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Zorro

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  1. Could you give me any examples of policies that made you proud to be British from the 66% we lived through Tory rule or the 34% under Labour? Are the SNP also responsible for the drop in other parts of the U.K. ? We must use different method to define being in charge.
  2. Out of interest- could you give a rough estimate of how much of your lifetime the Tories have been in control of the Union?
  3. I don’t usually approve of people profiting from the misery of others, but on this occasion I’ll make an exception.
  4. Could you clarify what these greater aims are?
  5. It was clear from day one what the plan was. Israeli real estate agents were advertising beachside properties in still to be built developments in the Gaza Strip. Now they’ve moved onto running an expo in America to sell settlement properties in the West Bank. Israel has also always harboured ambitions to build its own Suez Canal to link the Gulf of Arabia with the Mediterranean. The only thing was those pesky Palestinians were on the land in the route of the proposed Ben Gurion Canal. Get them out the way and it’s all systems go on the project.
  6. The team didn’t turn up and we made too many individual mistakes. A very bad day at the office for everyone involved.
  7. I made my mind up at that point that I’d be as well doing something else. If it’s two teams I’ve no interest in, I can’t watch a massacre. Weirdly, if it had been us getting battered I’d have watched to the end.
  8. 4-0 now and fans are leaving in their droves.
  9. If you can’t build a solid midfield base, with one of the best sitting midfielders of his generation, what hope is there? Between Casemiro, Fernandes & McTominay, you must be getting up for 180-200 international appearances between them. Throw in Eriksen and you’re not exactly talking about an inexperienced midfield. The number of club games between them must be huge. Onana is ok at spreading himself for those one ones but he’s still liable to spill a few trundlers into his net. In his last ten league games he’s conceded eighteen goals. That’s a lot of goals if you want to compete at the top level. His decision making seems a bit suspect too. Sticking with Martinez in a back four will always leave you vulnerable at set pieces. I hope Utd persist with that idea.
  10. Are we the only team that doesn’t write to the SFA demanding an explanation, and/or release a statement about it, anytime a decision doesn’t go our way?
  11. How did Ryan Giggs look at 19? Beckham, Ronaldo, Scholes, Sharpe…..? Mainoo is 18 and more influential. IMO the Garnacho hype seems to have been built on one wonder goal. He doesn’t seem to create much. His goals to shots percentage ain’t great. He does have time on his side, but if I was asked to pick between Garnacho or Rico Lewis for my team, I wouldn’t hesitate in picking Lewis.
  12. MOTD must have forgot to show all these chances in the highlights…. The type of forward Utd would need isn’t readily available, and would probably mean spending their entire transfer budget on one player. Those type of players usually aren’t too keen on Europa League football either.
  13. Utd’s problem isn’t injuries, it’s that recruitment and the squad in general have been completely mismanaged. If you were looking to put out a top four side, with every one of their players available, you still couldn’t do it. Onana- the guts of £50 million to replace De Gea with an arguably worse keeper. Shaw can’t go a full season without picking up an injury, he should have been replaced years ago- the Special One had him bang to rights btw. Wan-Bissaka has one eye on the exit door (Martial has both of his on leaving too). Who knew Martinez would struggle with the physicality and intensity of the Premiership? Almost anyone who looked at him would be my guess. Watching him being ragdolled at corners and freekicks is entertaining, but you’d have to question the judgement of any manager who thinks he can play CB in that league. Lindeloff should have been thanked for his services and sent on his way, instead Utd chose to activate an extension clause. Evans was a panic signing, Maguire’s fee was a joke, Varane was an ill judged vanity’s signing. Tbh Dalot is the only one worth keeping from the available defenders. The midfield is just as bad. Casemiro- overpaid and overpriced. Mount and Eriksen add nothing Utd didn’t already have. Even Ten Hag doesn’t appear to know why Amrabat was signed. Fernandes is a petulant man-child who disappears in the big games. Mctominay doesn’t fit the system. Antony offers nothing at this level. Serious questions would be being asked about Garnacho at almost any other point in Utd’s history, but luckily for him he’s surrounded by players who are struggling to hit the heights of mediocre. Kobbie Mainoo has been a ray of hope for Utd fans, but he desperately needs better players around him. The best thing about this is that FFP, which they believed would help keep them at the top of the pile, prevents them from being able to resolve all these issues. You would literally have to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to even make them competitive. Add on the crumbling stadium and the dated training facilities and it’s difficult to see Utd challenging for the league anytime soon.
  14. Ten Hag’s post match interview was a bit cringy. That guy is seriously delusional.
  15. I see it more as careless rather than dangerous or reckless play. I agree that a yellow card would be a sufficient punishment in these circumstances.
  16. Penalty all day long.
  17. It’s really weird that our legal fees are so low, when I assume they would include the periods we were applying for planning permission for work at the stadium and perhaps even for the proposed training ground, but despite paying significantly more during MJ’s tenure we couldn’t even afford to apply for planning consent for the flats in the car park, and had to sell the land for much less than it was worth. I can’t figure out why that might be.
  18. I didn’t think the Ndaba red was a red either, but there’s more force in this challenge and he gets far more of the player than Ndaba did so on those grounds I’d still argue it’s more of a red card.
  19. Another decision that irked me this weekend was the non-intervention by VAR for the tackle by Dan Casey on Ross McAusland. If you’re telling me that’s not worse than the Ndaba red card, I’m going to say you know nothing about football.
  20. His arm comes out because of the contact from behind. Never a penalty. You get the feeling Beaton on VAR is enjoying himself here. VAR really needs to be outsourced in this country. There is no consistency from decision to decision.
  21. Clever play from the striker. Mayo has control of the situation and is holding him off until he ducks his head under Mayo’s arm. This sudden shift in weight throws Mayo off balance and makes the outcome inevitable. It would be pointless appealing this imo. It’s never going to be overturned.
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