Chelsea aren’t famed for their great support. Whilst they too will have seen a lot of the ‘real fans’ pushed out of the grounds due to the rising ticket prices, you would at least expect for them to be able to get a decent lot travelling to Old Trafford.
Their support is always shit at United though. Even on our last home game of the season back in 2005, with Chelsea already crowned Champions, they didn’t have much about them. They played us off the park, winning 3-1, yet on that day, hadn’t even sold their full ticket allocation! “Sell all your tickets, you couldn’t sell all your tickets, sell all your tickkkkets, you couldn’t sell all your tickets!” we sang. We were gutted. Our team had embarrassed us that day, rolled over for the new Champions, but at least we could have a pop at their fans!
Today, their travelling support was even worse. After a quiet round or two of “Carefree”, they declared our support as “fucking shit”. Odd. They had barely sung, whilst the Stretford End had kept a continuous stream of songs going, and they save their best, loudest singing voices to tell us our support was fucking shit. Embarrassing.
At 2-0 down, their fans had gone to sleep and at 3-0 down the away section was close to half empty. “Can you hear the rent boys sing? Nooo nooo.” We sang that three times, shhhhhh, baiting them to respond, but they didn’t.
It’s only upon getting home that I heard the Chelsea fans were more lively than I had given them credit for. No, they hadn’t sung loudly enough for the opposite end of the ground to hear them, but they had been very inventive in creating a chant for Cristiano Ronaldo.
“Died in that tunnel, you should have died in that tunnel, died in that tunnnnnnel, you should have died in tha tunnel!”
Their players embarrassed them on the park today, whilst they did a bloody good job of embarrassing themselves from the stands.
“I did not hear what they chanted because I was focused on the game,” said Scolari after the final whistle. “But after seeing his car I told Cristiano that he needs to say ‘thank you’ to God everyday and think about life. I told him he is young and God has given him a lesson. Now he needs to stay alive and live until he is 90.”
I was just considering writing a post on this very subject actually. Chelsea fans are a disgrace singing songs like that. I can understand a bit of football banter and mocking, but for me tasteless chants like that are unnecessary and show them up for the classless fans they are. Still, not like they had much else to sing about!
I thought the media’s handling of the Ronaldo crash was poor to be honest, and wrote as much in a post here:
http://www.just-football.com/2009/01/guardians-anti-ronaldo-stance-goes-one.html
That’s just disgraceful. Not sure what else to add, I mean singing about someone death, is just wrong and this goes for our support against scousers (Murderers chant). I know they sing about “the crash”, but them being scumbags, doesn’t justify as being the same. I did like Terri chant
best parts of the game;
gary neville shaking the little girls hand before terry.
lampard’s yellow card
drogba’s air swing
terry having nothing on berbatov’s goal.
Not a very good chant I must admit. But cannot say I would care if something happened to Ronaldo. Don’t see any of you lots caring about hundreds of children being killed in Gaza recently, so enough with the hypocrisy.
Keka you are an idiot. I also dont think you have yourself cared about genocide in sudan, have you?
er keka.. you have inside information on united fans’ thoughts/concerns on gaza yeh? lol, you’re a joke.
If there’s any need for confirmation of the s4ittyness of the rentboy Chelsea fans, this was it.
keka, what on earth does gaza have to do with this? save the politics for somewhere else.
I’m sure a big majority of the people attending yesterday’s game worried more about Ronaldo being fit after the accident than anything that happened in Gaza. I could even bet my house on the fact that most of the people turned the page on Gaza news, so f u c k off jsos.
I just mentioned this as an illustration that people wishing Ronaldo dead are just people of human nature. Just look around you and look throughout history, you see that all the riches that the “North” enjoys are based on blood and slave work, so enjoy Ronaldo knowing that the money you bought him with was made by killing somebody, taking somebody’s land, enslaving the survivors and closing eyes on genocide. I guess it was hard-earned money, so there’s reason to worry if Ronaldo was OK or not. I guess worrying about football makes you feel less guilty about all the responsibility you have for things.
Keka, it’s apparent that you are an idiot and a simpleton. Go back and read what you have written. Seriously! You can’t even make a coherent point.
Firstly, you are making a huge generalization about the wide range of people who attended the match, which is in no way based in fact.
Secondly, there is no evidence to suggest that United fans are any less concerned about Gaza than the fans of Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool or ANY team in the country!
And finally there is a HUGE difference between being occasionally apathetic towards world politics and actually wishing a fellow human dead!!
