Gerd, I appreciate your post and I do apologise for attacking you yesterday.
Let me explain,
Being born and raised in Manchester means its very difficult to look on my club objectively, I actively follow the club and put time and effort into supporting the team regardless of the circumstances.
Your comments post derby, pissed me off, how any one can profess to be a lifelong fan and in the same sentence say they now no longer support the club because of Ferguson and Keane.
Ferguson took over the club at a time we we’re far from successful, yes we won the odd FA cup but we we’re very much a sleeping giant, we had always had a fantastic fan base and a gate of 50K even in the eighties was not unusual but due to liverpools dominance our trophy cabinet was bare.
You seem to think that Fergie is not worthy of his title as our best manager, for what reason, the wealth of our club, are you that blinkered that you cannot see that we are the richest club in the world because of Fergie, the backbone of success over the last 10 years has been players that Fergie moulded and took a risk on bringing thru the youth team and giving them first team action NOT players that he bought, how much money do you think Scholes, Giggs, Beckham, G.Neville, P. Neville, Butt, Brown, O’shea, would cost a team to buy.
Then you proceed to jump on the bandwagon re: Fergies CL record, yes we have only won it once, so what, since the CL was formed how many teams have won it more than once, look at Madrid, how many other teams have been better than them in Europe over the past few seasons, not many, so I refuse to say we’ve failed in Europe, we’ve won the CL we’ve completely dominated The Prem.
And I wont even go into why Keano is possibly the greatest United player of all time.
I also do not appreciate you implying that I don’t know my history; Feb 6th is a very sombre time for United supporters, especially Mancunians. If you saw my avatar and sig you’d know how I feel about the Busby Babes.
So as you said no hard feelings, though I seriously doubt your “support” of my club but maybe our definition of support is different so we’ll leave it at that.
I’m not sure of your age but you must be older than me if you can remember us getting relegated as I was born that year (on Feb 5th as well!!)
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