The Rags. By far the most deluded and brain dead set of morons in the world, bar none!
They've gone bust once - at a time (early 1900's) they were getting merely hundreds of fans in to watch their games at Bank Street - and had to be bailed out by a mega-rich owner otherwise they would have had to fold and all that followed would never have happened. His money, added to the players they were given by City (as they were banned from playing for City) helped them win trophies; not by being a big club.
They then nearly went bust again in the late 20's as this MASSIVE club were still only getting crowds of 4000 and went on a run of 37years without winning a trophy. And couldn't even afford their own kits so had to be given our old ones.
They had a decent period under City star Matt Busby. Fair play to 'em. The only real credit this club deserves (if they take the stance that we don't deserve success from our new found wealth!).
But then went over two decades without being a major force in this country. So what did they do? They spent more money on players than any club ever had before, and paid the most expensive team ever assembled the highest wages ever seen in football. All this at a time when they hadn't won the league in over 20 years. They had one, 1, ONE, home grown player in that squad (Ryan Giggs). So everything about that whole squad was about what they'd bought in at a time they had been no more successful in the 70's and 80's than Boro were in the 90's and early 2000's. But because Liverpool had started to decline and the state of football in this country was very poor with no decent teams at all; United went on and won all the trophies with no or very little opposition.
But they are the most over self important 'high and mighty' fans in the world. They think their clubs success was built on great foundations, that all their trophy winning teams were full of home grown players, that they only spent money due to their success; but they did nothing different in the late 80's and early 90's to what City are doing now, and to what they themselves did in the early part of last century. But apparently what we're doing now is a disgrace, we don't deserve it. They still come out with banners saying "YOUR PLAYERS MAKE MONEY, OUR PLAYERS MAKE HISTORY" "YOUR PLAYERS EARN MONEY, OUR PLAYERS EARN RESPECT" Forgetting all along that we are just mirroring them from their early Fergie days, yet we have more home grown players in our squad now than they did in 1992.
Oh and I've not even mentioned that they used the tragedy of the Munich air disaster to propel the name and fame of their club forward. They almost used it as a tool to make the country feel sorry for them and gain fans from around the country. To me that's just sick. And they treated the survivors and the families of the fatalities like shit for decades after.
Also their identity is a fraud. In the first decade of the 1900's they stole our clubs name, Lancashire CCC's ground name and Salford RLFC's club colours. They later stole Salford RLFC's nick name 'The Red Devils' which was given to Salford by the French press after a tour over there saw Salford win all their games and they were termed 'Les Diables Rouge' because they were so fearsome in victory. And now their half-wit fans look like Norwich City. Yet they'll still give our club shit, still have their stupid banner up which won't even mean anything unless we don't win a trophy by 2014, still belittle City and anyone else at every opportunity. But look out Rags your huge club is on the slide and WILL be taken over by... City!
