Hardly a big deal them having a banner it’s just all part of football rivalry. Made it all the sweater it coming down when we won the FA Cup and then overturned an 8 point gap to win the league on the final day with the last kick.When it came to the 50th anniversary of the Munich disaster, and City fans were being told by the media to behave ourselves during the minutes silence, MUFC "as a gesture and a mark of respect to City" requested the banner be taken down.
The following home game it was back up with the club's blessing. The club endorsed it and if it was taken down as a mark of respect for City, then it has to be viewed as a mark of disrespect to City when it went back up.
All this after City:
1.Backed the rags request to block Manchester Central's bid to join the Football League (they posed a serious threat to the rags).
2. Let the rags use Maine Road for a peppercorn rent, after the Luftwaffe bombed OT.
3. Let the rags use Maine Road for European games when OT didn't have floodlights.
Never forget.
Talk about the respecting the the minute’s silence for the 50th anniversary of Munich actually does my head in. We only did what we should have done but there were plenty of hypocrites there that day. They didn’t make a sound during that but the same wankers could still be heard singing Munich at away games and on concourses after that.So basically they kept quiet because the club would have got absolutely slated if they’d made any noise. They weren’t really showing respect for the dead including one of our own legendary players.
