It’s Time For Mutiny or Walking the Plank

So David Silva has signed with Man City. Actually that's a big surprise because I still think City is going to have to settle for second tier talent as long as they are out of Champions League contention. And seeing as they are Man City, that should be forever because they are and always will be a second-class organization regardless of the money they have.


I never thought we would get Silva but the fact that we continue to sit idly by while the rest of the footy world conducts business makes me sick to the stomach. I have seen this being done for three off seasons now, and I for one, am sick and tired of it. Then Ferguson comes back from his wine sucking vacation with his nose redder than ever and discusses which overrated and unwanted player he needs to go get and beat City to him by meeting him at the airport like he did with Berbatov and Valencia. Sloppy seconds is not my idea of how to run a football team and for me to be a manager of what was the top team in the world to have to now settle for bargain basement hand me downs is just something I can no longer tolerate.

I'm not a big fan of many of our players, and I wished many of them would be sold or just simply fuck off.

I suppose the reason this era in our team bothers me more than most is that I am one of those that actually currently dislikes the majority of players on our payroll. Yes, it's true; I'm not a big fan of many of our players, and I wished many of them would be sold or just simply fuck off. Foster and Tosic are gone, thank God, but I would love Anderson, Welbeck, Neville, Carrick, Scholes, Park and Obertan to all just piss off with a strong southerly wind. Sorry but that's just how I feel. Look, I too respect the role and status players like Scholes and Neville have, but they have been keeping young players down for too long at the expense of these young player's development. They need to retire or just accept coaching roles because, truthfully, I am sick of watching them. The fact that neither was ever my cup of tea—no matter how great some of you may think they are—is a mute point for me. Right now, in the present, they are hindering the development of players like Rafael, De Laet and Gibson and any other young lad who comes in with a chance of making it at those positions. Giggs I can tolerate because he still can play more often than not, and he seems very comfortable as a role model and as a leader on the bench.

There is nothing I would love more than a new manager and a household clean up of the team in a way only Mourinho could do. YUP! Show no mercy and clean house and bring in the kind of players who will win you European Cups, not Carling Cups. But I know that is not about to happen under our current owners and manager, and so I sit back in my form fitting couch potato feeling all depressed and discouraged about another season of Neville being caught out of position, Scholes delivering a thousand back passes and always taking the safe way out and Anderson finding new and inventive way to piss me off and raise his status as the world's worst fucking footballer. All I can say is I am thankful I still have Bayern Munich where I can watch Muller, Badstuber, Kroos and, hopefully, Neuer develop while Robben, Ribery, Lahm and Schweiny lead the way.  Many of you will consider me a traitor but I'm not. I'm just fortunate to love two clubs in two different countries.

I am a fan of both teams and although I have sided with United over Bayern as my #1 for many years, this present Glazer run operation is beginning to leave a very bitter and sour taste in my mouth, and unlike most of you, I am blessed with having allegiance to two teams that are in different countries and separated by many miles. Once in a while, like last year and back in 1999, there is a conflict of interest, but for me, there has never been a problem. I love them both, and although I slightly lean with United when push comes to shove, I had no problem with Bayern advancing at this year's Champions League Quarter-Finals. Frankly, United deserved what they got from their horrible first leg performance and terrible tactics. That said, Bayern were still lucky to go through, and I felt sad for United who were by far the better team in the return leg.

But the sadness of on field disappointment these days is muted by the goings on off the field. I absolutely hate what's happening with the team, and I especially have come to be one of the very few who is beginning to despise our manager for his role in this club's demise. The fact more people are just accepting his role in this without pointing a vicious finger at him is horrifying to me. Yes, I appreciate and respect all he has done for the club, but that only makes what he is doing right now even more unfathomable and more unpalatable. He needs to answer for his crimes against the loyal and mistreated legions of United fans. His loyalty to the Glazer's has got to be dealt with and properly punished.

I for one am having a hard time stomaching this side right now, and I am not just one of those that says, "Oh well, they are United and I am United no matter what, and I will go to my grave with them no matter what happens and who is in charge."  35 years I have followed this team, and I am honestly getting those feelings of mutiny. I am almost getting the feeling of abandoning ship because I do not want to be aboard when the worst case scenario really happens. Call me a coward, call me disloyal, call me a fair weather fan, call me Anderson, but please understand, my pain threshold is just lower, and I cannot tolerate incompetence, injustice and, above all, treason and treachery. Many of you who have been raised in Manchester or grown up with United as a family staple cannot understand where I am coming from, and I understand and respect that. You were all born with Manc red in your blood. I acquired it later in life and from very far away. It's much easier for me in theory to turn on the club than it is for somebody who has had it passed down from a father, etc. But my feelings are mine alone, and I am truly fed up with what is happening, and I am having a hard time dealing with the daily disappointments that are occurring.

What is happening at Old Trafford is making me physically ill and I am just about ready to burst. I care too much about this team to stick around and watch them crumble into also rans and mediocrity thanks to owners who don't give a damn and because of a manager who, after building a dynasty, has decided that it would now be trendy to have it all crash down. Truthfully, watching Bayern Munich play beautiful attacking football right up to the European Cup final and Germany playing exquisite champagne football at the World Cup has had a lot in making my melancholy about United feel much more like terminal cancer. How many of you feel like I do or am I alone? I'm sticking it out but somehow I wished I could just get rid of that love for that Red Devil inside.