The 'Chosen One' banner

Do you want to see the banner removed?

  • Yes

    Votes: 132 67.7%

  • No

    Votes: 54 27.7%

  • Yes, but after the Olympiakos game

    Votes: 9 4.6%
  • Total voters
    195
KiD MoYeS said:
Posted this in the Moyes thread earlier, it'd be more relevant here.
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.Rossi said:
Said it before and I'll say it again...Victims of our own arrogant, hyped up, holier than thou bullshit!!
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Brutal but pretty much agree. Replace "the United way" with the Liverpool way and we have a similar situation as them a few years ago.
 
I really dislike the idea that it's the match going fans that are keeping the banner up or even put it up in the first place.

It's the 1% that want it up, that wanted it up. The Ultra's if you will. The one's who think United are the best club in the world and blah blah blah all that.
Not denying that that 1% make a lot of noise and build a good atmosphere, but they are delusional. The mad RAWKites we mock on that caf? That out 1% too.
 
IrishLegend said:
I really dislike the idea that it's the match going fans that are keeping the banner up or even put it up in the first place.

It's the 1% that want it up, that wanted it up. The Ultra's if you will. The one's who think United are the best club in the world and blah blah blah all that.
Not denying that that 1% make a lot of noise and build a good atmosphere, but they are delusional. The mad RAWKites we mock on that caf? That out 1% too.
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It's SEF/Tuffty who designed it and put it up, we could turn on Moyes and that banner still stay up. I am just glad I don't have to look at it every game.
 
He IS the chosen one! It doesnt mean that he is(/going to be) successful/genius/magician etc. I say we keep it until he is sacked (if ever). It's not a bad thing really. It shows how much we support our team when we're not winning. We cant be great all the time. But support-wise, we can.
 
I have no issue with the banner. We support the team and he's part of the team. I have zero hope he will succeed, but I still want him and the team to do the best they can whilst he is in the job. I think it would do more harm to take it down whilst he is still the manager.
 
considering the circumstances, that banner is becoming a self mockery these days

Infact the whole "chosen one" thing has become a mockery punch line for Moyes instead of the prestige it's supposed to be
 
nahealai said:
Some of the replies in here are embarrassing, not the banner.
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Nothing new there. Most of the football forum has been an embarrassment this season. More than Moyes and team's display I should say.
 
Using twitter to make decisions can only lead to good things.

People go to matches to enjoy games, not worry about all this political over-analytical bollocks.
 
David Moyes might not be the ‘Chosen One’ at Old Trafford for much longer
David Moyes walked out pitchside at Old Trafford and looked to his left. A 10-metre, red-and-white banner, paid for by Manchester United supporters, hung in the Stretford End with the words “The Chosen One” alongside an image of the Scot’s serious visage.

Not every new manager receives such a welcome, but then, not every manager receives a ringing endorsement from Sir Alex Ferguson.

United’s legendary manager was so revered that he could have praised Brendan Rogers and Liverpool’s manager would have been given half a chance by United fans.

Fans sang Moyes’s name from his first game in charge. The anointed successor would show his appreciation with a wave or a fist and would make a point of going to the travelling supporters at away games. It was appreciated.

They knew Moyes needed support and he received it at every match until this month, when the 2,000 travelling fans at in Greece started the match by singing his name and finished it by arguing over whether he was the right man to manage United.

The loss to Olympiakos was a turning point for many previously supportive fans and Sunday’s humiliation at home to Liverpool saw another downward swing in support for Moyes.

In polls among match-going fans, over 80 per cent of them want Moyes to be dismissed. They don’t make the decisions, but they have had enough. They feel like they have been patient and far more supportive than would fans of other clubs, but that it is simply not working out with him in charge of the team.

The dissent has yet to spread to the stadium, though, and Sunday’s game finished with the majority inside Old Trafford singing songs in support of their team and their proud history of a record 20 league titles. That was not explicit support for Moyes, which has been ebbing away, but it was mightily impressive.

