Author Topic: Do you struggle to stay friends with Man Utd supporting mates (Read 5787 times)

rushyman · « **on:** April 27, 2011, 12:11:01 AM »

Was with one tonight and he was being utterly fucking unbearable, arrogant and smug

I could only look at him. I just thought, 'Do you know what? I fucking hate you' The feeling has not dispersed. Ive know him for years and its constantly grown as a source of tension. But its reached tipping point. Hes a manc, his joy is my misery. Its like the fox and the hound or something. Maybe one day we will cross the lines and dance upon the streets.

But Ive decided he can fuck off. I cant be the only one ?

-Nay- · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:12:11 AM »

Hello RedCafe viewers

and nope, not many mancs around mine! Alot of bluenoses though

♠Dirty Harry♠ · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:12:26 AM »

Not alone, although none of my best friends are Manc fans thank fuck

rushyman · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:15:08 AM »

Quote from: -Nay- on April 27, 2011, 12:12:11 AM

Hello RedCafe viewers

and nope, not many mancs around mine! Alot of bluenoses though

Funny. Your word for fuck off is 'Hello'

Thats a strange custom

♠Dirty Harry♠ · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:25:37 AM »

Especially on Facebook when they write: GGMU

I've about 30 people blocked on Facebook, all Manc loving acquaintances

RedRabbit · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:30:11 AM »

My brother is a ManU and Everton supporter. Try talking sense with that.

Bondred · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:31:27 AM »

Yep.

They are all c*nts.

End of.

mbyx6cg2 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:31:31 AM »

I have a couple of Man Utd supporting mates and I try to avoid watching any of their games with them. Its for the best, just end up getting pissed off.

♠Dirty Harry♠ · « **Reply #8 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:31:48 AM »

Quote from: RedRabbit on April 27, 2011, 12:30:11 AM

My brother is a ManU and Everton supporter. Try talking sense with that.

How the fuck does that work?

thecrouch · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:32:56 AM »

Watched the 3 nil game at a man utd supporters house.

Not sure if I'll be asked back.

mbyx6cg2 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:35:52 AM »

Quote from: ♠Dirty Harry♠ on April 27, 2011, 12:31:48 AM

How the fuck does that work?

Aren't Everton supporters also Man United supporters by default?

RedRabbit · « **Reply #11 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:38:01 AM »

Quote from: ♠Dirty Harry♠ on April 27, 2011, 12:31:48 AM

How the fuck does that work?

Started supporting Everton as a kid, (when they were doing well and probably as competition to my support of Liverpool) and switched to ManU when Roy Keane, (who is from my hometown), was playing for them in the 90's. He still supports both though. Depending on whether Everton are doing well and ManU are ahead of us. It's Rooney he's in love with now, (who isn't from my hometown

) and thinks ManU play brilliant football. He claims to have 3 or 4 teams actually. ManU for title chasing, Everton for mid-table, Reading for the Championship and Barca for everything else. Can't fathom it meself.

Gojedo · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:44:16 AM »

Quote from: ♠Dirty Harry♠ on April 27, 2011, 12:31:48 AM

How the fuck does that work?

Word for word that is exactly what I muttered to myself.

something awful · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:49:04 AM »

Most of my Manc mates are sound enough, it's the Arsenal ones that I've had to block. I'm able to have proper discussions about both teams without it descending into dick measuring. Arsenal fans until recently were all about being the best team ever, as good as Barca, and that their time would come. Now they've all turned on Wenger, of course.

I only know one Chelsea fan and he's top. Except he was all about Hodgson from day one, even when I told him Roy would fail miserably.

sinnermichael · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:49:34 AM »

Quote from: mbyx6cg2 on April 27, 2011, 12:31:31 AM

I have a couple of Man Utd supporting mates and I try to avoid watching any of their games with them. Its for the best, just end up getting pissed off.

this is pretty much what i do aswell. infact my manc supporting mate phoned me yesterday morning to see if i wanted to meet up with him to go and watch the schalke match. i couldn't as i had other plans but i wouldn't have done anyway.

a few weeks ago after united lost the league game at chelsea, within minutes of the final whistle my mate posted "martin atkinson is a c*nt" on facebook. i replied saying "yeah these refs. when are they ever going to give your lot anything?". his reply to me was ridiculously abusive to say the least, asking who in my family originates from liverpool (i wasn't born there but grew up there as i was adopted). it was petty to say the least. to make it worse, this guy is from grantham and has probably been to old trafford 2 or 3 times in his whole life.

sinnermichael · « **Reply #15 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:56:14 AM »

Quote from: TripleJ on April 27, 2011, 12:49:04 AM

Most of my Manc mates are sound enough, it's the Arsenal ones that I've had to block. I'm able to have proper discussions about both teams without it descending into dick measuring. Arsenal fans until recently were all about being the best team ever, as good as Barca, and that their time would come. Now they've all turned on Wenger, of course.

I only know one Chelsea fan and he's top. Except he was all about Hodgson from day one, even when I told him Roy would fail miserably.

