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A friend sent me this yesterday, some of you have have not seen it may like it.

My Day at Old Trafford

Mate...I’ve been to Old Trafford and its fabulous. The most fun I’ve ever had at a sporting event in my life. Where to begin:

1. Its right next door to where we live and easy to get to. 2. No problems getting in and easy to buy a programme. 3. A very patient crowd (no pushing) and helpful ushers 4. Got to sit right next to the West Ham fans. 5. Excellent seats, excellent view. 6. Manu U fans are very polite and didn’t interrupt West Ham supporters once while they were singing. 7. Fortunately West Ham are United as well, so there was a large mass of people singing “come on United”. 8. When United had loads of possession the nice West Ham fan’s kept going “Shhhhh” so the home fans could listen quietly to the game. 9. The West Ham fans offered to “sing a song for you...can we sing a song for you”. This was followed by “Aren’t you supposed to be at home” and then one of those long “Shhhhhh’s” so they could concentrate on the game. 10. The West Ham crowd kept singing for Paolo Di Canio. 11. Then because they had been so kind to the nice gentle quiet United fans, they let him score. 12. Everyone helped...Gary Neville ran backwards when he should have run forwards...first time I’ve seen a defender try to beat his own off-side trap. 13. Secondly, the nice linesman decided that Di Canio wasn’t closer to the goal than the last defender...Kanute was, so he didn’t wave his annoying flag which would have blocked the view of the fans that were making the noise...as opposed to the 58,000 who weren’t. 14. Then that Gentlemen of Gentlemen, Fabian Barthez kept waving his arm to make sure Paolo could find where the goal was and then got out of the way to let him score. 15. What a friendly place...(except no-one offered me a prawn sandwich). 16. Then Man U let West Ham string 21 passes together (more than their total for the season so far) and then everyone shouted “Ole” after every pass. 17. Fergie heard all this and then gave them what they wanted and brought “Ole” on. 18. But Fergie not wanting to ruin the day, didn’t take off the other strikers like normal...remember Barcelona...no he had Cole, Sheringham, Yorke and the great Ole all on together. 19. This was helpful, because in the last frantic minutes the West Ham defenders didn’t have to do anything because the four strikers got into each others way so much that they were never going to score. Best tackle of the day Yorke on Sheringham...two minutes from time. 20. Then all the Man U fans went home and left our new West Ham friends to sing in peace...oh, that’s right they spent the past 90 minutes doing that anyway. 21. Monday morning...Fergie blames the pitch, the referee, the linesman, British Rail, the Airports Corporation, Salman Rusdie, Shergar and the Rugby League World Cup (How did he know it was on...no-one else did), and his players...mmmm, classy!

I’ve turned...if this is what its like at Man U every week, I’m going to get a season ticket...and I got to see Roy Keane, Teddy Sheringham and Stuart Pearce...Forest Rule Ok!

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2001

Answers

Sorry about the formatting.

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2001

Nice one Gus, nice one. LoL

-- Anonymous, February 01, 2001

Re: Are you on drugs?

Posted by Roughy on 31 January, 2001 at 21:57:22: In Reply to: Are you on drugs? posted by RTRsBM on 31 January, 2001 at 21:52:32:

Honest mate hate to admit it but they did cetainley for the first 45...it's only happened once before at the SOL and that's when we played them in the Wortheys maybe they have a lot of time to drink on the journey from Essex!

In respense to a question about being outsung by United

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2001


Anyway, that's nowt to do with the subject field. What occurred to me coming home this morning was that again the Man U fans had put up a decent fit of singing. Nowhere near as much as the worthy but canny still compared to most away fans at the SoL. Something had seemed odd at the worthy but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Now I know. The problem is that that is what they do. They sing/chant. They don't actually create atmosphere as we would know it. Singing/chanting plays a part in atmosphere for sure, but atmosphere is much more than that. The Roker Roar was famous long before mass chanting arrived on these shores. When you look at them, they are all standing in perfect precision, ennunciating all the ords to the chants/songs and clapping in unison. If you've ever had the honour of being at an away match and looking at the travelling red and white army, it's a sea of seething humanity with lads and lasses roaring out their encouragement to the lads and every now and again breaking out into song. In a strange way the Man U away supporters' attempts to prove they are not the plastic prawn munchers of Old Trafford has created something just as sterile

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2001

Best away fans I've ever seen at the SoL in my book

Posted by Deano on 01 February, 2001 at 13:47:39: In Reply to: Atmosphere vs singing >>> posted by Herts on 01 February, 2001 at 13:19:12:

despite the bad reputation their clubs hangers-on gives them, the hardcore are fine by me

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2001



Apart from the original posting, I find this thread very, very offensive. ;-)

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2001

Mission accomplished :-)

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2001

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