United players felt some disappointment from the crowd at the MCG, with Harry Maguire’s name booed ahead of kick-off and throughout the opening 45 minutes – but the club captain shrugged off the criticism and nearly scored with a 20-yard first-half drive.
It’s funny how everybody is against Maguire getting booed, meanwhile, the same thing happened to Pogba but nobody cared. Maguire is captain and he has set a very low bar.
The media will blame Ronaldo, Pogba,Neymar etc but English players like Maguire are excused.
United fans won’t boo a player who had a one-off clanger at Anfield. Maguire is being booed for being consistently poor and his attitude as a captain on and off the pitch for 2-3 years. No transfer would make supporters happier than seeing him sold.
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The point is Harry and most of his teammates had been poor last season. But the manager has continued with Maguire as captain and I think most fans do not agree with this decision. As there is no other way to show this, the booing is a way to voice it.
All Man U fans want to participate in the culture. Many of them probably watch every second of United games throughout the season and probably had some frustrations with Maguire and wanted to participate in showing their dissatisfaction with what he produced last season. That being said, they were fair and stopped booing apparently when he played well. I can relate to the fans as someone who hasn’t seen my favorite team in person being international.
In one sense, defender Harry Maguire is being scapegoated at Manchester United due to his 80 million price tag. New signing Martinez arrives at Old Trafford, so Maguire will need to raise his standards to compete with him. The English defender is well aware of that fact himself. Hence, 2022-2023 could be the make or break moment of Maguire’s career at Man Utd if he stays.
Those booing Maguire could be people who don’t like Man utd piling pressure and joining in the meme
Maybe it’s not right to boo Harry Maguire but I completely understand why some fans do.
It wasn’t just his terrible performances last season but his refusal to take ANY responsibility! An unacceptable attitude from a player let alone a supposed ’Captain’?
He’s brought it upon himself, the fans have every right to boo him wherever in the world they happen to be from, what’s the big issue? 🤷
Nobody got their knickers in a twist over Pogba getting booed and unlike Maguire, he’d actually won trophies at United.
The media is so obviously biased, harry maguire last year was the 38th best center back in the Premier league with all stats considered. Tackles/interceptions, passes completed, cards per game, he was so bad there with 37 starting center backs being better than him… that means Grant Hanley from Norwich could have played for Man United and done just as good and he was relegated, his team was last! It’s media bias to say that Maguire is not that bad, he is horrendous and you don’t get to tell fans that they aren’t allowed to have a higher standard than relegation form. You have to look at the facts, and the stats show that Harry Maguire should be playing in the championship. It’s not disputable.
Man Utd expensive center-back Harry Maguire is so hated because Maguire’s errors have been on display for all to see. Never seen a player underperform that much and still be protected by the media.
Not a fan of booing your own player but it’s funny how the media can’t fathom that international fans can have their opinion without going to watch live matches every week.
Harry Maguire was once one of the hottest commodities in European football, with every major team trying to pry him away from Leicester. Now, he’s one of the most hated players in Manchester United history, so what went wrong?
Harry Maguire should be honest with himself and just give up the captaincy, and he doesn’t deserve the hate. However, the criticism has been fair as he’s a liability.
One main issue with captain Maguire is his “arrogance”. He is playing really badly, yet he still believes that he isn’t doing anything wrong, in fact sometimes he even goes to talk like he is one of the best in the world. Fans would appreciate a player who knows he isn’t in his best form and tries to do better and even acknowledges it, but Maguire just goes on like nothing is wrong.
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GOAL Man Utd 2 Aston Villa 2
Villa level in the dying momentsCalum Chambers rises highest to head home and equalise for Villa with the last action of the game.
This tour might well be remembered for the quality of United’s goals. It can be dangerous to read too much into pre-season fixtures that are inevitably played at a slower pace, but the improvement in the quality of United’s football after just four weeks under Ten Hag is eye-catching. They are playing much higher up the pitch, the movement is better and the options have improved for the man on the ball. There’s been some slick moves on tour and a few of them have ended up with the ball in the back of the net
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Even from all the way up here, we can hear Ten Hag yelling “Donny”. United have slackened off this half and are suddenly dependent on the breakaway. Fred, influential in the first-half, has been disturbed and United are getting penned in quite often.
