City and Religion

[berryblue]

I agree with all of that,but thats how shit we were then anyway to buy a rag like him,maybe we got him on a free ,i can't remember

We acquired him by paying him £6,000 a week if I remember correctly.

 

[blue44]

We acquired him by paying him £6,000 a week if I remember correctly.

thats humongous,even back then,no wonder we booed the ****.

 

[berryblue]

thats humongous,even back then,no wonder we booed the ****.

He only played 6 games by the end of the season!

 

[blue44]

He only played 6 games by the end of the season!

played about 20 over two seasons.

 

[blue44]

He only played 6 games by the end of the season!

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[berryblue]

He only played 6 games by the end of the season!

My memo6is obviously fading.

 

[lancs blue]

By the way, didn't Best come from a Protestant family, incidentally? I'm pretty sure Whiteside did.

Best, Whiteside, McIlroy, McCreery, all Ulster Protestants from the die-hard East Belfast area and scouted by the rags. The Catholic/Protestant thing has been bollocks for decades in Manchester.

 

[philiph20]

Best, Whiteside, McIlroy, McCreery, all Ulster Protestants from the die-hard East Belfast area and scouted by the rags. The Catholic/Protestant thing has been bollocks for decades in Manchester.

Rangers hero's family 'ordered' to leave home as he played for 'Catholic' club

HE grew up at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and forged a 25-year career in professional football. One that took him to either side of the Atlantic ocean and into a 33-year spell in…

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

Not to some.

 

[lancs blue]

Rangers hero's family 'ordered' to leave home as he played for 'Catholic' club

HE grew up at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and forged a 25-year career in professional football. One that took him to either side of the Atlantic ocean and into a 33-year spell in…

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

Not to some.

That was N.Ireland, not Manchester.

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

I'm very surprised at that story from McIlroy/find it hard to believe.

Why didn't they go to Best, Whiteside or Johnny Evans house and tell them to leave United?

The 3 most supported teams in loyalist areas here are Rangers obviously followed by Liverpool and Man Utd.
Chelsea are well supported but not to the levels of the two red shites.
Plenty of people that I've known or worked with over the years from East Belfast/Rathcoole/the Shankill are big United fans.