When Moyes made Rio study clips of Phil Jagielka 
The Banter Era
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"OranjeCafe" to herald LVG's era. Cringiest attempt by the admins here, and that was before knowing his era would end the way it did.
A big part of the fanbase wanting Qatar to buy the club trumps all.
Yeah but it resulted in one of my all-time favourite photos of Old Trafford:
It's been a wild time
That had more to do with the significance of United appointing their first ever continental manager than with LvG himself. At least, that's how i saw it back then. We were still at the stage where we believed that getting rid of Moyes alone would fix the problem, but nevertheless it was a (somewhat) historic moment for the club.
1. Woodward's "watch this space"
2. Getting Rangnick in
3. Handing out Bailly & Phil Jones new contracts & putting Martial/De Gea on 350k+ a week
4. Basically everything about Van De Beek
5. Evra doing that prank on Moyes at the airport
6. Basically all of LVG's signings except Luke Shaw
7. Basically all of Mourinho's signings
8. Basically all of Ole's signings, except maybe Bruno and also Van De Beek because he's been already mentioned
9. Ballads of Lingard, Pogba, Henderson, Cavani, Ronaldo, Schweinsteiger, Falcao, Angel Di Maria, Lukaku, Greenwood, Rojo, Maguire, Bailly.
10. Loans of Falcao, Ighalo, Weghorst and Sabitzer
and I haven't even scratched the surface
2. Getting Rangnick in
3. Handing out Bailly & Phil Jones new contracts & putting Martial/De Gea on 350k+ a week
4. Basically everything about Van De Beek
5. Evra doing that prank on Moyes at the airport
6. Basically all of LVG's signings except Luke Shaw
7. Basically all of Mourinho's signings
8. Basically all of Ole's signings, except maybe Bruno and also Van De Beek because he's been already mentioned
9. Ballads of Lingard, Pogba, Henderson, Cavani, Ronaldo, Schweinsteiger, Falcao, Angel Di Maria, Lukaku, Greenwood, Rojo, Maguire, Bailly.
10. Loans of Falcao, Ighalo, Weghorst and Sabitzer
and I haven't even scratched the surface
Beans beans beans.
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What?
That was one of the best moments
I thought we were just taking the piss out of stupid stuff from the last 10 years.
Hiring LVG was one of most moronic moves done in that time. He was useless, ruined the squad and played shite football.
Under Moyes it felt like every week was banter week.
I remember when Everton won 1-0 at Old Trafford an Everton fan text me saying that it was the first time Moyes had helped Everton win at old Trafford as he couldn't do it in the 11 years he was Everton manager!
I remember when Everton won 1-0 at Old Trafford an Everton fan text me saying that it was the first time Moyes had helped Everton win at old Trafford as he couldn't do it in the 11 years he was Everton manager!
The 4-0 defeat in the league cup to MK dons is another one that stands out.
Milton Keynes Dons 4-0 Manchester United - BBC Sport
I remember seeing a story about a girl that was a United fan accidently putting a £1 bet on 4-0 at 500/1thinking she'd bet on United to win 4-0 and having a nice surprise when she logged in to her betting account.
Milton Keynes Dons 4-0 Manchester United - BBC Sport
I remember seeing a story about a girl that was a United fan accidently putting a £1 bet on 4-0 at 500/1thinking she'd bet on United to win 4-0 and having a nice surprise when she logged in to her betting account.
On the subject of leaks..
Players calling Steve Round "feck off Round" behind his back.
LVG sending video analysis by email because players found the meetings too boring. Players opening said emails so it looked like they had watched it but never actually viewing the content.
Sneijder Cafe is the hallmark milestone in Muppettry
Oppo fans singing "Ole's at the wheel" in the last few torturous weeks of Ole's reign.
Welbz is d@t guy, zup zup, say nada (I think it went )
)It really has. Ten years ago I was worried about how shit we were, working a stress filled job and losing my hair. Since then things have completely changed; I've gone bald.What a ten years it's been
Eh? Are you talking about the right renewal here?
