MANCHESTER UNITED: The Mad Ron Atkinson Years

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  • Опубликовано: 28 янв 2025

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  • @WhatifFootball3417-r2f
    @WhatifFootball3417-r2f  12 дней назад +9

    Penultimate day of our Manchester United week: what English club stories should we cover next?

    • @rajenkasi67
      @rajenkasi67 11 дней назад +2

      Just got introduced to your channel and a very good one at that. Thank you.

    • @DerekHarrison-d5d
      @DerekHarrison-d5d 10 дней назад +1

      Nottingham Forest.The Clough/Taylor era of 1977/1980.That was the era Forest took on Liverpool and gave them so many problems and this year is the 50th anniversary of Cloughie turning up at the City ground as manager.That was Forests greatest era.1 First division title,2 League cups,2 back to back European cup wins and the European Super cup.Brilliant players such as Anderson,Shilton,Woodcock,Birtles,Lloyd,Burns,Robertson,a brilliant era.😉

    • @anpj2006
      @anpj2006 8 дней назад

      The Watneys cup!

  • @anpj2006
    @anpj2006 12 дней назад +20

    An 18 year old brushes away Alan Hansen and then slots it in from outside the box. What a player big Norm was!

    • @martinthomas5155
      @martinthomas5155 11 дней назад +4

      I recall Norm taking out Whelan, Barnes and McMahon at Anfield, Easter Monday 1988. What a warrior he was. Superb skilfull player too.

    • @anpj2006
      @anpj2006 10 дней назад +1

      @ He was one of my hero’s. Fabulous player, what would of someone of his talent bursting on to the scene at 17 be valued at today?

    • @daviddavies3637
      @daviddavies3637 10 дней назад +2

      Remember bouncing around the living room like a possessed kangaroo when his goal went in in the '85 final.

    • @melvyndolby8625
      @melvyndolby8625 10 дней назад

      ​@@martinthomas5155if he had pace, he would have been World Class

    • @bigbernie7260
      @bigbernie7260 9 дней назад

      ​@@melvyndolby8625 Getting in with the wrong crowd and being pissed a lot of them time didn't help either.

  • @DanielSutcliffe-k5s
    @DanielSutcliffe-k5s 11 дней назад +8

    This is like what we are now a cup team,but the difference is the fa cup was a huge competition back than

  • @tobyaughnotobi3919
    @tobyaughnotobi3919 12 дней назад +11

    Enjoyed that. Went all over the country and Europe with United in the 80s and I wouldn't swap it for anything. We played some great football and it was back when you could just turn up to a ground and get in. Great memories, thanks.

    • @davebuckley1760
      @davebuckley1760 11 дней назад +1

      Should have won a league title and some point…..Robson injuries and Ian Rush maybe reasons why they didn’t

    • @tobyaughnotobi3919
      @tobyaughnotobi3919 11 дней назад +1

      @davebuckley1760 85-86 definitely. We were 10 points clear of Liverpool walking out of OT after our draw with them. We finished 4th in May 🙃

  • @martinthomas5155
    @martinthomas5155 11 дней назад +3

    I loved John Gidman. Giddy was a 'wing back' before they were invented. Giddy loved going forward. And Arnold Muhren was phenomenal. He could open a tin of beans with his left foot.

  • @stewartburns2473
    @stewartburns2473 12 дней назад +7

    Arthur albiston has to be the most underrated full back of all time - a terrific player

    • @DerekHarrison-d5d
      @DerekHarrison-d5d 10 дней назад +1

      Agree.A brilliant and consistent defender who played under FOUR United managers (Docherty,Sexton,Atkinson & Ferguson).How many United players did that!

    • @bigbernie7260
      @bigbernie7260 9 дней назад

      Steve Nicol was.

    • @michaelroberts7374
      @michaelroberts7374 8 дней назад +1

      Yes he was underrated....never thought about it until now

  • @eamonnbarrett7995
    @eamonnbarrett7995 2 дня назад +1

    Thanks, that was excellent.

  • @johnmatrix1232
    @johnmatrix1232 10 дней назад +1

    I’ve just discovered your channel… very well done video so far, can’t believe you don’t have more subs although I am sure they will come.

  • @Lee-i6x2n
    @Lee-i6x2n 12 дней назад +1

    A Leeds fan putting a like up for these videos what are you doing to me lol but seriously you have done great work with these series of videos so you deserve a thumbs up ive enjoyed these this week i guess its the Fergie era tomorow to round it up.

