Kippax.
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NOTE from another site http://happyaxeman.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=11689.0#quickreply
Thought it deserved a bit more lime light., cheers Monksie :)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJA_nUKBps&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
It’s really difficult to know where exactly to start with this. I feel quite sure that Woody Guthrie - he who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan and to a certain extent Joe Strummer of The Clash - would be absolutely horrified to see his heartfelt political anthem butchered by a bunch of self-obsessed headaches over such a small “issue” as the financial control of a football club. Then again, a complete lack of ability to see the wood for the trees has never stopped these imbeciles in the past has it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_land_is_your_land
Shall we start the deconstruction then? Why not…
They mention the Munich Air Disaster once again, as if it’s the single most important event in United’s history. They harp on about it to their own ends every bit as much as the club they now simultaneously love and hate (fuck me it’s a confusing business being a Rag these days isn’t it?) - at times like this you can almost believe those City fans who say “I only call them ‘Munichs’ ‘cos they go on about it so much.
“The Glazers stole it” did they? Be honest now: I can’t see the Financial Police beating any doors down in Trafford or Tampa Bay looking to walk out Malcolm, Joel, Avi etc in a Bud Fox style, can you? . That’ll be because they performed a trick that was wholly legal in company and legislative law that gave them ownership of a financial entity that didn’t cost them very much but has been forced to pay for itself. They’re not exactly daft are they, unlike the clowns who fail to see that although it stinks from a moral perspective it’s definitely a case of “them’s the rules”. Oh, and if you’re convinced that “it belongs to you and me” then let’s see your share certificates eh?
“From a mill town came the players who are proud to wear the colours”. Leaving aside the major grammatical faux pas of juxtaposing two tenses (past and present) and the fact that many Rags post on message boards all over the place that City’s support mostly originates from the mill towns surrounding Manchester (centre of the cotton mill empire), their use of ‘are’ implies that the likes of van der Sar, Berbatov, the Brazilian numpty twins, Ji Sung Park and many others all originate from the aforesaid towns. It’s a rewriting of fact that Orwell struggled to match in his novel 1984.
“Three stripes and three sails” of course is from the Manchester Coat of Arms, the shield of which was featured in United’s badge of the 1960s until 1970 when they showed their ‘true’ colours and replaced the stripes with a devil. Even then they couldn’t be totally honest for the nickname was indeed stolen, take your pick from the Belgian national football team or Salford Rugby League Club. So who stole exactly what then, gentlemen?
“Green and Gold will make the Glazers sell or fold”. Yep, that’s the masterplan kids right there; if enough idiots turn up at the Theatre of Hate wearing green and yellow scarves the Glazers will see the error of their ways, run a white flag up and head for the hills. ‘Cos after all that’s exactly what hard-headed businessmen from the USA do when thinks kick up a little rough don’t they? You poor, deluded fools. “Green and Gold”? Again, take your pick: bile and mucous or snot and vomit…
“I paid a season yes I paid a season,no more weaping at the treason”. Surely this is comedy gold (‘n’ green) in its purest form and betrays the mentality of the cretins responsible for this. It makes no logical sense, the spelling and grammar are over the place and FFS ‘treason’ is a crime against the Crown or State, i.e. the country. Told you these joyless fucks have a wildly exaggerated sense of their own importance didn’t I?
“The sun is shining on all our trophies, we don’t need no Greedy Yankies” (there goes that spelling again). Again the duoism kicks in, after all three Premier League titles, a Champions League win and two League Cup wins since the Glazers took control in May 2005 don’t count, surely? In other words it’s great to boast about what you’ve won but just keep schtum about who ran the club while they were at it, eh?
“With the Red Knights at the helm were going to save MUFC” (and again with the punctuation). These Red Knights then, who exactly are they? Their spokesman is none other than Keith Harris (no, not he who embezzled money from TV companies and the general public by shoving his hand up the arses of various luminous green ducks and cheeky monkeys) but the guy who oversaw Dr Thaksin Shinawatra’s takeover at City all of three years ago. In one of their communiqués last month they apparently “invited Tier 2 shareholders (whatever that means) at MUFC to place funds and shares with the Knights, who are now saying they won’t make a bid until after the current season ends. Hang on a minute: “Give us your funds and shares”/”we won’t be making a bid for a while”? Is there anyone else who thinks that’s corporate speak for “We haven’t actually got anything like enough bloody money”? Thought so. They make Michael Knighton - he of the £20 million bid in August ’89, kicking a ball into the Stretford End goal then blowing kisses to the crowd and not having the funds to seal the deal two months later - look like Croesus in comparison.
The comment below the screen on YouTube: “IpattyMU689908 — 27 March 2010 — Get Green&Gold to Number1!!” This green and yellow circus is - from a City fan’s point of view - the gift that keeps on giving. Remember “United, United Not For Sale”? They think they’ll use the same tactics that got the Glazers in again, only this time there are no racehorse owners (unless you count the manager) to attack by disrupting race meetings or threatening stable girls. That was the tactic that made McManus and Magnier sell out to the Glazers in the first place, so if anything these MUtants were the means of their own misfortune. You really couldn’t make this up could you? They’re even deluded enough to think that this trivial dirge (lest we forget, stealing a tune from a folk icon, that’s what a TRUE legend is you fucking banner-waving shitpots) might get to Number One in the Charts!!! Oh my aching sides…
For the last word though, don’t take mine. Rock up (if you can stand it) to the Stretford Toilet anytime - like all theme parks it’s open 7 days a week – and count the number of cretins weari8ng green and comedygold scarves whilst simultaneously dragging red plastic bags stuffed full of tat from the MUFC Megastore and marvel just exactly what it was that our forefathers fought two World Wars for (gotta stop now, this exaggerated self-importance stuff is catching…)
Thought it deserved a bit more lime light., cheers Monksie :)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJA_nUKBps&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
It’s really difficult to know where exactly to start with this. I feel quite sure that Woody Guthrie - he who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan and to a certain extent Joe Strummer of The Clash - would be absolutely horrified to see his heartfelt political anthem butchered by a bunch of self-obsessed headaches over such a small “issue” as the financial control of a football club. Then again, a complete lack of ability to see the wood for the trees has never stopped these imbeciles in the past has it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_land_is_your_land
Shall we start the deconstruction then? Why not…
They mention the Munich Air Disaster once again, as if it’s the single most important event in United’s history. They harp on about it to their own ends every bit as much as the club they now simultaneously love and hate (fuck me it’s a confusing business being a Rag these days isn’t it?) - at times like this you can almost believe those City fans who say “I only call them ‘Munichs’ ‘cos they go on about it so much.
