With Manchester United reaching the quarter-finals in Europe yet again, there has been talk of what can be done to mark the occasion if we reach the next round.
The impressive ‘BELIEVE’ mosaic, which was put in place by Stretford End Flags, has been used for two European Cup semi-finals, two League Cup finals, as well as the European Cup final in Moscow. Whilst this has become popular with the fans, it took the club some convincing at first, with Ryan Giggs asking what would happen if we lost at the Nou Camp to Barcelona in 2008!
So, we are hoping to get ideas on RoM to pass them on to SEF for a new design for future big games, with ‘BELIEVE’ having served it’s purpose up until now.
The design could stretch along the bottom of the North stand, like it did for Solskjaer’s testimonial, or East lower, or all of the Stretford End.
If you have any ideas then leave a comment and you might get to see it as a mosaic at Old Trafford!
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“UNITED” or “UTD WE STAND” or “MUFC4LIFE”
I guess “LUHG!” in Green and Yellow is not possible?
“kill those basterds”
ATTACK
…or, “NEVER DIE”
“3 TIMES”
Unite
GLAZER’S OUT !
Maybe a bit tough to force through.
@Scott Glad your back and hope you got sorted
on topic
3 words that Ive said many many times
GET STUCK IN LADS
Purportedly Duncan Edwards’ final words. A tribute to a wonderful young footballer and an inspiration to all Manchester United players since then.
“” Shoot”" at one end
and “England’s Best” across the length
BUSBY BOYS
or
OH-AH
or
210508
“THEATRE OF DREAMS
how about ‘ 32 years’ or ‘Fuck the Scouse’?
GET STUCK IN LADS
Sir Bobby Charlton on the greatness of Duncan Edwards: “Duncan was the only player that made me feel inferior”
“MANU”
only joking….;-)
gazzor72 32 years marks the second year anniversary of city winning nothing
its 34 now
Passion!!!!!!!!
“LUHG” but I doubt the club would allow it
I second GHTT
‘Get Stuck in Lads’ is a great way to remind the lads and motivate them and the crowd as well
I second GHTT’s proposal
I love the quote as well…… “Get stuck in lads”
would be an excellent motivation to all the fans and players to get really stuck in to all the outside comers to OT
damn it……..!!
Third to the proposal….
@Satz13….you almost stole the words right out of my mouth!
“DESTROY THEM”
I would like to copy and paste a fantastic peice to try and sell my idea
GET STUCK IN LADS
by Arthur Hopcraft, 1968.
Anyone who was in Manchester in February 1958, particularly if he lived there, as I did, will remember forever the stunning impact on the city of the air crash at Munich airport which killed eight of Manchester United’s players. The shoch was followed, just as it is in particularly closely tied families after a death, by a lingering communcl desolation. No other tragedy in sport has been as brutal or as affecting as this one.
It was not simply that very popular athletes had been killed and a brilliantly promising team destroyed. There was a general youthfulness about this particular Manchester United team which was new to the game. Manchester relished this fact. The old, often gloomy city had a shining exuberance to acclaim. These young players were going to take the country, and probably Europe too, by storm. To identify wit this procociousness, to watch people in other towns marvelling and conceding defeat, gave a surge to the spirit. Suddenly most of the team was dead.
The players killed were Roger Byrne, Geoff Bent, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, David Pegg, Mark Jones, Tommy Taylor, Bill Whelan. Four of them were England internation players, Byrne, Edwards and Taylor all firmly established with appearances in the England side well into double figures. Pegg had been capped once. It was the death of Duncan Edwards which gave the deepest, most lasting pain to the community. This was not because he was liked personally any more than the others, but because there was a special appeal to people’s ideals about him. Walter Winterbottom, the England team manager at the time, called him ‘the spirit of British football’. He meant the football that exists in children’s day-dreams and good men’s hopes: honest, brilliant, irresistibly strong.
There was an extra poignancy in Edward’s death in that he lived for fifteen days after the crash. How bitterly that hurt. One of the key components in Duncan Edwards’s appeal was his size. Big men in sport are always specially compelling, whether they lumber comically or endear by their dogged willingness. Edwards at twenty-one was a six-footer, weighing 13.5 stone, but with the immense presence he brought to his game he had nimbleness as well as strength, flar as well as calm.
