Sir Alex Ferguson is hoping the crowd can play a part in Wednesday’s game against Bayern Munich, as United look to progress to the Champions League semi-finals.
“Old Trafford has got that suction towards the goal when we are really in full flow and the crowd is really up for it. The ball just seems to get sucked towards the Stretford End,” said Ferguson. “It’s an amazing feeling. There are too many of these moments to mention where we decide games in the last 15 minutes. It’s not always entirely because of the team, it’s because of the fans too. They make it happen. Hopefully that’s the case against Bayern. There’s no better sight. Last minute goals are not by accident. It’s the nature of our stadium, it’s the nature of the way we take risks to win the game.”
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ill be there and doing my bit.
Cmon United!
Well said. We will need the crowd tomorrow. But lets not leave it until the final minute please.
fergie is totally right the fans should rock the stadium do not give time on the ball to bayern players that’s the key and i can guarantee we will win 3-0.
c’mon stretford end it’s all up to you.
Come on!!! Lets stir up that great European night atmosphere !!
I would rather hear anti glazer chants for 90 minutes non stop instead of a quiet OT. Obviously the fans will be fired up as it is a European night but I hope the they keep going even if we are losing. The atmosphere will have a big part to play, no doubt.
Scott, I love the site and your in-depth posting of info and subject matter, but as a fan I would love to see me debate content and your opinion and insight on results and general subject matter concerning the team – especially at a time where we are in the most crucial 2 weeks of the season!
Cheers Wiggsman
And if your not in the stretty you’ll be forced to sit and keep your mouth shut due to the imbred twats sitting around you looking, STAY STANDING!
European nights are great at OT as you don’t get too many day-trippers who have a tendancy to suck the life out of the stadium and sit there with their digital cameras in awe of the theatre of dreams. Any of you guys lucky enough to go along tomorrow night, do you bit!! Come on you Reds!
the Stretford end against Chelsea was quite, I thought.
I blame 12:45 kick off……
Im not there tommoro night, so you will have to make up for me
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“Fergie: Stretford End Suck the Ball Towards The Goal”
And Berbatov fucks it into the stand.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Berbatov to score no goals on Wednesday. YHIHF.
@Brett1985
The Stretty sucks balls into the goal, Berbatov just sucks balls.
(JOKING!!!!)
Fred
Law of averages says he will. Law of averages also says we will win!
Horay for the savior probability!
JOS trained today – It would be great to have him fully fit once more.
Now I know why all those last minute goals are called ‘sucker punches’…
Old Trafford under light, pundits writing us off, backs to the wall, season falling apart: NOW is the time for everyone to get behind the team, from start to finish, whether or not the goals start to flow, however badly the team is playing, however many errors occur, however much you dislike the line-up, regardless of the tactics on the night, this has to be the supporters’ shining moment. We can all see that morale is slumping among the players, that their capacity to rouse themselves is alarmingly slight, so everyone who’s there is going to have to do the work for them. No waiting for the players to provide the spark, it’s up to you. Think of Bilbao in 1957 or Barcelona in 1984, it’s time for Old Trafford to become the proverbial 12th Man. C’mon, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!!!
http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid=%7BF9E570E6%2D407E%2D44BC%2D800F%2D4A3110258114%7D&newsid=6647906
Damn i was hoping Kiko would start with Berbatov. Park looks likely to start
We’ll start 4-5-1. When Berbatov gets isolated/drops too deep/ doesn’t linger around the penalty box we will switch to 4-4-2, with Macheda coming on.
Considering we’ve been going on about needing to keep possesion why wait until berba drops to deep or doesn’t get enough service before bringing Kiko on, anyways Fergie play the team he wants just surprised after the Chelea game that kiko wouldn’t start.
Fresh player with an agenda is an unknown factor for an opposition team to handle,lets see how it pans out
Lets not take Fergie’s words for granted. He has been known to bluff from time to time. I don’t see Kiko starting as a step too far. Jesus Christ, we can play 4-4-2 from time to time in a big game. If Pak starts on the left, then the system is flexible and we can switch it to 4-5-1 at any time. Macheda played on the left for some spells in his previous C.L. matches.
