Yes I know it's another thread about our illustrious opponents but for some reason I can't put my finger on they really get my heckles up.
I was sat at work and found myself frowning for no apparent reason and then realised its because I was thinking about them.
We all have the usual preconceived ideas about them not being a big club anymore and or why all their supporters have a chip on their shoulder the size of Yorkshire but I thought that perhaps I had done them a disservice and that a glance at their Wikipedia entry might enlighten me.
Instead it has made me even more vociferous in my irrational hatred of this imperiously pompous bunch of myopic Yorkshire-is-the-centre-of-the-flat-Earthers.
I mean for example which other club would list former players honours whilst playing for OTHER clubs as part of their own history?
(Listing membership of Eric Cantona in the football hall of fame and him playing for Leeds as mutually exclusive events).
This on top of their incessant bleating about being Champions of Europe (they won the pre-cursor to the UEFA cup before it was something you qualified for on merit and was in fact a competition to promote trade relations between declining European industrial cities) is more than I can take.
I whole heartedly admit to it being irrational but in a Kevin Keegan type way I would love it, love it if we beat them tonight.
I was sat at work and found myself frowning for no apparent reason and then realised its because I was thinking about them.
We all have the usual preconceived ideas about them not being a big club anymore and or why all their supporters have a chip on their shoulder the size of Yorkshire but I thought that perhaps I had done them a disservice and that a glance at their Wikipedia entry might enlighten me.
Instead it has made me even more vociferous in my irrational hatred of this imperiously pompous bunch of myopic Yorkshire-is-the-centre-of-the-flat-Earthers.
I mean for example which other club would list former players honours whilst playing for OTHER clubs as part of their own history?
(Listing membership of Eric Cantona in the football hall of fame and him playing for Leeds as mutually exclusive events).
This on top of their incessant bleating about being Champions of Europe (they won the pre-cursor to the UEFA cup before it was something you qualified for on merit and was in fact a competition to promote trade relations between declining European industrial cities) is more than I can take.
I whole heartedly admit to it being irrational but in a Kevin Keegan type way I would love it, love it if we beat them tonight.
