Protect Your Legacy Manchester United! ⚠️ ⚽
Man Utd are the only team in England who have completed the treble of Premier League Champions, FA Cup winners and Champion's League winners. And they have it in their power to stop Man City matching their crowning glory: the 1998/99 season which is the club's finest hour.
Manchester City and Manchester United will face off in the first all-Manchester FA Cup final; victory for Pep Guardiola's side will move them one game away from matching United's previously unrivalled treble.
Every club has a legacy that they cherish. Man Utd's greatest-ever achievement is in danger of being replicated by their "noisy neighbours", Man City. Just two games stand between them and their own treble.
Those miraculous 10 days in May 1999 which saw Sir Alex Ferguson's side win the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in the most dramatic fashion could soon be about to lose some mystique.
Erik ten Hag's side have a chance to protect that legacy by stopping City in tomorrow's FA Cup final, the first time the showpiece event has ever been contested by the two Manchester clubs.
Come on you Reds!
Like everyone else who is old enough to remember the 1958 Munich plane crash, I have always had a soft spot for Man United. However, that doesn’t make me a supporter. No offence, Jack, and I hope you don’t mind, but in tomorrow’s Cup Final my hopes are pinned on the team where, until last year, Jesus wore the No. 33 shirt.
ReplyDeleteWell, HJ most certainly does mind!
Delete13 seconds ... 🤬 🤬 🤬
Delete33 minutes .... 😃 😃 🥳
Delete51 minutes ... ffs ... 🤬 🤬 🤬
DeleteHJ is now entering a period of official mourning!
DeleteIt's up to Inter Milan now.
In other football news, there have been surprises in the Under 20 World Cup, where the last of the four quarter finals is being played at this moment between the USA and Uruguay. The winner will then face Israel in the semifinals on Thursday, after Israel beat Brazil 3-2 yesterday.
DeleteIn the other semifinal, to be played later the same day, Italy meets South Korea.
Israel beat Brazil 3-2!
DeleteIsrael missed two penalties and still beat Brazil 3-2!
DeleteTo HJ:
DeleteFunny, I was going to say that, too!
Btw, can we expect coverage of this year's Rugby World Cup?
To Ray Sunshine:
Wow! Thanks for sharing this.
@ Right Angle
DeleteAre you a rugby fan and what team do you support?
Yes, I am interested in rugby, but I would rather not say which team I support ...
DeleteBtw, I'll be going for a church camp and will be without my laptop so may not be able to post any further replies for a few days.
Why don't City f^^k off home!
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Oh, my! To the swooning couch!
Mancunian brother-in-law in Australia is distraught😄
ReplyDelete🤬 .... You looking to be banned?
DeleteI presume that this was the cause of the excess number of alcohol-marinated young men who were screaming around the streets of my village last night, and put in the glass of our last phone box.
ReplyDeleteThat's Man City supporters for you! Man Utd followers are far more civilised.
DeleteUnfortunately, young men don't need an excuse for drunken hooliganism.
Yes, I noticed... Since the stroke of genius that was closing our village police station and moving them to the main town 30 minutes away, it's turned into the Wild West around here after dark. I've never seen the police here at night, they're all too busy fighting with drunken students in the town. I don't know where they get the money from to sit in the pub from mid afternoon until 1am, drinking themselves into that kind of state.
DeleteI might start a temperance movement!
@Lain,
DeleteThis seems to prove your point
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/05/cumbria-maryport-anti-social-crime-rate-drops-bobby-beat/
So crime falls when the police are around ... who knew?
DeleteOf course, when they relocated the local officers, they promised that they'd still cover us but be responding from the local town. As was blindingly obvious, they were simply absorbed into trying to keep a lid on the town's unruly miscreants and sink estate and have never been seen again (except for a PCSO manning a stall at the village fête, if you're lucky). Now most local people simply don't bother reporting crime, which adds to the problem.
Ahhh the joys of the football fan after his team wins. Still better than what happens when the team loses.
ReplyDeleteAll sport should be banned, and the time spent watching it used for prayer and self mortification!
DeleteCricket,! I really don't know why the Japanese embraced Baseball and not Cricket. Much more suited to their culture I would have thought 🧐
DeleteAh, cricket. A game which the English, not being a spiritual people, invented to give themselves some concept of eternity. Fun fact -- when Mrs Bell and I were to be married, we initially wanted to hire a nearby cricket pavilion to host our reception. The club agreed, but warned us that a scheduled match -- which was due to end ONE WEEK EARLIER -- would take priority if it overran. It's cricket. We didn't think we could afford to take the chance.
DeleteWe're a very productive people, Clive, and we simply don't have the time to take a few years off work to watch the average game of cricket!
DeleteSadly no longer true. There is now something called T20, an abomination. Over in a single evening.
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