First ever Manchester Derby final

[bluemanc16]

Very fine gold dust !

Cheers

 

[Chris in London]

We played the dips after our last prem/fa cup double not Watford.

Have the invite rules changed since then?

Probably, the rules usually do change when them twats are involved

 

[edinburgh123]

That's very true, the Mrs and all her family are Liverpool fans and when it comes to football they slip into tribal mode (to be fair they are scoucers or decended from scoucers)

She must be seriously fit to marry one of them. You know there are the best part of 4 billion women on the planet?

 

[madloaf]

Just the 4,500 scrapping then! Probably not too far wrong.

Stick them in box park before the game and just let them go. Last man standing.

 

[bennyboy]

I never saw a rag after the semi win or a scouse after the league Cup final win.
They will have supporters going different ways to Wembley.
I can remember fans saying all they saw was Blues on the way down.

 

[supercity88]

I doubt it.

There may be the odd ‘flash’ but after the CS they know we are more than ready willing and able.

The OB will be better organised and there is some chatter that only the east end fans will be allowed access / egress up / down WW, with access to the west end only through the retail/hotel road.

Additionally, service stations and coach parks will be segregated.

The OB,FA and government don’t want another euros fiasco.

Anyhowoop, we’ve got bigger fish to fry before we get to the out of town Stretford franchise !!

With the Euro's bid it is a perfect opportunity to show UEFA that this country can host big games safely. So I think you are right, we will see very heavy policing and segregation to ensure it passes smoothly.

 

[Citycity76]

I'm going because a ticket should be a gimme.

* loads of bollocks going about the price
* pepole who went semi should get first dibs
* no late trains
* a programe is £10
* kick off time is shit

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

Police and fa having discussions to possibly put kick off early

How early?

EDIT: It's a 3.00pm ko

 

[ROBSH34]

I agree

The highlight of united's season would be trying to stop us winning a treble if we're still on course for it. That's where both clubs are at right now.

That would be their biggest achievement in over a decade. Beating them in an FA Cup final won't be our biggest achievement. We may well have bigger fish to fry just a week later.

For us this will be priority number three. For that lot it will be the be all and end all. Hopefully it will focus their minds so much that they will blow a top 4 finish.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

3pm it is. Brilliant news that.

Edit - only on Daily Fail website so far though. Can’t see it on FA.

 

[Corky]

The Derby still at 4.30pm on Epsom Downs?

 

[AliBobbyJ]

How early?

EDIT: It's a 3.00pm ko

As it should always be.

 

[WillT]

Common sense prevails

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Has any team ever lost a final without conceding a single goal in open play through out the comp ,the only way possible I could see them beating us is pens

United lost the final in 2018 after only conceding 1 goal before the final.
City lost the final in 2013 after only conceding 1 goal before the final.
United lost the final in 2005 after only conceding 1 goal before the final.
Liverpool lost in the final in 1988 after only conceding 1 goal before the final.

That’s the best I can do to answer your question, they are all from 1980 onwards so nobody has done what we’ve done and lost from 1980 onwards. There are many years where I can’t find the info on goals conceded on the road to the final without proper going into everyone’s season-by-season records.

It should be noted that City broke a few records in the Champions League in 2020-21 before losing the final to Chelsea:

Longest winning run in UEFA competitions: 7
9th December 2020 – 4th May 2021
(record by an English team)

Most wins in UEFA Champions League in a season: 11
2020-21 season
(record by an English team)

We won 11 of 12 games on the road to the 2021 CL final and the other was a draw, then lost the final.

 

[HelloCity]

Old but gold.

Trailer before we played them at Wembley in the 2011 semi final.

 

[bluemoon32]

The Derby still at 4.30pm on Epsom Downs?

Fuck me, thought we were playing at Wembley?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I've just had to get off parts of social media arguing with rag pricks about the Sheffield attendance. My fucking blood pressure! One guy I've known years, typical plastic and really got to me. I swear I would happily kill the **** right now.

They’re thick as fuck.

City are in the same region of the country as two of the best supported sports teams in the world. Even when you take away that United and Liverpool are the two biggest supported clubs in the region, you can add in all the London and Home Counties fans, Irish, Scandies and anywhere else their sad act glory support comes from and they can easily fill the gaps when all the Greater Manchester working class fans can’t afford to attend.

Because of finances, I had to choose between Bayern at home and Wembley this month and chose Bayern.

City are just a regional club that have the same core of about 40,000 fans going to Wembley at least over two games a year every year for 13 years running. We don’t have hordes of nobodies to take my place at Wembley. But I’d rather have our support with a few empty seats over their support with a population of nobodies who have no affiliation with Manchester in any way whatsoever, or any affiliation with United other than it being a club they can attach themselves to to get some reflected glory in their lives, any day. ‘20+3’ when they come from Hackney means fuck all.

I was at Wembley in 2011 when we played that lot, I barely heard a Manchester accent on anyone in a red shirt all fucking day. Getting called a ‘NORVVERN CANT’ and being offered out wit the line ‘CAM ON DEN YOU MAYNC CANT’.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I've stopped talking to him I honestly fear if I carry on I'm going to do something's we will both regret.

Shag his missus?!

 

[paulchapo]

They’re thick as fuck.

City are in the same region of the country as two of the best supported sports teams in the world. Even when you take away that United and Liverpool are the two biggest supported clubs in the region, you can add in all the London and Home Counties fans, Irish, Scandies and anywhere else their sad act glory support comes from and they can easily fill the gaps when all the Greater Manchester working class fans can’t afford to attend.

Because of finances, I had to choose between Bayern at home and Wembley this month and chose Bayern.

City are just a regional club that have the same core of about 40,000 fans going to Wembley at least over two games a year every year for 13 years running. We don’t have hordes of nobodies to take my place at Wembley. But I’d rather have our support with a few empty seats over their support with a population of nobodies who have no affiliation with Manchester in any way whatsoever, any day!

I was at Wembley in 2011 when we played that lot, I barely heard a Manchester accent on anyone in a red shirt all fucking day. Getting called a ‘NORVVERN CANT’ and being offered out wit the line ‘CAM ON DEN YOU MAYNC CANT’.

I actually believe we sold most of our allocation, Sheffield didn't and then we had the 20,000 seats that go to other associations. They didn't sell because everyone knew the result was probably a foregone conclusion and Sheffield would just defend, making it boring. We also have that middle section of Wembley members who never turn up except for the glamour games. We did our bit it's not up to us to fill the rest of Wembley.

 

[paulchapo]

Shag his missus?!

Ha ha highly unlikely she'd go for that. She's a copper too.