Moral winners. That's five additional points.
RAWK Goes Into Meltdown | 2013/14
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Moral winners. That's five additional points.
Fans around in 1992... how similar was that collapse to Liverpool's?
Maybe they were looking for the assist to the assist, would have brought the tally back up.
We really dodge a bullet there, if David Moyes stayed for 5 years, he'll be our Souness
Pretty bad. Finished 4 points behind Leeds.
Looking up the results:
Drew Luton 1-1, lost three on the spin to Forest, West Ham! and Liverpool. Last game was won v Spurs = 4 points.
Leeds won v Chelsea, drew with Liverpool, then won three v Coventry, Sheff United and Norwich = 13 points.
So, United were 5 points up with 5 games to go. I wouldn't count 1995 as a bottle-job. United went in needing the miracle that Liverpool needed this year...Blackburn had to lose and United had to win. United didn't win, but the game was on at the same time. United played well (2nd half), but Andy Cole forgot how to score goals so fecked it for us.
In fact, Blackburn nearly bottled it in 1995. With six games to go, they were on 82 points while United were on 74 points. I remember saying to a mate of mine that they were wobbling and we could have a right rattle at it. It was all set up on the final day, if only Cole had scored....
And I remember being so pissed off that Flowers was on MOTD that night saying that they weren't bottlers, despite only winning 7 points from their last 18 (where United won 14).
It was really bad to be honest. But in fairness, we just ran out of steam. At one point we had 4 games in 6 days which is crazy (playing Thurs/Sat/Mon/Weds). We just didn't have the squad depth to cope with that, and I think it was one of the things that made Fergie realise that rotation is important.
I really believe the Liverpool fans played their part in Liverpool falling at the last hurdle. They were acting like amateurs, going around talking about this fairytale, destiny the whole big picture. They tried to relay that message to the players by these banners, these slogans and the crowds in the streets on the teams arrival to the ground.
All it did was pile pressure on the players. They were in great form, all this hype brought on by the fans was a distraction. Instead of buying into this whole dream season, Liverpool fans would have been better off going "We are Liverpool, this is where we belong" and just continue on as normal. They were treating everything as a cup final as if they might not be back for 10 years.
I understand that a lot of their fans might not have witnessed a title shot before but still, it just looked very amateurish from their fans and if they just treated each game without the story, the players wouldn't have had to deal with all the needless hype.
All it did was pile pressure on the players. They were in great form, all this hype brought on by the fans was a distraction. Instead of buying into this whole dream season, Liverpool fans would have been better off going "We are Liverpool, this is where we belong" and just continue on as normal. They were treating everything as a cup final as if they might not be back for 10 years.
I understand that a lot of their fans might not have witnessed a title shot before but still, it just looked very amateurish from their fans and if they just treated each game without the story, the players wouldn't have had to deal with all the needless hype.
what the feck is that?
This year's crossbar counts as goals table.
Moral victory.
I'd agree, we didn't bottle it in '95. Cantona was serving his ban and we lost Kanchelskis and Giggs to injury at the end of the season. Cole gets singled out due to him being pretty much the only decent attacking player we had available for the West Ham game. My main memory of that match was Miklosko being unbeatable - he made saves from almost every player on the pitch that day - Paul Ince having the best chance of the match, if my memory serves me.
Laughing at Chelsea.
Yeah, because they don't hand out trophies for THIRD place. Chelsea gobshites.
3rd and no trophy
Yeah, because they don't hand out trophies for THIRD place. Chelsea gobshites.
Are you banned yet?
Describes them.
Describes them.
Uncanny.
To be fair, it wasn't much of a collapse with Liverpool. Once they lost one game, it was suddenly out of their hands.
nope, i guess they didn't understand it or read it
By applying scouser's logic (two words that aren't easy bedfellows), we're the most successful pl team ergo best team, so technically we should have won it.
It's just a ridiculous statement.
I like that he had to put Manchester in there, just in case you'd confuse them with the other City teams that just beat them to the title.
I still don't get the parenthesis. Just put Manchester in there.
Liverpool fans being very creative in finding ways for them to be on top of a table.
i know but feck me, how twisted one needs to be to come up with this shit
If the league only included teams from Liverpool, they'd have won the league too.
Amazing.
Heh, just thinking about it, if only goals scored by scousers counted, we'd have won the league. 
No, would be the short answer.
Heh, just thinking about it, if only goals scored by scousers counted, we'd have won the league.
How have I never thought of it that way before?!Very different, if you ask me.
We had more injuries but a bigger lead. Leeds finished the season with most players fully fit and Cantona as a loan signing.
Long before the days when we had anything like a big squad. If Hughes and McClair were injured then Robins was the next in line.
Losing to Forest and West Ham were bad results, even with the injuries. West Ham were already relegated.
Yep. Alluded to it two weeks ago on here when their fans were behaving like small-time bellends.
It definitely spooked Rodgers and the players. Bizarre catchphrases like "Make us dream" and "We go again" lumped pressure on them to go out and play 'Roy of the Rovers' football in the run-in when focus was necessary. Rodgers and Gerrard, in particular, should've known better but were swept away by the Scouse hyperbolic hysteria.
I still can't believe how naive they were. Pellegrini and the Arabs must be still pinching themselves. Talk about being handed a title on a platter.
Its a parody account by someone who was banned from here
I will never forget the blood pissing out of Pallisters boot after Ian Rush kicked him. Was a horrible horrible last few weeks of the season
You can tell a fcking scouser wrote this
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blog...b-city-petty-united-sunderland-192940086.html
5) Manchester United have officially hit rock bottom
A generally-accepted rule of sports is that the biggest and saddest indication of a miserable season is that any given fanbase finds themselves taking greater satisfaction from the misfortune of other teams than in their own achievements. Man United's taunting of Liverpool on final day, while the sort of thing that would make Paddy Power proud, only underscores just how much Brendan Rodgers' men outperformed the champions-who-came-seventh in just about every department, on and off the pitch.
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blog...b-city-petty-united-sunderland-192940086.html
5) Manchester United have officially hit rock bottom
A generally-accepted rule of sports is that the biggest and saddest indication of a miserable season is that any given fanbase finds themselves taking greater satisfaction from the misfortune of other teams than in their own achievements. Man United's taunting of Liverpool on final day, while the sort of thing that would make Paddy Power proud, only underscores just how much Brendan Rodgers' men outperformed the champions-who-came-seventh in just about every department, on and off the pitch.
To be fair Ramshock that line if thinking is what has been ridiculed every season on RAWK, with the side's roles having been reversed.
Needs to get unbanned!
It's a parody account containing actual quotes from RAWK.
Poem by feckwit.
Here's one:
There was a young man, like Walter Mitty,
He had big plans (for himself), t'would be so pretty,
But he slipped on the grass,
He fell on his ass,
And handed the title to City.
Here's one:
There was a young man, like Walter Mitty,
He had big plans (for himself), t'would be so pretty,
But he slipped on the grass,
He fell on his ass,
And handed the title to City.
Grand. 2015/16....We Go Again.