The hate for Real Madrid

I simply dislike/hate them because they have managed to humiliate United in some recent years, I still remember this game at Old Trafford after the loss 3:1 away and they managed to beat us despite the 4:3 win, well, you see the gap, you think it's close but you don't win and you are frustrated.

Just like other teams in England are frustrated when they play Manchester United, because of the gap and they sometimes think they are close but they don't win and are frustrated about it.

But we will get them off their perch, just like we did for Liverpool :) or so do I hope.
 
Seen them as rivals in the past (albeit competitive rivalry rather than 'hate') - but now with a very annoying Barce-'we are the moral high ground in football'-Lona coupled with the admiration of a pragmatic Jose Mourinho, the affection for Cristiano Ronaldo and the general fact that they are underdogs in La Liga has me resorted to liking them. If United don't win the CL, I want Real Madrid to. :nervous:
 
Seen them as rivals in the past (albeit competitive rivalry rather than 'hate') - but now with a very annoying Barce-'we are the moral high ground in football'-Lona coupled with the admiration of a pragmatic Jose Mourinho, the affection for Cristiano Ronaldo and the general fact that they are underdogs in La Liga has me resorted to liking them. If United don't win the CL, I want Real Madrid to. :nervous:

Remarkable statement considering they're more or less guaranteed to beat every team they play except Barca!
 
Seen them as rivals in the past (albeit competitive rivalry rather than 'hate') - but now with a very annoying Barce-'we are the moral high ground in football'-Lona coupled with the admiration of a pragmatic Jose Mourinho, the affection for Cristiano Ronaldo and the general fact that they are underdogs in La Liga has me resorted to liking them. If United don't win the CL, I want Real Madrid to. :nervous:

This... out of the realistic contenders, if United don't win it, Real are the best choice.
 
Unfortunately they would most likely beat us if we face them in the CL...


They've made some class signings in the past couple of years...
 
An entrepreneur, lets call him Phil, comes up with a product. It can be any product: a website, a toaster, a killer ninja battle droid, you name it, but Phil designs and develops it. He makes it successful. It’s him who brings this product to the attention of the world… and it’s a truly great product. Now once this online killer ninja robot toaster is in the public eye, and shown to be a success, a big corporation buys it. It pays off Phil, the entrepreneur, creator and nurturer, and takes the product for itself, selling it under it’s name and reaping the benefits of it’s spin off fluffy toys and lunch boxes. The great product is now owned by the corporation, helping it succeed, which it does.

Who is great in this equation? Phil or the corporation?

I ask you this because this is how I often see Real Madrid. Most people probably casually accept Real Madrid as king of the uber-super clubs, but why? What actual pragmatic reason is there for this lofty assumption? Before you try and figure it out, Phil isn’t supposed to be anyone at all, but I could, feasibly, have given him any number of names, Alex, Carlo, Claude, Jose, Rafa, Gérard, Louis etc but I didn’t want to tie it to one instance. Because there isn’t one instance. Madrid don’t really develop players. They don’t really even develop teams. They let other clubs and other managers do this, and once the player has proved his worth to the world, they buy him, and use him to make themselves more successful. Which often, they do.

Historically of course, Real are undoubtably great. The early teams of the Di Stefano era and the Quinta del Buitre generation of the 80s are both truly great sides. But in the last 25 years what have Madrid achieved, on their own merit, to make them truly great? Because it’s only really in the last 25 years, even the last 10, that this claim has been forcibly made....

...and on and on over here...Will the Real 'Biggest Club in the World' please stand up | FootballFanCast.com

..I hate them elmo. They're twats.

This.

I simply dislike/hate them because they have managed to humiliate United in some recent years, I still remember this game at Old Trafford after the loss 3:1 away and they managed to beat us despite the 4:3 win, well, you see the gap, you think it's close but you don't win and you are frustrated.

Just like other teams in England are frustrated when they play Manchester United, because of the gap and they sometimes think they are close but they don't win and are frustrated about it.

But we will get them off their perch, just like we did for Liverpool :) or so do I hope.

And also some of this.

Mockney's point exacerbates Gasolin's. I dont feel resentful about Barca being better than us. Fair play to them, if we meet them in the CL this season I will hope to win but it wont be a grudge, for me. If I could choose a CL final now I would choose us against Madrid. Winning that game would be the sweetest experience I could imagine - actually, for numerous reasons, but mainly because of those games in the late 90s when their Galacticos kept knocking our "kids" out of the competition.

Losing that game would be horrible. But that is football, I guess, it would be a risk Id be happy to take.