90% of the arsenal and chelsea fans i know or see watching games in the pubs near me aren't british. infact the majority are african which probably has to do with the large quantity of african players they've got.

strangely enough the geordies are a decent laugh now that they've finally got rid of their delusions of grandeur. at least they've got a sense of humour.

Barneylfc · « **Reply #16 on:** April 27, 2011, 12:59:51 AM »

Don't have any manc friends. Although my Mum supports them, and quite a lot of my extended family do too. Don't speak to them much. Ones I have on wierdbook don't really comment much thankfully. Ones in work are bearable.
But that doesn't take away from the fact that 98% of them are absolute classless, despicable, ignorant, pathetic shithouses

CHOPPER · « **Reply #17 on:** April 27, 2011, 01:04:33 AM »

I have none, but if I did, they would of been put in the wood chipper years ago or just burned. Which ever the mood took me really.

Golden_Child · « **Reply #18 on:** April 27, 2011, 01:12:53 AM »

Only really got two manc supporting mates.

One is my old boss who's a Salford lad. He's a good laugh to be fair. After a few beers he'll start calling me a dirty scouse bastard or something similar despite me being a brummie. I'll reply with "fuck off and shag your sister you inbred manc c*nt". This will go one for about 5 minutes until one of us has to get a round in. It's all taken at face value though and there's no malice in it, it's become a repeating cycle where nobody ever wins. Good practice really for the random mancs that I come across in the pub.

My other mate is a lad I've known for 15 years. Really meek and quiet kid, polite and responsible. One night though he'd had too much beer for his puny body and decided he was going to get really aggressive. When I wouldn't join in with his out of character insult flinging he decided to keep tripping me up and kicking me. It went on for about two hours and he just wouldn't stop despite being told by about 3 other mates to give it a rest. As we were walking to a different bar he tripped me, called me a 'dirty scouse loving prick' and I cut my chin on the pavement.

I proceeded to kick seven shades of shit out of him.

He came round to my house the next morning to apologise with black eyes and a busted mouth. It's never happened again strangely

Broken Accidental Stars · « **Reply #19 on:** April 27, 2011, 01:13:32 AM »

Quote from: ♠Dirty Harry♠ on April 27, 2011, 12:31:48 AM

How the fuck does that work?

Be bitter and obsessed with Liverpool, chant "you Scouse bastard" at Liverpool/former Liverpool players and at the same time cheer on Liverpudlian players from their own club. Basically a Man United supporter.

And Could He Play · « **Reply #20 on:** April 27, 2011, 01:38:59 AM »

havent got one utd fan mate, dont plan to in the near future either.

brussels sprout · « **Reply #21 on:** April 27, 2011, 01:45:10 AM »

I know quite a few (c*nts in the main), there's only one I get on with, we have had to come to an agreement not to discuss footy though. It would only end in tears other wise

Djimothy · « **Reply #22 on:** April 27, 2011, 02:36:29 AM »

Don't have any close friends who are mancs,don't think I could either.

bakstabba · « **Reply #23 on:** April 27, 2011, 02:40:41 AM »

Oh its a struggle alright. Pisses me off to no end

Ken-Obi · « **Reply #24 on:** April 27, 2011, 02:41:06 AM »

@topic - not at all. Football only lasts 90 minutes at a time.

The China Fox · « **Reply #25 on:** April 27, 2011, 02:43:43 AM »

Always go watch the United Liverpool games with a mate from Trafford, it's generally been a good experience these past few years apart from the 3-2. Especially the 1-4.

mat106 · « **Reply #26 on:** April 27, 2011, 02:44:29 AM »

I struggle with one man u supporter but he's the brother-in-law and I would struggle with him regardless

MidwestWool · « **Reply #27 on:** April 27, 2011, 02:49:49 AM »

Quote from: RedRabbit on April 27, 2011, 12:30:11 AM

My brother is a ManU and Everton supporter. Try talking sense with that.

You think that's bad? I came across someone's twitter last night -- "Man Utd, Man C, Real Madrid forever <3".

mildale · « **Reply #28 on:** April 27, 2011, 02:54:50 AM »

Usually if I meet new people not from Liverpool I ask who they support, if they say Man Utd I tell them I support Liverpool and run away. Unfortunately, I have a friend who I didn't know liked football for years then he tells me he 'supports' Man Utd. Not greatly but still annoying. He doesn't give me any stick but I give him some so that's fine for me.

Red_Isle_Chap · « **Reply #29 on:** April 27, 2011, 03:43:56 AM »

i know 4, and my father in law is a manc. I'm really, really lucky as they're actually alright. Whilst they can be smug, i can also have good football related conversations with all of them. Of course there's banter and winding up, but that's all good. Like I say, i'm very, very lucky. I've known a few more over the years and never been mates with them. My wife's best friends bloke is a manc and he's an utter fucking twat who I want to spark out the moment he opens his fucking mouth.

Dan_YNWA · « **Reply #30 on:** April 27, 2011, 04:08:16 AM »

I am actually great friends with a Mancs fan, but she is female and is not smug about them.

Forgot to mention my uncle too, there is banter there, usually friendly. But I did push him over and threatened to punch his lights out when he made a remark about my LFC shirt and I was in a foul mood.

istanbulism · « **Reply #31 on:** April 27, 2011, 04:17:46 AM »

My brother is a Manc, i share same bedroom with him

figure.

