The sun was shining as we left Old Trafford yesterday, but the usual chants of us being Champions that have filled the tunnels under the ground upon exit were missing. We weren’t a happy bunch of fans.
Walking out under the Sir Matt Busby statue, the two opposing sets of fans began to mingle. The usual families weaved their way through the crowd, whilst a few mental Newcastle fans, with their shirts off, started mouthing off. They were very excited you see, picking up a point at Old Trafford.
Some United fans, not showing their colours, started mouthing back at the geordie lot, talking about their ‘cup final’ and prick for a manager. These were Manchester lads, their accents clear proof of this.
“Fuck off you glory supporting cunts,” one shirtless geordie shouted, before getting a slight dig in the ribs. There was no trouble, the mouthy geordie made his way through the crowds whilst the angry group of Manc lads just watched him, not saying anything more.
United have more than their fair share of ‘glory fans’, it tends to be the result of any team immersing themselves in glory and success, but what is your opinion of them.
My opinion of ‘glory fans’ has changed over the years. Whilst I have no time for people who chop and change clubs, opting to ’support’ whichever team is at the top, I do have more team who support United from afar. My local team happens to be one of the most successful and biggest in the World, so am I in a position to tell people from Scunthorpe they have to support their local League 1 side? I don’t think so.
My mate was after a ticket for the Liverpool match last season, so showed up at Old Trafford the day before trying to see what he could find. No tickets available and no touts in site, but his blood was boiling when he saw a coach load of Americans pull up, all buzzing with excitement about tomorrow’s match.
Now my mate is a local lad, followed United all his life, and he couldn’t get his head around how 50 or so Yanks were getting tickets for the biggest game of the season, and he got nothing. There’s a big part of me that agrees with this, the local fans, whose family have been reds for generations, should not be forced out of the ground.
However, that doesn’t mean I believe there isn’t a place for people from outside Manchester supporting our team. The Cockney Reds, for example, have been following United up and down the country for decades. Can a 12-year-old Manchester lad claim these southerners aren’t ‘proper’ United fans?
People from all over the World started following United after hearing about the Munich Air Disaster, or once they’d seen the likes of George Best and Sir Bobby Charlton play. 50 years of loyal support later, can we claim they aren’t proper United fans because they’re not from Manchester?
“Glory glory Man United” goes the song, but what is your opinion of glory supporters?
The Newcastle fans are twats. The first song they started singing was Fergies right your fans are shite and then the original chant of we support our local team.
I have been traveling to watch United with my dad since I was 7 years old and I am now 22. Im a season ticket holder and make 332 mile round trip every week even with tho it hits me badly in the pocket what with petrol prices and cost of the day. I myself hate these pricks turning up to our ground, couples turning up sitting there looking like its a big effort to watch the game, other misserable twats sitting there moaning about every single missed place pass. The atmosphere has got worse every season and the club is to blame for this because they have priced out many genuine United fans.
Some of the mancunians seem to have a chip on there shoulder and think they own the club, but they need to get of there high horse because the club doesnt belong just to the people of Manchester. I live for United they are a huge part of my life, I live and breath the history and the story of the club and I will follow them through thick and thin and thats all that should matter!
COmpletely agree with your last point…I am South African and my dad has supported United since the Munich Disaster, he said that if a team could bounce back from a terrible disaster like that, thats a team that he wants to support. So i was raised from my first breathe to be a red… So excuse me but bugger your friend, if he tried to get a ticket the day before a match against liverpool…Well thats his problem, if i booked my ticket weeks and advance, am i less of a fan because i dont live in Manchester, and then it depends where in Manchester.
If you a red from the start your a red forever!!!
If there’s one thing that annoys me is how the “smaller” clubs feel they can call anyone who supports a bigger team glory hunters, if you actually think of the word glory hunter…doesn’t it apply to EVERY fan in the world, if you’re not hunting for glory with your team, be them Man Utd or Dag and Red, won’t fans want them to win things and therefore want glory for their team and thus making them glory hunters?
It’s one thing changing teams, that does my nut in, I cannot do it, I love my club, i’d do anything for United, Man Utd is like my gf, United make me happy when we’re winning and upset me when we’re losing, I support the players and never bad mouth them with the odd exception (Heinze when he wanted to leave for Liverpool). I’ve supported United as long as I can remember, when i’m in the mood I read about alot of the history and I respect all fans of all clubs but if I know someone has changed club because of results then they’re not the sort of fan i’d like at my club. Born in Manchester or not, if you love United and support them through thick and thin then you’re no better or worse than other fans like you, no matter how long they’ve supported a club or where they were born.