A youth so equipped was bound to prompt affectionate epithets from sportswriters and fans, and people cudgelled their brains to find new ones. He was Kid Dynamite, the Baby Giant, the Gentle Giant, Big Dunk, the Boy with the Heart of a Man. As the daily reports came in from the hospital in Munich, Manchester raised hope for his survival. In the second week of the crash people began to talk in their ready sentimental cliches about the Lionheart fighting his way through again. There was much banality in the words, but the longing was sincere. Then he died.
Edwards was born in October 1936, in Dudley, Worcestershire. As a schoolboy of the forties and a teenager of the fifties he was part of the generation which linked the hard, sombre days of the war and rationing with the more dashing, mobile times which followed in such animated reaction. He would be in his early thirties now and, if still playing football, which is likely, assuredly an old-fashioned-looking figure among the imitating contemporaries of George Best. He had dignity on the field always, even in his teens: that senior officer kind of authority which comes to few players and then late in career, as with Danny Blanchflower, Jimmy Armfield, George Cohen.
I looked through an album of photographs in Edwards’s parents’ home, which showed him right through his life. The face was grave, the gaze he gave at the world open and tranquil. Winterbottom’s description was not fanciful, in spite of being one which any thoughtful man would hesitate to use in connection with any player. Edwards represented the kind of self-respecting modesty whis is not nurtured in the ferocity of the modern game. It has not been deliberately forced out of football; it is just not natural to the age.
The album had pictures of Edwards in his street clothes, as well as in football strips, and in them the period was caught, fixed by his personality. He was bulky in those ill-fitting jackets and wide trousers with broad turn-ups. Clothes did not interest young footballers then; there was neither enough money nor a teenage-identity industry to exploit such an interest. He could have been a young miner freshly scrubbed for a night at a Labour Club dance. He did not look important, in the celebrated sense; he looked as if he mattered, and belonged, to his family and his friends. The anonymity of style was true to his generation and his kind.
The situation was very different when he put his football boots on. I went to see Mr Geoff Groves, the headmaster of a secondary school in Dudly, who was one of Edwards’s teachers when the boy was at primary school. Mr Groves remembered this eleven-year-old playing for the school against a neighbouring school the day after Edwards got home from a spell of ho-picking. He said: ‘He dominated the whole match. He told all the other twenty-one players what to do, and the referee and both the linesmen. When I got home that evening I wrote to a friend and said I’d just seen a boy of eleven who would play for England one day.’
A year later, Mr Groves said, the boy was playing ‘in the style of a man, with wonderful balance and colossal power in his shot’. Already he was showing the intelligence in his game which became central to all he did. ‘He already understood all about distribution of the ball,’ said Mr Groves. ‘And he was such a dominating player that the ball seemed to come to him wherever he was.’ It is one of the distinguishing marks of the most talented players that they always seem to have the ball exactly when they want it. Edwards was a heroic figure in Dudley long before he became a professional player. He became captain of the England schoolboys’ side, having joined it when he was thirteen, and many of the leading clubs were clamouring for his signature. Matt Busby called at his home at 2 a.m. on the morning after his sixteenth birthday and acquired him for United. He was sixteen-and-a-half when he played his first match for United, 6 feet tall and weighing 12 stone 6 lb. At eighteen-and-a-half he became the youngest player ever to be picked for the full England international side. It was the one which beat Scotland 7-2 at Wembley in April 1955, and this was the company he was in:
Williams (Wolves); Meadows (Man City); Byrne (United); Phillips (Portsmouth); Wright (Wolves, captain); Edwards; Matthews (Blackpool); Revie (Man City); Lofthouse (Bolton); Wilshaw (Wolves); Blunstone (Chelsea).
Sir Stanley Matthews who was forty when he played in that match, told me that he thought Edwards could truly be called unique. To Matthews, who learned his football in the days when, as he put it, ‘they all said you had to be strong, with big, thick thighs,’ Edwards’s build was no surprise. ‘But’, he said, ‘he was so quick, and that was what made the difference. I can’t remember any other player that size who was quick like that.’ The point was emphasised eighteen months later, when Edwards, normally a left-half, was placed at inside-left in the England team against Denmark, when the forward line was Matthews, Brooks (Spurs), Taylor, Edwards, Finney (Preston North End). Edwards scored twice and Taylor three times which gives an indication of the scoring power Manchester United had at their command.
