[Albion] Man U are MASSIVE favourites this weekend..

[Easy 10]

On another note, a couple of Man Utd supporting Sussex mates of mine tell me off for calling them Man U. Apparently it’s a term used by Liverpool and stems from Munich?! I’m sure they read it online, but I explain I am referring to them as the team Manchester Utd shortened and not making a dig at the Munich tragedy obviously - but they still won’t have it. Anyone heard of this before?! I have to literally think twice when referring to them in wattsapp groups now!

You had me at 'Sussex mates supporting Man U'.

Utter bollocks. Just a bunch of snowflakes making tenuous links, you should tell them to grow the F up.

Its up there with the goonsquad doing their pearl-clutching whenever someone mentions Cantona, because apparently its celebrating one of their fans getting killed. Some people really do need to get a grip.

 

[Is it PotG?]

You had me at 'Sussex mates supporting Man U'.

Utter bollocks. Just a bunch of snowflakes making tenuous links, you should tell them to grow the F up.

Its up there with the goonsquad doing their pearl-clutching whenever someone mentions Cantona, because apparently its celebrating one of their fans getting killed. Some people really do need to get a grip.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Ladbrokes have a utd win at 4/7 and a Brighton win at a massive 5/1!!

I don't expect us to win but ....

Answered your own question there.

 

[zefarelly]

On another note, a couple of Man Utd supporting Sussex mates of mine tell me off for calling them Man U. Apparently it’s a term used by Liverpool and stems from Munich?! I’m sure they read it online, but I explain I am referring to them as the team Manchester Utd shortened and not making a dig at the Munich tragedy obviously - but they still won’t have it. Anyone heard of this before?! I have to literally think twice when referring to them in wattsapp groups now!

play safe, I always refer to them as Manure

 

[Stato]

On another note, a couple of Man Utd supporting Sussex mates of mine tell me off for calling them Man U. Apparently it’s a term used by Liverpool and stems from Munich?! I’m sure they read it online, but I explain I am referring to them as the team Manchester Utd shortened and not making a dig at the Munich tragedy obviously - but they still won’t have it. Anyone heard of this before?! I have to literally think twice when referring to them in wattsapp groups now!

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/216115-mufc-or-manchester-unitedit-shouldnt-be-called-man-u

Personally never heard of it myself but that’s why it’s allegedly offensive.

This sounds a lot like an aftertime explanation to me. Colin Shindler's book 'Man Utd Ruined My Life' tells first hand of the respect and sympathy that all of football had for United at the time of the Munich tragedy. The terrace insults wouldn't have started until some years later in the sixties or seventies. As teenagers in the eighties we all knew the nasty 'Who's that...' song about Munich, but I didn't hear reference to the ones mentioned in that article until much later. There are differing reports on the internet that say that the name and various songs originated with West Brom, Liverpool or Leeds, which seems a pointer to the origin story being a causation fallacy made after the event. Although only anecdotal, in my memory, the widely sung 'We hate Man U and we hate Man U' pre-dates the Munich referencing songs by some years.

Occam's razor would surely have the shortening of Man Utd to Man U as a far more likely origin than these explanations. It would seem far more probable that the United fans' dislike of the name, rather than the name itself, comes from the songs being referenced. I have never seen a claim of this as the origin of the name that wasn't written in the twenty first century. I think it likely that SNOPES would label this one 'False'. If the name is really a terrible insult, nobody from Salford seems to have advised the Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Manchester-United

 

[blue-shifted]

Man U.

Shortest way to refer to them isn't it. Like calling Sheffield Wednesday Sheffwed or Crystal Palace, the Scum

Can't be spending time on all those syllables.

 

[Easy 10]

Nah, don't buy that - far too convoluted and over-sensitive. M U Never Iintended Coming Home - yeh right

It doesn't even make any sense. Why would they have never intended coming home ??

As you say, far too convoluted. You'd have to be some kind of pillock to deduce 'Man U' meaning that.

 

[Left Footer]

We will never get a better chance to win at Old Trafford.
They are slow and predictable.

