FC united of manchester in action tonight

fishfingers15 · 8th November 2010, 03:30

The second is Anarchy by Sex pistols, and it got multiple renditions during the FA Cup tie.

Denis' cuff · 8th November 2010, 09:26

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Originally Posted by fishfingers15

The second is Anarchy by Sex pistols, and it got multiple renditions during the FA Cup tie.

I sort of noticed that - was curious about the words.

watched it again with the mrs and 2 x lads.

There's at least a couple of bandwagon jumpers here. I think it was that older bloke in the light coloured jacket they kept showing that did the trick...........

..........Fred, it wasn't, was it?????

top stuff

Ole's_toe_poke · 8th November 2010, 15:50

'This Felt So Damn, Well.....Real'

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There was only one big game this weekend. Forget Cardiff v Swansea, forget Liverpool v Chelsea, it was Friday night at Spotland in the FA Cup 1st round which was the real big one.

Rochdale's defeat at the hands of FC United was a throwback to a different era when football was played by the people for the people. Back to an era when the crowd was as important as the players, when it was about having a damn good time and not about net spend and inflated wage demands.

Make no mistake, FC United are a special team and are part of a special project. How appropriate that a club run as a co-operative organisation should have their big cup triumph at Rochdale, the home of the Co-Operative movement. This was proper people power.

The game was played on a misty, cold wet night that evoked the smoggy days of yore when every house burned a coal fire and the air was thick was choking carbon. The fireworks in the sky were matched by the fireworks on the pitch in the working out of a story which was more suited to an edition of Roy Of The Rovers than to 21st century FA Cup football; a cup which is supposedly devalued. Try telling that to an FC united fan or indeed to any fan of football with a soul.

Occasions like this are the lifeblood of any club but especially a non-league side; they go down in the culture and folklore of the club and live on forever in the collective consciousness of the fans. This is the fairy tale stuff that is so important to the game's mythic status. It is an antidote to the whole notion that those with the most money win; a return to the Corinthian values that were present at the foundation the game

And what fans FC United have. This was the noisiest, most raucous most jubilant supporters that any one could wish to see. The two thousand of them made a noise louder than most of the 75,000 at Old Trafford can be bothered to raise half of the time. Their unconfined joy was irresistible to the neutral.

Their repertoire of terrace songs based on the 70s rock anthems of Slade and the Sex Pistols was simply magnificent, indeed their seemingly limitless amounts of chants was a tribute to their creativity in an era where there is a degree of homogeneity to songs from ground to ground. Their players were clearly inspired to give a rock-til-you-drop performance against a side over 70 places above them in the football pyramid.

Watching it on TV as the camera bounced up and down with the vibrations the fans made in the stand surely showed the nation - or whatever small percentage of the nation was watching ESPN on a Friday night - a whole new world. This is how football can be; this is how to support your club. But of course most of those FC fans there were not just supporters, many would have been empowered co-owners of the club, so of course they bloody well care and of course they wanted to roar on their side. It is part of them; it is built on their hopes and dreams, on their money, their culture and their lives.

The club was set up as a response against the big impersonal overseas ownership and corporate nature of Manchester United. It was a return to the roots of the game, not just literally but more importantly, culturally. A way to rediscover the spine-tingling beauty of football played out so closely that you can smell the players sweat. It is the very antithesis of that distant, cold, big business, big money, big ego that is ever more the Premier League experience. The contrast was like night and day. This felt so damn, well.....real.

The whole night, going two goals up, getting pulled back and then scoring a winner in the last seconds befitted the drama of the occasion. If any fans deserved this, it's FC United who get an average of 2,000 souls to watch them in the Northern Premier League, and who have got as many as 6,000. They are emblematic of the hunger amongst some fans for a return to the days when footballers didn't hide behind the tinted windows of wealth; a return to community and to sanity, or at least to re-experience it in order to put some perspective into their football lives.

While the top of the game is a fabulous soap opera that is as irresistible and compulsive as block buster entertainment, it doesn't feed the soul the way FC United's game against Rochdale did and we all need some soul food from time to time.

Magnificent in its raucous glory, this was proof if proof be needed that small is beautiful and that the early rounds of the FA Cup remain amongst the most magical in English football.

77 · 10th November 2010, 16:25

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FC are a "FU to the Glazers" just by being. No need for a green and gold kit that they don't currently and have never worn anyway.

Whatever, get over yourself son

fredthered · 10th November 2010, 21:07

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Originally Posted by Devils Advocate

Brighton would be nice, replicating mufc cup final with them. Or oldham maybe.