Hey Gary, I’m a Salford Red, United thru and thru, hail, rain or shine, but I think I am also one of those miserable twats that complain every time a pass goes astray LOL. I love perfection I guess. But I am used to not getting it though, so hence do I bloody grumble when United players can’t seem to pass a ball to another player in red.
As for where fans come from, it doesn’t matter to me, as long as they are Red til they die. I have had some of the best BANTER with our Irish and Scottish contingent of fans. Trust me, they can’t get over for every game, but they make a real feckin day of it whenever they do come over. Celebration and raucous support all the way. Anyway, why shouldn’t we have opportunities for our supporters worldwide to come to Old Trafford. They put their money into our coffers, and spread the word, start supporters clubs, and bring in more supporters for us worldwide. Whether you want to accept it or not, money is mega, and brings in the top players we want to see and be entertained by. The worldwide supporters who visit us at OT are football purists. They want to see the best, why should they be pillaged for that. I love the glory days of Old Trafford, why shouldn’t they?. We should chant back, glory supporters love glorious football, and they get it at Old Trafford not in N’Castles barren lands.
I agree with the article. I come from Northern Ireland. I went to my first match as a kid just a few months before Munich and I’ve been United through and through ever since. I am very proud of my season ticket and go to about 90 percent of home matches. (I can’t afford most mid week matches in time or money and I reserve my mid week time off for European matches) I was in Moscow even though I’ll be paying for it for quite some time! I even like prawn sandwiches! I reckon I am more a supporter of United than many people from Manchester. For me it is just as much a family tradition as it is for many Mancs and I resent people saying I am not a true supporter.
Well said mkn. I cant explain how much I care about United. I suffer when the club hurts it affects me personally because I have immersed myself in the club. If we were to ever go like Leeds I would take one possitive out of it and that would be that it would drive away our brigade of fans who see us a fashion accessory, and it would bring the genuine fans closer together. It doesnt matter what division United are in or who there playing, I always want to be there because there are a huge part of my life.
I’m a United season ticket holder from Wigan – i grew up there in the 70’s and 80’s (you weren’t going to support Latics back then and besides my uncle was a mad red.)
As i was trudging out the ground yesterday the only feller singing down the steps was some Cockney red. I know loads of those around me thought he was a bit of a c0ck, but fair dos to the man: he knew what it is to support United and wasn’t ashamed to give it some. That’s half the problem – some people are too fuck!ng self-conscious to sing these days – waiting for it to start in the Stretty and then filter round….
Atmosphere yesterday was worst i have heard it for some years. And please can we fuk!n stop all that stand up for the champions bollox. Thankfully only one rendition not the four or five from the first day last season.
N4401: Exactly the point I make. When I hear stand up for the champions and all the twats in my quadrants stand up like zombies I think to myself why the fuck bother!!!! Its about times these twats started singing for the bloody champions rather just standing up when that chant goes around. It sickens me! I sit in the north west quad and I find myself singing on my own more often then not because I couldnt give a shit what people think. I come all that way every week and I come to support the club to show them that I care.
Also on an unrelated note. The stretford end 2nd tier seem to be signing the Anderson song quicker and quicker! Im only finishing he is class with a brass and already there singing AND HE SHITS ON FABREGAS. They bloody get through the middle bit of the chant quicker and quicker!
Let me start by saying that I’m one of those “across the pond” fans that your friend was wanking about but rest assured I’m no “glory” fan (or what we’d call a “bandwagon” fan). Granted, I do have to admit that I began following Manchester United for the simple fact that there was someone on the team with the same last name as me, that being Ray Wilkins. And I will also admit that I didn’t know enough about soccer (or as you call it football) to realize that his nickname of “squareball” wasn’t really a good thing but I have become more educated as the years have progressed and now understand that it’s better to move forward with the ball and attack rather than pass it back and forth across the pitch!
And while I’m glad you feel that there is a place for MU to have fans from outside the greater Manchester area though I get the distinct impression that you’d prefer we were content to merely watch the games on the television and not go about taking seats away from those fans lucky enough to live near Old Trafford. It is my dearest hope that one day that I may be able to get across the pond to watch my beloved Reds play there myself while Sir Alex is still at the helm! If I win the lottery or if the dollar ever gains any value against the euro and the pound you can bet that will be my first priority.
