When in Rome... (CL final 2009 - Man Utd Vs Barcelona)

You —

A football topic.

My predictions:

1. A boring match.
2. If there are many united players/staff in the morning papers talking about victory, history etc, Barcelona will win.

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You — Wed, 27 May 2009 - 16:29

Why is there buttock stabbing in Rome?

Manchester United fans are in Rome for the Champions League final. When English teams have visited the Italian capital in recent years there have been a string of fans stabbed in the buttocks by hooligans. But why do they target the backside?

Read more @ BBC News

RI_RS — Wed, 27 May 2009 - 23:11

[quote=You]

Why is there buttock stabbing in Rome?

Manchester United fans are in Rome for the Champions League final. When English teams have visited the Italian capital in recent years there have been a string of fans stabbed in the buttocks by hooligans. But why do they target the backside?

Read more @ BBC News[/quote]

Jealousy maybe?

Suhail (not verified) — Thu, 28 May 2009 - 12:40

liverpool wud have performed better - anyways we won euro enough times - 'Istanbul - come back Kings' ring a bell lol - man u jus completely mucked it up tut tut they never deserved that chance to win CL - plus we gots to keep the CL CUP yeyy =D

s.b.f — Thu, 28 May 2009 - 02:31

[quote=You]United did not play well at all. Its like a different team (maybe Lolerpool?) turned up instead.[/quote]

😂

I will have absolutely no idea.

Sajid Iqbal — Thu, 28 May 2009 - 11:28

our defense was really poor

they controlled midfield aswell, carrick n anderson were really poor!

tactically i think it wasnt spot on either

but if we took our chances it would have been a different story!

Suhail (not verified) — Thu, 28 May 2009 - 12:35

Liverpool wud hav performed much better 'Istanbul - come back Kings' ring a bell lol , i wish we had reachd the final would have been soo much more interesting than man u'z crappy performance--anywyz who cares we still won it enough times were champions of euro muhahaha- and we got to keep champions leaugue cup yeyyy =D

Ya'qub — Thu, 28 May 2009 - 17:13

[quote=TheRevivalEditor]

but if we took our chances it would have been a different story![/quote]

You mean 'chance', singular.

You — Thu, 28 May 2009 - 23:45

Sick of all the United supporters acting all gracious in defeat? Wanting to see them a little riled up? Well, not all united supporters are calm and collected:

Nigeria United fan kills rivals

A Manchester United football fan in south-eastern Nigeria drove a minibus into a crowd of Barcelona supporters, killing four people, police say.

Ten other people were wounded in the incident in Ogbo town, after United lost Wednesday's European Champions League Final 2-0 to the Spanish team.

A police spokeswoman told Reuters news agency: "The driver passed the crowd, then made a U-turn and ran into them."

He is now in police custody. Both teams have a large fan base in Nigeria.

"The man confessed to doing it on purpose," police spokeswoman Rita Inoma Abbey told the BBC.

"He now says he doesn't know why he did it, but it was an intentional act." ...

Read more @ BBC News