Photo Daily: A Right Bunch of Dicks
The FC United of Manchester radio crew.
Photo credit: FCUM photography on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.
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Amazing what sports fans can get away with in Europe. If someone had a sign like that at a North American sporting event, they would probably be thrown out. Cheers.
That is nothing. As long as it is not racist l we can write anything aat my club in Norway (Vålerenga). I dont know why the americans are so uptight…
As a bit of background, that quote comes from a Time Out magzine article about Manchester, which can be read here:
http://www.timeout.com/manchester/feature/2009/3/Labour_party_returns_to_Manchester.html
The full quote is:
Our dissent is not always explicitly political. When the US businessman Malcolm Glazer added Manchester United to his portfolio of sporting franchises, a group of disenchanted fans defiantly resolved to set up their own club. Variously described and derided as ‘brave rebels’, ‘irrelevant outsiders’ and ‘a right bunch of dicks’, the group stuck to their guns and formed FC United of Manchester. Their inspiration was AFC Wimbledon, set up when Wimbledon moved north and became the Milton Keynes Dons, but FC United nonetheless stands as living testament to that peculiarly Mancunian talent for gazing at the world in all its wonder, thinking for a minute, and then muttering: ‘Nah, that’s bollocks. This is how we’ll do it…’
I agree, they would be thrown out !