I’ll close by saying that an individuals’ decision to follow a team can’t be based solely on their geographic location. Things like a persons’ favorite color, the uniform of a team, or following the lead of a parent or some other person of influence are more important in determining which team a person will follow. Living “in the area” only makes it easier to follow a particular squad but in no way can determine how rabid one’s fandom is for their team.
My mother told me about Munich tragedy when I was 5 or 6 years old boy and since that I’m a United fan(I’m 42 now).
I’ve been watching Aston Villa,Nottingham Forest and Liverpool winning Europian Champions Cup and I have been target for ‘fans’ of that clubs in my school.
But,I’m still here,supporting my club and thanks to internet and satelite TV I’ve learned all about United history and I’m in touch with present.And they don’t know who is manager of ‘their’ club.
I just don’t feel the same passion to hate Liverpool or Leeds as You do and I think that is only difference between us from outside England and You.
Actually,this is much longer story but my english spell is so poor and I would need hours of writing to make one A4 page
I completly agree with you on this Scott.
As a Norwegian United fan you always hear that you can’t support United because of the distance and you should rather support your local team.
Bollocks. I grew up supporting United and I have such a passion for United that I even tried to move to Manchester to follow my team up close and personal. Sadly I couldn’t land a job so I had to move back home.
But no one have the right to say to me that I’m not a proper fan because I’m not born in Salford! I have as much passion for United as anyone!
This really has hit home for me…you see i’m not from Manchester. I’m not even from Europe. My family don’t even watch football, but ive been a supporter of ManUtd since i was 11.
Where I come from (Jordan) and around the time the ‘kids’ started with the first team, we used to get the highlight show every Sunday, which was of the previous weekend and I got hooked on the type of football that team played. I have been a supporter ever since. They obviously were successful then…so does that make me a “glory fan”?
Now I live in Australia, and I watch the games live every weekend on the internet because i dont have cable TV. Those games are played at ridiculous hours of the morning (im talking 2,3 and 4am for the Champions league games) and get up the next day for work. After the Champions league games I just hit the shower and go to work. This is how much i care about UTD.
My dream (and i’m not trying to do a Ronaldo hehe) is to one day be able to sing with the rest of you guys at a Man Utd – Liverpool game at OT. And that is the only reason I actually want to visit England.
When the so called invincibles of the Arse had their time, some of my friends jumped ship..I stayed a red. When Roman came in with all his cash, more friends jumped ship (some who already jumped ship to the Arse)…i stayed a red.
I didn’t know a lot about the club and its history, but thanks to websites like this one i completely understand what Busby, Charlton, Best and the likes actually mean to UTD…and I’m still learning and teaching my nephew
I am not from Manchester, but I’m no “glory fan”…RED TILL I DIE! (so is my nephew)
Messiah, couldn’t agree with you more mate, well except on one point really. Just because some of us bollox one of our players, or several of them actually, doesn’t make us lesser fans. I mean, when your a fan and totally emotionally invested in your team, your going to scream all sorts of obscenities when things aren’t going right. Unless your an angel or feckin St George that is. Let any others teams supporters bollox or have a go at our players, well watch out, they will get a verbal backlash like they wouldn’t believe lol. Bit like our family, we can criticise and say what we like about them, but NOBODY else can. You get what I mean Messiah – right?.
I remember the day of the Munich disaster. I remember as a boy walking over Trafford bridge every home game and throwing pennies in the canal for good luck (that they never needed at fortress Old Trafford). I remember both European cup finals. I remember being relegated and the years that we were an average team and the rise back to the top of the league. I have known the heights and suffered the disappointments along with tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of others.
What I don’t remember are the cocky little gobshites who think that you have to live in Crumpsall or Odsall to be a true United supporter. The fact I now live 8,000 miles away from Old Trafford does not diminish the pride I have for my team, nor the lengths I go to to get news and watch the games by whatever means I can.
United supporter until I die…….
