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Terrible thing and all that, but happened 2 years before I was born.....and that is a fucking long time ago!

Is it just me who thinks they shouldn't be dragging it up again year after year after year. TV programmes, interviews with Ferguson etc etc etc. United have milked it for all its worth and owe much of their massive fan base to it....

Even if they just did it every 10 years maybe? But to commemorate the 55th anniversary.... !

MK Gould wrote:Terrible thing and all that, but happened 2 years before I was born.....and that is a fucking long time ago!

Is it just me who thinks they shouldn't be dragging it up again year after year after year. TV programmes, interviews with Ferguson etc etc etc. United have milked it for all its worth and owe much of their massive fan base to it....

Even if they just did it every 10 years maybe? But to commemorate the 55th anniversary.... !

To answer your question no it isn't just you that feels that way - every fcuking year until the day I die they will continue to wheel out the palava for this and the hillsborough tragedy and sad events that they were, I believe it is high time they held their own private commemorations for these events instead of expecting the whole football world to partake
Of course you are also right in saying that manure were only a small two bob club pre Munich and it is a fact that I constantly throw at my manc buddies

Although you are right that the deaths of the Man United players was the basis for the spectacular growth of their fan base country - and even world - wide, due to the understandably sympathy, I think it would be a bit churlish to moan about people's passing away being commemorated, regardless of whether you perceive it to be 'over the top' or not.

If it had happened to us then we would still talk about it every year.

Have to agree that I'm a bit bored of the same thing for a week every year. Imo Hillsbrough is a different because of the fact it happened over 30 years later, the number of deaths, the nature of the deaths and the fact that inquests etc are still unresolved. Munich was a plane crash that happened over half a century ago. Tragedy? Yes, of course. But as said above perhaps it should be privately commemorated by United without the need for the same lines being trotted out to the media every year and the same articles and features being written.

Well done, lads. Now we will have Manure filth arseholes on here whining all fucking day!



Personally I don't let it bug me. If they want to commemorate it then fine, doesn't impact on my life.

We would do exactly the same if we lost 8 players in a plane crash.And rightly so

DB10GOONER wrote:Well done, lads. Now we will have Manure filth arseholes on here whining all fucking day!



Personally I don't let it bug me. If they want to commemorate it then fine, doesn't impact on my life.

Same here.

The coverage is, like ESPN's coverage of the FA Cup, in proportion to the national and global interest in such a story. That's the way it is.

donaldo wrote:We would do exactly the same if we lost 8 players in a plane crash.And rightly so

Agreed

I think its only right to remember .

RIP

Lads there is nobody saying that they shouldnt remember.....what we are saying that is that it is time that they stop pushing these anniversary events onto the wider football community. This is a manure only issue so why dont they have private commemerations ? How many seasons should the minutes silence be allowed to carry on ? Most manure fans were not even alive when this tragedy occured ffs and they feel ok spouting bullshit to the rest of us about how the rest of the football world should commemerate the occasion

I get that it was a tragedy which makes the occasion slightly different than anything we have experienced but why doesnt our club mark the anniversary of herbert chapman every year in the same way ? Here was a man that totally changed our football club and made us a force in the game until he tragically died from pneumonia whilst still manager of our club....was his contribution to our club any less than what those players did for manure ? Why do bradford and the media not ram their commemerations for those that died in the fire tragedy, down the throats of the football world ? Tbh I dont care how hard it makes me seem but I am fed up of it and if it was our club that suffered that tragedy then I wouldnt want the sham of everybody else marking the occasions cos as far as I would be concerned it is our grief and our grief only and the rest of the footballing world wouldnt know or care how that feels

It's not trying to be disrespectful but I just don't see why the anniversary of Munich is given far more coverage in the media at large than, say, the Lockerbie bombing which was more recent and far more people (including more Britons) died.

augie wrote:Lads there is nobody saying that they shouldnt remember.....what we are saying that is that it is time that they stop pushing these anniversary events onto the wider football community. This is a manure only issue so why dont they have private commemerations ? How many seasons should the minutes silence be allowed to carry on ? Most manure fans were not even alive when this tragedy occured ffs and they feel ok spouting bullshit to the rest of us about how the rest of the football world should commemerate the occasion

I get that it was a tragedy which makes the occasion slightly different than anything we have experienced but why doesnt our club mark the anniversary of herbert chapman every year in the same way ? Here was a man that totally changed our football club and made us a force in the game until he tragically died from pneumonia whilst still manager of our club....was his contribution to our club any less than what those players did for manure ? Why do bradford and the media not ram their commemerations for those that died in the fire tragedy, down the throats of the football world ? Tbh I dont care how hard it makes me seem but I am fed up of it and if it was our club that suffered that tragedy then I wouldnt want the sham of everybody else marking the occasions cos as far as I would be concerned it is our grief and our grief only and the rest of the footballing world wouldnt know or care how that feels

Exactly, you could add Rangers to that. Grieving, remembering or whatever you want to call it, is a personal and private thing. I can't help think that with the mickeys and manure there is a commercial agenda somewhere to be found.

RIP Herbert Chapman - died 6 January 1934. Gone but not forgotten......OMG just realised that it's the 80th anniversary next year!












I've absolutely no problem remembering Hillsborough. They were fellow fans, many/most were of my generation. In fact I've probably attended matches with most of them. Bradford as well, yes there should be more made on the anniversary of the fire. The only things I saw up there to remind us were a small statue in the city centre and the big flag in the ground.

Munich though, I don't mind that THEY remember it. It's just the fact that we are all expected to join in.... I don't mind there being special programmes on MUTV, but when it extends to BBC/ITV etc then that's too far IMHO.....