Before a football was kicked by a United player in Japan, I asked the readers of RoM what they made of this FIFA World Club Cup. 56% of you said you wanted to win it, but not at the cost of the league. 34% of you were really keen on it, enjoying the fact no other English team had managed it before. Just 10% couldn’t give a shit less about it.
Whilst I’d imagine most reds would rate the Premiership title, the European Cup and the FA Cup ahead of this competition, we’re not in the business of shunning opportunities for silverware at this club, meaning we had to take the FIFA World Club Cup seriously to a certain degree.
Unsurprisingly, this country didn’t share our sentiments.
‘The Best Team in the World’ is a title I’d like to see us use a lot this year, why not? Like a lot of things we do at this club, we enjoy pissing people off. We enjoy riling the likes of West Ham with our anti-England songs, we get a laugh out of winding up pretty much every team in our support of Cristiano ‘winker’ Ronaldo, we get a buzz out of telling the nobodies in the away end that this is their cup final. It’s funny. Hearing the protests when we claim ourselves to be the proven best team in the World will be funny.
I had a look on the official site today to have a look at today’s news. They went with an usually sarcastic headline, which pleased me. ‘The press lead lead on the negative fall-out from United’s joy in Japan. Shock.’ ‘ Yeh what a shock eh? This country doesn’t like the title of Manchester United being named the best in the World.
Stan YSB Collymore – The Mirror – Taking a time out from beating up his bird to travel to Japan to watch United play. What a man.
Manchester United’s 1-0 triumph in the FIFA Club World Cup over Ecuador’s LDU Quito must go down as a hollow victory. For apart from Manchester United, the competition has featured second-rate teams. I did Channel Five co-commentary for United’s opening win over mighty Gamba Osaka. But what people want to see is the likes of Boca Juniors, River Plate and AC Milan in action.
So although the notion of being world champions is prestigious, I don’t think it is going to be important in this decade or the next.
Hatchet Man – The Daily Mail – The best paid BBC 606 WUM
Despite all the public relations blather from some of the players, the competition is a meaningless marketing exercise and to lose a key defender for up to three Champions League matches as a result of poor discipline in it is ridiculous. The fatigue from travel and games is bad enough but this rubbed salt into those wounds.
The focus was all on Nemanja Vidic rather than the fact United had just become ‘Champions of the World’. Christ, how bitter has this place become? Nit-picking and criticising. Had Liverpool won this competition it would be a moment for national pride, but when United are lifting the trophy, it is a pointless exercise.
Oh well, fuck em all, I have no time for losers, cos we are the Champions… of the World!
Man Utd News 24/7
The Times gave it good coverage and paper space. The rest are prats.
See the celebrations and the faces of the players… it means something to Manchester United who gives a crap about anyone one else!!
If the dippers had won the headline would be: Kop hero Gerrard leads Liverpool the be crown world champions and then go on to say how well they did proving our league is the best in the world. Ah well, fuck ‘em our trophy cabinate continues to be well stocked thank you very much.
Fuck the rest… we are the best! Best in England, Europe, World!Ronaldo Best player in the world, SAF best manager in the world, so Fuck the Fleet Street Massive, Collymore, and the rest of the ABU Fucks!
Rest of England is just jealous…… who gives a rat’s ass?
Champions of England,
Champions of Europe
and now very proudly, Champions of the World!
I hate the hatchet man – he is spineless, he doesn’t even publish his name.
Also if you post a comment on his articles you can guarantee it won’t get published, especially if you bring up his ABU credentials and his voyeurism
Republik Of Mancunia!
We are Manchester
we hate ing-ur-land!
couldn’t give a fuck what the rest of this ABU nation thinks.
Champions of England Champions Of Europe Champions Of The World!
because really, second rate teams win their continental championships. moron. if he even looked at the teams that played in the club world cup, he would have seen that they all did extremely well to win their respective champions leagues.
A little off topic: But the best thing about watching us win silverware is the reaction of our team. Did you see the way Rio went to the other players before he was handed the trophy, he clearly wanted to be with this team mates…
Compare this to the way Steven Gerrard celebrated the CL final, he fucking hogged the trophy! the rest of the team didn’t get a chance of holding it and when he did LET someone else hold it he was the first to get it back…
I gave a shit about winning the FIFA World Club Cup just like the players did.. UNITED forever…
We are the best, and I’m glad we made an effort to win the trophy. Scott, I agree with your statement about Liverpool, but can you imagine how hysterical this country would be if it was tiny tears holding that trophy aloft?! It would be something like: ‘Worlds greatest captain, now for the bigger prize in 2010′. Jealous cunts. Some wanker Chelsea fan said this to me: ‘Oh yeah, you’re taking part in that Mickey mouse tournament!’ To which I replied: ‘You probably would of been had your captain didn’t bottle it with his kick!’. Fucking twat.
