Paul B

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"We only need ten men!"

Hatred destroys the hater and has no effect on the hated, my fine friend. Hatred destroys you. It's like taking poison yourself and hoping the object of your enmity is harmed. I hate no-one.

Forgive me, gentlemen, for I must take my leave of you. The draw for the semi-finals of the Football Association Cup is about to take place and the team I favour still has a say in matters.

Don't know Murph, Kahnee (though I enjoy his musings) or Jonesy but the other two are sound as.

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Gotcha!

The thing is, the truth's the main casualty here. It doesn't really matter anymore who sang what when. The truth behind the Smith ambulance situation, Man Utd fans kicking off on the stewards at Anfield, s*** being thrown, apologies being made...it's all meaningless compared to what people WANT to think. We have fans who will read any old crap about your lot and vice versa in order to justify futher hatred which will intensify rumours and counter-rumours which will further inflame matters. We are all the losers in this one unless the proper, decent fans stand up and show they are more numerous. We are more numerous, aren't we? And btw, I was jesting in my last post on this subject. I know some really great Man Utd fans who I would much rather associate with than some of the scummier Liverpool fans I know (know of). Equally, I know some real prince ASBOs amongst the Man Utd lot while some of the best people I've ever met in any walk of life have been amongst our support. There's good and bad everywhere. As long as we realise the good overwhelms the bad, we might just salvage this situation that looks to me like it's going to escalate and get much worse before it takes a tragedy to join us (well I'm not going to write unites, am I?) together again.

Yes, we are in complete agreement. The thing is, you have more scum following your team, FACT! And yes, you shouldn't generalise at all, ever, but all Mancs are t***s, FACT!

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She died last year. She used to be a flower seller outside the main entrance to Manchester Royal Infirmary and she always had her bell on the stall with her. Inside the main entrance of the hospital now, there's a huge painting of her at the stall with the bell featured prominently.

One thing I haven't seen anyone mentioning is the brilliance of our defence. Don't laugh, Pennant caused us a few problems and Birmingham weren't ALL bad (alright, nearly all) but the defenders, and Reina in particular, were throwing themselves at everything even at 5-0, 6-0 and 7-0. It was as if we'd be going out the cup if Birmingham got one. It really was encouraging to see.

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