I’m from bangladesh and 22 years old.i have been supporting united for 15 years since i knew what is football.am i less of a fan?i dont think so.i do everything i can from here and i dream of coming to manchester to do my higher studies.you guys are very very lucky that u can watch united in the theatre of dreams
I drove from London to Old Trafford with my two boys yesterday. Apart from the second half players performance I was extremely disappointed by the lack of proper support by Man United fans. No harmony what so ever. Not only in the stadium but in the individual stands itself.
I have seen a couple of away matches and wonder why our home support can’t be like when we play away.
Had the crowd played its role, it might have just lifted the players a bit, maybe just enough to score the second…
I am a united fan from india.Even though i havent been to oldtrafford yet,it still is a very importnat part of my life.I love manchester united.I truly believe that it is manchester uniteds millions of mans all over the world which make it such a special club.Every fan is equally important.
I am a united season ticket holder from coventry and have been following united since 1964 through thick and thin.
it really pisses me off that some of our supporters think the club belongs to them because they were born in manchester.
the club belongs to every one we the fans of my age followed united for the barren 26 years home and away and have earned our right to our season tickets.
you speak to any loyal united fans and they will tell you united are one big family no matter where you come from.
the manchester based fans are still greater in number than the fans from elsewhere , i for one hope united get the the ground extended to 90,000 all seater , then the manchester based fans will have no excuses for not attending , when i go for a drink before the game i have offered locals a spare ticket at face value only to be told they would rather sit in the pub and drink rather than pay for a ticket
as an american fan of footie, and a united fan especially, anytime i talk to someone about following united i have to deal with the glory hunting bullshit. and its fucking enough.
i saw united play once when they were in the states. i saw them play ac milan at giants stadium in new jersey, right across the river from new york city. i live in orlando, florida. for anyone with a shit understanding of geography, thats a good 800 mile car drive. my dad and i went for the weekend, and i fell in love. united lost that day, drawing 1-1 and then losing out on penalties. it was right after beckham left, before ronaldo had been bought, and tim howard had just become our keeper.
while i wont lie and say that i was raised a red, i follow them through thick and thin. that season we were premiership winners. the following three were horrible. arsenals ‘invincibles’ and the load of shit from mouinho’s chelsea made the next years almost unbearable. but i didnt jump ship to arsenal or chelsea. calls of me being a glory hunter get met with a swift ‘fuck off’ from me now. i have no patience for it now.
talk to me when you wake up at 7 am every saturday morning after a night of drinking, hungover, tired and pop open your computer to stare at some shit stream of united. i’d listen to them on the radio, i’d watch them at old trafford.
I am Kenyan.
I first started saw united when I was 6(1989) and my dad got a video of George Best. Seeing him zig zag through defenses made me want to see more of this team.
The following year I came to England with my parents to visit family.
While we were here my dad got me a birthday present. Tickets to see Manchester United play Crystal Palace in the FA Cup Final. We didn’t win that day (3 all I think it was) but I was hooked to United from then on.(couldn’t get to the replay as I had to go back to kenya school and all).
I started following United through supersport (south african sports channels) and recorded tapes of match of the day sent over.
Every few years when I’d come to the UK I would try and get to a few matches. In 1999 I persuaded my dad to go the Final at Nou Camp. My bro came as well. My dad spent over £3000 just so we could get to that one game.
I moved to the UK in 2000 and started going to 5 odd games a season.(I was a student so couldn’t afford a season ticket). Also went to the Fa cup final in 2004 as I was studying in cardiff at the time.
Since 2005 I have been sharing a season ticket with my cousin. We each get 9 games for premier league and flip for the 10th. the cup games we decide on whoevers free at the time. I would love to get to every game but can’t coz of social and family commitments (my girlfriend is quite understanding but I don’t want to push her over the edge)
I follow united news all throughout the day (newsnow, mutv, sky sports news etc)
I spend money on united. I dream United. I actually dreamt once that I bought the club from the Glazers!!!
So sue me if I’m not from manchester but I live and breathe United.
As for your friend what does he expect? Trying to get tickets for liverpool the day before? no effing way mate. He has no right to get angry at those Americans. They must have planned their trips at least a good month before the game.
If you want tickets for a big game you have to try and get it a few weeks before the game.
nuff said.
@jhunt
You don’t have to give us a history lesson (that you could have lifted from numerous sites) just to prove that you are a fan.
I’m from West London. I have supported United since I was 5, at the time my school friends mostly supported Liverpool and my family, although not imediate are made up of Arsenal, West Ham, Tottenham and QPR supporters, with the odd Chelsea fan thrown in for good measure.
