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General Discussion / You know Elections round the bend when :

« on: April 01, 2014, 06:54:34 AM »

1. Divali Nagar getting their own walk over. i.e. Keeping the Hindu Base happy.

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Football / Re: 2013/14 UEFA Champions League Thread

« on: March 21, 2014, 07:28:17 AM »

If Bayern beat we 8-0 and 6-0...we might finally get rid of Moyes...

If we getting licks anyway...let it be by a big margin......

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: March 17, 2014, 09:56:53 AM »

Klopp? Simeone? Giggs? Vote now and tell us who should replace David Moyes this summer

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-manager-jurgen-klopp-3252028#ixzz2wEhLv4LU
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Manchester United fans call for David Moyes to be sacked after humiliating defeat to Liverpool

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/manchester-united-fans-call-david-3251552#ixzz2wEhTfi3g
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Football / Re: Ex W Connection & Pro League Standout teenage son on trial with Arsenal FC

« on: February 28, 2014, 09:08:02 AM »

well for sure his immigration papers might go through if he is signed for Arsenal

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: February 10, 2014, 02:11:10 PM »

bring Jurgen Klopp

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Football / Re: Speed is everything is todays game (where Bally).

« on: February 05, 2014, 07:43:13 AM »

Our players physical speed is not our problem. All those players are fast yet when we get in a game we look slow and we wonder why some lil scrawny players out hustling we players. Yet our players are fast. What gives?

We lack the discipline and concentration that is needed for the speed to be effective. At Chelsea, every knows the plan and sticks to it, as well as they know plan B and can adapt to it when needed

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General Discussion / Re: No Help From Firefighters

« on: February 03, 2014, 01:52:20 PM »

maybe they were Trinidadians? U know we always in everything

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: January 24, 2014, 07:18:02 AM »

I still blame stinken Moyes!!

x2

definitely can't blame the players, cause they were champs last year.

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Cricket Anyone / Re: I need your help Trini's

« on: January 15, 2014, 07:21:44 AM »

this is a separate site you talking about or the cricket section on this site?

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General Discussion / Re: T&T to be added to EU visa-free list.

« on: January 13, 2014, 01:00:17 PM »

excellent news 

Wonder how long before the other islands start whining

Actually, some of the other islands beat us to it. We were the ones whining whilst Barbados, St. Kitts, Bahamas and Antigua were enjoying this privilege for quite some time....Seems like Jamaica is the only English-speaking island not invited to the party.

Look Thing... - Jamaica to Boycott the whole of Europe.

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: January 12, 2014, 06:32:05 PM »

All dat info all well and good but when Ferguson came to Utd he was already accomplished, what has Moyes done/won before arriving at old Trafford?

True he was well established, but Fergie had a rocky start when he took over United. This situation reminds me of the "great" Olimpic ideal. It is not about winning but giving your all. Some crap like that. In the real world, winning is everything. Moyes team has to win. Or else he will have to walk the plank. If the management gives 2 years, then he is Merlin the magician.

Exactly, Fergie had a rocky start but he still had his achievements to fall back on and use as a direction where and how he wanted the team to reach and play. Moyes has nothing except mid table...which, to be fair, he has already achieved in a short space of time.

If I am not mistaaken, most of Fergie's achievement was in Scotland. He still had to prove himself in the land of the auld enemy.

Aberdeen had started the 1979–80 season poorly but their form improved dramatically in the new year and they won the Scottish league that season with a 5–0 win on the final day. It was the first time in fifteen years that the league had not been won by either Rangers or Celtic. Ferguson now felt that he had the respect of his players, later saying "That was the achievement which united us. I finally had the players believing in me".[35]
He was still a strict disciplinarian, though, and his players nicknamed him Furious Fergie. He fined one of his players, John Hewitt, for overtaking him on a public road,[36] and kicked a tea urn at the players at half time after a poor first half.[37] He was dissatisfied with the atmosphere at Aberdeen matches, and deliberately created a 'siege mentality' by accusing the Scottish media of being biased towards the Glasgow clubs, to motivate the team.[38] The team continued their success with a Scottish Cup win in 1982. Ferguson was offered the manager's job at Wolves but turned it down as he felt that Wolves were in trouble[39] and "[his] ambitions at Aberdeen were not even half fulfilled".[40]

European success
Ferguson led Aberdeen to even greater success the following season (1982–83). They had qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup as a result of winning the Scottish Cup the previous season, and impressively knocked out Bayern Munich, who had beaten Tottenham Hotspur 4–1 in the previous round. According to Willie Miller, this gave them the confidence to believe that they could go on to win the competition,[41] which they did, with a 2–1 victory over Real Madrid in the final on 11 May 1983. Aberdeen became only the third Scottish team to win a European trophy and Ferguson now felt that "he'd done something worthwhile with his life".[42] This was followed up with victory in the European Super Cup in December 1983, when Hamburg, the reigning European Cup champions were beaten 2–0 over two legs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ferguson

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General Discussion / Re: 19 murders in one week - PM summons National Security Council

« on: January 09, 2014, 06:49:10 AM »

Every heavy-handed response produces a generation of kids without fathers and strong desires of revenge. It undermines trust in the police who inevitably catch innocent people in the cross fire and makes a mockery of the right to a fair trial. You kick off cycles of violence through actions like this and reinforce anti-police prejudice, undermining the long-term effectiveness of the police. It's not a coincidence that the poorest or most crime-ridden places in every country trust the police the least.

