I do know the origin. It was from a song insulting the dead of Munich actually. No surprise you don't know that: "Duncan Edwards is manure, rotting in his grave, man u are manure- rotting in your grave". First sung by West Brom fans funnily enough. Man U is used by southern gloryhunters with no knowledge of United.
Benjamin Hero; When he's not talking to me, he's talking about me. Such obsession must be why he got the job of chief letter opener for the sarge.
Toby, the answer is to herd the toothless, Oirish hordes back over to "da auld coontry" so we don't have to put up with their neverending benefit cheats. It would also cut down on the cost of having to get them evicted from land which they illegally settle on, the overtime which the police claim from breaking up their bare-knuckle fights and spouse abuse, etc. Finally, it would also cut down on all the phonecalls to "Watchdog" about their shoddy driveway paving. Bye Declans and Bernadettes
If we did that they'd just end up ****ing up their country even more, then the Euro would crash and we'd be even deeper in the ****... Send them over to Australia or America like the old days
I hate those ****s that go on about Man U being offensive. I never used to even use it but now I do just in the hope somebody will get offended.
If you scour the internet for proof of Man U always being a negative term, or a source, or indeed anything to back this up, you'll inevitably only be confronted with this masterpiece of the English language, posted and re-posted word for word on various forums and what nots. There's even bizarrely a facebook group, despite this being almost entirely the only source of evidence or opinion. It is (and I can't stress this enough) complete bollocks. Even if you bypass the bizarre logic of "u" being offensive because it's meant to imply "you", the main problem with this theory is it's terrible grasp of history. The term Man U was created entirely by the news reporters of the 40s and 50s who used to refer to us as Manchester U or Man U to accomodate the name in print. Nothing more, or less. In fact the phrase Man U can be heard quite clearly on some of the old Pathe news reports of the babes triumphs in the mid-50s. Furthermore to this, it was also used on club merchandise back in the day...before there was an official club shop per say and things like badges and pins were sold out of a shed outside the ground around about where the Munich clock is now...Probably by a woman called Brenda who more than likely smelt of gravy....but in a good way. The shop was - incidentally - owned by Sir Matt. Geoff Bent, who died in Munich, emblazoned on a pin...what a disgusting shameful insult that is, why whomever made it should be strung up and tub thumped to death by internet warriors...Oh, it was the club... and Sir Matt?...ah... Whoops. The chants themselves were indeed real (as far as I know) but the U in them was used BECAUSE we were often referred to as Man U, and not as an entirely new magical creation. Which again makes very little sense when you actually think about it.
