Which former United player do you dislike the most?

Valencia Shin Crosses said:
The amount of Pogba shouts is just strange to me. We have so many more dislikable players (both for performances and just as a person). I’m not one to call racism… but I mean really? Pogba over someone like Di Maria/Sancho/Antony etc ?
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The hate around Pogba certainly isn’t racist it’s more down to the attitude he had when at the club. Never consistent enough to warrant his contract, wages and transfer fee. Regularly feigned injury to not be involved in the team and go off on holiday.
Lingard is another one with a similar story but less talent. Thought he made the big time after one good season for us and then for West Ham, starting clothing lines like he was Becks or Ronaldo. Then to top it off, generating revenue from TikTok dancing.
Di-Maria was another one, just signed for the wrong manager but made sure we all knew he hated the place, even his wife saying how bad it was when she moved over with him.
Michael Owen is another one that should not have been near the club or the No7 shirt or worthy of a premier league medal. He did however provide us with that goal against City.
 
duffer said:
Teddy Sheringham.
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Good shout. Never reallly had any reason to dislike him for what he did on the pitch, or what he said to the press. But there’s only so many anecdotes you can hear about him being the biggest bell end in football without concluding that he probably is a massive bell end. And I am 100% retrospectively taking Andy Cole’s side in all their bickering.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Good shout. Never reallly had any reason to dislike him for what he did on the pitch, or what he said to the press. But there’s only so many anecdotes you can hear about him being the biggest bell end in football without concluding that he probably is a massive bell end. And I am 100% retrospectively taking Andy Cole’s side in all their bickering.
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I remember when someone said that they bumped into him on the Tube, asked him for his autograph, and he told them to feck off. Great player (although I’m too young to remember him playing), awful person.
 
Heinz
Di Maria
Tevez
Ince
Pogba
Ronaldo
Sancho
Lingard

A longer list than i thought when i started tyyping
 
I have an irrational dislike towards Jesse Lingard. Then I think of the video he recorded of him watching his mate in the youth team dry hump a pillow and reaffirm to myself that it is completely rational.

Also, Michael Owen. I even hated him when he was here.
 
Are we not allowed to say Giggs cause of what he did for the club? There's an argument he's the biggest piece of shit of all. But obviously loved as a player.

Aside from that, Ronaldo and Tevez are obviously the two stand-outs. Absolute cnuts.
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
To the club or the fans? Hardly.
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I don't really get that argument. So when you get to know that an acquaintance is a horrible person doing horrible things to his spouses and his brother, you think: "But he is friendly and always has a nice word when we accidentally meet. So to me he is a nice fella!"?
 
ArbeitervonWien said:
I don't really get that argument. So when you get to know that an acquaintance is a horrible person doing horrible things to his spouses and his brother, you think: "But he is friendly and always has a nice word when we accidentally meet. So to me he is a nice fella!"?
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You don't have to like the guy but to dislike someone so ingrained into the clubs history for a personal issue (and lest we forget, perpetrated by 2 consenting adults, not just Giggs) that has nothing to do with you is weird.
 
50% Fred, 50% Pogba and 50% Lingard. ;)

I absolutely hated the way Fred wobbled around the pitch grinning and smiling, even when we were being absolutely hammered.

Pogba - what a charlatan.

Lingard dancing just pisses me off. Don't jump around doing ridiculous dance moves, when your form is appaling and you're just rubbish.

Mememememememe... You couldn't do it any better yourself! That's right. And that's why i'm not a footballer.

End of rant.
 
Stobzilla said:
You don't have to like the guy but to dislike someone so ingrained into the clubs history for a personal issue (and lest we forget, perpetrated by 2 consenting adults, not just Giggs) that has nothing to do with you is weird.
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It’s not just about him banging his brother’s sister. The recent criminal case against him might not have ended in him being found guilty but everything it revealed about him as a person was not good at all.

There’s definitely something a bit different about disliking a footballer based entirely on their personality though. I do think you need to learn to hate them while actually playing football to count for the sort of pantomime hatred this thread is about. There’s probably loads of players I’ve idolised over the years that are complete tossers in person. But only a few I’ve watched playing football and loathed them in the way I loathe many players at rival clubs. So I can’t bring myself to dislike Giggs or Sheringham in the same way I grew to despise Ronaldo and Tevez.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It’s not just about him banging his brother’s sister. The recent criminal case against him might not have ended in him being found guilty but everything it revealed about him as a person was not good at all.

There’s definitely something a bit different about disliking a footballer based entirely on their personality though. I do think you need to learn to hate them while actually playing football to count for the sort of pantomime hatred this thread is about. There’s probably loads of players I’ve idolised over the years that are complete tossers in person. But only a few I’ve watched playing football and loathed them in the way I loathe many players at rival clubs. So I can’t bring myself to dislike Giggs or Sheringham in the same way I grew to despise Ronaldo and Tevez.
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There’s also the fact that Giggs was at least accused of having abused his girlfriend (I’m pretty sure). A club legend on the pitch, not a nice person off it.
 
