My bad if he directly referenced his family. I've seen the term thrown around quite a bit in the Ole discussion on playing favorites and Woodwards appointments in recent months
Crisis at United (December 2001)
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My bad if he directly referenced his family. I've seen the term thrown around quite a bit in the Ole discussion on playing favorites and Woodwards appointments in recent months
It's important to note that a crisis then was not looking like winning the league.
In that sense we've been in crises for 7 years now
Off topic but I never realised you were a United supporter until recently! I assumed you were a Bundesliga fan, perhaps because your profile tags you as a Germany fan.
Fergie admitted to be in the wrong for selling Stam, but he also said the poor form in the first half of that season was largely down to the uncertainty hanging over the club due to his supposed departure. We went on a run immediately once he announced that he was staying.
Losing to Leverkusen in the CL semi was bad though, couldve been a great final against the Galacticos.
Losing to Leverkusen in the CL semi was bad though, couldve been a great final against the Galacticos.
People comparing SAF with Ole are not the brightest are they. I mean, both of their situations couldn't be any more different but they desperately keep looking for some random "similar" things to make them sleep better being convinced that Ole is SAF v2. I mean seriously, what the hell some of you are smoking
Not in English.
In the Oxford dictionary the term is broadened to include favouring friends as well as relatives.
It’s entirely applicable when describing the way Man Utd is run.
Crackin find that. Obviously can’t compare it to now but it’s good to cast your minds back to that.
Who else remembers that infamous league losses acronym of Bolton, Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle and Chelsea? 
He looked absolutely ancient on the pitch... signed at the same age Ronaldo is now. Probably still turned out better than Kevin Hofland would'veWho else remembers that infamous league losses acronym of Bolton, Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle and Chelsea?
Who else remembers that infamous league losses acronym of Bolton, Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle and Chelsea?
I rember that, pretty sure I was at the Bolton game and it was really bad. Funninly enough I seem to remember querioz was getting the blame more than blanc but the defence was a shambles in the early part of the season.
I also remember we went on a really good run round Christmas and into January with R.V.N scoring goals for fun and I think we were top of the table around February before falling away again.
We were also in crisis in December 2002 aswell weren't we, 3 games to finish fergie wasn't it? Then we won all three games including forlanfield and beating arsenal at home to stop one of there long unbeaten runs. Happy times.
How spoilt we were! What I’d do to go back and fully appreciate all our success again
Aye, cronyism is a better fit but nepotism’s modern definition includes not relations, so it also works.
The Stam sale is right up there with Bebe in the "wonder if someone will ever admit the truth" locker.
There were rumours of it being about his book, but talk of how he'd dropped a gear.
Then a few months later failed a drugs test which seems much more likely a reason, we knew about it!!
Queiroz came a year later.
I remember a lot of fans were also putting down our poor start to not properly replacing Steve McClaren. Jim Ryan and Michael Phelan were placed in as temporary assistants at the time.
But yeah defensively we were awful. Barthez completely losing it with blunder after blunder didnt help that season either.
Phelan was the problem all along.