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Me, I felt oddly optimistic about that coming (2006/07) season - we had played some of our best stuff for ages in the previous 6 months, and Chelski had shown signs of going stale..... But because they walloped us in that mostly meaningless end of season game, that was all that mattered to many |
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That we played well in the second half of the 2005/06 season?? That people put far too much importance on being thrashed at Stamford Bridge when we had already basically blown our faint chances at home against (bottom placed) Sunderland? That Chelsea often looked uninspired and laboured in the title run in (not against us, obviously)?? Even at the time I thought Smyth was talking mince |
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Smyths piece was bang on at the time of writing and to suggest otherwise is rose-tinted, revisionist clap-trap. United were £#%&!ing awful during 2005/06. Ruud sulking, Keane, Lille, Burton, City away, conceding £#%&!ing 4 to Blackburn, Richardson, Smith, Bellion, Miller, Kleberson....oh yes, loads of grounds for optimism there.
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as for the rest, how £#%&!ing wrong could he be? liverpool rising remorselessly united dropping out of the top four not buying damian duff as a disaster ronaldo turning into a humdrum winger under fergie not to mention the %@#$&!s about ferdinand, cq, carrick etc. you'd be hard-pressed to come up with something further wide of the mark ffs. and that's not revisionism, that's just not ignoring everything fergie had achieved in more than a decade of winning, rebuilding and winning again with united. there was no insight in the article. it was a hack taking a punt. chuck out an end of the era piece, sooner or later somebody will get lucky, why not now? |
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Smyth *was* talking utter shite - AS EVENTS PROVED |
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