gutted then finished... "to Liverpool". He must have been a city fan thinking about it the way he said it....
Magic.
Almost made up for the shit idea to hold a wedding that clashed with the game.
*gasp*
I doubt you've ever been sorry for anything in your entire life Ryan which says it all really.
And I don't really care if some posters thing I'm wrong regarding Rafa's rant, it was sill advised and cost us in my opinion and nobody can prove that wasn't the case so your post is pointless.
Don't take out on me just because your 'Rolls royce' of a footballer has been shocking since October.
You are so touchy its amusing.
Great thread, some top posts in this one 🙂
Some games we really should have won,Arse 4-4 and everton 1-1.
United game was unbelieveable, 1-0 down away and fantastic swashbuckling come back with gung-ho style on a sat morning, game was on another level. Ended up fawning over the highights from sky, bbc 1, radio over the weekend. Reminds me of why I love the game.
Some games we really should have won,Arse 4-4 and everton 1-1.
United game was unbelieveable, 1-0 down away and fantastic swashbuckling come back with gung-ho style on a sat morning, game was on another level. Ended up fawning over the highights from sky, bbc 1, radio over the weekend. Reminds me of why I love the game.
Except there is actual proof that our points per game average increased after his "rant" - we also scored more.
So there's actually no evidence to support the claim that it cost us.
What it certainly didn't do was destabilise Man Utd or Ferguson.
Anyway - unthought it was hilarious - pure theatre.
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