“The Glazers stole it” did they? Be honest now: I can’t see the Financial Police beating any doors down in Trafford or Tampa Bay looking to walk out Malcolm, Joel, Avi etc in a Bud Fox style, can you? . That’ll be because they performed a trick that was wholly legal in company and legislative law that gave them ownership of a financial entity that didn’t cost them very much but has been forced to pay for itself. They’re not exactly daft are they, unlike the clowns who fail to see that although it stinks from a moral perspective it’s definitely a case of “them’s the rules”. Oh, and if you’re convinced that “it belongs to you and me” then let’s see your share certificates eh?
“From a mill town came the players who are proud to wear the colours”. Leaving aside the major grammatical faux pas of juxtaposing two tenses (past and present) and the fact that many Rags post on message boards all over the place that City’s support mostly originates from the mill towns surrounding Manchester (centre of the cotton mill empire), their use of ‘are’ implies that the likes of van der Sar, Berbatov, the Brazilian numpty twins, Ji Sung Park and many others all originate from the aforesaid towns. It’s a rewriting of fact that Orwell struggled to match in his novel 1984.
“Three stripes and three sails” of course is from the Manchester Coat of Arms, the shield of which was featured in United’s badge of the 1960s until 1970 when they showed their ‘true’ colours and replaced the stripes with a devil. Even then they couldn’t be totally honest for the nickname was indeed stolen, take your pick from the Belgian national football team or Salford Rugby League Club. So who stole exactly what then, gentlemen?
“Green and Gold will make the Glazers sell or fold”. Yep, that’s the masterplan kids right there; if enough idiots turn up at the Theatre of Hate wearing green and yellow scarves the Glazers will see the error of their ways, run a white flag up and head for the hills. ‘Cos after all that’s exactly what hard-headed businessmen from the USA do when thinks kick up a little rough don’t they? You poor, deluded fools. “Green and Gold”? Again, take your pick: bile and mucous or snot and vomit…
“I paid a season yes I paid a season,no more weaping at the treason”. Surely this is comedy gold (‘n’ green) in its purest form and betrays the mentality of the cretins responsible for this. It makes no logical sense, the spelling and grammar are over the place and FFS ‘treason’ is a crime against the Crown or State, i.e. the country. Told you these joyless fucks have a wildly exaggerated sense of their own importance didn’t I?
“The sun is shining on all our trophies, we don’t need no Greedy Yankies” (there goes that spelling again). Again the duoism kicks in, after all three Premier League titles, a Champions League win and two League Cup wins since the Glazers took control in May 2005 don’t count, surely? In other words it’s great to boast about what you’ve won but just keep schtum about who ran the club while they were at it, eh?
“With the Red Knights at the helm were going to save MUFC” (and again with the punctuation). These Red Knights then, who exactly are they? Their spokesman is none other than Keith Harris (no, not he who embezzled money from TV companies and the general public by shoving his hand up the arses of various luminous green ducks and cheeky monkeys) but the guy who oversaw Dr Thaksin Shinawatra’s takeover at City all of three years ago. In one of their communiqués last month they apparently “invited Tier 2 shareholders (whatever that means) at MUFC to place funds and shares with the Knights, who are now saying they won’t make a bid until after the current season ends. Hang on a minute: “Give us your funds and shares”/”we won’t be making a bid for a while”? Is there anyone else who thinks that’s corporate speak for “We haven’t actually got anything like enough bloody money”? Thought so. They make Michael Knighton - he of the £20 million bid in August ’89, kicking a ball into the Stretford End goal then blowing kisses to the crowd and not having the funds to seal the deal two months later - look like Croesus in comparison.
The comment below the screen on YouTube: “IpattyMU689908 — 27 March 2010 — Get Green&Gold to Number1!!” This green and yellow circus is - from a City fan’s point of view - the gift that keeps on giving. Remember “United, United Not For Sale”? They think they’ll use the same tactics that got the Glazers in again, only this time there are no racehorse owners (unless you count the manager) to attack by disrupting race meetings or threatening stable girls. That was the tactic that made McManus and Magnier sell out to the Glazers in the first place, so if anything these MUtants were the means of their own misfortune. You really couldn’t make this up could you? They’re even deluded enough to think that this trivial dirge (lest we forget, stealing a tune from a folk icon, that’s what a TRUE legend is you fucking banner-waving shitpots) might get to Number One in the Charts!!! Oh my aching sides…
For the last word though, don’t take mine. Rock up (if you can stand it) to the Stretford Toilet anytime - like all theme parks it’s open 7 days a week – and count the number of cretins weari8ng green and comedygold scarves whilst simultaneously dragging red plastic bags stuffed full of tat from the MUFC Megastore and marvel just exactly what it was that our forefathers fought two World Wars for (gotta stop now, this exaggerated self-importance stuff is catching…)