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Squid Game

No-one's making it out (of training) alive... Slow and Steady Wins the Race As I start this we have just beaten St Johnstone again and have hauled ourselves right back in the mix, not just for any European place, but for 3rd. It's mental to think of this happening for a number of reasons, firstly because we're not pleasing on the the eye. We're absolutely brutal if truth be told. Secondly, our budget is much lower than the teams up beside us and (from what I hear) is much lower than what most people think, below the majority of the Premier League in fact. We're still paying for the lavish spending of the previous regime with 'Heads Of...' everywhere, inflated players wages and 'Consultancy fees...' of such a frivolous nature you could swim in the gravy surrounding them (as borne out by the most recent accounts). We've done well to recover from the derby debacle and, more broadly, our largely poor form since the new year. The manager and the playe...
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Modern Life is Rubbish

Please don't give up at the first few paragraphs! It's been a few years since United have been such a big release from life in general and work in particular. But, it really is just now. Saturday has become a the highlight of the week from endless pressures at work and the world's depressing spiral towards right-wing populism and god knows what else. But it's true. I just haven't had the time or the inclination to write anything for months because I'm always either sitting in work until silly o'clock, doing stuff for work in the house or feel too tired if I have free time (even during the holidays) and mentally just don't feel like doing anything. I'm not the only one by the looks of it. The United blogsphere, a previously healthy group of bloggers (NotSiggiJonssen, Timothy Van Der Muelen and Arab Analytics amongst others)  all of whom had their own particular style and provided great content on all things DUFC appear to have either slowed to a snail...

Doing things the right way: Part 1

Right back to where we were after we were right back to where we started from. Why were we ever worried again? 75 points, third highest points total in the Championship era, seven wins, two draws and only one defeat from our final ten games and the most enjoyable ending to a season since 2010. It now all looks like the skoosh that people predicted months before. Maybe January to mid-March was typical Championship fare with us grinding out results with the odd wobble in there. Thing is though, when United wobble they really fucking wobble. Or maybe the support wobble? Who knows. If we start at the point where the last blog finished which was after the Raith away game where we lost an early goal, worked our way back into the game, equalized then had most of the ball, without creating much, made subbies which weakened us (unlike them) then lost to a goal which the boy will never score again in his life the questions about Goodwin's ability to win 'big' games were very promine...