You are in fact being extremely disrespectful to those who have suffered and died in Gaza by using them in a cheap and petty swipe at a footballer you dislike.
You haven’t really thought that one through have you?
Brainless twat.
Australian Chelsea fan here. I was up at 3am before work watching this and I was completely gutted, but I couldn;t stop watching because of United’s master class. Everyone was fantastic and 10 out of 11 of your players on the park workrates were amazing. That one being Berbatov, but he’s not a worker, he; all class. We ignored that and put a 19 year old on him on a set piece. He showed how deadly he was.
shocking chant, but you don’t need to say anything to our fans. Your players said everything in the way they played. Young Johnny Evans and Vidic made Carvalho and Terry look clueless. Giggs was a master. Ronaldo unstoppable, Rooney a terrier, Berbatov a poacher, everyone was brilliant. Can;t say much about Van Der Sar, didn;t need to do much. Hopefully you’ve given our billionaire a wake up call to give Scolari the funds to inject a bit of young blood.Congrats
Keka, are you still talking? You can shut up now.
I agree it’s a total shame that United fans weren’t singing songs in memory of those who died in New York on 9/11. We didn’t sing any WWII or WWI songs either. How awful of us to not sing any disgraceful chants and therefore obviously not give a shit about Wars going on around the world.
Football grounds are for football. We immerse ourselves in everything that is Manchester United, because for 90 minutes on a match day, everything we believe in can change. In football terms, and to a lot of us, football does come first.
Manchester United has survived 2 World Wars and many lower scale tragic events. A married man’s love for United (or other favourite football team) would usually last longer than that for his wife, which shows what level reality is really at.
You however, are far too concerned in wanting to put a political foot down, that you haven’t bothered to actually put any sense in to it. You could always do what Rafa Benitez has done and talk about ‘FACTS’.
Again, talk all day about something you have no clue about but don’t come on here with you silly ideas trying to wage a one man war against people you don’t even know, when for all you really know, a fan or two on here could have had a friend or family member killed in Gaza, but now their only chance to escape the hard hitting reality, is to talk football. Too bad, that moron Keka has dragged it up in a totally unwanted and far less than necessary place.
Disgusting Disgusting comments from Keke
Why do people watch sport? To get away from the troubles of real life, my O-Levels are in three months,I have just broken up with my girlfriend and generally feel shit all around where do I escape from it?
The football ground, whether its supporting my local team in the day and then running home, signing into the Mancunia chatroom with my fellow reds and getting sucked into the match.
Football is where we go to escape from our real life pains
WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM KEKE? IS IT COMPULSORY TO SING ABOUT GAZA? IS IT NOT A PERSONAL OPINION TO SING ABOUT IT? DOES IT MAKE US BAD IF WE DO NOT SING ABOUT IT? DID WE SING ABOUT WW1? NO. DID WE SING ABOUT WW2? NO. DID WE SING ABOUT DARFUR IN SUDAN? NO. DID WE SING ABOUT IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN? NO. DID WE SING ABOUT BOSNIA? NO. SO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE WILL SING ABOUT GAZA? WE SUPPORT A FOOTBALL CLUB (MANCHESTER UNITED) AND NOT A POLITICAL GROUP OR AFFILIATION. DID WE SING ABOUT MUNICH AIR DISASTER? YES. BECAUSE WE LOST FOOTBALLERS OF OUR CLUB IN THE AIR CRASH. WHAT ACTUALLY TELLS YOU WE ARE NOT SORRY FOR THOSE IN GAZA. WE READ AND WATCH WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE ALL DAY IN THE WEEK AND THEN WE GO TO WATCH MATCHES IN THE WEEKEND AND YOU CLAIM WE CARE NOT ABOUT THEM. YOU ARE RIDICULING YOURSELF BY MAKING SUCH POLITICAL COMMENTS ON A FOOTBALL THREAD.
Keke has a valid point that what is going on in gaza is shocking and appalling, and more important than ronaldo’s car crash (except to ronaldo and his family), but I imagine/expect that most United fans would agree with that anyway: It doesn’t have to be one or the other!
Keka, u are an idiot. How could u have known whether a united fan cares about Gaza or not? I just can’t understand ur stupidity.
We are talking football here my stupid friend!!!!!
I knw u re disappointed that we are strolling to an other title. U have lost it man!!!!
Keka,
Shut the fuck up you stupid, stupid cunt.
