It’s really hard to tell the difference between the ABU pundits and some of the cafe posters these days.
ABU Pundits
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Absolutely but the good news is the Abu mediums are dying. Papers, commentary, post match shows like motd are all diminishing and it's become a tik token social media landscape. Having yound stars like Garnacho and Kobbie and the social media influences of people like Speed means the abus can't really hurt us.
Shearer on Newcastle a few weeks ago
this season has been tough however has been mitigating circumstances which was injuries. Eddie Howe still has plenty of credit in the bank and whatever happens this season if qualify for Europe or not Howe should be Newcastle manager next season
He's also a Coventry fan so his opinions are no worse that most of the CAF's views when VAR goes against us
The non-ex Liverpool is the worst, Craig Burley is twice the cnut that Nicol is by a country mile
That bunch is as ABU as it gets.
If that one was a pen then the McTominay one was a pen too.
What a bitter man. Martínez is without a doubt one of the best centre-backs in the league, regardless of his size.
That is a nice bass.
The King putting the peasant in his place.
ESPN is the most anti united platform out there full of ex pool pundits.
Here they are yet again. Criticising Ten hag’s innocuous comments, criticising de ligt’s move even criticising Yoro’s transfer.
Here they are yet again. Criticising Ten hag’s innocuous comments, criticising de ligt’s move even criticising Yoro’s transfer.
At it again. Laying into united for signing de ligt and mazraoui and then slagging off both of them. All of them bar frank lebeouf. By the way this Gab marcotti is the same person who praises Chelsea’s transfer policy, says “there’s a method to this madness. What’s the method? We don’t know yet”
I’m pretty sure Gab is a season ticket holder at Chelsea, but even then I don’t find him to be particularly soft or biased towards Chelsea. The rest of ESPN crew definitely aren’t. I can’t even remember the last time I clicked one of their Chelsea segments and they weren’t being overly negative. So yeah.
I haven’t noticed any anti United sentiment with them but then I don’t ever click on their United related videos, so I wouldn’t know tbf.
It's huge. Burley and Steve Nicol have been Souness like for years.
Them two in particular are also the biggest Chelsea naysayers on ESPN, so maybe being negative is just their thing
Don’t take my word, just go there unbiased and see for yourself. Even rival fans have started pointed out to them in their extra time show to the point where they themselves are low key admitting and making fun of their own pundits.
I wouldn't have expected Burley to be negative towards Chelsea given his past.Them two in particular are also the biggest Chelsea naysayers on ESPN, so maybe being negative is just their thing
Yes, Gab is a season ticket holder. You must not know about his podcast then because he would defend almost everything related to Chelsea. He would laugh at the madness then he gives his own logic to defend the madness. That’s his MO.
Burley doesn’t discriminate. The man is grumpy and a born hater so he hates everyone even Chelsea. Kind of appreciate that
Good to know. Perhaps I'll feel less irritated by him now when I next hear him talk shite about us.Burley doesn’t discriminate. The man is grumpy and a born hater so he hates everyone even Chelsea. Kind of appreciate that
Burley hates United for sure. He's tiresome.
Ian Darke when he did matches a few years ago for the USA feed, thrived on our misery. Can't stand that prick.
Imagine opening your dirty mouth and saying Spurs are a more attractive club.
Yorke looks fed up with them
Thought those presenters were dead.
Spurs haven't won a thing in 16 years. The only thing they've got over united is a fecking cheese room
Wow
Imagine it were us finishing in the top 4 only once in 5 years with no trophies, and Solanke being our biggest summer signing. They’d be saying Fulham is the more attractive club.
When we win the league again, Keys might just commit suicide the bitter prick.
Not sure it's ABU but yeah, shit take. It's like he looked at the final league table from last season and decided Spurs are in a better place. No taking into account a ton of things.
We finished above them the season before, we've won the two trophies.
There's the fact that we've picked up 51 points from our last 32 matches which is so shit that many of us wanted our manager out, whereas they got 44 and nobody was calling for Ange's head. It's because everyone knows we have a much higher ceiling as a club and bigger expectations. We obviously have a bigger legacy / worldwide fanbase which translates into financial muscle and can more readily challenge if both clubs were to perform optimally.
Saying Spurs are more attractive is the weirdest thing, who have they signed that we couldn't have got? If we hadn't have signed Hojlund last summer there's no reason why we couldn't have got Solanke this. On the other hand I don't know if players of the profile of De Ligt or Ugarte would be joining Spurs. High profile doesn't always work out of course (Casemiro, Di Maria etc.) but the point stands. They've not shown themselves to be at that level when it comes to attracting players. We buy from PSG and Bayern, they buy from Bournemouth.
We finished above them the season before, we've won the two trophies.
There's the fact that we've picked up 51 points from our last 32 matches which is so shit that many of us wanted our manager out, whereas they got 44 and nobody was calling for Ange's head. It's because everyone knows we have a much higher ceiling as a club and bigger expectations. We obviously have a bigger legacy / worldwide fanbase which translates into financial muscle and can more readily challenge if both clubs were to perform optimally.
Saying Spurs are more attractive is the weirdest thing, who have they signed that we couldn't have got? If we hadn't have signed Hojlund last summer there's no reason why we couldn't have got Solanke this. On the other hand I don't know if players of the profile of De Ligt or Ugarte would be joining Spurs. High profile doesn't always work out of course (Casemiro, Di Maria etc.) but the point stands. They've not shown themselves to be at that level when it comes to attracting players. We buy from PSG and Bayern, they buy from Bournemouth.
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Really desperate and pathetic take.
Even trying to claim it's based on very recent years, it's still wrong. Over the last two years, when United have been scoffed at for being at a low point, and Tottenham praised for doing well, we've still managed to achieve more points than them over those two seasons (we've had a 3rd and 8th finish, they've had a 5th and 8th finish) and we've won both domestic cups while they, as usual, have won nothing. We're even ahead of them in the current table, despite our two early losses.
Yorke did take too long to start any answer - I'll give Keys that. When Dwight tried to claim 'you didn't give me a chance', it was valid to point out there was a decent silence left when he had ample opportunity to start answering. Maybe he was still too stunned by the absurd suggestion?
Imagine being a player and choosing Spurs over United
Yeah we're in the mud but we're still a much bigger club than fecking Spurs. It's Keys though, second only to Souness when it comes to despising United.
I'm too young to remember but I wonder if Keys emphatic ABU-ness came to the fore when he was running the show on Sky or did he have to grin and bear it when United were winning everything in sight? It's rare for a host to get away with being so biased even if the pundits can happily do whatever.
Not sure. He is a Coventry fan, so not sure why he would be jealous of United. Maybe he had a run in with SAF at some point.
probably still annoyed about the semi final defeat, plus he wanted City to win the FA Cup final
This has been going on longer than last season.
He doesn't necessarily hate United, but he works for the Qataris so you can understand the sentiment towards the current club ownership, and he hates ETH and most modern managers. Him and Grey are in an endless back in the day rant week in week out.
I imagine most commentators and pundits had a run in with Sir Alex at some time.