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You do not have to sell things to be marketing. How is this not taking advantage of the Munich Air Disaster? What a fucking awful image.












City is not without its own fault in taking advantage of some slick marketing, but they've not eploited one of the symbols of the event. Look at this picture too, it's like a snapshot. Very understated and that's what United should have done.



Sunday's tomorrow and I know this is wearing thin. :) In the meantime, DO check out this post from the Philadelphia Weekly's blog Philadelphia Will Do about how even Americans got offended and join in in the shared tragedy, over a use of the Munich Memorial in a contest in the US version of Metro. (I'm not linking to this just because I'm mentioned in it either btw)

Posted by Chrissy at 10:52 AM 1 comments    

Labels: ANGER, Manchester Derby, Munich Air Disaster

Manchester United have confirmed the minute's silence will go ahead at the Manchester derby despite the jeers that were heard at Wembley. The news comes after Wednesday night's minute silence at England's friendly clash with Switzerland was cut short by 20 seconds after disrespectful fans whistled and jeered towards the end of the tribute

-- TeamTalk

I agree that it is disrespectful to boo and jeer during the moments silence. BUT WHEN YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ISN'T IT DISRESPECTFUL TO GO ALONG WITH THE PLANS. It just serves to further the Manchester United Pity Party. As I said yesterday, I am no fan of shared tragedy. If it didn't effect you there is no need to fucking commerate it. But Manchester United are setting themselves up to be "Poor Manchester United, we're so picked on because we're the best, those beastly City supporters can't even respect what animals". Nothing pisses me off more than that bullshit.

Truly respectful for those who died at Munich would be to stop trolling it out to put you all in the spotlight again. How much additional positive press has United gotten over the past 4 weeks? Don't tell me it's not marketing just because they're not selling the shirts.

Truly respectful would be to not let booing idiots ruin the moment of silence by having a moment of applause instead.

Truly respectful would not be using this as another reason to get into the fucking spotlight.

AND THAT'S finally all I have to say about it. I avoided it for a month but now you have it.

Posted by Chrissy at 10:00 AM 0 comments    

Labels: England, English Premiership, Manchester Derby, Munich Air Disaster

Posted by Chrissy at 7:10 PM 0 comments    

Labels: England, Frank Swift, Manchester United, Munich Air Disaster