Still, the “Chosen One” banner stood firm and the United directors – plus all the club’s main sponsors who had flown in for the game – were struck by the incessant support in such dire circumstances.

Now there is even talk of taking down the banner down in disgust, or covering it up to show declining support for the manager.

For all the online anger from fans, the majority don’t actually go to matches and would be in no position to take down any banner.

Of those who do, there is a reluctance to lead the call to dismiss Moyes, especially when United need backing in a huge game against the Greek champions.

Positive fans say the whole stadium should get behind the team in the hope of coming back from the 2-0 first-leg defeat. That may happen, but if United are eliminated and lose to Manchester City next week, the chances of the banner staying up are slim.

Its removal would be symbolic, a visual, public loss of trust from the fans who most wanted Moyes to succeed. But as Moyes knows, he is in a results business and his team are failing badly.

The Chosen One could become the Chosen Gone.

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Andy Mitten btw

http://www.thenational.ae/sport/foo...he-chosen-one-at-old-trafford-for-much-longer
 
I just had a look on SEF's timeline and people are threatening to take it down themselves.
 
No manager/player should get a banner at a club until they have achieved something substantial. Even the Scouser only made that Rafa banner after Istanbul. There was no need for that banner just to show support for Moyes. Our fans were never going to publicly rebel against Fergie's handpicked successor.
 
mic.m said:
No manager/player should get a banner at a club until they have achieved something substantial. Even the Scouser only made that Rafa banner after Istanbul. There was no need for that banner just to show support for Moyes. Our fans were never going to publicly rebel against Fergie's handpicked successor.
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Agree with this, other than get chosen by Fergie his list of achievements at United were slim.
 
Until results perk up I believe the banner should be replaced with Liverpools "David Moyes football genius" banner.

I must admit through the stress and strains of being thumped 3-0 by the dippers, that banner had me hysterically laughing :lol:
 
Tonight should be that banners last chance.

The last time we "play for something" this season, if we go out it should be removed immediately as a clear signal from the supporters.

Doing it before would only give the press a story of the fans not getting behind the team when they needed them which is obviously bollocks.
 
I have really dramatic images of my head, of us losing 1-0 or 2-1 with 60/70 minuets gone, and some big fat bloke marching down to the bottom of the stand and trying to rip it down himself... he'll do half a job before a kerfuffle will break out, leaving the banner poetically dangling by one end...
 
Annihilate Now! said:
I have really dramatic images of my head, of us losing 1-0 or 2-1 with 60/70 minuets gone, and some big fat bloke marching down to the bottom of the stand and trying to rip it down himself... he'll do half a job before a kerfuffle will break out, leaving the banner poetically dangling by one end...
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I was just about to post the very same thought. Imagine the damage to the clubs image if that was to happen? United fans would become a laughing stock.
 
soapythecat said:
I was just about to post the very same thought. Imagine the damage to the clubs image if that was to happen? United fans would become a laughing stock.
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It could be a good way to diverge attention away from the team/performance though! See, we're doing Moyes' job for him already...
 
Just put it at the away end so it saves the opposition fans from bringing their own piss-take banners.
 
soapythecat said:
I was just about to post the very same thought. Imagine the damage to the clubs image if that was to happen? United fans would become a laughing stock.
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I don't think so.

The fans at Old Trafford have been incredible throughout all this, if they finally lose patience it will reflect a lot worse off Moyes than it will them.
 
Some supporters absolutely determined to turn a crisis (of sorts) into a drama.

They try and take it down by force, others try and stop them by force, United fans fighting each other in the stands over a banner . . .

All very dignified and becoming of our football club, i'm sure.
 
NessunDorma said:
Some supporters absolutely determined to turn a crisis (of sorts) into a drama.

They try and take it down by force, others try and stop them by force, United fans fighting each other in the stands over a banner . . .

All very dignified and becoming of our football club, i'm sure.
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It'll make a fantastic scene for the inevitable future movie though...
 
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