Posted on 05/27/2021 8:51:58 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Today’s Europa League final featured two contrasting teams: Manchester United and Villareal. Man U, which represents the red half of a city of about half a million, has won everything there is to win in soccer, and most things multiple times. Villareal, known for some reason as the Yellow Submarine, represents a Spanish city of around 50,000. Until today, it had never won anything.
This year, Man U finished second in the English Premier League. Villareal, which played three EPL castoffs today, finished seventh in La Liga.
And here’s one more contrast. Just before the opening whistle, the Man U players all knelt, in conformance with what EPL teams have been doing since George Floyd’s death in Minnesota. The Villareal players, a collection of mostly Spanish players with a few Frenchmen and South Americans mixed in, declined to kneel.
Why, the Villareal players must have wondered, should they kneel because an American cop severely mistreated a black American criminal? Indeed, why should they kneel for any reason?
Perhaps a Man U player or two has wondered the same thing. Perhaps not. The EPL does not appear to be awash with independent thinkers.
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Why indeed.
If you’re a Manc and you kneel, you’re a wank.
David De Gea penalty attempt was an incomprehensible disaster. All he had to do was strike the ball hard to either side of the Villareal goal keeper and it would have gone in.
Man U should sell him for that reason alone because he is not going to treated well by the club or his teammates.
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