Solskjær retires

**Microdot** · 28-08-2007, 01:55 AM

Ole Solskjær retires:-

http://sport.independent.co.uk/footb...cle2901033.ece

a true legend and model professional.

**Numeric** · 28-08-2007, 08:58 AM

aye, United Legend...

one of my favourite players of all time, he will be missed...

just glad that he got chance to shine one last time last season, making a good contribution and winning another title...

you are my Solksjaer, my Ole Solksjaer
you make me happy, when skies are grey
and Alan Shearer, was f**kin dearer
so please don't take my Solksjaer away

**Esox Lucius** · 28-08-2007, 09:14 AM

legend.

**kai** · 28-08-2007, 10:20 AM

Very very very sad day - up there with when Keano and Eric left the club for me....

Apparently he's to be offered a posituon as a worldwide ambassador for the club which is good to hear - far as I'm concerned for his service to the club and commitment to United he deserves a job for life within OT.

**LittleMinx** · 28-08-2007, 10:27 AM

Awwww bless him, what a tough decision to make!!! But he couldnt go on with the way he's knee has been over the years!!!!

Such a class player!!!!

:whoops:

**Will** · 28-08-2007, 04:32 PM

I'll always remember how he stitched up Sol Campbell - scum bag.

**Numeric** · 28-08-2007, 05:48 PM

what when Sol elbowed him in the face...

**djfase** · 28-08-2007, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by Numeric

what when Sol elbowed him in the face...

So true

**Insomnia** · 28-08-2007, 08:03 PM

A Man Utd legend no doubt!

I wont forget that goal he scored in 99...

**Microdot** · 29-08-2007, 03:49 AM

Originally Posted by Will

I'll always remember how he stitched up Sol Campbell - scum bag.

lol, you're a bellend, wake up to yourself...
Ole's not just a Utd legend, but a true legend of the game.

anyway, heres a good write up from the guardian....

apparently, Ole is the greatset supersub ever....

http://football.guardian.co.uk/thekn...157555,00.html

"His first goal for United, in August 1996, came six minutes after he was introduced in a home match against Blackburn in August 1996; spookily, his last goal for the club also came six minutes after he had come off the bench at home to Blackburn."

**Will** · 30-08-2007, 03:45 PM

Sol said Ole would tell them it was an accident - which he never denied - but didn't, scum bag and his knee injury was karma. So you're the bellend.

**basslinejunkie** · 30-08-2007, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by Microdot

lol, you're a bellend, wake up to yourself...
Ole's not just a Utd legend, but a true legend of the game.

anyway, heres a good write up from the guardian....

apparently, Ole is the greatset supersub ever....

http://football.guardian.co.uk/thekn...157555,00.html

"His first goal for United, in August 1996, came six minutes after he was introduced in a home match against Blackburn in August 1996; spookily, his last goal for the club also came six minutes after he had come off the bench at home to Blackburn."

are you on crack?!?!?!? a legend of the game?!?!? go have a shower an wake yourself up m8....

he struggled to even get a game,he was a benchwarmer.lengend of the game thats actually made me chuckle

**kai** · 30-08-2007, 06:28 PM

He managed 336 games in 11 years - thats an average of 30ish a season. Which considering he missed best part of 3 years with injuries is a pretty damn high average number of games a season.

And before you say they were all as sub - only approx 1/3 of them were - so still started on average every other game - hardly struggling to get a game is it.

He's a legend for us in the same manner David Fairclough is for your scummy lot, but he means much more to the fans for taking a stance against the Glazers, for being patron of Shareholders United, for sitting with the fans while out injred in the family stand, for unswerving loyalty to the club, for that tackle on Rob Lee, for coming off the bench to grab us a Champions League, for being a model professional in a time of footballers egos, and for rescuing us on countless occasions. Ole Gunnar Soljskaer had the knack of coming off the bench and doing what you thought you'd do if the manager had run out of players and shouted you out from the stands, and thats something you can't replace in the hearts of supporters.

If a Liverpool player had done half those things he'd be worshipped at Anfield - like I say look to your own past and how revered David Fairclough is, and his relationship with the Pool fans doesn't even come close.