But, if we are going to play 4-5-1, we will need the midfiedld to play high up the pitch and support Berbatov.
Costas says
Looks like park will be the link man between midfield and berbatov. TBH i don’t think its to big a game for him to play in. I know rafael has played more games for United last season but he played against AC MIlan at the san siro thats a huge step up, either way 442/451 i hope the boys show up on Wednesday
BTW Cska 0 – 1 Inter Milan
4-5-1! With Berba its gonna be more like a 4-6-0 in a game we badly need to score…hmmmmm
Hope berba is in the midfield five as an attacking midfileder just behind Kiko as the lone striker.
Why would you put Berba in the midfield when he never plays there? 4-4-2 all the way with Kiki, making sure Diouf is on the bench – perhaps giving Hargreaves a start.
@Always Be Closing says
Surprising you said that, he always drops deep i dont think i’ve seen him stay up top for long periods. The idea of playing Berba behind berba is to allow him have a focus on top, the only problem with this is having a steady midfield behind him that aslo has the ability to keep feeding him so he in turn can feed Kiko also allowing one or two midfielders to step out and support
The fans better play a part, lets hope it will be the same atmosphere like it was against Barcelona in 2008. the fans against Chelsea were a disgrace for leaving early.
He still plays as a CF, just dropping a little deeper but never as the role of a midfielder, that’d be bonkers. Berba behind Berba?
Just realised I mentioned Hargreaves in a Euro match, d’oh! It’d be refreshing to see 4-4-2 regardless, Nani, Park, Fletch and Valencia sounds solid.
Being a scientist I can catagorically say that if the fans at the stretford end all suck at the same time then 1, what would be the difference between them and the dippers and 2, Berbatov will colapse in on himself and disappear up his own arsehole, the so called illusive brown hole.. If this was to happen we’d be playing with a man short when we really need a goal, our only chance is to send Park in with a flash light.
Well said muggaz……let’s put the Koreans & prawn sarnies aside and show the world we are the best fans ever…….I’ll be going nuts……I believe if we do it 2mora we can go on to win this muthafuckah..lol
Just hope if we ge
Sorry bout that just hope if we get a early goal we don’t sit back!! I would stick nani up front
i mis-read the title.
at first glance i thought it read:
“the stretford end sucks balls”
COME ON UNITED FOR FUCKS’ SAKE LET’S DO EM!!!
and for christs sake start anto!
This time no early kickoff “excuse”
Sorry Costas, i put excuse in in inverted commas.
Ladyboy
http://forums.narutofan.com/image.php?u=130311&dateline=1269198769
“On the rare occasion that we lose a match, a lot of my football friends are quick to send me messages taking the mickey & trying to wind me up. I always respond by saying, ‘no its very good this happened to us, because it helps me realise what it must be like playing for your team every week.’”—– patrice evra
Common United!!!. I dont mind if we go out. Just want to see the lads put up a good performance. If we do that i am sure we will go through
@Corea
Lol. Well, I don’t think early kick offs are an excuse. They are only an excuse when our lats game is 3 or 4 days before it.
Has anyone heard anymore news on hargreves.
@Costas – mmmm, this thread is actually about the support our players get at OT.
here is a little bit of a different theory of what happened in germany! saw the game again last night cause i had that feeling earlier, and it really seems to me that we just scored too early… that IS IT! clearly with the guys being tired, they significantly slowed their tempo and every ball was slow and everyone spent too much time on the ball and lost possession. having in mind all the talk about BM being in that game by luck and how poor they were, i think the boys thought 1 would do it…
I have a feeling we will win, we will get a goal and hang on for dear life and win on away goals, the unichs are getting to cocky they are so sure it will be easy to walk all over us without Rooney and because Bebaflop might as well be shit on a stick, but I think a wondergoal for Nani or a Valencia or Scoles special or last minute Machaeda wonder will win this game for us.