The reason I started supporting United was because as a young kid, aged 5 like I mentioned I was given a toy football figure by one of my aunts. The toy was of Brian McLair and since 1989, although not knowing much about football or about how important it’d be to me, I have grown into a passionate Red. I travel to Manchester when money permits and can answer cliched question “have you ever been to Old Trafford” from Wanky Londoners with a simple “yes, probably more times than you’ve been to see your side play at *insert London football ground*.
Hearing Patrice Evra talking about how he “feels Mancunian” by immersing himself in the history of our club, is very understandable for me. After all, living where I do you have to take a lot of stick for supporting your team, like United, us supporters and followers are hated by most.
I spend a lot of time in Fulham, with 1 in 5 people wandering around in dirty blue shirts, yet it doesn’t stop me wearing my ‘giggs will tear you apart’ shirt or my ‘football taught by Matt Busby’ shirt.
I am as passionate about United as anyone, I live for the club and risk a few beatings for the club too. I love Manchester and sing ‘Pride of Europe’ with the rest of them, I have grown to hate Scousers and if all goes to plan I’ll be living in Manchester within the next 2 years as I want to go to every home game for a season.
I also believe in the ideals of ‘Republik of Mancunia’. I have Mancunian pride, put club before country and am a part of this movement of Reds who have to fight back against the media and neutral supporters who have us down as their most hated.
We’ll never die.
PS. My brother is an Aston Villa supporter for the exact same reason, the poor bastard drew the short straw there eh!
Wow, reading that back I may need an Op on the NHS… I am a Mancunian trapped inside a West Londoners body!
Aslong as you really are a fanatic, I don’t have a problem who you support. Just don’t bail out on your team after one bad game at the start of the season (I actually heard some mutterings to that effect). However, I do feel Mancunians just some how love their team more. I don’t think you can appreciate the rivalries between certain teams (ie. Scousers, Leeds) as much as Mancunians.
Case in point: Last year I was at the Newcastle home game and there were 3 geordie-manchester united fans infront of us. They started chanting ‘Cheer up kevin keegan..’ and it just wasn’t right. There was something inherently stupid about 3 newcastle lads singing ’sad geordie bastard….’.
But I would say that, I’m a Stretford lad.
Irwin worshipper, I think Jhunt is very convincing of his devotion to United, Florida is a hell of a long journey and COSTLY from to New York. I can understand why he gets annoyed at the abuse our worlwide fanbase get, because they are not proper mancs fans. I think a lot of it has to do with proper mancs fans not being able to deal with the chants of opposing fans, especially Man Shitty fans, having a go that our fans are not from Manchester. Bloody ridiculous claims, but as a Salford Red, I am glad for any true United RED, I don’t give a shite if they come from outer Mongolia or wherever the feck else. They are often, just as devoted if not more devoted than some Manc fans. Course they might not understand the same passionate rivalries of Scouse/Mancs and Leeds/Mancs, but with the internet they don’t have to spend long on our websites to come to the same mindset lol.
I’ve never posted before, but this article required a response. I live in the US, and have been a fan of United for about five years (I’m seventeen now). I think its crap to say that someone from outside of Manchester is less of a legitimate fan. The conventional wisdom is that a long distance relationship is much harder to maintain, which is exactly what being a utd fan in America is like. You have to have a special cable channel to be able to watch any of the games (shown at 7 am on a saturday), and, especially during champions’ league matches, you have to deal with crap commentators. Rest assured that I would be at every match if I could afford to travel to England. I started supporting United, because like many American fans, it was the only football team I knew anything about without having more than a cursory knowledge of English football. Does that make me a glory hunter?
feel for ya kelly
I used to have jp and tommy whatever his name is on espn in africa when european games were on.
if you want to see glory fans come to india. Have the chelskki rentboy fans now were united fans 4-5 years ago and half the united fans cant name the first team…
Untapped India indeed…
shut the fuck up nagraj . i am from india and have followed united for the past 7 years and i dont intend supporting any other team for the rest of my life even if we , god forbid , end up like leeds .
as so many people have stated before, it would be a dream for me to watch united at old trafford . hell , i would even go so far as to say it would be a dream for me to make a living of cleaning the stretford end , handing out matchday programs at the theatre of dreams or even helping out at the cafeteria , even though i’m just 1 year away from completing my med degree and possibly earning mega bucks . im willing to give up all that just to watch my beloved united play week in week out .
