United On Fire

Biffafootie reports that there is a commemorative newspaper out :-

The newsagents in Manchester are selling a 48 page supplement “Munich Remembered”. It costs a quid, and is published by the Manchester Evening News

As he says, there is a history of these things. Somewhere in my loft (or perhaps my dad’s loft) I have some old newspaper specials from the Manchester Evening News and learnt a lot of the history of Manchester United from them.

You can buy a copy online from ManchesterOnline for a quite bargain price of £3 (or £6.10 if you live abroad).

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50 years ago, the very thought of interrupting a minute’s silence would have been abhorrent to football fans, but a lot has changed since the Munich air disaster.

The pleas this week for United to hold a minute’s applause instead of silence have been turned down, and rightly so, but the fact that some people could think to disrupt such an event is just wrong. It would be like some men shouting “F*&k off grandads” during a Remembrance Service.

The Munich chants are wrong. The Hillsborough chants are wrong. The Arsene Wenger chants are wrong. Let us not blame Manchester City, or their fans when it goes wrong. Let us blame all football fans and the culture we live in.

However, something could be done. In today’s CCTV driven culture, it would be easy to find out who was not observing the minute’s silence. There will only be 3000 fans going. Would a threat of a life ban from City and football have any effect of them ?

Today, the very thought of interrupting a minute’s silence is abhorrent to football fans, but do you let the bloke next to you doing it get away with it?

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