 

[Brovion]

On another note, a couple of Man Utd supporting Sussex mates of mine tell me off for calling them Man U. Apparently it’s a term used by Liverpool and stems from Munich?! I’m sure they read it online, but I explain I am referring to them as the team Manchester Utd shortened and not making a dig at the Munich tragedy obviously - but they still won’t have it. Anyone heard of this before?! I have to literally think twice when referring to them in wattsapp groups now!

Blimey, in all my years of following football, dating back to the mid-1960s I have NEVER heard any Man U fan complaining about being called Man U, much less tying it back to Munich. If it is now a 'thing' it's very very recent.

If I were being slightly cynical I'd say that Man U fans, sick of everybody hating them for being the epitome of corporate football, want a little bit of that sweet victim status.

 

[Badger]

My boss is a Partisan Belgrade supporter. He says his team will probably give Man Utd a bit of a kicking on Thursday night. Might be a few bruised players on Sunday.

 

[lawros left foot]

My boss is a Partisan Belgrade supporter. He says his team will probably give Man Utd a bit of a kicking on Thursday night. Might be a few bruised players on Sunday.

I hope they don’t injure Fred, we really need him in their midfield on Sunday.

 

[Pickles]

On another note, a couple of Man Utd supporting Sussex mates of mine tell me off for calling them Man U. Apparently it’s a term used by Liverpool and stems from Munich?! I’m sure they read it online, but I explain I am referring to them as the team Manchester Utd shortened and not making a dig at the Munich tragedy obviously - but they still won’t have it. Anyone heard of this before?! I have to literally think twice when referring to them in wattsapp groups now!

I just spoke with a customer, who is 70, and born and bred in Salford, obviously a Man U fan.

He said it's bollockcs.

 

[LlcoolJ]

It doesn't even make any sense. Why would they have never intended coming home ??

As you say, far too convoluted. You'd have to be some kind of pillock to deduce 'Man U' meaning that.

Complete bollocks as you say. Never heard that before in my life and I've met enough real and plastic Man U fans.

However, they seem to have gone quiet on that one when they were winning everything and TWATS like Terry Christian insisted that they should just be referred to as "United" as everyone in the World knew what that meant.....

Apart from all the supporters living in / aware of EVERY other club in the country called United of course. The COCK.

 

[perseus]

I got 55/1 to win at City. 11/2 gets a token bet. 2-2 at 19/1.

 

[Peter Grummit]

My boss is a Partisan Belgrade supporter. He says his team will probably give Man Utd a bit of a kicking on Thursday night. Might be a few bruised players on Sunday.

Happy with that. They have a few injuries anyway - Pogba, Shaw, Matic, Tuanzebe, Fosu-Mhensa, Bailly, Dalot all look set to miss our game. https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...all-news/man-utd-injury-latest-pogba-17185345 .

Add to that Ashley Young being suspended for 5 bookings and I'm really not sure who will play left back.

Bring it on!

 

[Peter Grummit]

Complete bollocks as you say. Never heard that before in my life and I've met enough real and plastic Man U fans.

However, they seem to have gone quiet on that one when they were winning everything and TWATS like Terry Christian insisted that they should just be referred to as "United" as everyone in the World knew what that meant.....

Apart from all the supporters living in / aware of EVERY other club in the country called United of course. The COCK.

That's my pet hate. Even when they play eg Newcastle, the commentators still say "United coming forward...."

 

[Icy Gull]

Fully expect Daniel James to have a blinder in front of the man who gave him his chance. Unless of course Potter knows how to nullify the threat as he will know his weak spots.

 

[Justice]

Fully expect Daniel James to have a blinder in front of the man who gave him his chance. Unless of course Potter knows how to nullify the threat as he will know his weak spots.

He’s not that good runs fast often lacks ball control and tries to win a cheap pen or free kick, a slightly better Elvis Manu. Trossard on the other hand is the real deal I know who I would rather have for the £15m

 

[CHAPPERS]

Brighton, Sheff Utd (away at Spurs) and Leicester treble pays 82/1.

 

[Wilko]

On a side note, is the game on any channels around the world and thus able to watch *ahem* somewhere?