It looks like Ten hag is about to make a raft of substitutions.
57 MINS
ATTEMPT SAVED
Sancho drives a low cross into the area, and following a deflection from Konsa, Olsen reacts well to stop the ball ending up in his net. The Reds are threatening on the counter.
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Another excellent team goal from United
That is another excellent team goal United have not been associated with for several years. They worked it from right to left superbly, a particularly laudable move given the surface. It was an attack that involved both full-backs and the front four. United just weren’t scoring goals like that under Rangnick or Solskjaer. They did under Van Gaal, although they were few and far between and the regularity of these team goals on tour is encouraging.
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The England left-back returned to the starting line-up against Aston Villa and made a fine start in Perth, capped by supplying the assist for the opening goal by Jadon Sancho.
Latching onto Marcus Rashford’s perfectly timed pass, the overlapping defender picked out Sancho at the back post, who volleyed in an under-rated finish
HALF-TIME!
That’s the whistle for the break.
United lead by two goals at half-time
GOAL! 2-0 UNITED!
An own goal from Villa after Sancho’s cross.
The ball hits Cash and goes in.
GOAL Man Utd 2 Aston Villa 1
VILLA Substitute Leon Bailey makes an instant impact off the bench.
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Summer is usually American football’s “off” season. “Off” is relative; football players have strict training regimens when they aren’t playing. And while they’re off the field, you can take a punt with Lottoland!
But did you know that football has the shortest season of any sport, despite the literal millions of people who tune in to watch the Super Bowl?
Here are seven fascinating facts about American football to keep you satisfied while you wait for the season to start again!
Let’s start with something everybody knows: the spheroid itself. The company Wilson makes all of the NFL’s footballs. They make around 4,000 footballs every day! But they aren’t made of pigskin as the name suggests; ten balls can be made from a single cowhide.
…at least, in America, where it is almost a holiday. Sports fans outside of the United States prefer traditional football instead; the FIFA World Cup overtakes the Super Bowl as the most watched single sport. The Olympics exceed both of them. No wonder the Super Bowl has such wacky advertisements; this past year, 112.3 million people were watching!
You see it in every football movie: towards the end, spirits are down, and the team huddles together to plan their comeback. But did you know that the huddle originated from a deaf quarterback, Paul Hubbard? The formation came about because he didn’t want the other team to see his hand signs. Now it’s a staple of both sports movies and football games.
There are two major times for football fans: Super Bowl Sunday and March Madness. While everyone knows about the Super Bowl, the college gauntlet of March Madness is more important to the history of football than many fans realize. The first game of football was played between the Rutgers and Princeton colleges on November 6th, 1869. Back then, it wasn’t just the first competitive event of the game—the mishmash of rugby and soccer (AKA “football” in the rest of the world) was an original creation.
People around the world know of American football as a brutal sport. It is so rough that the age of retirement is around 27 years old—significantly earlier than in other sports. Most of these retirements are mandatory due to concussions, ligament and tendon injuries, and other major injuries.
Back when football was first invented, a game of football could be fatal! President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, a president famed for being “manly,” a lover of wild spaces, and a hunter, threatened to ban the sport because it was too dangerous. History.com says that rules such as the forward pass and a neutral zone were added to make the game safer for the players. If you were already a fan of Teddy Roosevelt, thank him for many of the safety measures in modern American football.
The NFL season only lasts 17-18 weeks. A lot of football’s short season has to do with how dangerous it is. Even with the proper safety attire, there is more physical contact in football than there is in, for example, basketball or baseball. Safety and space concerns mean that only so many football games can be played in a year.
According to BleacherReport.com, the short season of football is part of why Americans enjoy it so much: “The NFL is the difference between being with a girl you like and one you tolerate…with football, you’re already counting the days until you get to see her again as she closes the door.” It’s reminiscent of an old saying: “I can’t miss you if you don’t go away.”
Conclusion
Don’t let baseball and basketball fool you: football is the American sport. In America, even non-fans know a decent bit about the sport because people around them are so passionate about it. Super Bowl Sunday may as well be a national holiday. Hopefully, this article has kept your fire burning even though the players are not on the field.
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