Shortly after the match today, a local twat wearing a Man United shirt, and gobbing off to City fans, had said garment ripped from his body by THE LANDORD before being summarily ejected from the pub and barred. An example to us all. Congratulations; the cleansing has begun.
There's not much more to say, really. He was sat there with his ugly missus (who was also wearing a Man U shirt) and got into some banter over him wearing a Man U shirt and it got a bit feisty. Then the landlord, Sean, took things into his own hands. Literally.
To be fair to the Man U fan. It's always pissed me off in previous seasons that the PL fixtures for when there's FA Cup semi-finals and stuff aren't done in a more sensible way. You always get some little club getting their games postponed because their opponents went and got through in the Cup, when they should arrange for the big clubs to be playing each other those weekends, as it'll generally minimise the number of games that need changing. Now Man U fans have already seen the Manchester derby postponed from last weekend because Man C were reasonably predictably in the League Cup Final, now they're having their game against us moved to midweek for similar reasons so I'd be pissed off as well. On both occassions Man U should have been playing teams that, like them, had **** all chance of getting to the Finals so they got to keep their weekend games in place.
did he remove the said shirt, and set it in a cauldron with a voodoo shaman removing the curse and placing it on sheffield united?
Is that the same Sean who used to run Tap / Hole In The Wall / Wellington [Peel St] some years ago? If so, that chap knows how to run a good pub, so he does.
It makes perfect sense if you read it as the dig at Man U not being what they once were that it is, and then consider the stupidity of arranging league games with sides quite likely to be in the Semi-Finals against sides quite likely to be knocked out by that stage. I mean our travelling fans have lost out on day trips with a few beers and that for Saturday games in London (for West Ham) and Manchester due to our Cup run which is fine in our situation. London it just totally ****s, and Manchester it turns into a race over the hills after work. West Ham wasn't a bad choice of fixture for 1/4 Finals day to be fair, good chance we'd both be out by then, so you'd take it on the chin a bit more. But Man U on semi-final day? Granted it's gone the opposite way to what you'd expect, but that was always very likely to be postponed. It'd be bloody annoying to be losing it because of their involvement in the Cup rather than ours. If we were another big club and we'd been knocked out but they hadn't then it's our own underperformance that we haven't got a game that weekend so tough ****, but as a small club we wouldn't expect a Cup game so it's all down to fixture planning. When it comes to out of town home fans it's even more annoying, I've already bought my train tickets til the end of the season. Had that Man U game been the home game not the away game I'd have been left with the choice of paying £30 when the train tickets went on sale and now being out of pocket, or waiting until yesterday to buy them to be sure and then having to pay about £60. It's not an exact science, but surely when there's 5 or 6 big clubs in the league they should be split between 3 games on weekends like that in the hope that at least one game will be cancelled as both teams are in it, rather than losing loads. Obviously the likes of us and Sunderland getting through would have complicated it (although we could have been playing each other as well, but there were 5 PL sides in the FA Cup this weekend, and they were all due to play sides that had been knocked out. Had Man U/Man C/Chelsea/Arsenal/Tottenham/Everton all been paired up the chances of Man C, Arsenal, Everton being in 3 separate games is vastly reduced. Look at the League Cup Final weekend as well, Man U vs Man City was the scheduled fixture, they very nearly had the perfect fixtures that week, it took a penalty shootout to deny it.
made me remember THIS clip outside Jacksons "bread factory" [video=youtube;SBo2GMd6vrc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBo2GMd6vrc[/video]