He got the contract at the end of the 2018/19 season. He'd had a horrendous World Cup for Spain in 2018 and in the tail end of the 18/19 season made multiple mistakes which ended up costing us top 4.
These are some of the mistakes that culminated in him becoming the best paid GK in the world:
like feck he wasWould he have been cheaper in 2018?
Every other week, a record was broken in 13/14. It was a wild season. Every shit team that had never won at OT, did!
It was a huge shock after watching a pretty dominant team for a long time.
You could go the Rooney way. Plant some hair on that dome.
Apparently Leicester wanted 50m.
Although if rumours are to be believed it's Mourinho himself who vetoed at this price!
we them Moyes boys
Without a doubt united are Banter f.c, so many ridiculous things have happened that whoever writes a book on it all will be laughed out of existence because some people would think it could not be possibly true
Another classic:
Renewing Ole’s contract after the EL final defeat and then waiting months to announce it because they knew public opinion was against him by this point. Ended up announcing it literally the day after Sancho was announced, only to then go and sack him 2 months later.
Renewing Ole’s contract after the EL final defeat and then waiting months to announce it because they knew public opinion was against him by this point. Ended up announcing it literally the day after Sancho was announced, only to then go and sack him 2 months later.
Literally every home game felt like it, and every single time the game began with the commentator reeling off some fact about how long it had been since whatever team it was had won at OT.
"West Brom haven't won at Old Trafford since 1834" - Lose to West Brom
"The last time Everton picked up three points here, Henry VIII was about to marry his third wife" - Lose to Everton
"You'd be forgiven for thinking that you'd never seen Newcastle pick up a league win here, because the last time they did, King Harold still had two functioning eyes" - Lose to Newcastle
To add to that, £60m on Mason Mount.
I still can’t believe he didn’t go after the EL final, just mental decision making.
Richard Keys must be the poster boy of the "banter" era. Now champion of the Lionesses.
Gosh, what a treasure trove you've unearthed, there's just too much to choose from.
- That Depay header, against Southampton I think?
- The time we vacated our entire half of the pitch against Basaksehir, leaving Demba Ba to launch a one-man counter attack.
- When we sacked ol' Louis moments after winning the FA Cup.
- Creating the most incompatible midfield pairing of all time in Mata and Fellaini.
- Any one of the million times De Gea kicked the ball straight out of play.
- Fellaini running diagonally across the pitch thinking he's Lucy Bronze.
- Even recall being evacuated from the stadium. I might be wrong, but I think there was a drill a few days before, and somebody forgot to remove the fake bomb?
Losing (and I believe damaging) the lid of the FA Cup.
We had the Busby era, the Fergie era and now the banter era.
With potentially getting Evens and Bertrand we most definitely are.
- Getting banned from singing the Lukaku chant about him having a 24 inch penis, his form then went to shit
- 'Fat Man'
- Fred celebrating and sliding studs up into one of our players
- The PE teacher gag which somehow stuck despite having no basis in reality
- Ragnick coming in and being abandoned by all the coaches leaving him with fecking Armas
The infamous mouse pad photo
The infamous mouse pad photo
The look of a man who can't believe his luck.
Basically every day since SAF left.
This annoyed me. You could see winning the cup meant something to him, he was proud, and he's from an era when this was a huge trophy to win. I remember on another United website at the time someone justifying it by saying this had been one of the worst seasons in United's history. Coming fifth and winning the FA Cup meant it was surely one of the more successful season's in the club's entire history, but never mind. LVG ultimately underachieved - he wasn't the answer, but he wasn't the problem either, and surely deserved to celebrate a trophy for at least an evening.
Shoutout the the OP and to many of the posters who've contributed here. Genuinely the first time I've been able to almost smile about most of this stuff. Maybe seeing all these events grouped together has turned them from tragedy to comedy, or tragicomedy I suppose.