PLS I WANT ALL MAN U FANS TO FORGIVE RONALDO AND START SINGING VIVA RONALDO,PLS FORGIVE HIM
Keke get of this site with these comments. u cannot say nobody cares because u dont know the thoughts of any1 of us. FCUK them rent boys united united united……. i hear sky news is having a debate on gaza keke send ur thoughts to them not to a red blogg……
Get over it. i distinctly remember hearing ‘he should have taken the train’ being sung towards Chelsea fans just after Matthew Harding died. What did that say about our support?
Also, the rent boys chant? Just as classless as anything Chelsea sang.
Keka, if ever there was a muppet on here that wasn’t worth responding to, it’s you.
^ = nice!
A point I made to Keka, which has disappeared was that there is no better example of the universal freedom and escapism football can bring to a person than that of Christmas Day 1914, No Mans Land… During the Great War, the worst the world has seen, ordinary people, reluctently sent to fight for their countries had a truce.
The English and The Germans, along with Belgians and others… stopped fighting, to play a game of football.
Now if that is not a stark enough reminder to you what football is about and what football can do, then maybe you should never have tried being clever in the first place.
Keka indeed.
I think it says it all that he spelt fuck like this: “f u c k”. Ie, he’s so used to trolling on forums/blogs that he spells fuck with spaces in it so it escapes the swear filters.
Keke, i personally am quite comfortable in the knowledge that I’ve played no part in any Genocide. And what was your comments on the riches of the ‘North’ about? Are you just another southeren nonce who thinks everyone who lives above Watford is a second class citizen? Your just a stupid little, ignorant prick. I dunno if you’re aware, but this is a football blog. Take your insightful. political views and stick them up your arse.
Couldn’t hear them over Champions of England Champions of Europe or We’ve won it 3 times. Chelsea we’re saving themselves for Southend as it’s their best chance of Silverware this year.
2 years! And you’ve won fuck all!
Well done UTD, that was a pretty incredible result for you guys (even though Chelsea were awful). All I can say is that Giggs is an absolute legend, credit where credits due and United were great yesterday.
@ Keke
“I just mentioned this as an illustration that people wishing Ronaldo dead are just people of human nature. Just look around you and look throughout history, you see that all the riches that the “North” enjoys are based on blood and slave work, so enjoy Ronaldo knowing that the money you bought him with was made by killing somebody, taking somebody’s land, enslaving the survivors and closing eyes on genocide. I guess it was hard-earned money, so there’s reason to worry if Ronaldo was OK or not. I guess worrying about football makes you feel less guilty about all the responsibility you have for things.”
This is a football blog no? To assume most people’s political leanings and how they feel is extremely presumptuous and offensive. As for your comments about “riches of the North’ being based on blood and slave labour, surely it is not just the north that this applies to but the whole of England? And even then you could make a strong argument against what you have said.
Clearly you are very upset about what is going on in Gaza, however actions speak louder than words, so I’m sure, given your concern, that you will be boarding a plane soon to offer your services for humanitarian aid or at least doing something to stop it.
Classless chant, but The Itch is right. We’ve got our bad apples, too.
Just don’t try using the United/Liverpool chants as an example, Orez. We had to put up with their shite for nigh-on 30 years before Heysel. They were bound to get it back after that.
Every team has moronic fans, the worst type of chant are like those mentioned above, but even the playground level chants I hear at Arsenal make me cringe. Only works for me if there is humour, but I guess that’s subjective anyway
Does Keke know for sure that there is not a single Palestinian who does not support United and would happily join in with any of the songs sung by the Stretford End on Sunday ?
There are probably quite a few fans of every persuasion who support football teams and CAN distinguish between EPL football and international politics.
I hate people who sing awful chants like that.
But i think weshould realised that not every chelsea fan sings that,i’m sure there were so perfectly nice chelsea fans sitting their watching their sides pitiful display silently.
Every club has some idiot “fans” who are like this, i think it’s disgusting.
Keke: a more pointless post, I have never seen. From talking about Ronaldo’s car crash to kids in Gaza and Northern blood money, wth do they have to do with each other?
Total crap. Anyone who goes to Old Trafford knows how quiet the home support is.
I was at the game in 2005 that this muppet is talking about. Chelsea sold out our allocation.
Score ended up 3-1 and we outsang all 60,000 of you (“That’s why we’re champions” after we equalised if you don’t remember). The majority of your supporters all left with 10 minutes to go and with your heads down before the end – your team came out to do their end of season “lap of honour” and you’d all gone home. Disgraceful.
