I don't get all the posts like this on here. Every so often someone dares to say something that isn't anti-United and you get reactions like this as though we, as Hull City fans, are all supposed to hate Man United. Why should we? Just because they are good?
You have the right to defend them as much as you like. Just like others have the right to hate them. To say people hate them just because they are successful is naive to say the least. It's football FFS and we aren't all supposed to like or admire every other team going. I thought that was glaringly obvious.
Of course not, but Man United aren't like a Stoke or a Leeds type side who are dislikable for the way they play or their fans, it's just because they've been good for too long. I agree with what you've said before that it's wrong for local kids to have a go at your lad for supporting City when he's the one following his local team, but I don't think that means grown men should hate them just for being popular. Anyway, people hating them wasn't really my point, that doesn't bother me, its the posts like the one I quoted who are telling people off and calling them 'United fans' for making a comment about United which wasn't totally negative, when in fact he was the one being neutral and sensible about them and the poster I quoted was the one who has an obsession with Man U.
Out of all the Prem teams we have Man Utd to thank the most for helping us out with players, I'm not a fan of Shrek and co but they have been kind to us over the years and I remember when we played them last there was some good natured banter between their fans and us unlike some of the big teams we have played
It's more amusing that the comment was about Liverpool and that saw him being called a Man U fan. The way Dalglish and Liverpool handled the Suarez thing was farcical and frankly inexcusable on their part. For sake of avoiding argument I'll accept Suarez's defence that he didn't mean to be offensive during the incident, and therefore he was let down massively by the club and Dalglish in the wake of it. Assuming Suarez's innocence at least in terms of intent, once it had happened the correct response was "We're sorry for any offence caused, he isn't like that and didn't mean to cause offence. The term is commonly used in his homeland without the negative connotations it has here, and being new to the country he was unaware of the strength of feeling attaced to it. Once again we'd like to offer our sincerest apologies to anyone offended by what was said and we will not allow this to happen again". Had that been the statement that would have been the end of the matter there and then. Instead they had to be pissy about it, refuse to apologise until weeks/months later having adopted an "it's not wrong in his homeland so he isn't going to apologise because he's done nothing wrong" stance.
