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I've not heard "We want ten" for a few years
Wellsblue21 said:'U N I T E D
thats spells f'kin debt to me ........... etc'
or is that wishful thinking cos me an me old man cringe everytime we hear this.
danburge82 said:Wellsblue21 said:'U N I T E D
thats spells f'kin debt to me ........... etc'
or is that wishful thinking cos me an me old man cringe everytime we hear this.
HATE this song. I can't bring myself to chant the letters.
If United start singing it we should chant over them with "Ocean Finance on the phone" when they sing their bit about us. But to chant their name, makes me feel wrong!
(Many people look and sound like they enjoy chanting it!)
danburge82 said:Gary James said:Back at Hyde Road in the 1890s journalists often talked of Hyde Road's 'Electric atmosphere' - considering how 'new' (you know what I mean) electricity was at the time this was highly significant and they basically meant that Hyde Rd's atmoshere was something exciting and powerful. Fans used to take musical instruments and wear fancy dress to liven up games in the 1890s.
I've read a few books about Victorian Manchester. Jospeh O'Neill and Andrew David touch on Scuttler gangs in Manchester going to football matches. They showed off their fashions of brass-toe cloggs, 14" bell bottom trousers, silk scarves and donkey fringes. Phil Thornton has a book talking about how football casuals originated from the Shed End and Scousers coming back from Europe with their Fila and Sergio Tacchini trackies. But its origins surely date back to Mancunians, and at Hyde Road watching Manchester City?!
Also the scuttlers used to meet rival local gangs to fight each other at the football, well before those in the 60's and 70's who post on here and tell us young'ens we know nothing. But that's another subject.
I bet football stadiums back then were a really lively, enjoyable and dangerous place. Like you say "electric".
Gary James said:danburge82 said:I've read a few books about Victorian Manchester. Jospeh O'Neill and Andrew David touch on Scuttler gangs in Manchester going to football matches. They showed off their fashions of brass-toe cloggs, 14" bell bottom trousers, silk scarves and donkey fringes. Phil Thornton has a book talking about how football casuals originated from the Shed End and Scousers coming back from Europe with their Fila and Sergio Tacchini trackies. But its origins surely date back to Mancunians, and at Hyde Road watching Manchester City?!
Also the scuttlers used to meet rival local gangs to fight each other at the football, well before those in the 60's and 70's who post on here and tell us young'ens we know nothing. But that's another subject.
I bet football stadiums back then were a really lively, enjoyable and dangerous place. Like you say "electric".
I've been disappointed with the Gangs Of Manchester book because the author totally overlooks the City/Gorton/Ardwick angle. Since publication he's even talked to United fans about links between scuttling and football, but the link was with City.
We could start another thread on the origins of violence at City/football. But I do know that Ardwick were in trouble a few times when rival teams were stoned by Ardwick/City fans. Only last Friday I was at the (temporary) library doing some research and found quite a bit of coverage on the stone throwing incident that affected the game V Edenfield played in December 1887!