hell , i’m so obsessed i even called up old trafford 4 years ago(i.s.d. charges) and requested them to put me through to sir alex which they obviously denied . however i got a chance to speak to the club doctor , a dr.stone , and enquired about the possibility of me working at the club as a doctor in the future . i was elated for the rest of the week just because i managed to contact someone at the club !
does that sound insane enough !
i dont know which part of india you come from , but i certainly dont see many jumping on the bandwagon . i have friends who support arsenal , barcelona , liverpool (belch!) , madrid (belch harder!) and chelsea and are extemely loyal to their respective clubs . i get a lot of stick for being a red and it makes me proud that people can recognize my level of fanaticism .
i stuck with my team through the 3 relatively barren seasons this decade . proof – not a glory hunter .
for now i’ll just continue dreaming about a season ticket . wish you lot could understand how lucky you are !
oh , and as far as the indian support is concerned i cant remember watching a single home game on espn without the 4-5 sardars in the front row , near the touchline .
p.s. – this weekend was especially funny with all of them wearing kevin keegan prints on their tee shirts with the ‘loving it’ quote to cap things off!
I hate all you bastards!!!I am from sunny Rochdale and working this week in London, it is the 19th of August and it is freezing, all you guys from India, Africa and USA I hate you!!, I bet it is lovely and hot where you are oh, only joking all true fans are always welcome, it does not matter where your from or what colour you are, we are all red inside!!
The point scott made was this. NO ONE likes those fans that chop and change. Depending on the seasons results or even shorter time than that. You will see the with different shirts on. Liverpool fans thatbecame blackburn fans then arsenal fans then our fans then rent boy fans…..just because on who was winning and was THE IN team that year. We all hate and detest that. You should support your team through thick and thin…evn if another 26 year barren spell comes. Hate the guys that wear different tops each month.
As for geographical location = absolutely immaterial!!!!!!!! fans are fans WHEREEVER THEY ARE FROM…BLACK WHITE GREEN..OLD YOUNG…MALE FEMALE…FROM TIMBUKTU, NEW ZEALAND..AMERICA..INDIA OR SALFORD MANCHESTER. Each fan contributes in there way..each fan cries, shows passion, stays awake, pays for tickets, internet streams, sky tv, cable pictures at any time around the world. NOT every fan in the world has millions in the pocket..if that were the case we would have a 350.000.000 capacity stadium so everyone could fit in. Fact is only 70.000 odd of that CAN fit in. We all do our bit..Whether MR x from slaford has a season ticket or MR y from china wakes up early to watch our games on a remote channel.
Remember. more fans = bigger fanbase = more fame = popurlaity = money = revenue = MAKES US THE BIGGEST AND BEST IN THE WORLD. If utd was only supported in manchester salford. We wouldnt be where we are now….a GLOBAL INSTITUTION A ICON OF WORLD FOOTBALL AND SPORT. And our players wouldnt do summer tours to poverty striken africa or lucrative china and america to spread our glorious name, tradition , history and become EVEN BIGGER AND SUCCESSFUL.
WE ARE 1 FAMILY..WHEREVER WE ARE. Utd fans stand united..keeping the red flag flying high wherever we are
I can really appreciate how hard it is for die hard United fans that live on the other side of the world.
I spent the last 2 months of last season in AUSTRALIA! It was horrible. I had to go out at 2am some mornings to the local TAB’s (which for those ‘not in the know’ are like bookies, with slot machines and bars that open all night and generally are full of crack whores and smelly old drunks) to watch our games. Other’s weren’t even televised, I had to listen to the ‘Boro and Blackburn games on the radio through the United website. I got to see the hammers and Chelsea games in pubs at a reasonable time but and the season finale against Wigan at midnight and the Champions League qtrs and semi’s at 4am in my friends front room on a tini tele with shite commentry. All of this with no news or no real build up to the games, it was hard. Every day scouring the net for little bits of news, the same stories read over and over because they were written in different ways.
The hardest was the Champions League final. Getting to a pub at 9pm because I didn’t want to miss out on the best seats in the house, then sitting there until 4:45am waiting for the kick off… by the time we won it must have been close to 9am and I spent the day drinking because thanks to Viva John Terry, it was all worth while.
Foreign supporters, I salute you!