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When Manchester United’s success started to reach an unrivalled level, supporters of other teams could no longer rely on their own teams to raise their performance levels in order to compete with Manchester United. As a consequence many people decided to abandon their own teams to dedicate their life to execrating Manchester United to gain parity in their minds.
Being an ABU is similar to being part of a cult, however unlike like most contemporary cults its thesis is the opposite to worship. It is a belief system with similarities to Voodooism; they want Manchester United to lose every game, they do not care what else happens in football as long as Manchester United do not win anything.
When Manchester United’s success started to reach an unrivalled level, supporters of other teams could no longer rely on their own teams to raise their performance levels in order to compete with Manchester United. As a consequence many people decided to abandon their own teams to dedicate their life to execrating Manchester United to gain parity in their minds.
Being an ABU is similar to being part of a cult, however unlike like most contemporary cults its thesis is the opposite to worship. It is a belief system with similarities to Voodooism; they want Manchester United to lose every game, they do not care what else happens in football as long as Manchester United do not win anything.
They are like the men who stalk their ex-wives because they were jilted for better looking, rich lovers. They are the jealous type, you know – the kids at school on toy day who were unimpressed with their thumb-wrestler so they decided to break their friend’s Etch-a-sketch. They grow up to dislike anyone who has got something better than them, be it house, car, girlfriend, football team.
They trawl the Internet with usernames such as munich58 or ihateunited and watch endless Manchester United videos and go on thousands of Manchester United forums waiting for a chance to post a comment that they have been saving for ages. Something along the lines of ‘go back to Thailand’ or ‘Ferguson paid the referee’. You know the type, sick voyeurs who have a strange obsession with Manchester United’s morality. They do this because they cannot justify in their minds why Manchester United are so good, they believe whole-heartedly that there must be some kind of injustice or corruption for this to happen. They start to believe their own lies, and before they know it they descend into the psychotic realms of clinical delusion.
All Manchester United fans who have endured years of jibes from delusional supporters ranging from referees being Manchester United supporters to ‘Fergie time’, from ‘lucky’ one week to ‘cheats’ the next. These make-believe allegations have been their opium to heal the pain and suffering of Manchester United’s trophy winning over the years. It is their hallucinogenic to escape from the reality of their historyless, trophyless, poorly run football teams. It’s their ‘explanation’ to why Manchester United beat their teams in stoppage time and their conclusion to how a team can win a match without playing their best football.
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I would say that all ties were lost with England as a supporter in In 2001 when England played Albania and there were seven outfield Manchester United players on the pitch: Gary Neville, Wes Brown, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Andy Cole and Teddy Sheringham. In fact I could probably confirm this when the England fans sang “Stand up if you hate Man U” during that match.
The F.A. described this episode as ‘amusing’. They suggested that the West Ham fans burning an effigy of David Beckham was just showing passion and patriotism. They rated Glenn Hoddle as a better judge of Andy Cole than Sir Alex Ferguson.
Since these incidents there has been no inclination for me to sit beside another English supporter and cheer on England along side him. There is no incentive to watch ABU’s jeer Manchester United players in an England shirt. Yes, the same Manchester United players that are England’s only chance of ever winning anything in the foreseeable future.
Now let us remind ourselves of the FA’s stance on the situation. Let us take you through these years of Football Association brutality. Let us remind ourselves of the rough justice that the world’s biggest club has endured. The team that brings all television revenue into this country, the team that has put the Premier League on the map, the first team that dared to represent England in the European Cup. The team has produced more England players than any other team. The football club that has produced England’s top goal scorer Bobby Charlton and the very same team that has provided England captains Bryan Robson, David Beckham and Rio Ferdinand. Let us see what gratitude the F.A. likes to show the three time European Cup winners and compare it to those teams who believe the F.A. go easy on Manchester United.
In 1995 Eric Cantona attacked a fan in the Crystal Palace crowd for abusing him. This resulted in an unprecedented nine month total football ban and only escaped a prison sentence on appeal. It was a message to all footballers that interfering with abusing fans is intolerable and it will result in the harshest possible punishment. Let’s fast forward 15 years to the Manchester Derby when Craig Bellamy, in an astonishing act of cowardice approached a fan that was held back by three stewards. Did the fan abuse him? No. Was the fan threatening? No. Despite this Craig Bellamy proceeded to slap the restrained supporter in the face. So what sort of action did the F.A take? Well after Manchester United had violated everyone’s human rights yet again by scoring in injury time, the F.A. decide to balance the books by giving Craig Bellamy no punishment. Absolutely nothing.