The fondness Manchester United’s supporters felt for this player was expressed in the common adulation by boys but also in the quiet admiration of the kind which fathers show for successful sons when they speak about them to neighbours, and out of the boys’ hearing. In this regard for Edwards there was often a sad sympathy for opposing players who were being crushed coldly out of the game by him. I remember watching one of United’s home matches when beside me was a spectator in his fifties, who shouted little but nodded his head nearly all the time in deep satisfaction, letting out occasionally an equally deep sigh which was eloquent in its pleasure. By the middle of the first half one of the opposition’s inside forwards was reacting furiously to the frustration of being treated like a small child by Edwards, firmly but without viciousness or even very much concern. The player threw himself several times at Edwards, eithing missing the moving body entirely or bouncing off it, and on each occasion the man beside me sucked in his breath, shook his head and said softly: ‘Nay, lad, not with’im, not with ‘im.’ It was the decent, absorbed football fan like this one for whom Winterbottom was speaking when he called Edwards the spirit of British football.
Edwards’s funeral took place at St Francis’s Church, Dudley, not far from his home. There were at least 5,000 people outside the church. The vicar made it a footballer’s service. He said: ‘He goes to join the memorable company of Steve Bloomer and Alex James.’ Had he lived long enough Edwards would surely have joined the company of England team captains. Instead he left a memory of brilliance and courage and a sense of vast promise he was not allowed to fulfil.
His grave in Dudley cemetary is elaborate. The headstone has an ingrained picture of him in footballing kit holding a ball above his head for a throw-in. An inscription reads: ‘A Day of Memory, sad to recall. Without Farewell, He Left Us All.’ There are three flower stands, and one of them is in the shape of a football. It suits the nature of his class and his neighbourhood, and it is attended with great care by his father, a gardener at the cemetery.
His father, Mr. Gladstone Edwards, felt he had to explain why he was working at the cemetery. He said: ‘People think I came to this job because he’s there. But that wasn’t the reason. I had to change my work, and I’ve always liked flowers and gardening. I felt I wanted to be out of doors.’ Duncan was his only child. Neither he nor his wife could hide the depth of their loss. Nor was there any reason why they should try. When I went to see them Duncan had been dead for nine years, and Mr Edwards, at least, could talk about his son straightforwardly, although all the time with a quiet deliberation. He said that even then there was still a steady trickle of visitors to Duncan’s grave. There were days when twenty people would arrive to look at it, like pilgrims. They seldom knew the gardener they stopped to talk to was the player’s father. They nearly always said the same thing: that there would never be another Duncan. Mr Edwards added that Friday often brought the most visitors, and they were often lorry-drivers with Manchester accents. They had stopped on their long run home from somewhere south. The next day, of course, they would be at Old Trafford to watch the match.
In Mr and Mrs Edward’s small semi-detached house the front room is kept shaded and spotless. It was in here that Mr Edwards showed me Duncan’s photograph album, and also let me open a glass-fronted display cabinet and examine the mementoes of Duncan’s life. It contained eighteen of his caps at full international, youth and schoolboy level, to represent the eighteen times that he played in his country’s senior team. Each was kept brushed and was filled with tissue paper. On top of the cabinet were three framed photographs of Duncan: one taken in uniform when he was in the Army, doing his National Service, another with his fiancee and a third in which he wears a Manchester United shirt. Beside them was a framed five pound note, which was the last present he gave his mother. The tiny room was deominated by a portrait of Edwards in his England shirt, the frame two feet wide by two-and-a-half feet long. The room was a shrine.
That showcase also had a copy of the order of service which was used on the day that two stained-glass windows were dedicated to Edwards at St Francis’s Church. They are close to the font, beside a picture of a gentle Jesus which was given to the church by a mother, in memory of a baby girl. One of the windows has Edwards down on one knee and there is a scroll running across his chest which says: ‘God is with us for our Captain.’ All the survivors of the Munich crash were in the church when the windows were dedicated by the Bishop of Worcester in August 1961. Busby said at the service: ‘These windows should keep the name of Duncan Edwards alive for ever, and shine as a
monument and example to the youth of Dudley and England.’
Edwards name is also kept in front of the people of Dudley in the title of the Duncan Edwards Social Club, which is attached to the town football club, and in two trophies for local schools football.
The memorials commemorate not only Duncan Edwards’s football but also the simple decency of the man. He represented thousands in their wish for courage, acclaim and rare talent, and he had all three without swagger. The hero is the creature other people would like to be. Edwards was such a man, and he enabled people to respect themselves more.
