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[Albion] Manchester United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***
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bluenitsuj
Listen to me!!!
If we win I would expect us to go on and win the title
brighton_tom
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- Jul 23, 2008
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Its a free hit today, just play our football and no doubt we'll cause them problems.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
So excited
Completely unexcited. Glorious sunshine outside. Still got three weeks of my cricket season left, and hate the overlap.
Guess I’ll feel invested again when it kicks off.
Guess I’ll feel invested again when it kicks off.
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were loose
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
Underwhelmed and my mojo is low.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Wait until next Saturday’s home game….not just glorious sunshine but predicted 31c heat ..I’ll be bbq’d in ESU
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
It's the beginning of August. This is not the football season.
Were loose.
Were loose.
Frankie
Put him in the curry
0-2 win @ 33-1will be nice thank you very much.
Wait until next Saturday’s home game….not just glorious sunshine but predicted 31c heat ..I’ll be bbq’d in ESU
There’ll be Geordies ripping their skin off
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I can see this being a low-scoring affair. We'll only get three today.
Man U have had a mixed pre-season. There's a lot of noise around Ronaldo wanting out. They haven't got their prime target in the transfer market yet. They had a disappointing last season on the back of previous bad seasons.
This tends to go one of two ways:
1) Poor performance and result, the narrative is their failing, and how much work is left for Ten Hag to do, how he won't be an instant fit and needs time. Fans turn toxic. Winning team barely get a mention.
2) Great performance, easy win, and the narrative is how quickly he has had an effect, has overcome the distraction of Ronaldo and is clearly going to be challenging for the title (before going on a poor run bcause everything finally has an effect and it's only so long they can rise above it).
Given we're their opponents today, the footballing gods will almost certainly make it the latter.
This tends to go one of two ways:
1) Poor performance and result, the narrative is their failing, and how much work is left for Ten Hag to do, how he won't be an instant fit and needs time. Fans turn toxic. Winning team barely get a mention.
2) Great performance, easy win, and the narrative is how quickly he has had an effect, has overcome the distraction of Ronaldo and is clearly going to be challenging for the title (before going on a poor run bcause everything finally has an effect and it's only so long they can rise above it).
Given we're their opponents today, the footballing gods will almost certainly make it the latter.
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SweatyMexican
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- Mar 31, 2013
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Europe here we come.
Icy Gull
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True, when we last played them at Old Trafford we played them off the park in the first half but couldn’t take advantage. Ronaldo was going through the most barren spell in his career…come the second half and the wheels came off within minutes and Ronaldo scored with Dunk also getting sent off
Codner's Wallop
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- Sep 11, 2013
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Regardless of the result, supporting the Albion instead of Man Utd means you are always winning in life…
GP also (based on memory rather than statistics, so I could be wrong) doesn't have a great record against new managers... he wants to know what they're doing and abuse weaknesses. A little worried United might stomp the boys today... wouldn't mind being wrong.