Overseas Utd. fans - ignorant as fook

Not a surprise really.

Driver to the wedding yesterday had a Utd sticker on his windscreen so I had a chat with him about football for 20-30 minutes. He said it was good to speak to someone so knowledgeable about English football. Someone who could explain why Mourinho failed at Chelsea, why LvG failed at Utd., why the challenge for clubs in England was so difficult and why so many were vying to win the league as opposed to the one horse races in Italy and Germany and the 2/3 horse race it's become in Spain.

But there was absolutely no reason he supported Utd except they win stuff in the 90s.

But that just typifies many Rag fans Dawg.....and Loserpool fans too.....tbh, it's the same over here really. Far too many fans want to watch winning teams and those 2 teams unfortunately did this in the 80s n 90s for far too long.

Yep. I told him Utd were lucky to be where they were when the big bucks flowed in in the early 90s. They bought the best players from top clubs (Yorke from Villa and Cole from Newcastle) thus making themselves stronger and their nearest challengers weaker. Just like Bayern are doing in Germany.

They are just like the rags back home, desperate for Jose to bring them back to winning ways. That's all that matters. I should see him again this week or next and I'll tell him about what Sheikh Mansour/MCFC has been doing for East Manchester and how they've significantly developed the area whereas the Glazer's are just robbing gits, not bothered about on field performances unless it affects off field money making activities.

He like many others won't give 2 shits about things like that, it's all about results n trophies to these people Dawg.

Funnily enough, one if wife's friends out here has a son who is a city fan. At least he knows the players names!

The trouble in this neck of the woods dawg is the tv companies in the 90's limited the tv audiences to utd, Liverpool Arsenal & latterly Chelsea. The champions league also only showed the same teams as 9 times out of ten they were the ones that qualified. When I first came to Perth 1996 the news used to give out the results of those 4 only unless they were not playing. One station had an hour show of Premier league highlights & another called the world game would show every year the fa cup final. And that was your lot.

If it was like that in oz where a number of ex pats followed their own teams imagine how limited it was in the rest of Asia?

We got Foxtel satellite tv here in 1999/2000 so we were well behind the times in terms of premier league coverage but since 2007 they have more than made up for that. Until this year that is as the rights were bought by a telecom company Optus so Foxtel who's coverage was second to none now only get the champs league. They have purchased the top 6 clubs matches but are only allowed to show them 24 hours later. The top 6 being the 4 already mentioned plus city & spurs.

Forgot to say the year I came here was the year we had just been relegated from the prem. the only way I got the results was in the paper on a Monday Morning when it had all the divisions results.

I hated that Oz....when I was living out there from 89-90, trying to get football results was nigh on impossible...thank god for the Internet!!

Oh, and I'll no doubt be complaining again this week...off to Riga in the morning - thank god there's no footy...except for the Bayern game.

Riga is good for sprats in oil ( one of the many lines I sell)!!!! useful info I know  I didn't know the internet existed until 98 when we got our 1st Computer!!!. When I lived on the Greek islands before & the same time you were in oz till 93 we used to get all our messages via telex. Those were the days.

I don't remember exactly when I got internet, must have been 95 I think when I got a great job near the big smoke. I used to stay in my office until they were closing the building sometimes as it seemed such a hoot at the time.

we got our 1st computer when the wife wanted one for emailing her parents back in the uk . got an email address & I still wasn't 100% sure what I was doing or how it worked. A mate introduced me to Napster so I was able to download some real obscure songs that I knew from my youth, which was great then when that closed it was audio galaxy then finally limewire. It then became too hard so gave it up & started reading Football websites instead.

I got the internet for faster porn  )



actually gaming, I started on Diablo II and onto Warcraft from there..  :p

I also got it for faster porn trouble is I couldn't spell and ended up with lightning fast chess games.

I got Internet access (of sorts) when I joined Compuserve late on in 1994. It took three years and numerous faxes to get them to stop charging my credit card!

I had a dial-up connection to one of the free ISPs that were springing up in 1995 and in 1997 I signed up for BT's Home Highway, a domestic ISDN service. I found a free ISP that allowed dual channel (128kbps!) connections, but gave it up after one month because it was so monumentally expensive to have two lines open at once. I then went onto C&W fibre in 1999 and have been on proper broadband ever since, going from a lowly 128kbps to the 40mbps I have now.

Working in the industry, having Internet access isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.

skyblueoz wrote:Riga is good for sprats in oil ( one of the many lines I sell)!!!! useful info I know  I didn't know the internet existed until 98 when we got our 1st Computer!!!. When I lived on the Greek islands before & the same time you were in oz till 93 we used to get all our messages via telex. Those were the days.

I meant thank god for the Internet now.....

It was Air Mail, hand written letters!!

As it is - they've upgraded the wifi since I was here last year....much better. I'm goosed though...I was up at 03:00 to get to MAN airport....

How has this gotten into an 'internet' discussion?

you sad fuckers are as bad as the overseas utd fans...

Don't class me alongside these miscreants.

and holiday makers Dawg

fook me, the missus wants to stay out here longer. I'm brassic after this holiday already.

just go with the flow you will have a lifetime to work it off so enjoy the moment

She'll have a lifetime to work it off!!! I've given up (not been retained) for one of my part time jobs in France and will be quitting the other one when we get back.

sorry to hear that dawg Hope you have something in the pipeline. looks as though you will have to send the missus to work. Enjoy the rest of your hols Mate

The missus is the big breadwinner in our household. I look after the kids and ferry them around to all their activities. I'm a glorified chauffeur and cook. Hopefully this bubbles business will kick off when schools start again. That's if we stay in France!

Monkey business ?