Stobzilla said:
You don't have to like the guy but to dislike someone so ingrained into the clubs history for a personal issue (and lest we forget, perpetrated by 2 consenting adults, not just Giggs) that has nothing to do with you is weird.
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We obviously have a very different perception of what is weird. I thinks it's weird (and infantile) to judge people differently because of the clubs they play for. Of course we all do that as fans, fandom is inherent irrational. But we should be able to take a step back and see that there are more severe parameter for our ethical judgment than for which team person xy kicked a ball.

In fact (and this is also irrational) it's even worse for me that he is ingrained in the clubs history as I don't like our legends to be bloody assholes.
 
Valencia Shin Crosses said:
Agree, and I’ve never understood why it became such culture in the sport to act like a pussy constantly when kicked or fouled. I understand the gamesmanship of diving or specific instances of trying to get someone sent off even if they are “dark arts” but my god Bruno acts like he’s been hit with a mortar round at least twice a game. Plenty of La Liga players do the same too
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How do you feel about making a player that theatrically rolls around in pain get off the field for a second to be seen for 'medical attention' before being allowed to return to play?

do you think it would curb the theatrics? I feel like players would have to stop because they don't want to go down to 10 men, even if only for a second, or miss out on a set piece opportunity.

regardless, referees should not be calling fouls based on the fouled players reaction/theatrics. The player is either fouled or he's not. It's either yellow/red card worthy or it's not. You don't need to roll around to convince anyone something more occurred... it makes them look weak and pathetic.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It’s not just about him banging his brother’s sister. The recent criminal case against him might not have ended in him being found guilty but everything it revealed about him as a person was not good at all.

There’s definitely something a bit different about disliking a footballer based entirely on their personality though. I do think you need to learn to hate them while actually playing football to count for the sort of pantomime hatred this thread is about. There’s probably loads of players I’ve idolised over the years that are complete tossers in person. But only a few I’ve watched playing football and loathed them in the way I loathe many players at rival clubs. So I can’t bring myself to dislike Giggs or Sheringham in the same way I grew to despise Ronaldo and Tevez.
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If that's the point of the thread, my answer is Ronaldo. By a country mile. I even disliked him a lot at his first stint with us. There is something about him that just makes it very hard not to dislike him. Maybe his fragile but simulataniously vast ego paired with his pathological ambition.
 
ArbeitervonWien said:
If that's the point of the thread, my answer is Ronaldo. By a country mile. I even disliked him a lot at his first stint with us. There is something about him that just makes it very hard not to dislike him. Maybe his fragile but simulataniously vast ego paired with his pathological ambition.
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100% my opinion too.
 
ArbeitervonWien said:
If that's the point of the thread, my answer is Ronaldo. By a country mile. I even disliked him a lot at his first stint with us. There is something about him that just makes it very hard not to dislike him. Maybe his fragile but simulataniously vast ego paired with his pathological ambition.
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Yeah. Would be a very short list of ex players I actively dislike, but Ronaldo would be at the top of it.
 
duffer said:
Teddy Sheringham.
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Is that that just a players name you picked out of thin air so you could contribute to this thread Teddy was great for never moaned was top scorer in 00/1 I think was pfa player of the year and the iceing on the cake scored the equaliser in one of our greatest games ever
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It’s not just about him banging his brother’s sister. The recent criminal case against him might not have ended in him being found guilty but everything it revealed about him as a person was not good at all.

There’s definitely something a bit different about disliking a footballer based entirely on their personality though. I do think you need to learn to hate them while actually playing football to count for the sort of pantomime hatred this thread is about. There’s probably loads of players I’ve idolised over the years that are complete tossers in person. But only a few I’ve watched playing football and loathed them in the way I loathe many players at rival clubs. So I can’t bring myself to dislike Giggs or Sheringham in the same way I grew to despise Ronaldo and Tevez.
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:eek: That’s next level nastiness
 
duffer said:
Teddy Sheringham.
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I agree with this. By all accounts he is a massive bell.

He managed my local team, Stevenage, for a bit. For whatever reason he registered himself as a player at the ripe age of 49 and then never played. After he got sacked he also told the media that he went to the next home game in a disguise to see the supporters and players reaction to his firing.
 
Sivorid said:
I agree with this. By all accounts he is a massive bell.

He managed my local team, Stevenage, for a bit. For whatever reason he registered himself as a player at the ripe age of 49 and then never played. After he got sacked he also told the media that he went to the next home game in a disguise to see the supporters and players reaction to his firing.
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what was the reaction.
 
None really. There's players I'm indifferent about (generally footnotes in our history) but any player good enough to play long enough for us has given more good moments than bad.

For instance, I never thought Lingard was ever talented/good enough for us but 2 cup final goals (including a memorable OT belter) is a pretty fond memory of his time here.
 
Giggs, for me. He's a scumbag.

I don't really care about Tevez, his best achievements in football came in a Man Utd shirt.

Di Maria... barely a sentence in the history of Man Utd.

Heinze... he did publicly declare his regret for trying to join Liverpool a few years later. Don't really care about him.

Hughes annoyed me when he was City manager, but I'm not old enough to remember him playing for us.
 
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