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Souness is a great shout But I'll go with the fans favourite, Dave Bassett, as caretaker manager until the end of the season.

'Big' Sam will be on Sky later saying that he would like to be given the chance to talk to the Madrid board.........

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Same here - a super player.

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I agree about the treatment we get at Old Trafford but that is still no excuse and my point still stands. The main problem I have is that a growing number of 'fans' are now seeing the disrespectful behaviour from both sets of fans as acceptable.

From the weekend we read comments like the good old days had returned or that this game was a war, they started it, anything goes in this fixture etc, etc, etc. The loyalty of supporters who disagreed with this alpha male bulls*it was questioned and we were told that the PC brigade were stopping ?the lads? having a bit of fun. Don?t get me wrong, I?m all for rivalry but I think a fair few people thought that lines had been crossed by us on Saturday. The derby game has taken a turn for the worse in recent years and now the United fixture is threatening to get out of control again. People have revelled in the notion that the glorious 70?s and 80?s had returned, when men were men and your loyalty was gauged by the amount of times you had got into trouble at the match. These posters who talk this s*it seem to conveniently forget Heysal and Hillsborough and the part that hooliganism played in both these disasters (read Phil Scrattons superb book for his views on the culture of hooliganism and the part it played leading up to Hillsborough). I thought we had learnt from the dark, dark days of the 80?s? I can?t stand United and I can?t stand Alan Smith but it is no more than that. It is sickening to here of these new events but not surprising. Everybody gets carried away at the match but it is disturbing when, in the cold light of day, people start trying to justify this behaviour. Singing songs about Munich or Shipman or Hillsborough or throwing s*it at each other or attacking ambulances are just about as low as you can get and its no wonder people are getting wound up. But I don?t give a f*ck as to who started it. We didn?t know where the hooliganism of the 80?s was going but by 1989, it all became horrifyingly clear ? it was an awful decade on the terraces. We have no excuses this time. I have a very real fear that somebody is going to get killed at one of these matches soon. An atmosphere is being created by an idiotic section of each clubs supporters, an atmosphere that is almost perfect to allow things to escalate and get out of control. And before anybody asks, yes, i did stand on the Kop in the 70's and 80's, not that it f*ckin' really matters.

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Ahhhh, the memories..........

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F*ckin' spot on

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