Lets take a look at the next lengthy ban that a Manchester United player has received. In 2003 Rio Ferdinand missed a drugs test and to quash any rumours of suspicion he took the test the next day and was tested as clean, drug free – not a cheater. A clumsy oversight from Rio so maybe a fine would remind him not to miss the next one, after all In 2002 Manchester City’s Christian Negouai missed a drugs test and received a £2,000 fine. So what did Rio receive? An eight month ban and a £50,000 fine. Imagine what a player would receive if they were actually tested positive – or let’s not imagine. Let’s look at Adrian Mutu who failed a drugs test – seven month ban and a £20,000 fine. If that’s not illogical enough, remember the drug taking, performance enhancing, cheating blot on our beautiful game Kolo Toure? Tested positive for a banned substance in 2011 which led to a seven month ban and a £20,000 fine.
So what would be next for Sir Alex Ferguson’s team – what other part of Manchester United’s perpetual winning, glorious football and team spirit would the F.A. take aversion to. What else could possibly offend them – celebrating a goal? Well obviously this does. In 2006 Gary Neville was fined £5,000 for kissing his badge in the middle of the Old Trafford pitch in the general direction of the Liverpool fans who had slaughtered the United captain for ninety minutes.
Kissing the badge is an age old celebration that had been performed thousands of times before. So a new made-up-on-the-spot rule was introduced and Manchester United were the F.A.’s guinea pigs once again. Has this rule been enforced since? Of course it hasn’t. Remember Robbie Fowler’s five finger salute to United fans? Remember Danny Murphy doing the same? What about Mario Balotelli’s celebrations in front of the Manchester United fans at Wembley? I think that we may be seeing a pattern here, because yet again these perpetrators got nothing. Perhaps they believe that the Liverpool fans are easily offended. Not likely; Somehow I think we offended someone in the F.A. head quarters as Rio Ferdinand’s injury time winner made them choke on their Sunday dinner.
So The F.A, are sticking by the rules they say. They are going by the book and the punishment is decided by them depending on the offence. Let me show you all a rule from that book and see of the F.A. are true men of their word. “If a player gets a red card in a friendly he gets a ban for his next friendly, not for competitive matches.”
Steven Gerrard and Neil Mellor were given red cards a pre-season game in the Amsterdam tournament. No further punishment was given by the FA. The good old Football Association going by the book.However, three years later Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney were sent off in the same tournament and were handed three game bans by the FA. The pair missed the opening three games of United’s Premier League campaign.
So what do the opposing team have to do to get punished the same as Manchester United? Shoot someone? Actually, it appears that this hypotheticality does not go against F.A. regulations as Ashley Cole gets to shoot young innocent boys after training. Chelsea pleaded that it was ‘none-football related and would be dealt with internally’.
Perhaps Patrice Evra defending himself against a racially aggravated assault from a Chelsea groundsman was none-football related as well. Or perhaps not, as the Fenchman received a four match ban following the F.A.’s intimidation towards Sky for the camera footage so they could claim that they saw the incident.
The F.A. strangely waited seven months to make a verdict then only when Manchester United were lacking in fit defenders in 2009, did they decide to ban Evra over the Christmas period. Perhaps the fact that Manchester United had just won one more World Cup than England spoilt their festive season.
Wayne Rooney’s swearing after scoring his and United’s third goal in the Comeback against West Ham in 2011 was obviously far more offensive than Steven Gerrard sticking two fingers up at a referee and telling him to ‘F*ck off’. Or perhaps Trevor Brooking and his West Ham cronies were offended by the fact that United had all but relegated the team that ‘Won’ England the World Cup in 1966. This then wreaked of hypocrisy when on turning down an appeal from Manchester United, the F.A. then had the cheek to appeal against Rooney’s England ban after seeing red for kicking a Montenegro player. Fergie’s five match ban in the same year? Just the seasonal stick that the F.A. like to beat Manchester United with to make their post-match champagne easier to swallow.
This post has been edited by Hounddog on 2 Mar 2012, 12:25
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