Mr Walsh and Co, what a joke, leaving Manchester United, enough said.

Now if you were the “top red” you think you are you would not consider a mere two years without a Title “in decline”. I find your “about” page astonishing: “The blog was intended to reflect the more optimistic United fan, who didn’t feel as though we were dead and buried…despite going another year without winning the league”.

Many of the people who watch FC United saw United go over twenty years without winning a title. These people didn’t lose interest or stop going because the team weren’t winning much. And I can guarantee none of them thought United were “dead and buried” after three years without a league title (three years which included three domestic cup finals).

So you are wrong in a big way on two counts. Firstly, proper United fans wouldn’t consider United to be in decline in 2005. And secondly, such fans wouldn’t stop going even if United were in decline.

The reason FC wasn’t formed in 1999 is that the hostile bid was defeated. It is not because United won the Treble. You say you would feel different if FC had been formed in 2000, but the only difference between 2000 and 2005 is that United won something in 2000.

Surely not even you believe that a group of fans would drop nine divisions and watch Counties football just because United went a season without winning anything. So why would 2000 have been so different to 2005? Don’t you think the catalyst might have been the Glazer takeover, and not the absence of trophies?

If you accept that is was the takeover that broke the camel’s back, then you can now understand why FC didn’t happen in 2000.

An extremely poor article.

I respect that. I tried my best in vain with them too to stop the takeover.

I love my Man utd. And no matter gill glazers or whoever. That will never change. As the song goes…we’ll never die. No matter what will come…the red flag will keep flying high. i support the badge…that team because it is man utd.

However i give my full support to FC too. I go to watch games etc. WHY? because they are still utd fans..because FC is not a seperate entity in my opinion.

i like to see them as a little brother…a branch of the Man utd tree.

Sometimes however futile in the end you have to make a stannd for what you believe. And i admire that.

FCUM MUFC…..

Many very apt and passionate comments on the topic…agree with so many guys.

By your logic, MUFC’s “worst season since 2005″ was in fact in 2002, when we also finished 3rd and won fuck all. We didn’t even have a cup final to fall back on. So why wasn’t FCUM formed back then?

Also, if we’re so affected by the lack of success at Old Trafford, why are FCUM’s attendances this season currently at a higher average than this time last season, despite Manchester United becoming the Champions of England AND Europe in 2008? Shouldn’twe have all come crawling back by now?

FC United is more than just about money and the cost of OT. As you said yourself in your own article, it’s more to do with the state of top-flight football across the country. The catylist for the club’s formation was obviously the Glazer takeover (which is why we formed in 2005, geddit?) but ask anyone at FC and there are a million reasons why we now prefer to watch football at non-league level, whilst still feeling art of the United family.

Come along to an FC game one day Scott, meet some of the fans face-to-face and if you still have the same opinions as before after that, then so be it. At least this time you won’t have built them on hearsay and half-truths. Who knows, you might even enjoy yourself. Thousands of your fellow reds do every week.

I’m more surprised that you keep coming back to my blog to respond to what I’ve got to say, again, odd behaviour considering you think so little of me and my opinion.

Try again, but this time put a bit of effort into your attempts at red one- upmanship.