“We’ve got Robinho! We’ve got Robinho!” the delirious Manchester City fans chanted to the Sky Sports News camera after news broke Robinho would be playing in City’s blue this season. There were times in the summer where it appeared inevitable that the Brazilian would be playing at Stamford Bridge this season, but following the takeover and a final day bid, City were able to lure Robinho to Wastelands. Who would have thought?
Whilst United fans’ focus is purely on what we regard as one of the biggest games of the season, a trip to Anfield, City will take on last year’s Premiership runners up at home. Shaun Wright-Phillips will play in his first home game after returning up North following three miserable years for the rent boys, as well as Robinho making his debut.
Does the hype surrounding City at the moment mean the Liverpool vs United match has been pushed in to the background?
Whilst some claim our weekend fixture is the biggest game in the World, former red legend, Mark Hughes, thinks City’s match against Chelsea in the most important to be played on Saturday.
“There is huge interest in us at the moment and though there is another quite large game going on nearby on Saturday we have superseded that one,” he said. “I am sure that has happened on many occasions. At the end of the day our profile is huge at the moment and there is such a story surrounding the Chelsea game with different angles relating to each club. We are really looking forward to it.”
There aren’t many games I hope Chelsea will win, and over the past few seasons I will have cheered on City when facing our title rivals, eager to see the rent boys drop points. However, you have to imagine that the blue noses will be absolutely unbearable if they get a result against Chelsea tomorrow. Their fantasy aspirations of a top four finish will become a reality for them and I honestly cannot do with hearing their delusions, boomed out like a broken record, for the next few months.
Do you think the focus on City at the moment means United’s trip to Anfield has been superseded?
Sparky is a fuckin dickhead and needs to phone NHS Direct… as he has caught that “CIty Dream Disease”…
Of all the people….. cant believe Sparky is turning out like this the fuckin turncoat..
Liverpool V United “a quite large game” understatement of the year, it is amazing how many people sell their soles for money, and Hughes has joined the bandwagon.
I am a scouser so i think this is the only time I will ever agree with a manyoo supporter……………….NO GAME IN ENGLAND, BRITAIN and possibly the world is bigger. Their are fans on every continent waiting for this match
City Vs Chelsea the only thing to come out of this game is now that citeh are richer than chelsea and can outbid for everyone……….how long till Roman leaves the chavs!!!!
Bankrupt Chelsea!!!
Quite large game.
Fcuking hell, at least he came down to earth long enough to actually remember.
Er I actually meant souls!! But think Sparky has been spending too much time with another bitter ex red Keane.
Mark Hughes is a fool . fool fool !!!!!!!!! Liverpool vs Manu is the best match one can see.
The buzz i get out of United v Scouse is immense… Hughes should know better as well he has played for both United and Chelski…. “oh yeh, i can just imagine the excitement and adrenalin running through his body twice yearly when he played for chelsea as he knew he was gonna be playing city that day”….
Get to fuck Sparky your potty…once a legend… now needs sectioning…
I do not know what it is with City… they are puddled… oh yeh… coz there a massive club… bollox..
Who care if they have all the money…. the only players that will sign for them is the money grabbers.
And as for Robinho… he has admitted he didnt know there was 2 teams in Manchester until the blue noses put this bid in for him… How fuckin sad.
The scouse lad at the top i agree with ya… i think Abramovich is gonna spit his dummy out coz he aint the rich kid in town anymore… so i reckon if they dont win the Champs league this year then he will bail out and go put more money into one of the Russian clubs which he apparently knows nothing about… thats a load of bollox as well… he’s as bent as Alan Carr.
Chelsea will turn in a Leeds.
City will stay in cloud cuckoo land… with a shite load of money to spend, but nobody apart from the desperate prepared to accept it.
United will continue as always… after all we have the history… billions cannot buy that.
Ive had my rant now.
2-1 United tomoz……….. Rooney n Berba making it 2-0… before the scousers get a goal with 3 mins left to give us twitchy bum time as usual.
BUILD A BONFIRE………. BUILD A BONFIRE…
It seems to me that Mr Mark Hughes is drunk on money. He has clearly lost the plot if he is seriously suggesting that a match between The Massive and The rent boys is bigger than ANY United game, never mind one against the Dippers. Everytime i hear Sparky speak these days, i lose a little respect for him. He’s only been there five minutes and already he is tainted a nasty shade of blue. Shame on him.
Must put sommat dodgy in the brews at the council house.