Sure, it’s a rinky-dink tournament BUT you have to be the Champions of Europe to get there. I didn’t see that the RentBoyz, TheArse, or LiverPoo were invited to compete for the title CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD. So, bascially, fuck ‘em.
they’re all funcking cunts, imagine a chelsea fan telling me it’s a tournament 4 lesser teams, well i told him to fuck off, if chelsea was that good, why weren’t they there, piece of shits………GLORY MANU, GLORY VIVA RONALDO, we’re the fucking BEST IN THE WHOLE WORLD
Proven champion of champion 2008 ManUnited.Best club in Englang,Europe and now the world.MU also have the Best Footballer in the World Ronaldo and not forgetting Rooney the Best in England.This will remembered for a very long time in the history of Football clubs which no other clubs had done it before.Glory Glory ManUnited.
It really annoyed me to see Adrian Chiles refering to ‘global indifference’ to United’s Club World Cup victory on Match of the Day2 , ignoring the BBC’s own website describing the astonishing interest in Japan and elsewhere, not to mention other sources showing that there’s far more respect for this trophy abroad than here. One of my nieces has an Ecuadorean boyfriend whose career as a player at Chito was ended prematurely by injury and he told me about the incredible national reaction to reaching the Final to play United. Screens up everywhere in public places, stadium open for fans, despite the KO being 5 a.m. local time. As others have said, if Liverpool had ever won this trophy we’d be getting slack-gob, nasal-whine Scousers going on about it for ever more. At least now we can hold up 2 fingers to them, one for ’99, one for ’08.
Stan Collymore does not have a clue about football.
His commentary on five was appalling.He was talking nonsense yesterday!
On his Daily Mirror column he said that Egyptian team Al-Ahly were going to win the competition when they were already out!
Second rate teams? This competition has never been won by a British team so the teams in this competition are good. Fuck off Collymore!
Don’t have a clue, Liverpool people are stupid!
Players , staff , management and fans all happy bunnies . Who really cares what the others think !!!!
My apologes for mis-spelling Quito, absolutely no disrespect intended. I guess it was a duff phonetic attempt to give an approximation of the correct Spanish pronunciation. That’s my excuse anyway.
stuff them. we are class and the best team in the world
Fucking right, we are the best team in Europe, and we beat the best team in South America in the final, and now we’re crowned the best team in the world, how the fuck can that be a waste of time???
We battered them in the first half, best football we played in a long time. If we can bring that form back to Engalnd, it would be well worth the trip. And also Rooneys and Ronaldos return to form and goals, and them both picking up awards, which will especially be a huge boost for Rooney, some global recognition.
Yeah, Nemanja is out for at least one game, but I think Evans can do a decent job for us. All in all, a good trip.
Now, to go beat Stoke and scare the crap out of the Scousers and the Rentz…
It’s really ironic.It is a WORLD club cup,yet the only country which critisizes it is the country whose representative won it.I live in Greece and i should be used to unfair critisism when it comes to football but the way the English press(and the FA for that matter) treats United buffles me.Have you noticed something?Everytime Manchester United builds another troprhy winning side all these ABUs pop up.There was a reason that LDU Quito(and not a Brazilian or Argentinian side) were in the competition.They were the best South America had to offer last year,period.As far ar the Vidic coverage goes,i can undestand that.Vida will be gravely missed i am afraid.Ibrahimovic is a handfull.But despite that,the most important thing yesterday should have been that Man Unite became two time world champions whereas no other team(not even the one with 5 european cups) has been crowned once!By the way,the English press weren’t so harsh when Liverpool cama back from Japan empty handed were they?Hmmm.
I was in Italy last Christmas when AC Milan won it and the whole of Italy went mad for them. Envous fans from other clubs, it dominated the news, the Milan fans went mad. Every news reporter paid tribute to them and all sorts. Some even having it as the main news headline. A disgrace that some news reports didn’t even mention it.
This country’s football press are a joke
Costas, well said. the english press are negative when it comes to United but any other team there right up there arse. what makes me laugh is that the media criticise United and other top 4 clubs for not taking all tournaments seriously but how can we if everytime we achieve something in a competition that isn’t the league or champions league its brushed under the carpet by the media.
and costas just wondering mate whats going on in Athens with the riots has it all calmed down now? because my family is going over there boxing day.
Is it United’s fault that Boca, River and Milan were not good enough to be there? Is it fuck. You can only beat the teams that are put in front of you, and we did that. We did it all through the CL last season to qualify for this tourny. Quito beat Flu in the Libatadores Final so they definitely deserved to be there.
