stretford420

Awesome song.

Thankyou very, very much Aston Villa! I love you all.

Nope, as far as I am aware they don't make any money at all out of their relationship with UNICEF which is the way it should be. They deserve a lot of credit for that, although the club is financially stable enough to be able to afford to do it. Incidentally, Manchester United are a partner of Unicef and have made large financial contributions to the charity, but I haven't really heard the club publicising it very much recently. I remember they touted it massively in 2000 when some of the players did a charity trip to Africa to help proactively over there.

stret your sounding like a bitter dipper mate .. :shock: Aww, really? I'm actually not that bitter anymore, as more times goes on since last night, I'm just starting to look forward to next season.

I agree, and now I think about it, I almost wonder if Ashley appointed Shearer knowing that he has no transfer market experience so that Ashley himself can take more of an active role in buying players without much conflict from the manager (thinking of the Roman/Mourinho conflicts at Chelsea here). I'm probably way off on that but I'm suspicious. Newcastle's tendancy to make decisions based on emotional connection rather than thinking rationally (i.e. hiring Shearer/Keegan to be the messiah) has ended up costing them and hopefully they can learn from that and actually think decisions through in future. Btw, extra credit to you sir for having a Stone Roses lyric in your sig.

They have to return next year or else they will be in massive trouble. The first thing they have to do, I think most of us agree, iis to get rid of Alan Shearer and get somebody experienced and competent in to manage the team, obviously. Is it any coincidence that we've seen Newcastle and Middlesbrough go down this year, two sides managed by inexperienced managers who walked straight into the job at their former team. Having the fan support and being loved there is one thing, knowing what your doing on the other hand, is another matter altogether. If they don't bounce back right away, then all the signs are there for a Leeds-esque collapse imo.

Perhaps the Champions League Final was just one step too far in a season where the team had played 67 games, more than any other English team in history. Next season, Brown will be fully fit again, Hargreaves will be like a new signing for us when he comes back, Berbatov should have settled, Cristiano will still be here ... this is only the start really. Hopefully next year we'll go out of the domestic cups early so we can focus on Europe and the League. To me, that team last night looked like a side who were still celebrating their premiership win. They gave off the impression that this game was somewhat of a hinderance getting in the way of their summer. I still believe this team, when they're focused, are the best we have ever had here at Manchester United.

I've finally made it back from the pub and managed to stop crying for long enough to post. So I will say simple this .... tonights performance was **** awful but this is still one of the best Manchester United teams of all time. And at the end of the day, no team has ever or will ever win retain the Champions League during this era. I genuinely believe we can win it next year in Madrid. Tonight hurt so, so bad. At the end of the day though, we are the English champions and the Champions of the world, Carling Cup winners, and Champions League Finalists. Not too bad a season ... and the best is still to come next season.

Well, maybe that's what they were aiming for haha. Whay exactly is the Ultras aim? Do they just stab people for fits n giggles or do they have some screwed up political aim? Most of them have a screwed up political aim when they're stabbing each other at least. Most of the worst violence between ultra groups comes when communist ultra groups (e.g. Roma, Milan) come into contact with neofascist ultra groups (e.g. Lazio, Internazionale). Anyway, I'm off to the pub shortly. Enjoy the 2009 UEFA Champions League Final.

Well, its the morning of the Champions League final and I just can't fall asleep. I'm already too nervous and hyped up about tonights game. Why can't the next few hours go past quickly?

United fans who aren't from Manchester?! Well I never! :shock: :shock: :winkold: i know im used to it, man utd vs liverpool draws in around 5 times the crowd that villa blues does, just the way it is what i do mind is when you have moments like last years final, where as a complete neutral i got treated to "who the **** hell are you" and loads of bollocks from plastic fans Just tell them to **** off ... I think a lot of people think there are no "neutrals" when it comes to United. They probably assumed you were an ABU or something. You'd be amazed at the amount of these mongs that turn up at Old Trafford ... silly rich kids who pay £300 to touty websites believing theyre real prices so they can go to Liverpool/City/Arsenal/Chelsea for their first game. They turn up, buy half the megastore, and sit there quietly drinking coke for 90 minutes. I despair sometimes.

United fans who aren't from Manchester?! Well I never! :shock: :shock: :winkold: I hope your right mate. I would love it, love it if Park scores, after missing out on the final last year. He's pretty much guaranteed to start this year and he has been scoring a bit recently so it could happen. I wonder what the odds are on 3-0 Utd?

T'is a bitty harsh no? He's obviously just keen to hear my views on the game. :winkold: I might come on in the early hours of Thursday if we win though.

No I'm not going. Unfortunately there were only 19,000 tickets and I havent done any European aways this season due to the credit crunch. I won't be on here though, I'll be paying too much attention to the match.

Oh God ... :shock: Hopefully it'll be a peaceful game, although a lot of Roma fans are a bunch of clearings in the woods. I was at the Roma game in 07 and that was interesting to say the least. :cry: UEFA can't really do anything unless something takes place inside the stadium, so they'll probably end up sitting idly by ignoring it as usual. At least the next 3 venues are nice, the Bernabeú, Wembley (well ok not that nice but close), and the Aliens Arena in Munich.

The 54th Annual UEFA Champions League Final - Roma 2009 Olympic Stadium, Rome Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 20:45 CET FC Barcelona (ESP) vs Manchester United FC (ENG) Ineligible Players: Eric ABIDAL, Daniel ALVÉS (FC Barcelona); Darren FLETCHER (Manchester United FC) Referee: Massimo BUSSACA (SUI) So ... who do you think will win this seasons Champions League, and who do you want to win? Feel free to discuss anything Champions League related here!

I don't think Hughes will still be managing there on the opening day of the 2009-10 season either.

Whoever replaces Hiddink at Chelsea.

Lying down, outside, naturally.

Which Redknapp though? Jamie's a clearing in the woods, Harry's not too bad.

Just some Carling in celebration of United's title win.

That's a very good song, You'd have to speed the tune up slightly when you sing it though compared to the original imo. Just a question for you Stretford, why don't you sing Berbatov's name? When you play you sing about every player virtually except him. Is it that you don't like him or what? We have a couple of Berbasongs, but they seemed to dissapear half-way through the season. We started off just singing "Dimitar Berbatov" to the tune of some George Harrison song, and then later "Dim-i-tar Ber-ba-tov, one look at City and he said **** off" (Jesus Christ Superstar, sped up). Not sure why people started singing them less and less all the time though. Probably because Berbatov doesn't bloody do anything! :shock: It's hard to sing songs during a game about a player who spends the majority of the 90 minutes standing around moving about as often as a mannequin.

That's a very good song, You'd have to speed the tune up slightly when you sing it though compared to the original imo.

This years version of Sheff U have the distinct advantage of NOT being managed by that tosser Warnock. And they shouldn't have gone down in the first place (Tevez-gate) so I don't mind who comes up really. Yeh but it means having to hear the bloody chip butty song or whatever its called. :winkold: I'm thinking about it in terms of travel costs and what not though personally. Burnley being in the league, Wigan staying up, along with either Boro or Newcastle (or both) going down, would make it a cheaper year next year!

Nope, just reached the playoff final. Still got Sheffield United to beat to get to the Premier League Ahhhh cheers, I hadnt been following the play-offs that closely (as usual). Let's hope that Burnley do make it up instead of Sheffield though. Sheff U were boring last time they were in the league.