    • @andychatt23
      @andychatt23 11 дней назад

      You know you can't wait for it...😊

  • @TheGrimReeper70
    @TheGrimReeper70 8 дней назад +1

    remember it well,was there at Old Trafford for his first home game in charge. Mr Bo Jangles

  • @jamesmcewan692
    @jamesmcewan692 12 дней назад

    Brilliant videos mate keep up the awesome work 👏

  • @jonathankennedy1715
    @jonathankennedy1715 12 дней назад +4

    Bobby Robson would have been fabulous

  • @anpj2006
    @anpj2006 12 дней назад +4

    That Barcelona side just happened to have the greatest player of all time in their side. The Juventus side wasn’t too bad either: Platini, Boniek, Rossi and a sprinkling of other Italian 1982 World Cup winners.

    • @WhatifFootball3417-r2f
      @WhatifFootball3417-r2f  12 дней назад +1

      @@anpj2006 and would win the European Cup the year after

    • @CharlieWaffelsTenis
      @CharlieWaffelsTenis 10 дней назад +1

      Dino Zoff had retired but was with the team that day. I met him and Paolo Rossi at the players entrance after the game at OT and managed to get the to sign the match day programme.

    • @christianargentiTalkTV
      @christianargentiTalkTV 7 дней назад +1

      Wow. They don’t come any bigger than those 2 as far as Italian players. Sad about Rossi.

    • @christianargentiTalkTV
      @christianargentiTalkTV 7 дней назад

      Yep, his time at the Nou Camp was far from easy with injuries etc not to mention the brutal treatment he copped that ultimately spilled over into that disgusting brawl. I still think he was excellent for Barca and we know what was to come in the 5 years that followed his departure. In my opinion he’s the greatest of all time. No one comes close.

  • @neilrobinson02
    @neilrobinson02 День назад

    Loved the Atkinson era.

  • @unclejacksbluewhitearmy
    @unclejacksbluewhitearmy 12 дней назад +5

    Definitely no fan of United but enjoying your nostalgic videos.

    • @WhatifFootball3417-r2f
      @WhatifFootball3417-r2f  12 дней назад +1

      Don't worry: will be my last United video for a bit!

    • @unclejacksbluewhitearmy
      @unclejacksbluewhitearmy 12 дней назад +1

      @@WhatifFootball3417-r2f As a Blackburn Rovers fan I once bizarrely asked my mum to buy me a United school bag in about 1982 aged 8. My dad went up the wall and my support for the Red Devils I think lasted for half a day before going to Ewood that Saturday.

    • @andychatt23
      @andychatt23 11 дней назад +1

      ​@@unclejacksbluewhitearmy You should have phoned Esther Rantzen's childline and reported the abuse😂

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 7 дней назад +1

      Manchester United fans don't watch documentaries on teams we aren't fans of. People are just obsessed with us!!

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 7 дней назад

      Why? Don't you want views and make your money of Manchester United like every other football channel?​@@WhatifFootball3417-r2f

  • @martinthomas5155
    @martinthomas5155 11 дней назад +2

    On their day they were near unstoppable. That ten game run at the start og 85/86 was still some of the finest football I ever witnessed as a Stretford Ender. Even Peter Barnes had a renaissance at that time. He flew like a coke sneeze and had some great games. Robbo's injuries, Strachan's long term injury and Sparky going to Barcelona scuppered us. Ron wanted Kerry Dixon, Terry Butcher and Gary Lineker. But the board dithered and we got Peter Davenport and Terry Gibson. Dav was a nice lad and a grafter. But he was no Mark Hughes.

    • @DerekHarrison-d5d
      @DerekHarrison-d5d 10 дней назад +1

      Yep,they should have won the league in 1985/86,but those injuries to Robson and Strachan after such a blistering start cost them.Also Barcelona sniffing around for Hughes didn’t help,unsettling him.That was a massive mistake to sell him,and you saw how he rewarded Fergie when he brought him back to United.

  • @joekavanagh7171
    @joekavanagh7171 10 дней назад +4

    Ah yes, Big Ron, with the sunbed in his office. Another crap manager. I remember when we were linked with Lineker who was on fire with Leicester. But Atkinson didn't even move for him and instead signed the very average Stapleton on a new contract. Lineker went on to do great things with Tottenham. Atkinson later said "How was I to know he would turn out so good? And then there would have been hell to pay with the fans when he went off to Barcelona".
    Thankfully Fergie arrived and swept away the deadwood. The rest is history.

    • @murchuan8782
      @murchuan8782 9 дней назад +1

      Stapleton was far from average ya numpty ya... 1980 81 he was considered the rolls Royce of English forwards...Stapleton played for the team , linekar did not... linekar won 1 fa cup and numerous individual awards, won no league medal, even die hard everton fans say linekar was never as good as gray for the team... everton won 2 league titles 85 87... lost 86 when linekar there... yet linekar top scorer...won title b4 him.and after him.... go figure...

