Well, it was to be expected today. Portsmouth fans were on a day out at the home of a world famous club and determined to enjoy it. They didn't need any motivating to sing but, from the United point of view, it was harder to get excited about playing "Portsmouth".
That said, you'd think there'd be some fans among the 60,000 reds who'd fancy giving a bit of vocal support. The truth is that the home support at OT is not much different from the home support at Anfield, Highbury or anywhere else but we are now sterotyped as the prawn sandwich brigade and that isn't going to go away any time soon no matter what our away support does. A bit sad really when you consider the contribution made by the Stretford End and Scoreboard End before the seating arrived. As Becks pointed out yesterday, United got the second goal against Sunderland because the fans were shouting encouragement. Having equalised, the noise drove the team forward for the winner. That kind of support can be worth a goal to the home team. But the social make-up of Old Trafford and the embarrassment (I suppose) of being seated rather than standing make it hard for people to lose their inhibitions to shout and scream for the team. Maybe being drunk should be made a condition of entering Old Trafford? I'll drink to that. Terry <andylong wrote: > Just got back from the game, and yet another crap atmosphere at OT. Subscription info WWW http://red11.org/list Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = subscribe to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = unsubscribe from the list. Post message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