WE WILL WIN because, we never lose more than TWO games on the trot AND we are at home AND the team will know how useless bebaflop is from Chelsea game and will mentally compensate for being 10 men and one shit on a stick with the occasional flick.
Bayern Munich
You are Unichs
You’ve got as much punch
As my aunties Sunday lunch
match tomorrow
i somehow got a ticket with a unitesd fan who lives on my road had aspare ticket and offered it to me , ive talked to this guy only a handfull of times with drink on us after a good match but fuck it
and if im in the stretford end ill suck as hard as my brother in law
NBI Red Onion or should I say Die rote Zwiebel, I thought I recognised you, you don’t fool me with your funny limiriks with only four lines. Warning everyone we have a german imposter known in his part of the world as the red onion as well as Shikelgrubber, braunes Loch Überraschung, and die twat, Damn you, my nemesis, we meet again but this time I’ve brought the rubber gloves . …. ..
christ….CSKA just cant score…..looks like Inter v Barca in the semis…
i have this feeling that inter will also beat barca and get into the final….they will play the same way chelsea played barca last year, beating up on their midfielders.
The Stretty is not what it used to be but yes, on occassions, it most certainly does suck that ball in. Some games at old Trafford still give me goosebumps because of the fantastic atmosphere, in modern times too.
The fans do know they have to sing to suck the ball in to the net.
GoatinaUnitedShirt – Sort ze German out, take him to ze hole lol.
Gotta say, and i like what Arsenal is doing at the Camp Nou
just as i said it, that fella shows up
If anything we should take positives out of this first half. Barca are not as strong as last year and if they do get past inter (big if in my opinion) we have a chance. Tomorrow is an even larger must win as we are in a REAL shot of winning this trophy if we get through tomorrow. COME ON UNITED!! WE MUST BELIEVE!!!
Does anyone know what is being planned for tomorrow for the crowd? Surely we will have something going on. I hope it says Believe as that is exactly what we need to do.
(What a chip from Messi he is something else.)
Damn u gotta love it, that was good
Ze German is crazy! He has been dreadful!
I hate that tall Mexican!
Walcott has no technical ability. His pace is amazing but he has real skill on the ball does he?
@Kevin says
thats the problem isn’t it.his all round control of the ball is plain Shite. i think its abit 2 much for arsenal now
Get sucking lads! And east stand – blow!
@Warwick
Your comments are somewhat lacking, not only are they potentialy innacurate but they can also be deemed as in ill taste. Imagine if we were attacking the other end, your advice would be counter productive. I for one am 100% convinced you are a German spy, probably one of Ballacks friends and are just trying to destroy Uniteds chances by giving out false information. I also sugest that you are a metrohomo and you shave your bolox. I wouldn’t be surprised if your favourite drink isn’t Budweisser and that you own a smoking jacket and cashmere scarf.
Aufwiedersehen
If the atmosphere is anything like the Chelsea game, Bayern will be home and dry in 15 mins. Pathetic ‘support’ outsung by a few thousand rent boys on Saturday.
Come on Lads/Lassies all around the world that love the Club we can do this I fucking no as YOU all do WE can.Cmon United.
Pmsl at smoking jacket and cashmere scarf.
@redscot
I think you’ve got something there mate. Are you a manager because you’ll go along way maybe even Fergies replacement. I quote “Come on Lads / Lassies….”. Although I can only ever recall one Lassie. But if we can somehow rub Berbatovs undercrackers on the inside of the goal post we could when United push forward, release Lassie shouting wheres Berbatov wheres Berbatov and by the miracle of canine intervention Lassie could grasp Berbatovs cuff and lead him in the right direction to goal. That should not only confuse us but also the opposition. From there Berbatov could miraculously sky his shot and we can instead blame a dog bought from the local RSPCA kennels rather than look stupid by admitting that our 30 million pound striker is a gypo donkey.
If the club want us to make some noise and atmosphere then why do they insist on killing it with the shite music the play all the time. And why play ot so fucking loud. Our club is run by fucking muppets.
