Bossman deleted for repeating his previous post, which has been answered.

Bossman.

They won't be entering our league so making a comment about it would be pointless. A bit like QPR will be in a couple of hours.

Joking aside though, this post is based on reason. And I stand by the original post. If you support one of our rivals then I'd like to hear why I'm wrong in my assumptions.

The OP is simply right. He's taking all factors into account, including the fact that you start most games with a 14 man to 11 advantage, that there's a moratorium on penalties against you, and that the offside rule operates only in your favour at either end of the pitch. Given all that, who could argue with him? I predict 3 points, at least one penalty, and a happy band of gloryhunters making their way back south later this afternoon.

Would you not say that The Premier League has been in steady decline ever since 2009?
It is simply a case of best of a bad bunch.

You are probably not wrong in your assumptions and there isn't anyone on this forum that think QPR will get anything, however the way you have created This article is wrong and lacks any class.

RobofLeeds 1992, that's why Chelsea were so stupid to get rid of Jose. They have the same refereeing bias and linesman decisions we have but now they don't have the team or manager to take advantage of it.

Lack any class? United will win today and the article is actually more about why our rivals aren't as close as they should be. All the failings are, or were, within their capabilities.

Bossman, you're right. There has been a decline and this United team doesn't compare to previous year yet finds itself in a position where it would be big surprise if they didn't win the title.

It is refreshing to read even a tacit acknowledgement that whatever you lot and Chelsea have won (since the game was dedicated to profit, and the arbiters became preoccupied with the need to have those teams win who could sell more shirts and satellite dishes in Devon) means nothing in the perspective of history. Still, at this rate, and even with the devalued status of the Premier League as compared to the proper League Championship pre-Murdoch, you'll overhaul Liverpool at some point within the next 20 years or so.

Told you. You should all have more faith. Looked like a dive and not a red tho in fairness.

So we should teach our players to dive? I'd rather we carry on as we are.

Yeah, told you. I won't include Carrickature in this, as he's clearly a mole (good luck to him), but the rest of you must squirm in your Devon armchairs that the rest of football knows everything is handed to you on a plate. You'll never know how it feels to win something properly, in adverse circumstances. Even for you lot, it takes the biscuit when the man goes through offside and dives, still gets a penalty AND a sending off. Why don't they just give you the 3 points before the day of the match, save the opposition the cost of travelling up, not to mention your own cockney faithful.

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.

We would have won comfortably today anyway

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?

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

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?

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'?

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.

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

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You're insecure enough to write about it.

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

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