From ‘The Football Man’ – 1968
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
@ gonna have tiny tears
is that not 4 words doh!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha
why not just simply FAITH cause its what we have in our team
18 AND COUNTING!!
Was about to say that Viva Gonaldo lol
What about YNWA … only joking of course
Got it, for total inspiration how about
‘Ralphy Milne’ ??????
‘REMEMBER’ across Stretty End and ‘WILL NEVER DIE’ along the North Stand.
I am not a man, I am Cantona
Oh yeah I should of types 4 words
but Duncan Edwards words are the last of a legend a united legend that is a strong part of the biggest tragidy in our history
The GET STUCK IN LADS was said about the players playing against Wolves a game in which Duncan asked Jimmy Murphy What time was kick off because ,Even with The Back of the mans head In seriously bad way he said he wanted and would play
Jimmy Murphy on Duncan Edwards – ‘The Greatest of them all was an English footballer Duncan Edwards’
‘A giant of a player in both ability and stature and undoubtedly destined for great things for both United and England after making his league debut at the age of 16.
Grevously injured in the crash he fought bravely for his life for 15 days on a kidney machine. At one point he asked Jimmy Murphy what time the kick-off was for Saturday’s match against Wolves.
The doctors said he was so strong and brave, but it was a losing battle. He died aged 21′
GET STUCK IN LADS
“GLORY AWAITS”
STAND UP UNITED
‘BELIEVE’ is the best. Nothing betters that although some of the suggestions are really good
hmm… why don’t we just stick with BELIEVE? everybody loves this and it is very inspirational…
Not replacing BELIEVE doesn’t mean that we aren’t creative, it’s just there’s nothing better than BELIEVE at the moment…
but perhaps make a big L U H G
I do have to agree with AIG and aimanunited tho, there is nothing wrong with ‘BELIEVE’. I think it should be carried on abd become a tradition!!
*and*
” UNITED FOREVER “
EMULATE 68′ 99′ 08′
Die for the shirt
I think UNITED will be good. It says a lot to the team with many aspect of it.
“SPIRIT”
NEVER DIE
That would be truly awesome. Has such a strong message attached to it.
F U PTINI
*UTD REIGNS*
‘GREATNESS’
@GTTH: Where did you get that article?
United Way.
excellence is all we know
Don’t really understand why we would change this, BELIEVE is perfect, but if we end up doing just that something i think could work well is:
Blood sweat and tears
Works for the players, to give all there blood, sweat and tears for our team, and for the fans to cheer ‘em on!
“Take me home United road”
I know it’s a bit long, but it’s one of my favorites!
passion
Has to be “We’ll Never Die”
what about:
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
i think it’s very original
And Solskjear has won it
I like “We are UNITED”. Ideally we could have half in red and black and half in green and gold. Sums up Fergie’s thinking – we are right behind the team, and the team is the main concern with the protests. Shows unity and backing for the players and a love for united as a club.
Red Army!
also, perhaps it should be a question.
I was thinking about something along the lines of
WHAT CLOCK DOES THE GAME START?
or WHO’S PLAYING?
or in quarter finals it could be WHO WON IN ’99?
One United!
Have no fear!
Some great laughs here today which put me in a good mood.
My suggestion :
ONE LOVE
Really like the “Get Stuck In Lads” idea.
MARCH ON !!!!!!
There are some really shote ideas on this.
This might be a bit controversial but the whole thing seems a bit contrived and a bit for the Sky cameras IMO, like something LFC, City or Arsenal (with flags last year) would do.
I think anything is going to sound a bit forced whatever we decide, we didn’t need mosaics in 84 against barcelona, just a load of reds roaring their head off…….but i’m sure someone will tell me that I’m being negative
Republik of Mancunia
Manchester is Red!
I like the “GET STUCK IN LADS” aswell.
For Malcolm
loooool
“STICK IT UP THEIR JACKSY”
When He began to slip in and out of consciousness. United’s assistant manager Jimmy Murphy, who had not been on the flight, sat for hours at the bedside, soothing his restless giant.
On February 20, Duncan woke from his delirium and for a fleeting moment recognised Murphy. He smiled. “What time’s kick-off against Wolves on Saturday?” he asked. “Two thirty as usual,” said Murphy. “Get stuck in, lads,” whispered Edwards in a soft, contented reverie, and then his eyes flickered, and closed for the final time.