Poor taste from a former legend I must say, but to be fair to him I don’t know what context he said it in, his toungue could and hopefully would have been in his cheek.
I seen the interview Stephen… and he was talking seriously…
Hughes and Keano have gone right down in my estimation…
I wouldnt mind though if it wasnt for us lending Keano last season Sunderland would have been foobarred.
Stevie Bruce has got my respect… yes he will always send his team out to try and beat us as he is a pro…. but he never has anything negative to say about his former employers.
It is really sad then if that is the case because he has let a lot of the real fans down. I agree Brucey has kept his dignity, when others have turned into legends in their own press conference.
But To be honest Hughes and Keane have to be favorites in the sack race now, and maybe they will come squealing back to us for a job.
Stephen…. i really doubt that Fergie would give Keano any time at all….. Fergie even used Keanos naivity to offload Kieron Richardson for close to £6m … now that was a class move.
Sparky is a prat… i often listen to him in interviews and its almost like he is talking down to the reporters… and im thinkin to myself…. just what have you really done as a football manager???
He aint never won anything…. he give up the internation job with wales… he went to Blackburn… and yeh did a half decent job…. but i really think he is gonna come a cropper…. as the more higher end of the market players city manage to buy… the more he is gonna lose respect from these type of players… as Mark Hughes is a man manager… a good one… but he definately isnt a technical manager… and all sorts of problems are gonna happen at the council house and i cannot wait..
I have no respect at all for Hughes anymore…always did right up until he took that city job… sommat i cannot accept… and he was one of my legends when i was a kid…
Fergie would never have Keane back and rightly so, anyone who buys Chimbonda, Cisse and Diouf should be in an asylam not at a football club.
You are spot on about Hughes, he is a manager not a coach a motivator of men like Fergie not a tactical master like well er Charlie Q.
These young ambitous rent a quote managers who obviously have a picture of The Special One ™ taped to there office walls will come a comeuppance, like O’Leary and many others like him.
There is only one master of the Universe and that is Darth Fergie, and Keano/Hughes I AM NOT YOUR FATHER!! (bit odd I know)
THEY’RE MAYBE MORE IMPORTANT GAMES IN A SEASON
BUT NO GAME IS BIGGER THAN THIS
Good comments Stephen… i like your style mate lol
Naaa, I want City to win
a) It will make the Chelsea fans hurt so much and get very worried
b) It will but the City fans even higher up; ready for the inevitable fall later in the season.
Ideally it will be 9-9 and both teams will have 4 sent off each, and the rest of them booked… both hughes and scolari sent to the stands… both clubs fined 3 billion each……. but realistically, i will be happy if they just kick fuck out of each other. lol
wht the fuck is wrong with our united boys (keane, hughes) all fukn ungrateful sons of bitches they learnt everything in their life because of fergie now those sons of bitches turn on the hand tht red them (*$@&(*$@&)
Internationally it’ll attract a lot of viewers, but domestically not so.
Still, you all know which is the bigger game, so no need for long frothy diatribes about it right?
Oh.
Its called putting things into their rightful place.
hughes is well and truly a fuckin disgrace. nuff said.
A Bigger game than the scouse v us?????????
look sparky..great player you were for us..thankyou for that. We revered you and honoured you. But day by day this money and all its delusions are really getting to you. Money’s made his brain mush. And he’s looking more and more stupid and silly trying to convince everybody thru the media that SHITTY are NOW a big club. What a melon….shut your mouth. These little digs make you look infantile and just heaps more pressure on your ” supposed” ” big” club.
REDJAM, STEPHEN, FAILSWORTHDEVIL…..totally totally 100% agree with all your comments. This guy is losing the plot.
The 2 most successful and biggest clubs in english football….35 titles..8 european cups…18 fa cups..countless league clubs…the 2 biggest fan bases and support in the world….history of poverty…the cotton trade..the manufacturing days..the people..the trade…the 100 + year rivalry..the hatred..the enmity..the respect…the east lancs road separating the 2 biggest clubs in english football…the biggest derby in the world….the most passionate V 2 clubs who ve won didly squat , fly by night, no tradition, no history and 2 owners comparing who they bank with and how much interest they accrue. THAT BIGGER THAN THE east lancs road derby???????? You’re having a laugh
Hughes you re embarrassing yourself with you new world order world domination talk….lol
PS. hope your game sparky ends like what failsworth stated…in fuckin anarchy.