Lack of enforcement and lack of heavy handedness has caused the disrespect of Police here. Once you enforcing the law, law breakers not going to like you and is not coincidence that the most crime ridden places probably has the most corrupt policemen leading to massive distrust.

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: January 09, 2014, 06:40:16 AM »

All dat info all well and good but when Ferguson came to Utd he was already accomplished, what has Moyes done/won before arriving at old Trafford?

True he was well established, but Fergie had a rocky start when he took over United. This situation reminds me of the "great" Olimpic ideal. It is not about winning but giving your all. Some crap like that. In the real world, winning is everything. Moyes team has to win. Or else he will have to walk the plank. If the management gives 2 years, then he is Merlin the magician.

Exactly, Fergie had a rocky start but he still had his achievements to fall back on and use as a direction where and how he wanted the team to reach and play. Moyes has nothing except mid table...which, to be fair, he has already achieved in a short space of time.

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Football / Re: Lionel Messi Thread.

« on: January 09, 2014, 06:36:38 AM »

because Messi and Barca are a perfect fit.

He has yet to prove his worth away from Barca. Dunno how men saying he is the best ever and is the most complete player etc...

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: January 08, 2014, 06:39:20 AM »

It's a sad day when City fans know more about support United than our own plastics. This is a must read!!

By a Man City fan

This is one of those times where the modern media really fails us as football fans in explaining exactly what has happened at Manchester United. I often complain that they focus too much on irrelevance and not enough on the actual business of football behind the scenes and this is an example of where it could have helped.

I'm not sure what anybody else was expecting here but Man United are right about where I thought they would be. I think they'll finish higher than this but their form is somewhat predictable.
United as a Club has completely fell apart and it is the job of David Moyes to rebuild it. It has fell apart because the Club in the modern era was built entirely to Ferguson's exacting standards and methods. Every single person in every department of the Club knew what they were doing every day and what the ultimate point was.
Clubs falling apart after the movement of a Czar isn't new. United fell apart after Busby left, Liverpool got worse the more contrived the boot room system became. It's natural.

I think United fans should remember the words of Ferguson before he left. He's a proper football man, as is David Moyes, and they both know the scale of the task Moyes has undertaken and the time it will take to bear fruit. United can either studiously water their crops over time to create a vast sustainable empire once again that will provide riches for generations or they can dump nuclear waste on their land and grow tomacco.

For me, the real test of the Glazers as owners starts today. You can talk about money and whatever but to most people it's an irrelevance, United have been ultra successful and the manager has been given what he wanted. So far so good for the Glazers. The test starts right now because we discover whether they are the seasoned and patient businessmen that the Edwards family were or just another kneejerk bunch of twats who are sacking managers on ridiculous timescales.

I think Moyes has certainly made mistakes, or rather a single mistake. I think he tried to transition too quickly from Ferguson's staff to his own staff in the first team which created unneccesary pressure on himself. This can be forgiven however as I see what he was trying to accomplish. He knew that this would be a difficult period of transition and he wants to snap it as quickly as possible rather than do it piece by piece. Managers often do lack patience in transition, AVB had the same problem at Chelsea. Funnily, Ferguson did the same mistake when he first joined too.

I see people who have called Moyes unambitious because he has said that United played well when they didn't. This is a man who had a job for life in a stable Premier League team where he was beloved and he decided to pack that in and move to the most famous Club in the world and succeed the best ever manager in the game, to take on a rebuilding job the like of which has never been done in the modern era of football. Unambitious? Do me a favour.

You see, Manchester United was a club built in Ferguson's own image and everybody took their lead from him. He was an imposing figure yet if you meet him he had this working class charm that made you want to fight for him. David Moyes is a similar figure but doesn't yet covet the same respect and loyalty from everybody at Manchester United. There's no possible way that he could, that anybody could, most of the people at United were directly employed by Ferguson or employed whilst he was the manager. In time, Moyes will have the same respect bestowed on him, that's all that it needs at the minute, just some time for him to get his feet under the table.