He died that night.
Sell “Believe” and buy “One United”.
GHTT has the best idea by far, if the lads (and supporters) know the history behind Duncan Edwards’ words then GET STUCK IN LADS would be perfect.
And i think if we stick with ‘believe’ too long then it will lose its meaning. i think its already been over-used in studip occasions like the league cup.
maybe have ‘remember’ at stretty end to compliment them words
@Fullard
Im ata posting alot of stuff about what it means
who it came from
and who that man was
lol sayid, ‘FOR MALCOM’.
*malcolm
‘…the rest I just squandered’
FAITH!
@GHTT
I know you are mate i read the article and it was fantastic.
I’d like to think that the players would already know of this quote but i’m sure not all the fans would be aware of the curcumstances that it was said.
Would be good if somehow we could get a year placed next to the quote as a reference for everyone, to indicate its origin.
i think “get stuck in lads” is a gr8 idea…..bt i really luv the “believe” mosaic….think “united” will also b gud…..
Justice
G4GOALS
Big Dunc Expects
party like its 1999
Emily has a fish called Boom Boom
what about…. “LOL”….or…….. “MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU”………or….”ITS ON!”…. or…. “BRING IT”…..or…”FERNANDO TORRES IS A GAY MAN WHO LIKES TO WEAR DRESSES AND DANCE LIKE A SILLY GIRL WHEN HE IS ALONE”
I think “GET STUCK IN LADS” is a great idea call!
‘Dinner Time’
Our Republik!
Get stuck in lads is good.
‘Honour’ is my suggestion though.
Unbreakable
I quite like the ‘beleive’ sign! there is alot of stupid suggestions so far, the best of them are ‘get stuck in lads’ or ‘passion’. i would also add ‘give em hell’.
I quite like the idea of having 68 99 08
the GET STUCK IN LADS is a great shout now I know the history behind it (great article by the way ghtt) but I dont think enough fans would understand the significance of it
When the seagulls follow the trawller.
“Welcome to Manchester”
How about “Dream Is To BELIEVE”
Dream = Theatre of Dreams
i think thats good and it will stretch along the stands
Who Put The Ball in The German”s Net . For the bayern match . A big photo of ole scoring that goal would be great
keep it the same i love believe
“VAMOS MUFC” OR MAYBE JUST “VAMOS”
How about.. ‘STRENGTH’
Strength in ourselves and Strength against the Glazers ?!
KEEP OFF THE GRASS
No?
IN RAFA WE TRUST – bwahahahahaha
‘GET STUCK IN LADS’ is a good shout and as soon as I read GHTT’s suggestion I knew exactly what he was getting at, but for me its abit to much sunday league, I keep thinking about it and then Imagining some guy with his dog shouting it at us LOL!! No offence intended to the legend that was Duncan Edwards or to you GHTT mate.
Thinking about this, more and more I think we should stick with ‘BELIEVE’.
This is the one – as the roses tune blasts out… Or we’ll never die
I honestly don’t think we need to change believe though, If it ain’t broke.. And all that
WE`LL NEVER DIE sounds good to me
Mosaics are fucking Scouse.
Party like it’s 99
or
Get stuck in, lads
It’s difficult to come up with an idea that won’t look cheesy (how many suggestions have taken inspiration directly from movies?), or something the Scousers/City would do. Also, forget the Glazers on this one. Does everything have to be about them? I’m all for fervent displays of opposition to their ownership, I’m even against underhand tactics, but let’s make this one about United.
What we need is something taken directly from United’s history, something that fans who love the club can relate to. I’d honestly feel embarrassed if something like “Vamos” was used.. what has that got to do with United? We might as well start going around telling people that United is “more than a club”. It’s plastic, and completely irrelevant to everything that United stands for.
Like a lot of others, I think “get stuck in lads” would be the best option. Not only does it avoid all of the aforementioned problems, it also pays homage to Edwards, and any show of recognition for one of his kind is always welcome.
Seriously, Scott, go with it.
pmsl laughing at some of the suggestions some real crackers.