It’s the same response as when United were breaking down frontiers in Europe with Busby and everyone else reckoned the European Cup was a joke. Let everyone else play catch up, backward fucktards that they are. We were the first. That will never change.
Now let’s fuckin remind them all at every available opportunity.
…also, on the Vidic point. FIFA wouldn’t be doing the future of the WCC any favours if Vidic receives a ban longer than one game. Hopefully they will do the right thing. It was hardly violent, a gentle shove is all.
But if he is missing for one or both the Inter games, it’s no guarentee that Inter will benefit too much from it. Ibra does have a handy habit of not turning up for the big games. So all may not be lost. We can turn them over whoever plays. Evans has been top this year and it would be good for him to make that next step up, like we all know he can.
Once upon a time, even the Eurpean Cup wasn’t considered a tournament worth participating. Look now, the winners of European Cup in its infancy are associated with it forever.
The Club World Cup is an unique event, where not every team in this world gets a chance to participate. United get the World Champions title, something historic & may not happen again for quite some time.
All the criticism from the english press shows us that we’re really the best, chelski can’t go there, arse neither but shitpool went four times and always returned empty handed.
Mr.Stupid Collie More how can you see milan against MAN.UTD, only one european side can the CL.
I live in Malta and every time Milan or Juventus won this cup it would be news at least for a week in the italian press, by the way the italians still gave it importance.
So in 2008 we won EPL, CL, Charity Shield and WCC, I think its enough to make people jealous.
GLORY GLORY MAN UTD
The hypocrisy of the ABU media never fails to amaze me. But as has been said, it was a similar story with them when the European Cup began. Yes, the format of the competition isn’t spot on yet (just as it wasn’t with the old European Cup format), but it will be, given time.
Funny how you don’t hear Madrid/Dippers fans saying their pre-Champions’ League European Cup wins meant nothing because it was a poorly organised competition when they won it, in’t it?
Fuck ‘em. We are United and we’ll never die.
champione chapione ole ole ole……………………
The great thing is how professionally we have taken this competion, that’s why we’re champions!
Oh shit forgot to ask, I was walking through Manchester airport this morning and bumped into Sir Alex, we got chatting and he asked me if I knew anyone who has Garry Cook (Citeh executive chairman) telephone number because we have run out of space in our trophy cabinet, and he was wondering if we could borrow a bit of theirs, as he believes they have plenty of room?
Red-Manc things have sort of calmed down here in Athens.There will be the odd riot here and there but the hard times have passed.I believe that by Boxing Day everything will be back to normal.No one wants to ruin the Christmas spirit anyway,lol.As long as another cop doesn’t get rogue again,i think there will not be any more trouble over the festive period.Back to the topic.Newspapers in England are all about the sensationalism.I remember,last week one backpage had a title “Liverpool 1-Chelsea 3″ reffering to the procedures Benitez and Scolari went through.My philosophy on this is that i will only care about comments that come from people that matter.
Well I guess if the “Rent boys” would have won the CL, then going to Japan for the FIFA world club cup won’t be a waste of time and as everyone said the press would give them attention. It’s just that the “Anti-United” situation is everywhere even in the press in my country. Who gives a shit about them, it’s simply because we have a great history, A huge fan base, the best manager, the best player in the world and we’re winning trophies all leads to ( BEST CLUB IN THE WORLD ) who blames them for being jealous?!
Only 34% keen on it????? shocking
10% didnt give a shit????? shocking again
” you want to see river plate, boca and milan in it”?????? bird beater
” marketing exercise”????
” fatigue”?????
” rub salt intothe wound losing a defender”????
NOW I’ll answer all these shite points
1. WE OUR CLUB WANTED TO BE WORLD CHAMPIONS, yes we are world champions. How many teams have or have ever been able to say that at the same time as being CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND AND CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE.
2. OUR PLAYERS…rooney, ron, rio all came out and said what an opportunity and chance this was to become champs of the world…to be called that. You rarely get the opportunity to play and have a chance to win this. So they badly wanted to win it for the whole club.
3. Fatigue??? Yes maybe a long jaunt over there. But fuckin worthwhile. Celebrations, photos, trophy, honour, medals and the mental boost and condfidence it will give to the team of being winners time and time again.