Luckily for your team we all stayed on to tell them what we thought of you.
Pathetic. Of all the fans in the premiership, you and Arsenal are the epitome of “Sing When Your Winning”.
The anti-ronaldoism is getting boring. Every team is doing it now, like derby for example. They were louder chanting his name than there own teams. Sad really.
And lol at John panda, that destroyed kekes arguement.
I will say one thing though, he has managed to unite arsenal and united fans on our blogg. That is some pretty big humanitarian work!!
i’m off to gaza, anyone coming?
I can feel Ronaldo turning a corner for some reason, on and off the pitch…Seems a bit happier and a bit more willing to stay at United, I can sense the Viva Ronaldos are going to be slowly creeping back into Old Trafford, we’ve done Terry now for 6 months and had the pleasure of him coming to Old Trafford. I read an article in the Telegraph I think which was going on about Ronaldo’s visible despondency when only Rooney’s chant was sung whilst they both warmed up, then when he got a mention he applauded the fans, I wasn’t there but it sounded quite sad. what do people reckon, maybe on wednesday some Viva Ronaldos?
Aint Gaza pissed at the moment, or at least drying out in some booze clinic?
what the fuck has Kecker or whatever the twat calls himself doing writing rants about a poor old alchoholic…..!!
Leave poor old Gaza out of it…. !!
domh, Stamford bridge is a library we out sung you lot at your place without a doubt and i couldn’t even hear your away fans yesterday. The atmosphere at Old Trafford is always great when its big games (against the top 4 and champions league) but other than that yes it can be poor just like anfield,emirates and stamford bridge. At least our away support is amazing we out sing everyone no matter where we go, even the most die hard ABU’s admit our away support is class.
Sing when we’re winning? actually we sing more when we’re loosing, against Derby in the cup our away fans sang none stop even when we were 1-0 down and it was a piss poor match.
chelski fans are so plastic its unbelievable yet they still have to cheek to slate us its shocking. The atmosphere on European nights at Old Trafford is something chelski fans can only dream of, just compare the atmosphere at Old Trafford for the match against Barca in the semi’s and then compare it to the atmosphere at your semi final, im embarrassed for you chelski you’d of thought you would of put some effort to it so you could get to your first ever champions league final. We get to the final we beat you on the pitch and our supporters where louder off it, we put on our own display paid for by our own fans yet you only have them cheap plastic flags given out to you by your Russian pimp.
Dynamo chelski est 2004, shit club no history.
Domh – I was sat in the East Stand, unusually, for that game, towards the away fans side. I could see the empty seats with my own eyes and we sang about it several times.
I sit down the other end now, which is why only the full-voiced chants from the away fans could be heard. But that day I heard everything and it was poor showing. When I compare that with how loud we were at Stamford Bridge the season before last when the situation was reversed, it’s embarrassing for you.
Keka you are a twat. We are not singing offensive songs about Gaza though are we. The point of the topic is that the rent boy cunts are singing revolting songs about Ronaldo. So pipe down please.
Haha thanks for the information Scott, I could hear the “Shhhhhhh” every now and then but didn’t know what it was about.
Guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
What a load of bollocks!
Chelsea fans not famous for their support??
What are you on??
I’ve supported Chelsea since 1967 and even when we had a (lot of) shit teams, thru the 1970’s ,80’s & 90’s our “away” support was tremendous.
I’ve been to Old Trafford loads of times where Chelsea have outsupported you lot (outside as well, that’s a different story).
I can’t vouch for today’s “plastic” Chelsea AND United fans, and yYOU have the most by far (living in Florida I can vouch for that!!!!) but today’s “cyber” and TV fans, who have never been to England, never mind Manchester, talk a load of bollocks. Utd fans (the real, match going ones, not the band wagon jumping wankers….sorry) have always dished it out, and suddenly your all offended? Give me a break….you’re becoming WORSE than the Scousers.
PS, I was in the Stretford End in 1984 when Chelsea cleared it…. look it up.
We’ll be back!!!!
I wish Fergie would retire so some one else can have a go.
I’d rather Utd were champs than than the fucking Liverpool.
Cheers!!!
chelseapete
Chelsea are renowned for their fair weather support, so what has been said is not bollocks; just check your average home gate for the last thirty years, you’ll find the answer there.
Where was your fantastic support when you played Rosenburg at home in the champions league?
Now you team is going downhill, you will find your support doing likewise; like i said, you’re all fairweather!