I would go for “Simply the Best”
Yeah, there cant really be any better than “get stuck in lads!’, it just sounds so united:D
” COUNTDOWN ” to get us all in the mood plus we are chasing our 19th
” JUST BETTER ” from that recent flag
” PLAY THE GAME ” from the george best song
” BRING BACK RONNIE ” bit of a joke to ronaldo fans
” WHO NEEDS RONNIE ” stick it to ronaldo
” GLORY GLORY ” simple
” THIS IS ANFIELD! YOU WISH ” : )
‘TOGETHER’, or maybe a list of the players who’ve won the European Cup/Champions League with us.
(or less serious, ‘TIIIIIIIIIIIME’, ‘SWITCH IT!’, ‘FUCKIN ‘AVE A BIT’)
MUFCKING ‘AVE IT!
I think BELIEVE is so inspirational, no need to change it.
republik of mancunia is a great shout!
I’d go with Giles Oakley’s suggestion
“ONE LOVE” across the Stretford End. That would be class.
GET STUCK IN LADS
Jimmy Murphy quote about a Manchester United legend that needs to be marked
” “When I used to hear Muhammed Ali proclaim to the world he was the greatest I used to smile. You see, the greatest of them all was an English footballer named Duncan Edwards”
Remember, spacing is the key here and how wording will fit into each stand.
Images such as large cups, devils, stars etc also work.
With regards to colour schemes, reds on blacks dont work very well.
Ideally, the message should go along North Tier 1 or in the East Lower, as the teams walk out facing this area. (East upper has away fans in, so cant be used)
The Busby Face and FOR SIR MATT worked well in Rome due to the curve of the stand.
20LEGEND just fitted along North Stand.
The 3 Euro Cups design just fits in Stretford End Lower
I think BELIEVE is the best…but I also like WE’LL NEVER DIE….but perhaps that’s too long.
WHO DARES WINS
Always works as inspiration to me
“We’ll never die” would be my choice.
Giggs 11 – Gerard 0& counting !!!
FAITH…..
I really like GHTT “GET STUCK IN LADS”
Perhaps: “NEVER FORGET” for Munich tribute, or “WE ARE UNITED”… or just “GLORY”?
To be honest, I think BELIEVE should remain as it is briliant and very Utd. However, some of the suggestions:
ONE LOVE
GET STUCK IN LADS
RED ARMY
WE’LL NEVER DIE
UNITED
are pretty good. Also how about WINNERS? Now that would fire up the players when they see it going onto the pitch. FIGHT FOR UNITED would be effective too.
how about ‘PRIDE OF EUROPE’
or ‘ PRIDE OF MANCHESTER’
or ‘ No.11 HOMEGROWN HERO’ as tribute to the legend Ryan Giggs
KICK EM OFF!!!
3 huge golden stars on all of the Stretford End… Then you turn them and the three letters W I N would appear. Now, how do you turn them, that is the question
DESTINY
On his bed in Rechts der Isar, a Munich hopital, Sir Matt Busby slowly whispered five words to his assistent Jimmy Murphy:
“Keep the flag flying Jimmy.”
I suggest: Keep the flag flying!
Has to be We‘ll Never Die or something simillar imo. But NOT believe, no way!
Nothing, just 76,000 empty seats until 10 min after kick off would look more impressive
RED RELIGION !
I’m with alot of people on this one. Stick with “BELIEVE”
I still remember Moscow Final 2008 like it was just yesterday. Terry stepping up to take the penalty, and I think the camera took a shot of the mosaic “BELIEVE”. It just sent chills down my spine, and as i looked around; i could literally see all the utd fans around either vocalizing it or just speaking the word out through their eyes……BELIEVE….
It is truly an iconic word/phrase now which we should stick to for great moments like this. Nothing else beats it..nothing =)
United Nation
What about
“MUFC KICK TO KILL”
nasty tatoo I saw once!
or:
“CL, your ‘avin’ a laugh”
‘Theatre of Heroes’, ‘FOREVER’ or ‘United FOREVER’
say every time we win a game its we put how many to win the league. so it should be
12 MORE WINS if we include both prem and european cup.
we can use in prem 7 MORE WINS and just replace every number has each game goes by if we can win. And in europe add both.