Jemima, this is a United blog and is about sharing opinions about a subject matter which is in the media which this article is, it has nothing to do with being insecure.
Jemena, it has nothing to with being secure or insecure. It would be pretty damned boring if every article Scott put up was “I think United will win 5-0″… The comments that form the basis of this article concerns United because its about a match between two of our biggest rivals. So its interesting to comment on. Stop being Freud on us
Screw City vs Chelsea, Man Utd vs Liverpool is everything tomorrow, which is why we’re going to watch Liverpool lose on Sky Sports, and Chelski vs Shitty are stuck on Setanta..
Suhayl…. ive just got a can of becks of out of the fridge for ya…. i think what you wrote could not have been put any better mate.
On the subject of pyjama … oops i mean jemima…shouldnt u be going doing your nails or sommat…(oooooh how sexist of me)…. not very pc was it… i meant the dishes…
Leave the footie to the lads who know what they are talking about..
Drew, Stephen and Suhayl… i think Jemima is a lil pished at us, as we are not in touch with our feminine sides lol…
Jemima … only kidding… but i think you are lookin into what we are putting a little deeply..
The easiest way to put it is :
Scouse, Chelski, Blue Noses, etc etc… are tossers… unlike United… as we are the Cream of the North !!
“The red-legend”, but now a cunt club has a new member.
Whilst I hate to say this, due to the recent global media, if a worldwide audience had to choose which game to watch, City vs Chelsea would win. Not sure that will be the case next year, and after that, but for Saturday, that match has a larger global draw.
Manchester Man………………… are ya mad?
As much as I hate Liverpool, there is no denying that tomorrow is the meeting of the two most prestigious clubs in England.
City vs Chelsea is a meeting of two clubs with no history but rich owners. Who gives a shit. The people who are dying to see SWP and Robinho in action against the rent boys are probably the same people who buy Heat magazine.
Guys, we’re not discussing the quality or intelligence of supporters, we are not discussing which are the better football teams, we are discussing, ON A GLOBAL BASIS, football fan or not, which is the bigger draw this weekend. And media coverage of City Vs Chelsea will be greater.
Manchester Man…..that is not true, I’m from south east asia, and nobody I know support citeh…..in fact most people here either support Man Utd or the scousers, some arse fans and some chelski’s but none citeh. And as far as I know this is true all over asia. How it is possible ON A GLOBAL BASIS citeh vs chelski is the bigger draw than Man Utd vs scousers? On which side of the globe are you talking about here?
Mark Hughes is such a bitch
How can people vote “Yes” is beyond me.
Still have great respect for Sparky though, scored some great goals for us.
Media coverage will maybe be greather in Britain because of media sensationalism but in rest of the world nobody gives a shit about City-Chelsea game.
Who normal will choose to watch Robinho,instead of Rooney,Tevez,Berbatov,Scholes,Gerrard,Torres etc.
And Mark Hughes will be sacked no matter results he achived because new owner will try to bring some world class name to the club.
And what they think how will present players answer to owners promise that they will bring 18 !!! world class players right in yanuary?
Hm…
Scott your spot on mate….. plus the Heat Magazine comment was a class touch.
A house in liverpool…….. and a little girl is in the kitchen while her mummy is washing the dishes… and the little girl says “Mummy why are your hands so soft”… for which the little scouse girls mummy replies… “Its because im only 12″ lol
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Sign on, Sign on, With a Pen in your hand… coz you’ll never get a job, you’ll never get a job…
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What dya call a scouser in a semi detached house? A BURGLAR.
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What dya call a scouser in a suit ? THE ACCUSED.
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What dya call a scouser with a job? A FUCKIN LIAR.
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Liverpool is the only place i know of, where they piss through your letterbox, and knock on and ask how far it went.
It might be more hyped with SWP’s return, the Robinho debacle and the new Man City “future title contender”. Add this to the fact that United – Liverpool isn’t really that competitive these days.
After that performance not many will be tuning in for the re-match !
And, Indonesian Reddevil, that’s exactly my point, it will NOT be supporters tuning in, it will be football watchers wanting to see the game, out of interest. And, if you come to bangkok I’ll buy you a pint and we can watch together !
Failsworth thanks mate….blimey what a downer of a result
Suhayl mate… totally gutted after that performance bud…. shouldnt have played Roonster out whide right… and Scholesy…didnt have the engine for it yesterday mate.
Gutted… hate losing against the scouse.