Graeme Sourness | Retires from “punditry”

Should be a thread on this. But his criticism of Mainoo is really weird. Like Mainoo was England’s best player. Also you’d think he’d realise the guy in only 19 playing in CM.

Maybe he just does it to stay relevant through controversy or maybe it’s what some people think.
 
JediSith said:
Should be a thread on this. But his criticism of Mainoo is really weird. Like Mainoo was England’s best player. Also you’d think he’d realise the guy in only 19 playing in CM.

Maybe he just does it to stay relevant through controversy or maybe it’s what some people think.
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He has be doing this deliberately at this point, to try and wind people up. Out of all the England players to criticise, Mainoo would probably be the last.
 
Always felt appropriate that a slight misspelling of his name results in Sourness.

He'll be no loss.
 
OverratedOpinion said:
Got swiftly replaced by Roy Keane as the local grouch. Roy just does so with a bit of charm and charisma.
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And without the “passive racism”. Not a term I am particularly fond of, because I am not sure how passive racism can actually be, but it’s the only known term I can think of that describes the general theme present behind his most vitriolic attacks on players.
 
I prefer to be the best or thereabouts atleast.
I never really cared for United being the 'biggest club in the world'.
It means nothing if you can't bring success on the field.
 
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Its fairly obvious. All you have to do is actually be in the UK and you can see the difference. United matchdays (home or away) are just different to matchdays from other teams. Doesn't mean anything on the pitch but yeah United is easily still the biggest club in the country off the pitch.
 
Dannn411 said:
Its fairly obvious. All you have to do is actually be in the UK and you can see the difference. United matchdays (home or away) are just different to matchdays from other teams. Doesn't mean anything on the pitch but yeah United is easily still the biggest club in the country off the pitch.
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As a foreigner, i never understood why United was labelled as biggest club in UK even in early 90s. Back then Liverpool had way more titles in a cabinet.
 
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Andycoleno9 said:
As a foreigner, i never understood why United was labelled as biggest club in UK even in early 90s. Back than Liverpool had way more titles in a cabinet.
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They were the first glamour team with the Busby Babes. When the terrible Munich air disaster happened they only got more popular. George Best and being the first English team winning the European Cup put them over the top. Even when they got relegated and fell into mediocrity they were selling out and getting press .
PL comes along, SAF comes along, a youthful squad including one David Beckham comes along and fantastic marketing comes along with Sky pushing the United narrative and , well you get the picture.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
As a foreigner, i never understood why United was labelled as biggest club in UK even in early 90s. Back then Liverpool had way more titles in a cabinet.
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1950s the busy babes and then tragic Munich disaster put Utd on the World map. Utd became everyone's second team.

1960s Bobby Charlton, Geroge Best and the first English Club to win the European Cup. England wining the World Cup also helped the Utd bandwagon

1970s and 1980s were poor, but Utd had enough in the bank from the previous 2 decades to keep Utd up their. Utd having the biggest ground in the country and biggest attendance through that period also helped.

1990s and 2000s Ferguson. Utd hit the jackpot with being so successful for those 20 years, when the PL was formed and football took off on another level. The timing was perfect.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
As a foreigner, i never understood why United was labelled as biggest club in UK even in early 90s. Back then Liverpool had way more titles in a cabinet.
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Why did you support United then? You’re not from the local area, you are confused about why we’re “the biggest club”, Liverpool have more trophies, you’re having some randomer on the internet explain why United are what we are, so you clearly don’t understand our history. So I’ll repeat the question. Why do you support United?
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And I’m using the term support in the loosest possible sense based on your posting history. Jesus, this ref can’t communicate bollocks is tedious…
 
BeretWearingEnt said:
Why did you support United then? You’re not from the local area, you are confused about why we’re “the biggest club”, Liverpool have more trophies, you’re having some randomer on the internet explain why United are what we are, so you clearly don’t understand our history. So I’ll repeat the question. Why do you support United?
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And I’m using the term support in the loosest possible sense based on your posting history. Jesus, this ref can’t communicate bollocks is tedious…
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Relax warrior..try to read posts with understanding and then take a deep breath and then think about what you will post and then post.

Reading with understanding is very, very, very important.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
Relax warrior..try to read posts with understanding and then take a deep breath and then think about what you will post and then post.

Reading with understanding is very, very, very important.
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I’m as relaxed as I get my good man (somewhere between raging that we’re not very good at the moment and grateful that I’ve seen us be the best ). I read, and I understood. If you don’t understand why Manchester United were labelled the biggest club in the Uk then I don’t know what to tell you. Educate yourself on the history of the club. It will only enrich your love of it. My original point stands, as someone with no affiliation to the club, the area, the city itself, why did you decide it was for you?
 
I think I've heard more from Graeme since he's retired than I did when he was just on Sky every other week.
 
Liverpool version of our Roy Keane ("everything is shit and nobody is good"). Tbh, i like him. I don't agree with his opinion most of time but he is fun to watch.
 
Andycoleno9 said:
Liverpool version of our Roy Keane ("everything is shit and nobody is good"). Tbh, i like him. I don't agree with his opinion most of time but he is fun to watch.
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Roy Keane doesn’t spout nonsense like that. He might be miserable but he’s not a moron.
 
So the three biggest champions of the ‘say deliberately mental takes for clicks’ philosophy all get together to start a podcast, say some mental shit for clicks, and people click.

Why do people even give it the time of day?
 
Some nonsense he's talking there, which appears to be entirely down to Wenger not meeting Graeme's preferred post-match etiquette.
 
Gio said:
Some nonsense he's talking there, which appears to be entirely down to Wenger not meeting Graeme's preferred post-match etiquette.
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Makes you think a lot of pundits are just basing their opinions on how other pros are interacting with them.
 
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