“Believe” has been milked for all its worth, I loved it in 2008, but want to keep it with those memories, having it at the last two carling cup finals really just ripped the arse out of it
LUHG or something to that effect, or anything aimed at rivals arent gonna be accepted, so it has to be something that gets the adrenaline pumpin in the players and shows pride in the clubs roots
so no big surprise im backing “GET STUCK IN LADS” kills all birds with one stone.
but….i think it would be better in the final, cos they definately loose their edge each time we repeat them. i think givin out flags is a cracker too, but highly doubt that would work with the G&G campaign..
and just make some fuckin noise, it rubs off on the players everytime without fail
WE’LL NEVER DIE,
PASSION,
GGMU,
LUHG xD,
MUNICH 58…
i’d like to see LUHG at Old Trafford, would really send a message to the Glazers.
how about Inglorious Bastards?
REPUBLIK OF MANCUNIA
why not have them all, along the lower north stand hav ‘GET STUCK IN LADS’ along the stretford end have ’68 99 08′ then have ‘believe’ at the east stand, it would look fantastic
UNITE
I love the idea behind the Get Stuck In Lads idea, which has tremedous power for my generation, but I think it’s too complex for a mosaic, which needs something very, very simple or it can quickly look a mess and unreadable. That’s why Believe was so good, just simple and direct. I don’t really see the need to change it but if we must then I still think ONE LOVE sums it up with a certain quiet dignity, rain or shine, win or lose.
D R E A M
“For Sir Alex”
Lets celebrate the the greatest manager while he’s still here…..
If, like mentioned, “get stuck in lads” would be impractical, I’d be all for ‘One Love’.
Yeah I like “one love ” as well especially with the Roses connection. I also like Ryan’s idea a couple of posts up. Now that would look good.
This is of course assuming we get through. Which I am sure we will.
How about “12th man” or UNITED WE STAND (DIVIDED WE FALL….optional)
ghtt love ur idea except the words in itself are not that inspiring, it’s more of a cliche. U gotta admit those were some pretty normal words said by a legend. We dont need to use anything that’s gonna have the lads on the field thinking when they look in the stands, but something that’ll immediately inspire them. I’m almost certain a lot of the foreign players on our team doesn’t understand the legend that Duncan Edwards is.
Hi all, I’ve read all the suggestions and here’s my preference.
1: KEEP THE RED FLAG FLYING
2: WE’LL NEVER DIE
3: UNITED WE STAND
4: GET STUCK IN LADS
5: REPUBLIK OF MANCUNIA
Which ever one is chosen, I think it should stay forever now rather than change it again.
loving the big Duncan quote……………….but what about ‘MY HEAVEN’……….in reference to Sir Matts response to Real Madrids approach for him to be their manager.
” WE ARE CANTONA “
good call manchuchu.
with 10,000 Cantona mask wearing reds underneath
FOREVER UNITED
For christ sake people this is OT not fucking Craven Cottage (which incidently is where Terry goes Cottaging), OT is fucking huge, dont restrict the phrase to just one stand.
Im going with
YOU’RE GOING HOME IN A FUCKING ABULANCE (could even write the world abulance backwards like on the front of an abulance).
OR
TOSSER TERRY TREATS HIMSELF TO TEAMMATES TARTS TWAT.
OR
BELLAMYS A CUNT
OR
DROGBA IS FLOELLA BENJAMIN
OR
YOU MUST BE CITY IN DISGUISE
OR
STEAVIE ME TAKES IT UP THE SHITTER
OR
FAT SPANISH WAITER (for matches v the scum)
OR
THE LADS SO UGLY HE COULD HAVE PLAYED FOR LIVERPOOL IN THE 80′S – TEVEZ
@ King eric, roses connection is nice, “THIS IS THE ONE” would be class, played a few times now when weve recieved trophies, would be nice to remind the lads of what they could listen to yet again!
@ berb in a rr “MY HEAVEN” is the best yet for OT! save get stuck in lads for the final
p.s @ goatinaunitedshirt…….cute how u spell ambulance
Believe is a great one, but if we must have another, I quite like ‘We’ll Never Die’ / GHTT’s Get stuck in lads
/ Who the F*CK are Man United will be good too – having reached 2 finals ourselves, tongue in cheek.
“WE ALL FOLLOW UNITED”
or
“THEATRE OF DREAMS” like someone already suggested
not arrogant just better
ITS OUR DESTINY
Not arrogant, just better.
Or instead of doing the ULTRA-stuff
just chant so hard that you can’t hear the CL-theme anymore!
believe? get fucked its pathetic,
gotta hate tiny tears idea of ‘get stuck in lads’ has to be the one
MUFCTID ! Manchester United Football Club Til I Die!
