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  sparklydevil1 11:42 on October 13, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Boundary Park, Bramhall Lane, Carrow Road, Fratton Park, Hillsborough, Loftus Road ( 2 ), Madejski Stadium, Manchester United ( 85 ), Newcastle United ( 5 ), Norwich City ( 2 ), Nottingham Forest ( 2 ), Oldham Athletic, Portsmouth FC, Queens Park Rangers, Reading ( 2 ), Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Southampton ( 3 ), St James Park, The City Ground, The Dell ( 2 )   

  TF Chronicles – The Premier League Grounds Part Four 

  

  Part four of our list of Premier League grounds. If you have missed the first three parts then you can catch up here. Listed below is part four of these stadiums and some of our favourite matches and memories from watching United play in them, along with the opposite end of the spectrum - some of our worst matches and memories from United games in these stadiums. Every United fan will have their own favourites and worst ones, but these are the ones that stand out for myself (@Sparkly_Devil1) and Dan (@luzhniki2008) :- (More …)

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  sparklydevil1 12:56 on October 11, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Birmingham FC, Bradford City, Charlton Athletic, Chelsea ( 10 ), Coventry City ( 2 ), Crystal Palace ( 2 ), Derby County ( 2 ), Everton ( 4 ), Goodison Park ( 2 ), Highfield Road ( 2 ), Manchester United ( 85 ), Pride Park ( 2 ), Selhurst Park, St Andrews, Stamford Bridge ( 3 ), The Baseball Ground ( 2 ), The Valley, Valley Parade   

  TF Chronicles – The Premier League Grounds Part Two 

  

  Carrying on from Part One, myself and Dan carry on with our list of Premier League grounds. Listed below is part two of these stadiums and some of our favourite matches and memories from watching United play in them, along with the opposite end of the spectrum - some of our worst matches and memories from United games in these stadiums. Every United fan will have their own favourites and worst ones, but these are the ones that stand out for myself (@Sparkly_Devil1) and Dan (@luzhniki2008):- (More …)

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  sparklydevil1 11:20 on June 17, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Chicharito ( 10 ), Chris Smalling ( 28 ), Javier Hernández ( 42 ), Liverpool FC ( 7 ), Wayne Rooney ( 67 )   

  The Faithful End of Season Awards by @Sparkly_Devil1 

  

  I love that looking back on favourite games, favourite moments, favourite players etc can be so subjective. Rarely, do we all agree on every single point and I think we can feel fortunate that United give us so much to choose from! So, here are mine….. (More …)

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    Football Manager 2012 12:05 on June 17, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    Good post, Hernandez was my main man.

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  sparklydevil1 11:18 on February 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 1958, Busby Babes ( 2 ), Manchester United ( 85 ), Munich Air Disaster   

  TF Chronicles: Since when has it become acceptable to sing about Munich? 

  

  6th February 1958. A defining moment in the history of Manchester United, one that would shape the future of the club forever. Talking to older relatives, it was clear that no matter which team you supported or where you lived, the grief that followed the disaster was felt all over the country. United became the team that everyone was rooting for, seeing how they bravely came through such adversity to reach the 1958 FA Cup Final. It was at that very match some say, that a touch of resentment started to surface about United’s new found popularity with fans of other teams. Bolton Wanderers won the final 2-0, but the whole country was behind United. Some Bolton fans felt that it took away some of the shine to their victory, and perhaps they weren’t given enough credit for their triumph. Certainly Bolton fans in the modern day dislike United intensely, but how much of that is deep rooted from 1958 and how much of it is just the overriding dislike that so many fans seem to have for us, we will probably never know. (More …)

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    Rob B 11:37 on February 25, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    This piece reflects my sentiments exactly

    Ive never been an eye for an eye sort of fan when ive been on the terraces. Because it disgusts me when I hear morons calling us Munichs and signing their disgraceful songs, I go the opposite way when it comes to retort. I wont sing about Hillsborough. Not ever. I was stood in a football ground as a child the day it happened. They announced at half time of the match over the tannoy what had happened and that will live with me forever, even though i was a kid. Yes I will sing other songs about opponents that are close to the bone (so to speak) but i dont want anything to do with singing songs about people who died because they liked supporting their football clubs.

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  sparklydevil1 20:15 on November 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo ( 2 ), David Beckham ( 6 ), Gary Neville ( 9 ), Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ( 6 ), Ryan Giggs ( 37 ), Sir Alex Ferguson ( 23 ), Teddy Sheringham ( 2 )   

  How the relationship between fans and players has changed over the years 

  

  There have been many changes in football since I first started becoming interested in it 20 years ago, and even more so since becoming a regular match-goer 14 years ago. The introduction of the Premier League in 1992 heralded the start of the glamorisation of the sport- a new generation of footballers were being looked upon as pin ups, rather than tough, beasts of men. Money started to become king at the expense of morals it could be argued, and matches were more widely accessible to the masses through Sky than ever before. But although more people had access to watching matches on tv, the relationship between matchgoing fan and player started to become more and more detached. (More …)

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    redgm99 18:40 on November 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply

    That’s so true – remember my little boy getting SAF’s autograph on his matchday programme cover in felt tip outside the South Stand…by the end of the game it’d been wiped off – doh! Also remember that Becks Silvester Ole and Teddy were good autograph givers to kids…Veron not so much Also remember having to dig a certain Janmetcalf out from a scrum of Asian supporters who were clamouring for Beckham’s autograph before an ECL tie once :S