[Albion] Do you HATE Man Utd?

[ozzygull]

Nothing to dislike really, had a lot of plastic fans in early 2000’s who probably support city now.

I used to work with a younger lad who was a ManU fan I think he had been to a couple of games at old Trafford. I always found it odd that I would go in to work on a Monday buzzing after we we beat a team in league one and hope we were good enough to go for promotion, I would ask him about United win and he be a bit none plus unless it was by a few goals or a win against a direct rival, I think was Arsenal at the time. He would say he would be happy if United won league and maybe a cup as if it was a given and I guess it was at the time. He had to sit next me going on about needing a stadium and how great it would be to have a roof and who knows? we could be a stable championship club. He was never patronising but I could see he did fully get why Brighton meant so much to me.

i don’t work with him now, but I do often wonder what he makes of Brighton now competing and beating his club and that tomorrow is not a forgon conclusion of a win for United and against a team of an old colleague who used to be ecstatic about beating Dagenham and Redbridge.

 

[Mustafa II]

Not a much as pointless threads.

This is an Albion forum and we're just about to play United.

Mumsnet is that way

 

[OzMike]

Just another lamb to the slaughter.

 

[stewart12]

I went to school in Brighton in the 90s. Only a handful of us supported the Albion and most of the lads in my year supported Man U. They were absolutely insufferable particularly in 1999. I absolutely can't stand them and I love that they're not at those heights now.

I remember watching that Aguero year when Man City won the league in a pub in Brighton and actively cheering when City won it just because the one United fan in the pub was a typical southern United bell end.

Oh and most of those massive Man U fans from my year at school now support Brighton.

 

[Easy 10]

Fact is, Manchester United is the biggest DICKHEAD magnet in the country.

Do I hate them ? Yeah, a bit. I just f*cking LOVE it when they lose. Inject it into my veins.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Their best points?

None


Their worst points?

Many


Overall? Self righteous club who think they can Lord it over everyone because they are Man U.

Conclusion?

They ain’t Man U. But they is Manure!

May they n Hell!

Apart from that I am pretty ambivalent!




TNBA

TTF

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Norman Whiteside.

Cheating ****.

Stole our cup final win with 3 deliberate handballs and maiming Rambo.

My deceased neighbour, saw them live once (European cup final, 60s, POTG, he lived in Shep Bush at the time) and lorded it. ****.

****s the lot of them

Apart from John Cooper Clark and Becks.

I love a win against them.

****s.

 

[Normal Rob]

Fact is, Manchester United is the biggest DICKHEAD magnet in the country.

Do I hate them ? Yeah, a bit. I just f*cking LOVE it when they lose. Inject it into my veins.

I'll put you down as a fan then?

 

[Pevenseagull]

No room in my heart
For hate anymore

for anything footbally
other than Chelsea.

the F.C.s

 

[Gabbiano]

The 30-, 40- or 50-something Sussex-based fans who are now stuck with “United” as their team have my pity. Latched onto a declining club that they have no genuine connection with while little old Brighton emerges as one of the most exciting projects in world football.

I sometimes think about this. What a stroke of luck that, as a kid my grandad (born and bred in Yorkshire but lived in Sussex for years) used to be able to get free tickets to the Withdean because he knew the club physio.

Now, 25 years later I'm indoctrinated and the run down little club in that athletics stadium is now a Premier League mainstay fighting for Europe and signing players for £40m.

Imagine if my grandad had been mates with the Pompey physio? Doesn't bear thinking about.

Also how lucky I have been across more or less 25 years to watch the steady but consistent rise of our club. Yes there were a couple of relegations but far more good times than bad. Just a shame that my grandad isn't here anymore to see our progress.

Oh, Man United? Don't like 'em but I dislike others far more. As far as tomorrow goes, I've never been more overconfident to beat them, I hope it's justified.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Used to in the early 90's but then I lived in Manchester during the treble season and it was electric, those big European cup nights were something else, especially the QF and SF games against Inter and Juve, and that will live long with me. However the current incarnation are pathetic in comparison to that side

 

[dwayne]

Used to be a great team back in the fergie days. They were so big and so far removed from Brighton.

