SmG hat geschrieben:Dear friends,
The term ManU is only used by other supporters as a complete and utter insult to our Club. The "u" is meant to be "you" by the rival fans.
An early example of its usage is this chant by West Brom fans: "Duncan Edwards is manure, rotting in his grave, man you are manure- rotting in your grave". The origin of "ManU" is a song to insult the dead Duncan Edwards.
Liverpool and Leeds fans copied this with their own man you /u versions to insult all of the lads who died at Munich.
"ManU ManU went on a plane ManU ManU never came back again"
and..
"ManU Never Intended Coming Home" (if you combine the first letter of each word you get the word "MUNICH").
I hope this makes it clearer that saying ManU is an insult, particularly to the older supporters. I hope a few might read this, understand and spread the word.
Thank you, and good luck!
Actually a few people know this. A lot don't. And a lot don't care.
I'm sure some people in here use the term because it is an insult, but I think most people just use it because it is so wide spread in German speaking countries.
The German and Swiss commentators use it all the time and so do the papers.
Our manager and our players have been using the term and the official homepage too. But rest assured - our officials and players never would use the term to insult. It is simply because they don't know - or because they are so used to hearing the term.
Anyway, don't automatically think people are insulting you when they say ManU. It's just something that won't change - no matter how hard you try...