@GoatinaUnitedShirt lol I dont normally communicate with Goats, but in you case I will make an exception! Lassie to me being Scottish is a girl/female.I realize you are referring to the world famous Pooch in your post.And very witly put together, it is clear however you are not a fan of Berbatov although i feel rubbing his undercrackers on the inside of the post is not likely to inspire him.I know when I have been kicked in the Nutz it fucken hurts like nothing else i could explain.
So mate lets just pray and with all the will we can muster shout as hard as fuck for him and all the Boys they will burst a gut for US tommorow night.
Or possibly when you refer to undercrackers(knackers) you mean Skiddies,I think you will find they put on a fresh pair prior to the Match. lol
Look on the bright side,Liverpuddle 60 minutes in at Birmingham need a Goal to secure 3 valuable points, need a top striker which they have, ohhhh but wait a Minute he has just been subbed.Be gatefull for what we have mate.
Ps I am not a Manager just a enthusastic fan.
GOD help us tomorow!!!!!!
re`ace red devil comment!!!!!!!!!!!
cannot believe your saying god help us! why?
did you not watch the 1st leg? as shit as united played we still at times had munichs defence wide open.
do you not think its the united way to do things the hard way! come on mate believe we can do it,
stop all this doom & gloom get behind united!
come on you reds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.stretfordendflags.com are encouraging all supporters to get in the ground that bit earlier to build the atmosphere and to raise the roof.
Bring along your own supporter flags and get behind the team.
SEF will have 8 TIFO flags on the pitch and we will be letting the Club Crest surfer flag out just as the teams line up in the tunnel.
will we ever see this again
http://media.photobucket.com/image/stretford%20end/DJB2007UK/Stretford-End.jpg
Stretty? We’re noisier in East Stand. Ho Ho and he throws down the Gauntlet.
SEF, any chance of speaking to the club and stop them killing the atmosphere by playing music over us chanting? I know legally they have to play the champions league tune but before and after that why do they insist on playing that other shite?
@ Lawman I think ace red devil is meaning divine intervention, and rightly so. There is no need to fear, but a little help from above is not to be dismissed.We will need some luck and its our time. I just do not want anymore officials cock ups, to make our lifes more crappier.
@ James sorry I cant resist this……Ho Ho……. you sound like Santa Claus mate.
@Redscott
Wear Red got a Beer belly but no beard. So close.lol
@ Red Phil….. I will share my intimate Knowledge of classical music, briefly a nano second, the Champions league music is a bastardised version of a piece of music from Zadok the Priest, composed by Handel.
Glad to see you got a better I phone mate.And assuming your still taking the piss outa yer Scousers mates.
@ James21, lol I got a red shirt too, no beer belly, nor no beard. Just almost kidney/ liver failure, LOL
For all the boys in the East stand make sure and that includes you James, dont sit down. Shout like yuuuuuuuuu fucking mean it, And stand up for what you believe in One United
Get behind the boys tomorow night, thats all we can do, we all are fans love the club all of US.
Believe just fucking BELIEVE On On On
@ Goatinaredshirt
Am I German? Nein! Oops I mean No, no way mate. Limerick completementa:
Bayern Munich
You are Unichs
You’ve got as much punch
As my aunties Sunday lunch
Da da da Nein Nein Nein
COME ON GUYS we are going to WIN, Arsenal’s game may have got a little messi but we ALWAYS win when the second leg is at home. To stop Ribery all we have to do is show him a mirror and he will run away (ok, the dude’s scar is not his fault, but for that haircut with his money he needs a slap). To stop Robben we just need to blow hard from the Stretford end and he will fall over and injure himself.
To motivate Berbaflop we have to pull down his pants and say now run to your mama – make sure his mama is sitting on the goal and that Valencia crosses just at the moment he jumps towards his mama. Job done. Unichs out.