Juan Loco · « **Reply #32 on:** April 27, 2011, 04:17:56 AM »

Of the few I know a couple are women and the blokes are more into other stuff than football so it doesn't get mentioned. Bit of banter but most of them know the obvious lines not to cross.

Doubt I could be mates with one if we talked about football a lot, because we'd just argue, and that's not a friendship, right? Thankfully though, most of the ones I know who like them are far more into music or whatever rather than football, so the subject is rarely brought up

usernamefc · « **Reply #33 on:** April 27, 2011, 04:46:04 AM »

Good friends with a Manc. I want them to lose, he'd like us to lose, but its a friendly "it doesn't really matter much" way. Only time its a problem are the times we play them, but that only lasts a day. Generally just talk about football as a whole.

something awful · « **Reply #34 on:** April 27, 2011, 05:01:16 AM »

I went boarding school, and obviously in boarding houses there are all sorts of fans of all teams. There were many Mancs, but mostly the plastic "cheer them when they're on" type bar a few, probably a similar amount of Reds, and one guy who went Mancs > Leeds > Us.

Anyway every now and then the housemaster would rig up his Sky for the six of us who really, really cared, and we'd watch the Liverpool/Yernited game. I hated it at first, because that was the only time we'd really get at each other, all of a sudden the fucking inferiority complex comes out, etc etc. Little did I know we were entering the Age of Murphy, it seemed like every time we watched the game, we'd win and Danny Murphy would score.

I wish I'd still been there for 4-1. Although at 23 that might have been weird.

lainey · « **Reply #35 on:** April 27, 2011, 05:23:01 AM »

neighbours - both armchair plastic no nothings

had a relationship with one once (not the neighbour) but he had to go

my 10 year old lives and breathes football and Liverpool - the amount of stick that lads had from them gets to me sometimes but he's been around his mother long enough to give it to them back ten fold. He usually asks them to name their best 11 - they usually get stuck after about 4

one of his past mates has a manc top along with arsenal, chelsea, spurs, and everton with Rooney on the back - oh and Rangers

some are vile and have that look and attitude that you can usually tell on first meeting that they support them

It's Jimmy Corkhill · « **Reply #36 on:** April 27, 2011, 06:26:04 AM »

Don't have any.

Don't want any.

Matt8Pie · « **Reply #37 on:** April 27, 2011, 07:26:41 AM »

I don't have any Manc mates. I've got people on my facebook from sixth form and high school who support them but I've blocked them all from my feed because I can't be arsed with seeing all their shit. Why do people insist of publicly supporting them as if everybody else cares that they do?

I genuinely give no time of day to them. This guy joined our team at work about 3 weeks ago who is kind of annoying and doesn't look the footballing type. A couple of us were talking to him and I asked him if he watches football and who he supports, he said the dirty Mancs and I just said "for fuck sake" and got back to work. He asked who I supported after I asked him and he gave me a really fake "oh no, not a scouser" as if that rivalry was forced onto him and he felt the need to say something without really meaning it. Fucking shit fans, and I cannot stand them. I honestly haven't spoken to the guy since that little exchange.

You can tell none of them care as much about their team as we care about Liverpool. They're genuinely amazed when they give me shit about Rafa "fucking up" our club or their stupid opinions of why we've done shit this season and last when I turn around and give them a reasoned argument as to why their bullshit is wrong and fed from the media. Their response? "Fair play, it sounds like you know your stuff" most of the time. Of course I do, because I follow my team more than just on Saturday at 3pm. I hate it when people who don't support Liverpool try to tell me something about my club and have got no back up to their points.

Oh, and the ones who want the Glazers out because they see the match going Mancs saying it on TV but don't even know why they want them out.

jaffod · « **Reply #38 on:** April 27, 2011, 07:34:41 AM »

Haven't got any close mates who are mancs but there are 4 or 5 in work, to be honest they are generally alright and don't spout shit - don't know what they'd be like if they were on their own patch though.
I'd take them over the fucking bitters I come into contact with, I know that much.

WEST HAM PAUL · « **Reply #39 on:** April 27, 2011, 07:47:33 AM »

Despite being a West Ham fan I've a deep deep hatred of all things Man Utd. I've never supported them in Europe ( or Tottenham).

My best mate for the last 25 years from school is a yernited fan. We've always been civil about it he knows my feelings. When we play each other as the years have gone by we barely mention it unless it's an exceptional or really important game. His Dad is also a manc fan but um unable to chat with him just avoid the subject. Once had a disagreement about was it easier or harder for Liverpool to win the European Cup than it is now to win the Champions League.. This was pre 2005 & when they win it in 1999. I was saying Liverpools achievements were better as only league winners qaulified, straight knockout & in those days more ref bribery the English were hated & when you had away games in the old eastern bloc etc was tougher then tactically as now days with modern technology a manager has full info on the teams tactics & players . There's no unknowns anymore.

Another good mate is a Manc & he's from Belfast. Sorry if this pisses people off but as soon as he rants in about them I just say your not even from this country & support your local team.