BennyBoy wrote:

Hi, Plumber.

I couldn't speak highly enough of Jackie during the 2013/14 season. Some of the most jaw dropping football from United I've ever seen was going on and that side should've won a trophy.

I've got mixed feelings now. The 4-0 defeat up in Inverness toward the end of last season was when I was thinking "Right, that's it, he's got to go." At the moment, I think he needs time for the new signings to gel and I'll see how he gets on with the new players at his disposal.

Walter Smith had no clue that Duncan Ferguson had been sold by the Everton Chairman to Newcastle. So it's not a stretch to suppose that Jackie had no say in the GMS/Armstrong sale. I do not beleive that Jackie would have approved anyway and I ddn't beleive him when he subsequently said that the sales had his blessing. I think he was told to just 'make do' and get us over the line and that top 6 would be all that was asked of him. That's just my own conjecture, however.

ST's silence is doing him no good whatsoever. I think he's spoken 4 times in the public domain since January. He did a big spread in the Courier talking about the GMS/Armstrong sale and that was when he said it was wrong from a football point of view but right from a business point of view. I remember thinking that it should always be football first, business second. We'd been told we didn't need to sell. If it's not about football, then what's the point? I'm sorry to say that those sales will probably define the way history remembers ST. Before that, some folk were comparing him to Jerry Kerr as United's best ever Chairman. Like with Jackie, for me it's a 'wait and see' scenario. But he reaally needs to start talking again if he's ever to build a rapport with fans again.
 

Good post that.

One thing though.Jerry Kerr = Chairman?Don't think he was ever Chairman.
 

BennyBoy wrote:

I love Peroni if they have it on tap, otherwise I'm happy with a Fosters.

I take back everything good I said about you.
 

BennyBoy wrote:

huntedbyafreak wrote:

BennyBoy wrote:

RRDH: The Jimmy Hill thing is in reference to his smarmy attitude when Davie Narey scored against Brazil!

huntedbyafreak: None whatsoever. Who knew that a pop music critique could be SO inflammatory?!

Boo

That was one of my favourite non United posts on Mad. A full critique of the top 40.
 

Wasn't even me who started that! Somebody was slagging off the current charts and bemoning that it was better back in his day. My overall point (which NOBODY was going to let me away with, no matter how convincing my points may have been) was that the charts are no different these days and that folk seem to remember the top 40 being end to end classics. I didn't see the harm in going through the 40 songs one by one to make a point. Jesus, BIG mistake, especially on that forum! FAF thinking back, though! A lesson learned that hard way! But I see the funny side 
 

I'd forgotten all about that!