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Digging up ancient history won't help you'
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The key bit, of course, is 'won't help you'. That was aimed at Marge, who was trying to argue that because United were great six years ago they're great now. There's nothing wrong with digging up ancient history per se, it was merely the use of it that I was pointing out wouldn't help the argument, in this particular instance.
On the other hand, I brought up Arsenal's 1930s record to correct Reddevil who thinks that Arsenal have never won three titles in a row. Since it's fairly undeniable that they did win three titles in a row, it's legitimate to refute that opinion.
Given that none of the 1930s Arsenal side are currently playing, and it was a completely different era, it would be rather odd of me to suggest that purely because Arsenal were great in the 1930s, they're great now (they're great for other reasons, of course). Likewise it's odd for a United fan to suggest that because they won 8 titles in 10 years and had a great team between 1993 and 2000 that proves they have a great team now. That's like saying that because Chelsea hadn't won the league since 1955 they were incapable of doing so.
Club history doesn't affect performance on the pitch, but the facts are there in the books, and there's no excuse to be ignorant of them, or think of them as a substitute for the currently slipping standards up in Manchester.