FC United of Manchester-Bloody Hell!

Tomorrow I will be visiting my parents then taking my dad for a curry in north Manchester before watching FC United of Manchester play Chesterfield, an English league club in the FA Cup. But I may find myself crossing a picket line again, the first time since the miners’ strike and associated leftie nonsense some thirty years ago, which led to threats to me and my parents and ultimately a certain amount of violence. But eh, that’s life, lefties aren’t very nice people.

Tomorrow night our game has been moved from Saturday for the sake of television, this time BT Sport. FC United came about because of the Glazer takeover of Manchester United and the general commercialisation of football. Laudable and sentiments with which I concur completely. So why is there a potential problem tomorrow?

The game was moved to suit the Football Association and BT Sport. But we are a democratic club and voted, some years ago, to compete in the FA Cup knowing that games could be moved for TV. So it seems reasonable to me that we accept, albeit begrudgingly and making our views known, to the game being moved. But no, the Football Taliban have gone into overdrive and want to boycott the first half and abuse anybody who disagrees. Well tough!

In 2010 we played Rochdale in the FA Cup. The game was moved to a Friday night (Nov 5th) but there was no boycott. When this is raised with the boycotters it seems that the goalposts move and the argument is not that kick off should be 3 00 on a Saturday but that Friday is less inconvenient than Monday night. That is moving the argument away from one of principle to a group of spoilt brats spitting their dummies out. Pathetic.

Certain elements of FC United’s support have decided to boycott the first half of the game and regard those of us who disagree as scabs or not real supporters. They are the leftie element who scream intolerance at anybody they disagree with but are generally the most intolerant and bigoted people you are likely to come across, if you dare to disagree with them. As much as I love FC United there are times it feels like the bad old days of the trade union bully boys of old.

We’ll enjoy our pre-match curry and be in there in good time for kick off, whatever anybody else says or does.