Mark Goldbridge: Some Manchester United fans are miserable, I don't understand the 'Ten Hag out' obsession and we should support Antony

Mark Goldbridge has responded to the “obsession” over Erik ten Hag's sacking and insists there is a bigger problem at Manchester United that needs to be resolved.

The Red Devils superfan and YouTube presenter joined talkSPORT to give us his take on the latest news from Old Trafford.

And he has responded to growing calls for the Premier League giants to take the ax after another terrible season: even from some talkSPORT experts – this is what I had to say.

The whole conversation about Ten Hag seems really confusing to me. It's almost like someone put something in the water.

There is this obsession with firing him and yet you look Chelsea and nothing is really said about Mauricio Pochettino, who is no longer in the FA Cup, who has just been hit by ArsenalThey have spent a billion pounds and they are terrible!

Does Ten Hag need to win the FA Cup to avoid being sacked? Absolutely not!

We're playing Man City, who are likely to win the title again this season, which would make it six of the last seven seasons. It is the best team in the world, it is a giant.

You can't say that United need to beat a giant for the manager to keep his job, that's ridiculous. It has been a very disappointing season for manchester united.

We have had an important acquisition, we have had numerous off-field problems, we have had the highest injury record in our history and I think we just need this summer and this new structure to consolidate.

It will cost money to fire ten witchesand we have fired managers many times over the last ten years.

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I think it's very clear when you're 3-0 up against Coventry with 30 minutes to go and you make a couple of substitutions, rightly so because you have a game on Wednesday, and ends up being 3-3That's the players' responsibility for not feeling it.

I think there is a real acceptance among Man United fans that the biggest problem at the club is the players, so replacing the manager and not replacing the players is going to be problematic.

I think I do understand Some people want Ten Hag firedbut there is no coach who is going to change Manchester United, it needs a massive renovation and it must start with the coaching staff.

So I don't agree. They may fire Ten Hag because they have these new owners, but that's not the path I would go down.

No FA Cup celebrations

I don't share the view that it was disgraceful how we won that game and that beating Coventry on penalties was one of the low points.

There were even some fans who said they wished we would lose because Coventry deserved it more; I don't understand. It wasn't a surprise to me that it ended like this.

Coventry beat Wolves to reach the semi-finals and almost got promoted to the Premier League last year – they are a decent team and Man United are rubbish! We weren't stealing the kids' candy, it's a soccer game!

It's as if something has changed in football, and certainly around the United fan base, where people are very miserable about winning football games.

We had it against Brentford at Old Trafford in the autumn, when we were down 1-0, we scored two goals and people were saying: “I'm not celebrating that, it's rubbish.”

What do you think Lincoln City fans do, what do you think Sheffield Wednesday fans do? Do you think they refuse to celebrate winning games because they don't play like Pep's (Guardiola) best team?

Man United have been bad for ten years, this 'Man United way' has to be earned. Look how Arsenal play, look how they play Liverpool play: you have to earn it!

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I enjoyed that Coventry result because it's a relief we won and ultimately I just want my team to win.

Yes, I want them to play well, but we seem to have lost the joy of winning a football match because we are so obsessed with how we play football.

There are big problems for Man United and it has been a horrible season, so I am enjoying the “small” victories knowing that we have Arsenal in a couple of weeks, and also Crystal Palace, who are playing well, and with the way We are playing right now anyone can give us a game.

There are more defeats to come, so I'm going to enjoy the wins at the moment, because surely that's what supporting your club is all about.

Get behind Antonio

what about antonio…he shouldn't do that. I think we can all agree that he shouldn't do that.

But, I repeat, it's the celebration police, right? She shouldn't have done it and I think she knows she shouldn't have done it, but she just overreacted in that moment and gets completely punished.

I just think Manchester United fans should support him, we've all seen people like Antonio Rudiger do it for Chelsea and real Madrid.

Rasmus (Hojlund)'s solo celebration was just a disgrace to the players for not running out and celebrating a game they should have won in normal time, so in a way I understand it.

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AND Ten Hag calling the mediaI think this was aimed at the Man United media, not the UK media in general, because he's had a very difficult journey, a lot of things have been said.

One of the journalists even said, “fire him now,” during the game; That's just an agenda, it's not journalism.

If you're going to write that, then I think tThe manager has every right to call that embarrassing. So there's a little subplot to that.

When he says the media is disgraceful, people might think he means talkSPORT or the BBC, but I think Ten Hag was focusing on some United journalists who have publicly stabbed him in the back.