posted Feb 4, 2008

I saw someone say this tragedy means nothing to all the foreigners playing...Let me tell you, there are ignorant English people all around me who don't care about this tragedy and Leeds, Liverpool and Man City fans who have openly used it as an insult to United.

Can you blame the foreigners if they don't know the full history? They will not descend to the level of dumb beasts that United's English rivals have.

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posted Feb 4, 2008

Im not ignorant but I dont care about this tragedy.

I wasn't alive when it happened and I didn't know any of the people involved.

If i was attending I would personally be silent out of respect to the relatives of the dead.

Its a shame United didnt show the same respect at the time of the tragedy to the players families which is why lots of people just see it as a cynical marketing ploy by united.

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posted Feb 5, 2008

If you are not ignorant and you dont care about the tragedy then why bother post about it?

You should care as one of the Man City players died.

I wasn't born at the time, but it's alwasy had an impact on me, reading about the history of what happened etc.

I think your comments are sad to be honest. Of course your entitled to your opinion.

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posted Feb 5, 2008

comment by un173D 4 3va
"MODERATORS WILL YOU PLEASE CLOSE THIS GOD DAMN THREAD. JESUS CHRIST."

No don't, ban un173D 4 3va for using all upper case letters, idiot!

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posted Feb 8, 2008

... To answer the question at the top of this thread, there is a lack of respect within players in the game of football through gamesmanship, but the lack of respect between fans is unbelievable... respect doesn't seem to be an option!

I have read some comments on this thread and am sickened, not just by the way non man united supporters are talking about the loss of the Busby babes, but about you as people. Disrespecting not just them, but the game itself. WE as a COUNTRY should show our respects to the unfortunate loss of life and talent, regardless of our views as club supporters.

I look forward to the silence on Sunday at the Manchester Derby who stand, NOT as FANS, but as PEOPLE...

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posted Feb 9, 2008

comment by kippax71
posted 4 Days Ago

Im not ignorant but I dont care about this tragedy....................................................................

You may not be ignorant, but you are a scumbag if you don't care about a terrible tragedy where one of your own players, Frank Swift, was cruelly taken from his friends and family.

Shame on you and your disgusting opinions...

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posted Feb 10, 2008

Well that was all a lot of fuss over something that didn't happen. Just as I expected, City respected the silence. I hope some of those who were trying to start a war over this will now forget such petty tribal insults and get on with supporting their own team.

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posted Feb 11, 2008

Respect to the City fans who respected the silence inside the ground. I can't say anything more than THANK YOU. You have helped portray the City Of Manchester across the World as a Great, Great City. Somehow I don't think Liverpool FC or Leeds United FC's fans would have shown the same respect for our grief, but I'm glad the "Citizens" seen sense and didn't disrespect it, because they knew they would have been disrespecting Frank Swift, one of their former players who tragically died.

The only thing that really annoyed me was the half a dozen firecrackers that went off outside O.T. Gary Neville was seen to be visibly shocked by this breaking of the silence. 4 of my family were at the game and said there was talk around The Theatre Of Dreams that it could have been Chinese New Year Celebrations, but there are lingering suspicions that hardline City fans let off the firecrackers in an attempt to ruin an otherwise immaculately observed silence.

If indeed it was Chinese New Year celebrations, why were they setting off firecrackers during the silence and why were they out in M16 doing so? After all, Old Trafford is about 2 miles from Manchester City Centre where a display like this would be more fitting surely?

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posted Feb 18, 2008

I've just watched ITV's Football coverage of Man Utd 'v' Ipswich which was played on the 25th aniversary of the Munich Air Crash. How was this marked by Man Utd? Black armbands & a memorial service was all that the club thought was needed.

So why all the weeping and wailing when the club, twenty five years ago, thought that this was a fitting way to remember all those involved.

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posted Feb 18, 2008

With all due respect, it doesn't have anything to do with you. Manchester United Football Club decided as a footballing family that the most fitting tribute would be a memorial service inside Old Trafford, a minute's silence and 1958-style kits with no sponsor's logo...it was a fitting tribute, just a pity that we didn't beat our City rivals

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