Sunday 13 May 2012

I had a cousin once whose favourite expression seemed to be, "I've never seen anything like this before" as he narrated a story. I used to find this amusing and grossly exaggerated on his part. Tonight, I experienced that expression in full as Manchester United trailing by a goal, in a season defining match, patiently retained their discipline to score two goals in the dying minutes of the match. When I saying dying minutes, I am referring to the 91st and 93rd minutes of the match. It is simply not done, not at this level of the game, not with this amount of pressure and yet there it was. The Manchester United fans who had been singing "glory, glory Man United" barely a minute earlier were stunned in to silence. The temporary Manchester city fans for the night were in ecstasy that they themselves could hardly believe. The lesson to all, including myself, was simply this: take nothing for granted. The fat lady must warmed her voice several times not knowing whether to fly to Old Trafford or the Etihad stadium. Manchester United did not lose the title, Manchester City won it and deservedly so. The noisy neighbours are now respectable neighbours. Manchester City fans may take the week off!

1 comment:

  1. Easy to mistake City for United.. That was the United 'never say die' attitude.

    It would have been undeserved glory for United... City earned their stripes this year!

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