Comments on: Man United V Lille: Champions League, UEFA and Stadium standards http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/02/21/man-united-v-lille-champions-league-uefa-and-stadium-standards/ Sinéad Gleeson's blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:01:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Mairead http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/02/21/man-united-v-lille-champions-league-uefa-and-stadium-standards/#comment-36299 Mairead Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:17:02 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/02/21/man-united-v-lille-champions-league-uefa-and-stadium-standards/#comment-36299 I love red - the Rebels and United - great stuff both. I love red - the Rebels and United - great stuff both.

]]> By: Eolaí gan Fhéile http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/02/21/man-united-v-lille-champions-league-uefa-and-stadium-standards/#comment-36013 Eolaí gan Fhéile Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:50:39 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/02/21/man-united-v-lille-champions-league-uefa-and-stadium-standards/#comment-36013 Twenty, agreed. I'm just lamenting the ineptitude of organisers that has finished so many terraces - where all of my great sports memories live. Jim, share the hate. Is there not room in your heart for intense dislike of more than one team. As a general rule I retch when I see any team play in red, even under-8s. Twenty, agreed. I’m just lamenting the ineptitude of organisers that has finished so many terraces - where all of my great sports memories live.

Jim, share the hate. Is there not room in your heart for intense dislike of more than one team. As a general rule I retch when I see any team play in red, even under-8s.

]]> By: Jim http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/02/21/man-united-v-lille-champions-league-uefa-and-stadium-standards/#comment-35946 Jim Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:28:35 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2007/02/21/man-united-v-lille-champions-league-uefa-and-stadium-standards/#comment-35946 I think that one thing missed in all this hoo haa about the events at Lille is the sea change in attitude to Man United since the advent of Chelsea as the Public Enemy Number One of the armchair football fan. With much of the public's odium and vitriol now directed at the new, wealthy, dominating kid on the block down Stamford Bridge way, people have forgotten the passion and intensity with which ManU were reviled. Whither loyalty in football? Must we all be slaves to fashion and switch our hatred to Chelsea? I, for one, say No!, and continue to rejoice in each and every discomfort heaped upon the team my poor grandmother would never allow to be referred to in the house as anything other than 'those bastards.' I applaud the actions of the French police in keeping tradition alive in football. They are proclaiming loudly that, non, we do not change our prejudices so easily. Once again, the French lead the way, idiosyncratic and unyielding, until the end. Vive la France! I think that one thing missed in all this hoo haa about the events at Lille is the sea change in attitude to Man United since the advent of Chelsea as the Public Enemy Number One of the armchair football fan. With much of the public’s odium and vitriol now directed at the new, wealthy, dominating kid on the block down Stamford Bridge way, people have forgotten the passion and intensity with which ManU were reviled.

Whither loyalty in football? Must we all be slaves to fashion and switch our hatred to Chelsea? I, for one, say No!, and continue to rejoice in each and every discomfort heaped upon the team my poor grandmother would never allow to be referred to in the house as anything other than ‘those bastards.’

I applaud the actions of the French police in keeping tradition alive in football. They are proclaiming loudly that, non, we do not change our prejudices so easily. Once again, the French lead the way, idiosyncratic and unyielding, until the end. Vive la France!

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