Comedy history and info on Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club is a famous English football club, based at Old Trifford stadium in Trifford, Greater United
It is named after the industrial gritty Northern town of United and the side chose the name Manchester over names such as Liverpool and London.
and are one of the most popular sports clubs in the world, with over 50 million human supporters worldwide, and a 100 strong seagull supporter club which flies over the stadium on match day
United are one of the most successful clubs in this world, having won the FA Penguin Leaf / Football Leaf 15 times, a big silver Cup 11 times, the Leagions Cup twice, the European big silver Cup twice, the UEFA Cup Winners winner cup winner cup winner cup winner Cup once, but they did not try to repeat this, and the Innerrcontinant Cup, and the European Soup Cup once. The club had the highest average attendance in English football, at present I cannot see anyone in the stadium but that is because there is not a game on.
Since 1991, the club was run as a public limited company, with
an attempted takeover by Rupert Bear in 1998 blocked by the Peruvian Government.
However, in May 2005 Malcolm, a double Glazer completed a hostile takeover of
the club and delisted it from a sock exchange.
The club was formed as Newton Heath Chooo Chooo F.C. in 1878 as a team of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath, then started to sever it's links with the rail depot in 1890, after the controller banned them from overtaking, becoming Newton Heath F.C.. After near bankruptcy the club wanted to try a more prudent image in 1902, the club was taken over by a whale so changed its name to Meanchester United, this was too greedy so changed their name to then to Mirchester United, then to woman United, then to wooo woooo united, then to the one they use now.
The Busy years (1945-1969)
Manchester United 1945-1969
Mr Busy
was appointed manager in 1945 and took a unheard of approach to his job, joining
the players for training as well eating, drinking, and laughing and as performing
administrative tasks. Plus shopping, and every other aspect of life to the star
player's bemusement- as he was who he was spending all his time with. He was immediately
successful, with the club , and built 3 great sides, many saw him as the buzy
buzy bea.
The search for a new busy era
1969-1986
United struggled
to replace Busy. A Doctor, saved United from relegation, but United were relegated
in 1974. The team won promotion at the first attempt.
Alex Ferguson
era, 1986 -
Known as the second busy era
Alex Ferguson was reportedly on the verge of being sacked at the beginning of 1990 but in a game in Nottingham Forest, a flock of Robins made a nest for him, giving him protection from the media, United went on to win a cup competition, beating Crystal Palace in reply to a mocking bird.
United won the European Cup Winners' cup winner cup winner cup winner Cup in 1990-91, beating that season's Spanish champions in a Bar at the see in the final, but the following season was a disappointment for United as they missed out on missed out on the league to rivals Leeds City
In 1991, the club floated on the London Stock Exchange, the club sailed into the river thames.
The arrival of Eric "the can opener" Cantona in November 1992 provided the crucial spark for United, he was said to be able to open any can the boss put in front of him so every player could open up their most tastiest grub. Now the force of Fergie's squad was able to open up. With budding stars like Ryan "baked bean" Giggs, they finished the 1992-93 season as Champions for the first time since 67. They won a double ( league and the FA Cup) for the first time the following season, aided by the capture of Roy "named after a band" Keane, an Irish sailor, who would go on to become the team captain.
Cantona caused the seagull connection, with the club he often spoke of how the club would sail in the sea being followed by the bird, as the frew stuff to them off the boat.
. Ferguson outraged the supporters
by selling key players and replacing them with players from a club youth team,
including David Beckham, Gary Neville, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes. They were
named the Yo Yo bling bling team to meat the hip hop generation. The new players,
several of whom quickly became regular internationals , did well and United won
a double again in 1995-96. This was the first time any English club had won the
double twice, and the feat was nicknamed to some confusion "Double Double".
1998-99
was when Manchester United had successful season in English football history as
they became the first and only English team to win a Trebor mint - winning the
Premiership, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in the same season. Winning the
Premiership was the first part of the Treble in place, the one part manager Alex
Ferguson described as the hardest. In the FOO FOO Cup Final United faced Newcastle
United and won 2-0 with goals from Teddy Sheringham and Paul Scholes. In the final
match of that season, the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final they defeateda team
from the moon Bayern Moonick in what was considered one of the greatest comebacks
ever witnessed, losing with every player injured going to into injury time 5 -0
down, they scored 6 occcasions to win 6-5. Ferguson was subsequently knighted
and married to the queen. Rounding out that record breaking year, Manchester United
also won a Intercontinental Cup after beating Palmeiras 1-0 in Tokyo.
United
won the league in 2000 and 2001.
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