Good call..

fredthered · 10th November 2010, 21:19

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Originally Posted by 77

Whatever, get over yourself son

I see what you are saying about the Green and Gold, but you have to take it into perspective.

Just by existing FC is the biggest two fingers to the Glazers that exists. For all the green and gold inside OT, there is still nothing that gets the publicity that FC does.

The Green and Gold is a campaign used inside the confines of OT, and thats great. Fair play. THe more that get involved in it the better, but FC isnt part of that. They are a seperate campaign and to try merge the two together could actually do more harm than good. Theres many inside OT will not go to watch FC, which is their choice, but they will be part of G+G. If FC suddenly turn up and gatecrash their campaign then they could decide that they don't want to be associated further so back off.

If, and its an almost impossible scenario to occur, FC were to draw MUFC at OT, then the very fact the club exists is enough to shove it back in the Glazers face. All I would pray for is that the fans inside OT at least have the decency to treat FC as what they are, fellow United fans, and not turn on them as some would want you to do. Especially the PR trained Glazer apologists who are running through hoops trying to dampen down the Glazer campaign.

For any United fan it should be the worst case scenario if FC were ever to play MUFC.

londonredmaniac · 11th November 2010, 10:08

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Originally Posted by fredthered

I see what you are saying about the Green and Gold, but you have to take it into perspective.

Just by existing FC is the biggest two fingers to the Glazers that exists. For all the green and gold inside OT, there is still nothing that gets the publicity that FC does.

The Green and Gold is a campaign used inside the confines of OT, and thats great. Fair play. THe more that get involved in it the better, but FC isnt part of that. They are a seperate campaign and to try merge the two together could actually do more harm than good. Theres many inside OT will not go to watch FC, which is their choice, but they will be part of G+G. If FC suddenly turn up and gatecrash their campaign then they could decide that they don't want to be associated further so back off.

If, and its an almost impossible scenario to occur, FC were to draw MUFC at OT, then the very fact the club exists is enough to shove it back in the Glazers face. All I would pray for is that the fans inside OT at least have the decency to treat FC as what they are, fellow United fans, and not turn on them as some would want you to do. Especially the PR trained Glazer apologists who are running through hoops trying to dampen down the Glazer campaign.

For any United fan it should be the worst case scenario if FC were ever to play MUFC.

I'd rather not see FC play united.

Unless it turned into one mass protest.

fredthered · 12th November 2010, 08:53

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I'd rather not see FC play united.

Unless it turned into one mass protest.

I cant see that ever happening.

If people won't protest now, the arrival of FC United isnt going to spur them into doing anything constructive.

Ingham · 12th November 2010, 11:37

anyone going to Northwich tomorrow?

ladybarnred · 12th November 2010, 19:33

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anyone going to Northwich tomorrow?

me!

Ingham · 12th November 2010, 20:11

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me!

same, well its 30 mins from my local station.

Any idea on if FC are still in the terrace behind the goal or just the side stand, just wondering if the football ground guide page for the Victoria Stadium is out-dated

ladybarnred · 13th November 2010, 06:01

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Originally Posted by Ingham

same, well its 30 mins from my local station.

Any idea on if FC are still in the terrace behind the goal or just the side stand, just wondering if the football ground guide page for the Victoria Stadium is out-dated

Free movement around the ground mate... We'll be behind their goal each half and I'll be in the mainstand coz my back is fucked!

Vics fans are pretty sound, not as nice as Witton for some reason (smaller club?) but they're alright...

Ingham · 13th November 2010, 21:05

what a shit referee, closely followed by inept Bar Staff at Half Time

ladybarnred · 15th November 2010, 21:23

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what a shit referee, closely followed by inept Bar Staff at Half Time

Yeah I forgot about the segregation... and what a fat blue-nose twat Andy Morrison is. His team reflect him perfectly, time wasting, ball hoofing, boring.

and the place was staffed with brain dead zombies!

mickthered · 15th November 2010, 21:38

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Originally Posted by ladybarnred

Yeah I forgot about the segregation... and what a fat blue-nose twat Andy Morrison is. His team reflect him perfectly, time wasting, ball hoofing, boring.

and the place was staffed with brain dead zombies!

I hate that place with a passion
40 mins queuing for a cold pie 3 people serving the queue gets big so two of them just walk away leaving one on her own to serve

queuing to buy a ticket so you can then queue to get in the ground

Five subs,one brought on waited untill he had walked over to the other side of the pitch to then decide to start getting another ready to bring on a goal players warned about time, wasting and the physios on countless times and only 2 mins of injury time

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