davymcfc said:
i would say to the fans of united in and around manchester would consider city a big game but as we havnt been challenging up the top of the table for the last god knows how many years then the cockneys and irish and foreign fans dont really care about the derby and care more about liverpool. the fact that united fans sing nursery ryhmes about us all game and then say they dont care at all about city is just a complete farce.
And you can't even call United/Liverpool a derby for somebody who lives in fucking London. Huge, important match, yes. But they've no right to call it a derby.
As for Ferguson, 1) he isn't a Mancunian so didnt support United as a youth, 2) his playing and early managerial career was under a time when Liverpool completely and utterly dominated European football so its natural for him to see them as the big guns and 3) in his 20 odd years at United he hasn't had a credible threat from City so has always been able to dismiss us. So from this perspective its easy to see why he goes on about Liverpool being the biggest game. It's different for the fans though.