Bayern!!!:- WELCOME TO THE HELL OF OLD TRAFFORD!!! One Love-UNITED!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1XVi7_qw8I
LETS NOT FORGT WHO WE ARE, WHAT OUR HERITAGE IS AND WHAT WE STAND FOR. WE ARE MACHESTER UNITED..OLD TRAFFORD SHOUD BE A CAULDRON. AT ALL TIMES . THERE SHOULD BE NO GREEN AND GOLD ON WENESDAY. THE SOUL AND PASSION OF THE RED AND WHITE SHOULD BE DISPLAYED IN ABUNDANCE WE ARE THE TEAM IN RED AND WHITE LETS MAKE SURE THE OPPOSITION KNOW IT.. THE POWER OF THE BRAND SHOULD SPREAD FEAR INTO THE OPPOSITION BY WEARING THE GREEN AND GOLD WE ARE WATERING DOWN OUR BRAND AND ASKING OUR PLAYERS TO CONSIDER OUR ARGUMENT. STOP WE WANT OUR PLAYERS FOCUSED ON THE PITCH AND NOTHING MORE
PART QUOTE BY ERIC CANTONA “I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the WINDOWS OF MANCHESTER , there is an INSANE LOVE OF FOOTBALL.
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FELLOW REDS LETS SING IT UP. INSANELY. THE NEW BOYS LIKE NANI AND VALENCIA WANT TO BE LOVED AND ACCEPTED BERBA NEEDS SUPPORT AS WELL LETS MUSTER UP A SONG FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL . ONLY BY HEARING THEIR NAME WILL THEY THEN PART KNOW WHAT PLAYING FOR MANCHESTER UNITED IS ALL ABOUT.
THEY WILL FULLY KNOW WHEN THEY SEE THE GREATEST FAN BASE I N THE WORLD MOBILISE ITSELF and UNITE
FINALLY LETS NOT FORGET OUR GREAT PLAYERS WHO MAY BE STRUGGLING ON OCCASSIONS, GIGGS SCHOLES NEVILLE THESE BOYS HAVE GIVEN US RESLTS AND PERFORMANCES BEYOND BELIEF ON HUNDREDS OF OCCASSIONS FOR THE PLEASURES THEY HAVE GIVEN OVER THE YEARS AND THE EFFORT THEY STILL APPLY WHEN ON THE PITCH I.FANS SHOULD NOT MAKE THEIR NUMBERED DAYS MISERABLE BUT A CELEBRATION OF THESE TRUELY WORLD CLASS PERFORMERS COMMITTING THEMSELVES TO MUFC .
UNITED MY TEAM OF 42 YEARS
@NBI Onion, see u can be a postive poster….”COME ON GUYS we are going to win” extracted from your post @ oo.o5, Ignore Dimitar and all the nonesense that sorrounds him and other players, what is important and we have this we stick together , okay we have a laugh at each other on views and thoughts. Lets not getting into scoring points against each other about knowledge/ age/ tickets/ eaten Prawn sandwiches, after all we have wickepedia and bollocks like that. Our Club is the biggest most fabulous thing in the fitbae world that you can support through thick and thin. Do me a Favour as I cant be there “eiing” Scots for Onion, shout ooooooot as loooouuud as you fuuuucking can. Dont be so down mate we got a lot to be chuffed with, let me here you say yeah, it aint over till the …… I hate Fat ladies.
For the last time time till kick off, Believe, just fuuuuuuuccckkkinnng Believe
Will deffo be doing my bit in k stand.
But this is once again the club using the atmospere when it suits them if it was a game against a lesser
side they wouldnt want to know
Yeah, those of you lucky enough to be going… make it a couldren!
Even if those bastards score first, keep going…
And please….whether you love Berbatov or not and whether you like Carrick or not….PLEASE….for Heaven’s sake dont start groaning if they miss a pass or a chance……We must back them up to the very end……This is not the time for petty issues and personal likes or dislikes….This is the time to be UNITED…
Get stuck in lads…!!
the stretford end does have the abillity to change a game. when kiko put that screamer in against villa last year it felt like the stand was gonna collapse!!!
thats the kind of feeling i need again for tonight!