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A heartfelt apology to our rivals.

I'm sorry to all our detractors but there is no way we won't collect all three points today.

To Liverpool - watch and learn how to be effective and clinical at home consisently.

To City - watch and learn how to grind out results when it matters and pile pressure on your rival.

To Chelsea - remember how it used to be when you had the manager and foundations to go on to a decade of dominance but the mad rich man in charge naively destroyed your club and allowed it to lose it's place at the top of English football forever.

To Arsenal and Spurs - look at how you can play attacking attractive football but also be defensively sound and experienced to get a result even on an off day.

I'm sure our rivals will take this as a wind up but it really isn't meant that way. We are the blueprint to sustained success in English football and your owners and managers could learn a lot from the United way.

Ask yourself an honest question. How confident would you be of your team soundly beating QPR at home? Liverpool and Chelsea 30% at best on recent form, Arsenal and Spurs 60%, City 90% - based on a very good home record.

I'm 100% confident we will win today. That's not arrogance, it's realism. And while we have this set up and focus we will be very hard to topple.

posted on 8/4/12

To referees and linesmen - see how easy it is to accept the money our manager leaves in your dressing room in return for frcical decisions made in our favour at crucial times.

posted on 8/4/12

We would have won comfortably today anyway

posted on 8/4/12

Again, not you Carrickature - but aren't genuine Franchise fans a bit embarrassed? Or is it all worth it, because only winning matters, no matter how it's achieved?

posted on 8/4/12

Carrickature - of course you would - your Man Utd, an institution etc etc etc! Jog on and polish your trophy mate.

posted on 8/4/12

The trophy says it all. The old League Championship Trophy was a thing of beauty, and reflected the status of the most competitive league in the world. Look what we've got now, a tin foil replica of Thunderbird One. Cheap and tawdry, just like the Premier League, just like the morals of the game, just like the champions-elect, who will have a CV featuring a 6-1 home defeat, and two embarrassingly wimpy exits from Europe. Where now for our game?

posted on 8/4/12

The thing is I can remember the 'good old days' when Liverpool were getting exactly the same kind of preferential treatment from officials that Utd get now. Remember the phenomenon that was 'The Anfield penalty'?

posted on 8/4/12

It's a matter of degree. I don't remember them getting 2 penalties 2 league games in a row. And if you can pinpoint when they had a player so blatantly offside, who then so blatantly dived, and STILL got a pen and the defender sent off, I'd be grateful. It's been going on years. The Tottenham goal a yard over the line and disallowed? The Barnsley player blatantly tripped in the area during a cup tie at Old Toilet and no penalty? Fulham recently? The small tip of a very large iceberg. Liverpool dominated a very competitive league. You lot are being handed everything on a silver plate with a great big red ribbon round it. Thank God I'm not insecure enough to be a Franchise fan.

posted on 8/4/12

"Thank God I'm not insecure enough to be a Franchise fan."

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You're insecure enough to write about it.

posted on 8/4/12

RobofLeeds - I would just like to point out I am not one of the 'you lot' you're referring to.

posted on 2/6/12

Pity the OP was banned, I love reading this stuff.

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