Tony Court
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Tony Court
@19courty99
Manchester born and bred, Red till I'm dead.👹 Proud husband, dad and grandad.
London, England Katılım Aralık 2011
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@mcfc_lads @TouchlineX Whilst we're talking numbers, 115 mean anything to you?
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𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍.
Pep Guardiola will travel to Wembley for 23rd time with Manchester City today. 🤯
Jürgen Klopp comes closest in the same time frame with 6 visits.
[via @TouchlineX]


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@AlexEveritt91 Lets see if you are stll creaming your pants when you're mixing it with the likes so Southend you mouthy fuck
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@ManCityUS 115, just a number for you, don't want to piss on your parade but justice is coming, how many of you will still be around when it's served 🤔
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@ManCityUS Imagine not cheating, imagine your tweets when inevitably you are found guilty, imagine justice, rather than rhetoric, imagine........
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@johncowell67 It's coming John, the strength of feeling in the premier league, means they must serve justice, when that will be, who knows!!!
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@19courty99 Correct Tony
They’ve already spent £300 million on players to replace Rhodri and he hasn’t even left yet
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@StevenMcinerney And the charges, hanging over you like a dark cloud, oh, and by the way, Pep has previous, lets see your take when justice is done!!!
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@willCITY___ Won it all pal, without cheating, you was still swimming in your dads ballbag, just a shame you made it out, presumably via tube 🤡
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Genuine question, what did Alex Ferguson even do????
The Touchline | 𝐓@TouchlineX
🚨 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: Pep Guardiola will travel to Wembley for 23rd time with Manchester City today. No other manager comes close to Pep's incredible Wembley record, Jürgen Klopp comes closest with 6 appearances over the past decade.
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@UtdArts1 @ClairClair211 Brilliant piece mate, what a player 👏👏👏
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🇾🇪 A Tribute to Mark Hughes
Sparky was undoubtedly one of the most tenacious players, with a great knack for scoring important goals, to ever wear the famous red shirt.
But before any of that, he was just a curly-haired 12-year-old from Ruabon, Wrexham, playing for his school's under-16 team. A United scout named Hugh Roberts spotted him and was impressed by the young Mark's great promise. His former headteacher, John Hotchkiss, later recalled that Hughes "gained a good GCE certificate and had the potential to progress to our sixth form and then go to university." But football had other ideas.
His love affair with United began in March 1978 when he signed schoolboy forms as a 14-year-old. He made his senior debut in November 1983, scored, and never really looked back. By his second full season he had scored 25 goals in 55 appearances, won the FA Cup, and been voted PFA Young Player of the Year. United had won their first 10 league games of the 1985/86 season with Hughes thumping in 11 goals before Christmas; the team was top of the league and looking unstoppable.
Then it all unravelled.
🔴 The Barcelona story and what really happened
Hughes didn't want to leave United, but two things pushed him toward considering the Barcelona deal. English clubs had been banned from European competition following the 1985 Heysel disaster, meaning Barcelona could offer him exposure the game's biggest stages. He also felt that manager Ron Atkinson tended to favour older players at his expense.
But the way the deal actually came about is remarkable. Hughes described it himself on the UTD Podcast: “Big Ron was the manager and I think he got to the point where he thought, 'Well, we may have to cash in because it's going to happen.' It got to a point where I'm thinking, 'Well, it won't get that far.' I ended up meeting the Vice President of Barcelona and the meeting went on and on and it got to a point where at some point I agreed that, at the end of season, if all things being equal, I would go to Barcelona. But in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, 'I hope it doesn't happen. I don't really want to go and I'm having a great time here.'”
In December 1985, he secretly flew to Switzerland and signed for Barcelona, though he wouldn't be joining until the end of the season. United only confirmed it publicly on 21 March 1986. The fans were furious. Many saw the sale as a sign of complete lack of ambition at the club.
Barcelona was a disaster. Hughes was frank about it years later: "It was shambolic. I didn't speak the language and I didn't have a car so I ended up hiring one for three months because I didn't know where to buy one. Gary's [Lineker] style of play was more suited to the Spanish game. He was all about movement and getting on the end of things whereas my game was physical and the referees didn't like it." Lineker scored 51 goals in three seasons at the Camp Nou. Hughes managed 5 in one.
Then came Bayern. Hughes had been out of the Barcelona side for six months. He recalled: "I had an eight-year contract so I was looking at another six years of training and going back to my apartment. That's all I did. But I wanted to play and Bayern was perfect. Bayern have football people in charge."
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#MarkHughes #MUFC #ManchesterUnited

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