4. Marketing ploy??? whatever you twat…did you not see the thousnads of utd fas from all over the world there. Showing utd as THE BIGGEST AND WELL SUPPORTED CLUB IN THE WORLD. 400 MILL FANS WORLDWIDE AND GROWING. And yes thanks we pocketed 3.7 mill for our club for winning it. Thankyou
5. Joyous players and management running round the pitch..along with fans singing away.
6. SAF who craved for this honour.
7. We utd created history in the world again….first english club to enter europe 56…first english club to win it 68 ( would have been much earlier if not for munich). First english club to win the fifa world club cup in single game format. First to win it in cup format. We write and create history for our club and add to our burgeoning silverware.
8. Players jubilant and so happy to come back as champs and the boost over xmas games
9. Milan, boca and river plate couldnt play you clown. The respective winners of each continent..yes winners of each continent are invited not any tom dick and harry….THATS WHY ITS CALLED THE FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP…DICKHEAD
10. NOT IMPORTANT??? ASK OUR PLAYERS and our trophy cabinet that. We want to win the lot everything!!!!!
11. 2nd rate teams???? liga quito would have beaten the dippers i can tell you that for nowt..IF ofcourse that twat gerrard didnt dive like he does every game to get a pen. Disgraceful cunt
12. Lose a key defender??? yes…but for now we ‘re WORLD CHAMPIONS..YEP YOU HEARD IT RIGHT. And for the we have jonny and wes to cover.
13. So you hatchet twat..you bird beater collymore you twat..you wastelands twats…you rboy twats…you dipper twats…..JUST FUCK YOURSELVES
Cos we are NOT JUST CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND
OR THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE
BUT WE ‘RE ALSO CHAMPIONS OF THE FUCKIN WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHAMPIONS X 3…HISTORY MAKERS
BYE BYE
Stephen – Haha good one
Well said Suhayl!!!
Costas cheers for that info mate.
FUCK THE WORLD!!!
EVERYONE BOW BEFORE THE KINGS!!
Don’t mention it Red-Manc.I wish your family has a great vacation here.And i also wish we pick up 3 points that day!
NICELY PUT SUHAYL
AS ALWAYS
Scott: Don’t even get me started on fucking collybore!
The only positive I have heard today was surprisingly from Adrian Durham on Talk Sport who said (and it was probably more to wind Ian Wright up) that all the United players should be knighted for becoming best club in the world and as a country we should be proud that an English team won it and the winning goal was scored by an England man. He further went on to say that the Sports Personality should have been put back a week and then Rooney could have won it. Wise words indeed.
Manchester United lead, other follow (if they can)
First club to win the P.L.
First club to be crowned European champions (1968)
First club to win the European champions League (1999)
First club to win the Treble (the real Treble)(you don`t win anything with kids)
First and only club to win the Intercontinental cup
And now the first club to become World Champions
We lead, other try to follow.
Catch us if you can
I noticed that the backpage of The Sun featured “Vidic’s Euro Woe” over his ban, rather than the fact United won the World Club Championship. Then again, The Sun isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
On Stan Collymore, one of the most biased “pundits” in football, I don’t think that his opinions are valid in any discussion on football, especially on United.
King Eric – What a freat idea…. Making all our team Knights of the realm for doing the world club cup….problem is Vidic would probably not know how to bow before our Majesty and get banned by the Fucking FA for 3 games for sticking the head on her accidentaly….
sounds good though ……
Arise Sir Wayne, Arise Sir Christiano…. certainly piss off the dippers and the rentboys….
oops I meant great idea
I’m quite surprised that you’re surprised at the press’s reaction to this, its the BRITISH press, remember??
CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND
CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE
CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
Its almost, ALMOST, as good as the Treble no matter what any ABU prick wants to say
British press are a load of idiots who all love Stevie G and JT, and hate United, so of course they won’t mention the fact we have won this.
If any scouse yob confronts me about UTD’s achievements I just refer him to the European trophy that ‘Pool won by beating that powerhouse of European football, FC Bruges, a team that’s spent a good deal of the intervening years in the Belgian 3rd Division.
I would say that the Club World Cup is not as prestigious as the EPL, CL or FA Cup. However, the Fifa World Cup used to be a low-key event which much of the world did’nt bodered to participate or watch. Look where it is now. So, yeah, maybe if the Club World Cup gains prestige in the near future, we would be proud to look back at the wins and the part we did in developing it to a success. At least we didn’t threaten to boycott the event like the Scousers did.
Cheers for being the World Champion! Glory glory Manchester United!
No one is invincible at United with the present team in place.The match will go on and on except for Gary N and John Oshea. They are not suitable to be in team due lacking in pace and concertration.Gary not suitable to be the captain and should retire gracefully where as Oshea should be shown the exit door due very poor performer.Giggs and Scholes are only good for 30 mins and after which they perform below par due lack of pace.Appoint Ferdinand the captain and Rooney as vise captain immediately.