by ResurrectionRooney Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:10 am
Scott wrote: ResurrectionRooney wrote: Scott wrote: ResurrectionRooney wrote:How can a team be consistently lucky?
I don't know, but United constantly get things going their way. Admit it. First the City match, now this match. 2 in a row, are you going to argue with that?
No we don't, we just take advantage of things when they go our way, because we are the best team. It's like Barcelona in the Champions League, people think they are always lucky or have dark forces helping them, Celtic and Rangers in the SPL, they are always talking about conspiracies or luck for the Old Firm, long ago, when you were successful, people used to go on about how refs helped you. It's all about psychology and quality, every team gets some good luck and some bad luck in roughly equal amounts, it's almost a mathematical certainty, it's all up to the team what they make of that.
Okay. I'm going to sig it, and keep count of how many things go Man United's way this season. Bet it outweighs every other team.
Sounds like we should have some sort of League of Justice
It really does depend what you want to think of as luck, most football fans will think their rivals are lucky and their own team is unlucky because they're biased, you are a textbook example of this. Go on any football website, and Liverpool, United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City website, they will all be bitching about how their rivals are luckier or favoured by the media or the referees or whoever
The reason is that you're biased towards your club, but you think you aren't, you think you see things fairly because you are so stupid. The media, the referees, luck, they aren't biased (the idea of luck being biased is absurd), but you think that your view is reality, and it's backed up by the other fans who you talk to. Because your view is so slanted towards your club, when the neutrals speak or make decisions, in a completely neutral way, you see it as being against your club, and vice versa for your rivals.