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Sky intro to Manchester derby and match comment

Deareg said:
going on past performances, i wish you would play us every week, 34 years since you won at old trafford 40 years since you did the double over us, yeah i wish we could play you every week
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... the last time we beat United was...yesterday!
Seriously though the thing that pissed me off yesterday was Chelsea's inability to knock Liverpool into the dogfight for the Inter Toto place. Forget the double over United, keeping Liverpool out of Europe would be the highlight of the season.
 
gabi said:
Agreed - he should play more often. He'd get into the starting lineup at any other club i'd say.
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yeah with him, Rooney and Ronaldo roaming all across the pitch United are fucking awesome.

Oh yeah and Nani was poor yesterday, he's too much of a classic old style stick wide winger at times, he's got bags of potential but like Ronaldo when he first came he'll have to start thinking about the game more.
 
twisted said:
... the last time we beat United was...yesterday!
Seriously though the thing that pissed me off yesterday was Chelsea's inability to knock Liverpool into the dogfight for the Inter Toto place. Forget the double over United, keeping Liverpool out of Europe would be the highlight of the season.
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yeah, i hear you on that one,
 
Deareg said:
yeah, i hear you on that one,
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I'm feeling sightly more confident about that now that we have an established Premiership goalscoring forward for the first time this season and that Ecudorian kid looks like a right bull too. Plus we've been without Michael Johnson for ages and I think his injury coincided with our loss of form. Plus Boijonov and Castillo should be back soon and one of them is bound to be OK, I hope.
 
twisted said:
I'm feeling sightly more confident about that now that we have an established Premiership goalscoring forward for the first time this season and that Ecudorian kid looks like a right bull too. Plus we've been without Michael Johnson for ages and I think his injury coincided with our loss of form. Plus Boijonov and Castillo should be back soon and one of them is bound to be OK, I hope.
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i have been suprised by how far you have fell away from the champions league spots, benjani was definitely a good buy, i was worried in the build up to the game with all the talk of munich, the players didn't seem to be focusing on it and the law of averages say that sooner or later you would win at OT, i still think fergie got the team selection terribly wrong
 
I have to say, as a lifetime Man Utd fan with all the given contempt for Liverpool and Manchester City, I was really proud of the respect shown by City fans yesterday. It put even more of a lump in my throat than watching the Man United tributes.

It does go to show that for all our bitterness on and off the field. Some things surpass footballing rivalries and I would like to think that if the boot was on the other foot - we would have held the same respect at City's ground (or anywhere for that matter)

I also think it was fairly apt that the derby was held yesterday as the deaths affected the whole city - not just the team or its supporters. Respect was shown then in Manchester and it was reflected yesterday too.

Good on the city fans for being good sports.

Skyscraper101 - (United supporter for ever)
 
skyscraper101 said:
I have to say, as a lifetime Man Utd fan with all the given contempt for Liverpool and Manchester City, I was really proud of the respect shown by City fans yesterday. It put even more of a lump in my throat than watching the Man United tributes.

It does go to show that for all our bitterness on and off the field. Some things surpass footballing rivalries and I would like to think that if the boot was on the other foot - we would have held the same respect at City's ground (or anywhere for that matter)

I also think it was fairly apt that the derby was held yesterday as the deaths affected the whole city - not just the team or its supporters. Respect was shown then in Manchester and it was reflected yesterday too.

Good on the city fans for being good sports.

Skyscraper101 - (United supporter for ever)
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For the life of me I cannot remember who it was but i read one of the many interviews last week with some old United stalwart and he said that at the time all of Manchester really pulled together after the air crash and there was no mention of Munich songs or anything until things turned ugly with football hooliganism in the 70s.
Hopefully yesterday will put an end to all the Munich songs and we can just get on with beating you again next year;)
 
twisted said:
For the life of me I cannot remember who it was but i read one of the many interviews last week with some old United stalwart and he said that at the time all of Manchester really pulled together after the air crash and there was no mention of Munich songs or anything until things turned ugly with football hooliganism in the 70s.
Hopefully yesterday will put an end to all the Munich songs and we can just get on with beating you again next year;)
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My Grandad (who was a Man United player under Busby) said that when he was young it was quite common for people to support United and City as the second team and vice versa.

Shame it all turned ugly in the seventies really.
 
I went to most City home games from the mid to late 70s and I never heard a chant or reference to Munich. My first recollection of it was a mate from Leeds and a story about a fan at Elland Road who would wave a toy plane at the games against United. I find the chants about 'Munichs' very depressing.

Not to say there was no antagonism in the 70s though, the last time City won at OT the United fans charged onto the pitch, stopped the game and prompted the construction of fences around the ground (the first in the country)
 
Gotta say United looked fucking great in that kit.

Especially enjoyed Van der Saar's shirt, which was just the right shade of green - filed under 'Clemence' in the pallette of my mind's eye.
 
Deareg said:
i know he is young but it is not as if city have any type of flying wingers that we should have been worried about,
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well, apart from petrov of course.


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I thought one or two of the chunkier players looked a bit 'breastish' in the kit. Giggsy & Ronaldo got away with it though.

Very good of City to ditch their sponsor for the day too.
 
Pavlik said:
why would you bid 75 grand when the same thing is going for between £40- £175 :confused:
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you wouldn't but you might if you are disgusted a cunts tunring a profit on them.

Do you think folk will really be getting 75k sent to them by paypal? :D
 
brianx said:
Wasn't that always going to happen though? There's no way that City fans would do that as if they did they'd get a good hiding from their mates. Self regulation does happen in football and there's no way that City fans would allow themselves to be tainted like that. I really hate hate pre-approbation which is what's been going on for so long with this.
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well they've been allowing themselves to be tainted with Munich songs etc (read a city fanzine, there's references to Munich everywhere in them) for thirty years or so.
 
revol68 said:
you wouldn't but you might if you are disgusted a cunts tunring a profit on them.

Do you think folk will really be getting 75k sent to them by paypal? :D
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Seems to have been a few withdrawn and the first tow up for auction are over £5k each now. I noticed a couple of them were signed by alex Stephney and then I had a closer look at this one as it included a menu :eek:and said it was signed by Frank stapleton.

Here's the blurb:

YOU ARE BIDDING ON A OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME SIGNED BY FRANK STAPLETON ALSO A HOSPITALITY MATCHDAY MENU AND A RED AND WHITE SCARF GIVEN OUT TO EVERYONE ATTENDING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY MUNICH GAME AGAINST MANCHESTER CITY PLAYED AT OLD TRAFFORD ON THE 10TH OF FEBRUARY 2008

CUNT!!!!!!
 
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