Now they just make me laugh. They finished 8th last season which for a club of their size is rubbish, and the majority of their fans were satisfied with that. Eric Ten Hag is not their saviour but again I find it amazing that a fluky cup final win against a drunk city kept him in the job another season.

I find it fascinating they are still so big in the US and Asia when they've been so mediocre for 20 years.

 

[B-right-on]

Utterly utterly despise them.

Late 80s they were the Chelsea of the Football League. Totally dominated most clubs by buying the best players, lead by a complete bully that the officials and FA were brow beaten into appeasing the w@nker.

'Fergie Time' was a proven fact which, again came from the Scottish Bully.

This in turn gave many fans a feeling of entitlement and superiority which still is in fine form today (the Wembley semi final a few years ago proved this fact).

They seem to attract Class A dickheads as players too. Kung Fu Cantona, Roy (break your leg) Keane etc... and whilst Fernandez is not quite at the same level, he's still an irritating cheating little shithead.


So, Chelsea are recent hatred, but ManUre's is decades long and still going strong.

 

[marlowe]

When I was a lad, in the era of George Best, I used to support United, but that was in the days when it was the natural thing for a boy to support a (then), First Division club.

I even had a replica Manchester United shirt given to me as a Christmas present (circa 1970/71) with the traditional round white collar and white cuffs, but they weren't called "replica shirts" then, even though that's essentially what they were.

I'm sure you can all imagine and relate to the pride and joy I felt at being given my first football shirt of the team I supported. Unfortunately that joy was very short lived because on its first wash the colours ran, which left me with a red shirt with a pink collar and pink cuffs. I was distraught and still mentally scarred to this day. Then around the same year United introduced their Umbro shirt with the white wing collar with white V insert, which left my shirt even further removed from the real thing.

I think it was at that defining moment that I lost any sense of attachment or affinity for United and I started supporting Tottenham. Maybe my thinking was with an all white shirt there was no risk of the colours running into one another, even though I never ultimately took the plunge of owning one of their shirts and satisfied myself with a Spurs tote bag.

So all affinity with Man U was erased and I even started disliking them a bit. Obviously that dislike intensified when they briefly became our rivals when we too became a First Division club and then of course they beat us in the FA Cup, but I'm not sure that I actually "hated" them even then.

But then I really did grow to hate them in the Fergie, Beckham, Scholes era when they were almost invincible. But as well as resenting their success on the field I think my hatred was also linked to the fact that they were then one of the first "rich" clubs, so I related their success to their wealth. I really did "hate" them then and I took extreme pleasure whenever they were beaten.

But when that success eventually started to wane so did my hatred for them. Now they are just another club, and even though they are now our rivals again I don't "hate" them any more and I'm largely indifferent to them.

Maybe I'd even start to quite like them again and feel some connection to them if they ever introduced a shirt with pink collar and cuffs, which in today's era of ever evolving shirt designs isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

 

[albionfan37]

I dislike them a lot less since we’ve been in the prem

 

[jcdenton08]

I dislike them a lot less since we’ve been in the prem

Is that because we usually beat them?

 

[US Seagull]

Used to dislike them more back in the Ferguson years when they dominated and became the first big English football "brand". That was obnoxious.

Now days other clubs are worse and United's days in the sun are long since past. I find it hard to get too excited about them now.

 

[JetsetJimbo]

I dislike them because long periods of single-club dominance are boring, and they were very much England's dominant club during my formative years (deep down, I think I'd be happiest if a different club won the league each season - unless we somehow became the dominant club, of course!). I dislike Man City now for much the same reason.

I don't really have the same distaste for Liverpool because their 80s dominance was when I was just becoming aware of football, so it didn't annoy me as much.

But to be honest -- and I reckon United fans would be more pissed off by this than if I said "I hate them" -- my main emotion towards Man U nowadays is pity. It's like seeing the girl everyone fancied at school turn into turn into someone who posts a lot of vague attention-seeking statuses and racist rants on Facebook. You just can't help but think "damn, what the hell happened to you?!"

 

[sparkie]

I used to after 1983 but we've had plenty of revenge on them since being in the PL so I've let it go now.

These days I find petro-state teams more objectionable.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

In terms of the “big clubs”, it’s a yes from me. Growing up in Sussex in the 90s, everyone I knew supported them. The level of entitlement is akin to Leeds, Villa and Chelsea fans.