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In this article, you’ll find out which Manchester City side was the first to win the trophy, who Stamford Bridge was built for, and who Giuseppe Garibaldi would be rooting for today.
Manchester City
Why is it not worth rooting for them?
1) Strange choice of anthem
2) It’s not fair that such a coach belongs to the same team.
3) Every City fan claims to have been at Wembley that day for the Gillingham match (in the 1999 play-off final for promotion to the Championship, City were losing 0-2 by the 89th minute but managed to come back and eventually won on penalties) – seriously, Wembley is big, sure, but you couldn’t all have been there.
You didn’t know that. City is the only team in English history to drop out of the top division immediately after winning the previous championship. It happened in the 1937-38 season.
Manchester United
Quotes from the book:
- “For every one MU fan, there are a hundred others who can’t stand the club.”
- “If an English explorer went into the wildest wilds of the Amazon and met a wild tribe, the first thing the chief would ask would be, ‘How is Bobby Charlton doing?’
Why shouldn’t you cheer for them?
1) Curry pie at Old Trafford. It’s as hot as volcanic lava! It’s understandable why their fans are so silent in their stadium – they’ve all scalded their tongues before kick-off.
2) They like to say they were the first English team to win the Champions Cup (in 1968). However, they gloss over the fact that Celtic were the first British club to do so the year before. As for domestic competitions, they weren’t even the first Manchester team to win a major trophy – City won the 1904 FA Cup final.
3) Relentless monetization of your brand. Here’s your club has a soft drink partner in Nigeria? And an official mattress partner? What about coffee?
You didn’t know that. Recently departed from us Sir Bobby Charlton, a legend of MU and the England national team, held his farewell match for United 50 years ago – it was a guest match against Chelsea in 1973. Before the match, the host players arranged a guard of honor for the legend, and the head of Chelsea gave Bobby a silver cigarette case (a little strange gift for a professional athlete, but it was the seventies!). By the way, the Football Association in advance set a threshold for the cost of this gift – no more than 25 pounds.
Nottingham Forest.
Quote from the book. “Every time we come to Nottingham, I suggest to my friends that we take a look at Nottingham Castle before the match. To this I hear only silence – they’re not interested in what was four pints of beer ago, let alone four centuries ago”
Why shouldn’t you root for them?
1) The tree on their emblem isn’t bad, but there’s clearly an eagle missing.
2) When Forest won the FA Cup in 1898 by beating their worst enemy Derby County, they borrowed their opponent’s jerseys for the post-match photo because white looked better than red in the photo. It’s like if Spartak posed with the cup wearing CSKA uniforms. Incidentally, that’s a great reason not to cheer for Derby too.
3) They sacked Brian Cluff (the most successful coach in Forest’s history, winning many trophies with them, including two Champions Cups).
You didn’t know that. In many ways, Forest was the first. The first soccer team to come out of street hockey (in the original “Shinney”), the first to wear shields (clearly left over from hockey players), and possibly the first to play a derby – their match against Nottingham County took place in 1866.