Some fans believe that David Moyes isn't the man for United. I challenge the idea that they even understand what United is as a Club. David Moyes is pretty much the prototypical Manchester United manager, if you had to walk away and design a man who would manage them, it is him. He's fierce, he's tactically well versed, he has a superhuman work ethic, he believes in youth promotion, he plays with wingers, he inspires loyalty and fight from everybody around him. Those who don't see this have never been to Everton away under his tenure there. Moyes managed to turn that place into a lion's den in how ferocious the atmosphere was and how the team played, and make no mistake this developed under him and will wane without him, managers have a major effect on atmospheres as any United fan will tell you (or City fan for that matter), he will do the same to Old Trafford given time.
So I suppose the problem here is that fans have underestimated the mammoth of a task that Moyes has to accomplish and pundits have over-simplified it. It will take Moyes several years to get United built in his own image and it will be better off for it rather than start some roundabout of managerial changes. And I warn United fans, I'm a fan of a Club that has had probably 30 managers in the past 30 years. Once you start down this path of swapping in and out managers, you can never come back from it.

One last thing to note. I find it interesting how many people when this was announced said things like "Moyes will need a transition time" but have now decided that he should be gone in January. Transition time is a term used to denote the time it takes to sweep away the mentality of the old regime and bring in your own mentality. Essentially, how long it takes to forget the old manager and buy into the thoughts of the new even if it conflicts with what the old manager would say. For a manager who casts the shadow of Ferguson, this will take 3 or 4 years, not 3 or 4 months. Bobby Charlton, Alex Ferguson and others at United understand this so appointed a manager who can rebuild United and have the wide shoulders it requires to bear the load of expectation from the fans and media. They think they found their right man in David Moyes and all piss taking aside, so do I. I hope that they both fight his corner in the boardroom and I'm sure they will. These people understand United as a Club, understand what makes it successful and understand what makes it special.

All dat info all well and good but when Ferguson came to Utd he was already accomplished, what has Moyes done/won before arriving at old Trafford?

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Football / Re: Official 2014/2015 Transfers/Rumours thread.

« on: January 07, 2014, 02:17:52 PM »

anyone looking to move in for Moyes & Fellani? We have a two for one deal

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: January 06, 2014, 10:27:47 AM »

doh study it..... we will come good once again.

I feeling sorry for Moyes... but he has to go.

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Football / Re: Argentina vs Trinidad & Tobago , June 4 friendly

« on: January 06, 2014, 10:24:16 AM »

imagine we stadium woulda be filled with messi jerseys instead of red.

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Football / Re: Tragic News... Akeem Adams Has Passed Away

« on: January 04, 2014, 04:09:03 PM »

The man time come .... no test, no doctor or nothing could have changed that.

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Football / Re: Akeem Adams falls into a coma

« on: December 30, 2013, 09:23:13 AM »

Condolences to his family and friends

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Football / Re: My interview with Roopie, FS, Flex, Sancho, coops and others.

« on: December 12, 2013, 08:46:24 AM »

 


Sad to say this and the other Roopie thread is two most interesting things to read on this site for the last few months. This site dead dead dead.
Imagine CL playing and nobody posting about it...Man Utd losing bad bad and all the Haters gone - no picong self . 

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: December 10, 2013, 08:54:01 AM »

Right about now, Moyes just killing Kenyans. One jumped to his death after the loss to Newcastle.

ppl real stupid yes.

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Football / Re: Who is yuh side? BRAZIL '14

« on: December 09, 2013, 10:51:00 AM »

Also,

I can't understand how come the title of the thread is " Who is yuh side? BRAZIL '14" and man putting 3 AND 4 Teams? Nobody have A side that they does back?

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Football / Re: Who is yuh side? BRAZIL '14

« on: December 09, 2013, 10:47:33 AM »

every world cup people get excited over the african sides but i dont see them progressing further than the quarterfinals. 

cause what ppl go say if u black and u not backing an african side?

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Football / Re: Who is yuh side? BRAZIL '14

« on: December 08, 2013, 07:24:58 PM »

Germany

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: December 08, 2013, 10:03:40 AM »

so any suggestions for a new manager?

what about Jürgen Klopp from dortman?

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General Discussion / Re: R.I.P. NELSON MANDELA!!!!!!!!!

« on: December 06, 2013, 12:20:10 PM »

This is one man who could've gone in any country and be respected and loved.

P.S. I'm trying to remember the name of the song that the calypsonians got together and sung to raise aid for Africa. Anyone knows the name?

I believe you are talking about Now is the Time.

thanks dude

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General Discussion / Re: R.I.P. NELSON MANDELA!!!!!!!!!

« on: December 06, 2013, 07:49:10 AM »

This is one man who could've gone in any country and be respected and loved.

P.S. I'm trying to remember the name of the song that the calypsonians got together and sung to raise aid for Africa. Anyone knows the name?

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Football / Re: The Stretford End- Home of the Champions

« on: December 05, 2013, 07:13:34 AM »

Clearly Everton got the better end of the change in mangers and players. 

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Football / Re: Joevin Jones set for Italy trial with Udinese

« on: December 02, 2013, 07:44:29 AM »

I really hope he impresses