I remember when we were a 'horrible team' back in the early 90s when we roughed up top teams to get results. Everton hated us as did Liverpool. Eric Young broke Martin Keown's nose in one game, Neville Southall sat in his goal at half time because he was so pi**ed off at us.
After the 1990 FA Cup Final replay the Man United team refused to swap shirts with the players after the game, even refusing to open the dressing room door to them because of how they perceived we man handled them.
Sure, football has changed since the 1990s... Or maybe people just forget?
When we got promoted in 2013 we were a horrible team to play against. Jedi got sent off at West Ham for a headbutt (I do not condone that behaviour) and generally we were physical as a team.
I am not advocating kicking the opposition off the park but we used to be up for it and now that team seems to be Watford. Fair play to them, if they can perform the 'dark arts' and get away with it. We'll see how it goes under VAR next season but that said we need to be more physical.
I don't like Deeney but everyone going on about what he said earlier in the season about taking turns in kicking Wilf. Was that really something we didn't suspect? Again, we used to rotate fouls under Pulis to avoid yellow cards. It isn't something new but maybe it isn't something our manager likes his players to do?
The difference between now and before is we never stayed in the top division long enough for us to taste our own medicine. We need to just 'man up' and give it back.
After the 1990 FA Cup Final replay the Man United team refused to swap shirts with the players after the game, even refusing to open the dressing room door to them because of how they perceived we man handled them.
Sure, football has changed since the 1990s... Or maybe people just forget?
When we got promoted in 2013 we were a horrible team to play against. Jedi got sent off at West Ham for a headbutt (I do not condone that behaviour) and generally we were physical as a team.
I am not advocating kicking the opposition off the park but we used to be up for it and now that team seems to be Watford. Fair play to them, if they can perform the 'dark arts' and get away with it. We'll see how it goes under VAR next season but that said we need to be more physical.
I don't like Deeney but everyone going on about what he said earlier in the season about taking turns in kicking Wilf. Was that really something we didn't suspect? Again, we used to rotate fouls under Pulis to avoid yellow cards. It isn't something new but maybe it isn't something our manager likes his players to do?
The difference between now and before is we never stayed in the top division long enough for us to taste our own medicine. We need to just 'man up' and give it back.
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