COME ON YOU MIGHTY REDS
or just
CHAMPIONS
or just
PASSION, DESIRE, GLORY
FIGTHING!! or FIGHT!! or FEARLESS!!!
GLORIOUS
or
BELIEVE…AGAIN
or
Win it in Madrid!
Attack Attack Attack
Starting smaller at the back of the stand…bit bigger in the middle and much bigger at the front!
Seems as w’re playing Bayern- Simply “1999″ ? or “My Heaven”
,,One Love” across Stretford End & ,, One United” along NS
Kill ‘em All or …And Justice for All or Seek and Destroy or One or …
Sorry, I’m browsing my Metallica albums…
Back to topic: how about “Goals!”
It has 2 meanings, one being we need goals to win and two we need wins to achieve our goal which are titles.
“For Manchester, Not England”
“Our past wasnt for yours to buy, our future isnt for yours to ruin”
lol
Believe is fine.
I’ll tell you what, before anybody suggests anything, ask yourself how badly the G-Stand Grumbler would tear into your idea…
Seriously, “Goals!”? We’re not 5-year-olds. Reminding the players to breathe would be about as inspiring as that.
‘One Love’ will do nicely.
“God is a Devil. Don’t you feel stupid sitting over there now”
Please keep BELIEVE i think its class and doesnt need to be changed! Believe in 19 titles, beleive in 4 European cups!
If that happens you better ” BELIEVE” them scouse cunts will be twitching. Looking forward to updating my username to Giggs12Gerrard0
Bebeto – ha “the g-stand grumbler”. Love his column.
Has to be believe, we could have others, but believe sums it up for the players n fans.
Unite would be good
I love Ghtt’s suggestion of ‘GET STUCK IN LADS’, maybe accompanied by a mosaic of Duncan, ala Sir Matt. I love reading about Duncan so thanks for the articles Ghtt. For those who say not enough United fans will know the significance of those words, I have to disagree. If you don’t know then you really should and if they don’t know now then they will when they see them emblazoned across Old Trafford. It would be great for all the players know the significance too, and to see it could be very inspiring for them.
Someone said that they think it is ‘a bit sunday league’ to have the message ‘get stuck in lads’. Well, aside from the fact that those are the dying words of one of our greatest players, I think that is the whole point. It is grass-roots-football stuff, it’s saying ‘yeah i know you’re all multi-millionaires who live the lives of princes, but when you get out on that pitch playing for Man United you fucking GET STUCK IN!’
‘berbatov is a rolls royce”s idea of ‘MY HEAVEN’ is also very good. I like it but for me ‘get stuck in lads’ is the winner. ‘Believe’ is great, but it will lose it’s significance the more it is used, i think it’s better to keep it fresh and keep inspiring.
Final in madrid.
Vamos!
Might be a good message.
How about
Manchester is Red
GREATNESS
UNITED
GLORY or WAY2GLORY
THIS IS HELL
options are numerous.
I believe (BELIEVE) anything across the Stretford End will strike.
However, combined with NS would be stunning…
Get Stuck In, Lads – the best
’4-5-1″
GLORY
If we were to do stretford end!:
In the upper tier have : BUSBY
lower tier have: BABES !
BUSBY
———-
BABES
Mmmm… It would be great like this “For our History” OR “UNITED since 1878″ in green and gold. It’s always better to relate it to history and it would be deeper for the players so they’d remember what “Manchester United” is and that it’s a huge responsibility to wear that shirt.
Yet, I think that “Get Stuck In Lads” is the a very inspirational one. For those who may not get it then I suggest you add to it something like “Duncan, 1958″ (someone suggested this here before me).
God I wish I could be there to see that in front of me not on TV
@ GHTT: Thanks for posting the article I nearly cried
How about “Dare to Dream”
Many thanks for sharing that awesome music.
Off Topic:
Brilliant Read:
Dennis Schofield: The Milkman who discovered Ryan Giggs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2286232/Ryan-Giggs-signed-Manchester-City–Dennis-Schofield.html
have to go with Get Stuck in Lads, fans that don’t get it need to do their homework, I grew up on stories of big Dunk, and Tommy Taylors goals from distance, something tells me Sir Bobby would appreciate it. Giggsy, Scholes, Welbz and cleverly could explainit to the young foreign lads. GHTT thanks for the article gonna send it to me old mum now.