  • @ChubbyChecker182
    @ChubbyChecker182 12 дней назад +1

    I was 10 years old, and not a Man United fan when Big Ron turned up at United ( i did not have team really, i quite liked the glamour clubs like Spurs and United)...
    He made them a very exciting team to watch, very appealing to a youngster like me, and full of great characters like Robson, Strachan, Whiteside, McGrath and Hughes... And Big Ron himself was just so much larger than life.
    I think they gained alot of fans during Big Rons time, they were not like boring, pragmatic, Liverpool and Everton.

  • @squire7618
    @squire7618 2 дня назад

    Collyer is looking good for the No7 shirt for me.

  • @rk24133927
    @rk24133927 8 дней назад

    Lot better than the last few years, some world class players, can't think of one in the tem now.

    • @dondamon4669
      @dondamon4669 7 дней назад

      And didn't have the bad attitude whilst getting paid millions! But they did drink to much so they didn't care about Manchester United either if being honest

    • @rk24133927
      @rk24133927 7 дней назад

      @@dondamon4669 Everybody drank in those days. Lived in Sale in a pub where many players drank at

  • @dondamon4669
    @dondamon4669 7 дней назад

    I've never watched a Manchester United or England video in the 80's without Bryan Robson being injured?? Why was he classed so good if always injured? Today he would be battered by the press especially as it was because he drank to much and didn't put the club first!

    • @ianmcdonald3053
      @ianmcdonald3053 6 дней назад

      @@dondamon4669 what would you know! Daft as a brush!

  • @fearghus66
    @fearghus66 12 дней назад

    Is there a video on Jack Walker’s Blackburn coming up?

  • @colinyates7485
    @colinyates7485 12 дней назад +1

    Mad, Bad Ron Atkinson, he left a terrible drinking culture at the Club, thank goodness for Fergie.

  • @JohnJohn-zn8ib
    @JohnJohn-zn8ib 11 дней назад +1

    Good old Brian Robson, while most top players were driving hot cars, Brian was driving a 4 cylinder Datsun 120y, great player.

    • @martinthomas5155
      @martinthomas5155 11 дней назад

      Robbo got a silver Jaguar XJ6. Lovely motor for a top player.

    • @aidanmagill6769
      @aidanmagill6769 11 дней назад +2

      Would have won a Ballon d'Or in a better team and with less bad luck with injuries ahead of international tournaments. He would dominate today's game. Imagine if they'd had heat maps back when he played. Keane was a brilliant replacement but Robbo edges him out of my all time 11. He's not the most decorated United player but he was Manchester United, in the way that players like Charlton and Foulkes were.

  • @foundationsrus6469
    @foundationsrus6469 12 дней назад +1

    Suprised at how good Atkinson's United were.
    Everybody today says they were crap until Fergie showed up?

    • @DerekHarrison-d5d
      @DerekHarrison-d5d 10 дней назад +2

      Big Ron had terrific sides,just like Tommy Doc did in the 70s.The trouble is they were both inconsistent.United had a chance of winning the league in 1975/76 under the Doc and faded,and Big Ron had a chance in 1985/86 after winning their first 10 games,but injuries to Robson and Strachan and talk of Hughes going to Barcelona,which unsettled him(that was a terrible mistake to sell him),cost them.I’ve heard similar nonsense from people saying United were crap in the 70s & 80s,but that isn’t true.Yes the relegation in 74 was bad,but the Doc brought them back up with outstanding football.Ask United supporters how bad 1989/90 was under Fergie.The 5-1 defeat at Maine road as an example.That 1990 FA cup final replay victory against Palace kept him in a job.

    • @joekavanagh7171
      @joekavanagh7171 10 дней назад +2

      They were. This video only showed the good bits. Fans have short memories.

  • @bigbadjohn07
    @bigbadjohn07 11 дней назад

    Stapleton and John gidman were signed before Robbo.

    • @martinthomas5155
      @martinthomas5155 11 дней назад +1

      True. Robbo came with Remi Moses after Frank and Giddy.

  • @munnybeats
    @munnybeats 12 дней назад

    Sounds like Gary Neville narrating. Great channel, just subscribed!

  • @Anthony-qy5yw
    @Anthony-qy5yw 9 дней назад

    Not as bad as the ten hag years bye 👋

  • @charlesscottkelly
    @charlesscottkelly 13 часов назад

    Never liked him.