As copied from one blog I read on this subject - to me this gets to the essence of what it means to be a Red Legend and what makes Ole up there for ANY united supporter:

Every club has its legends. For United, the untouchables are George Best, Denis Law, Bryan Robson, Norman Whiteside, Mark Hughes, Eric Cantona and Roy Keane. They aren't loved in spite of their faults, they're worshipped even more because of them. George punched Ron Yeats and knocked him out, Denis scored that goal, Robbo drank for England, Big Norm nailed McMahon (we hurt when he moved to Merseyside, but we got over it), Eric and Simmons, Keane and all kinds, even including Haaland in some people's eyes, but especially getting himself booked and suspended for the final.

The next level includes legends like Bobby Charlton (should be in the top level, but strangely isn't), Nobby Stiles, Ray Wilkins, Martin Buchan, Stevie Coppell, Sammy McIlroy, Kevin Moran, Lou Macari, all the 92 graduates and a lot of the big names of the 90's & since.

There are also those who are remembered fondly despite flitting relatively briefly across the Old Trafford scene such as Gordon Hill, Jaap Stam, Gerry Daly, Arthur Graham & Peter Barnes even, Arnold Muhren, Ralphie Milne (arf), Willie Morgan, Teddy Sheringham, Andrei Kanchelskis and many more.

Not a legend? Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? Not a fkn legend?? For me and for many others, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is in the very top level. Unlike the other untouchables, he only ever did one thing 'wrong' and that was THAT tackle on Rob Lee - something that made United fans love him even more. I think of it as a noble act of self-sacrifice and his reaction to doing it has almost the same effect on me as watching Derek Redmond and his dad at the Olympics. His retirement has almost the same effect on me as Stevie Coppell's, although at least Ole's isn't too premature. Good stuff above, I think we got his best bits but there were so many. For the calm finishes and the smiles and the attitude and staying instead of going to Spurs, nobody deserved to score the European Cup winner for United more than Ole.

(The Babes didn't get a mention. They're a whole different level of legendary, because we'll never know...)

**kai** · 30-08-2007, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Will

Sol said Ole would tell them it was an accident - which he never denied - but didn't, scum bag and his knee injury was karma. So you're the bellend.

No your the bellend!

Sol whacked another player in the face with his elbow - blatantly a sending off offence. He then went onto whine in self pity to the press about it, and being a popular England player at the time they took his side and barracked Soljskaer for getting him sent off. However noone ever denied the elbow, and that it was a sending off offence so WTF???

Soljskaer kept a dignified silence while Campbell moaned like a bitch to the press - who's the one behaving like a pro there???

So f.u.c.k off karma - and your the bellend for coming out with such shit against someone who was a model professional.

**Microdot** · 30-08-2007, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by basslinejunkie

are you on crack?!?!?!? a legend of the game?!?!? go have a shower an wake yourself up m8....

he struggled to even get a game,he was a benchwarmer.lengend of the game thats actually made me chuckle

you obviously know fukk all about football son, and as a result I won't bother explaining it to you, I'll leave that to whoever looks after you while your mum and dad are out collecting hubcaps.

**Numeric** · 30-08-2007, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by basslinejunkie

are you on crack?!?!?!? a legend of the game?!?!? go have a shower an wake yourself up m8....

he struggled to even get a game,he was a benchwarmer.lengend of the game thats actually made me chuckle

you know you're talkin s**t man...

**Esox Lucius** · 30-08-2007, 08:09 PM

"and solskjaer has won it"

great moment that in 99

**Microdot** · 30-08-2007, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Esox Lucius

"and solskjaer has won it"

great moment that in 99

no doubt, gives me goosebumps every time I think about it.

**Esox Lucius** · 30-08-2007, 08:37 PM

me too and im an evertonian :cheese: always had a soft spot for united though, probably because they hate kopites

**Frank Dogshit** · 30-08-2007, 11:09 PM

a good player but certainly not a legend.....

he was always sodding injured...more sicknotes than shaggy anderton.

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