Premiership

[TheNads]

As a regular visitor to Old Trafford you can well refer to them as "we" & "us". I'm not having a pop at real football fans. I just have had my fill of the adoring fans who wouldn't know who someone like Dave Sexton was, Gordon Hill, Gerry Daly etc.
They are certainly old enough to have lived through these peoples careers but obviously only became lifelong supporters after the 1st 6 yrs of the Fergie regime.

"You're" on your way to Rome & I suppose you are on your way there too, red crackers in tow ? Good luck to you.

[Forrest]

As a regular visitor to Old Trafford you can well refer to them as "we" & "us". I'm not having a pop at real football fans. I just have had my fill of the adoring fans who wouldn't know who someone like Dave Sexton was, Gordon Hill, Gerry Daly etc.
They are certainly old enough to have lived through these peoples careers but obviously only became lifelong supporters after the 1st 6 yrs of the Fergie regime.

"You're" on your way to Rome & I suppose you are on your way there too, red crackers in tow ? Good luck to you.

I understand where you are coming from Nads - but there are glory hunters with every club so its not exclusive to United. Look at the attendance figures for any team when they have a good cup run for example. Newcastle in the mid nineties are another example - they didn't fill St James's Park before Keegan arrived. Over the last five years I have met more Chelsea 'fans' in Ireland than I had in the previous 25 years - where did they all come from? I still remember Clyde Best, Billy Bonds, Frank Lamps snr etc from West Ham, not to mention the likes of Tony Curry, Keith Weller, Stan Bowles and all the other flair players/characters of the 70's when United won the odd cup and f**k all else but were still the best supported team in England.

[experienced punter]

Arsenal 1 United 3

Great call Rimmer!

[rimmerguy]

Always felt it would be a fairly easy game , no disrespect to arsenal , but united were always gonna be too much for them from what i saw in the first leg . Now tonights game is a lot trickier , going for a score of Chelsea 1 - Barca 2 with a heavy sprinkle of yellow cards and one or 2 bust ups for the ref to deal with

[Forrest]

Always felt it would be a fairly easy game , no disrespect to arsenal , but united were always gonna be too much for them from what i saw in the first leg . Now tonights game is a lot trickier , going for a score of Chelsea 1 - Barca 2 with a heavy sprinkle of yellow cards and one or 2 bust ups for the ref to deal with

Not quite the scoreline but the bust ups prediction was a no-brainer if Chelsea didnt get their way.

[Alana]

with a heavy sprinkle of yellow cards and one or 2 bust ups for the ref to deal with

Anyone seen Drogba's dummy ? ffs while there was at least 2 stonewaller penalties denied his behaviour was straight out of the under 16 schoolboys variety.
The referee bottled it and he should have gave Ballack a forehand smash

Elle x

[experienced punter]

did u ever see a match like it last night 4 penalty incidents 3 of them the clearest pens u will ever see in your lifetime, I'm no Chelsea supporter but this was unbelievable & an outrage from the referee, Why dont football just get a 4th official like the rugby to decide on debatable decisions? I Can never understand why dont they just do it? I Feel very sorry for Chelsea- Scandalous!...

[Doozer]

did u ever see a match like it last night 4 penalty incidents 3 of them the clearest pens u will ever see in your lifetime, I'm no Chelsea supporter but this was unbelievable & an outrage from the referee, Why dont football just get a 4th official like the rugby to decide on debatable decisions? I Can never understand why dont they just do it? I Feel very sorry for Chelsea- Scandalous!...

They will be wanting the ref who gave Ireland the "peno for nothing" against Georgia for next seanons Champ League