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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...
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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...

Just Business

In the words of the late, great Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed: "No duckin', no jiving, just business..." No fictional characters, no tales of high jinks in a foreign country, just a straight up moan. After last night where we dominated most of the game but still fucked it, I am thoroughly pissed off with United. There are several key questions: Has Jim Goodwin won a 'crunch' game for us since becoming manager? No is the simple answer. He lost his first game, lost every post split game, knocked out of all cups with a whimper and failed to beat Raith so far, our only realistic title challenger. It's just not good enough. As far as last night goes, Goodwin was right that we were better than we have been for the past month, but that is such a low bar, it really isn't something to brag about. We had loads of the ball but Wotherspoon apart, we really have no clear idea how to create anything. Why is our mentality so weak? When the boy needlessly upended Walton t...

Round Pegs in Round Holes

Todays BBC Open University Equation: Round pegs + round holes = SUCCESS Well then, our leader Mark Ogren said if we went down it would be no big deal. Our rave-loving cheerleader Big G on the Dode Fox Podcast said we'd skoosh this league. I'll take big G's more informed prediction over Ogren's since he knows his football, almost as much as he knows his house music whilst Ogren was just clutching for straws to get supporters off his back. But they are both getting proved right I suppose which is the main thing. We shouldn't have doubted their wisdom. I was asked last month what I thought about United so far this season and said, "I'm happy enough with how it's going. Is it exciting stuff every week? No. But it's not terrible or boring either. It's like night and day from last season. The difference is he's got round pegs in round holes." Just to expand on that what I mean is on the park Jim Goodwin has assembled a TEAM. A team who appear...