Trying to decide which is the least ‘United’ …
‘Nations’ or ‘States of America’
@JohnPhilpin Have never understood how can Manchester be United if there’s a second team in the city.
@pratik Without any bias at all - because though i 'support' them - I couldn't even tell you who the captain is these days - but in fairness - United came first (albeit not actually called United) and City came second - because that is what they do 😂
@JohnPhilpin I support neither but I think now more Indians (pssst…@aurora) support ManU than those who fought the British.
@pratik BTW - I originally though your Manchester reference was down to the chaos that seems to be United these days .... Ferguson retired after 27 years in 2013 .. in the next ten years they have had 8 of the buggers!
@pratik When I lived in Manchester, as a student, City supporters would argue that strictly speaking Manchester United wasn't in Manchester City... it was in Salford. And its true that its local supporters tend to come from North-West of the city. I know that the old Maine Road ground was a walk from where I lived while Old Trafford was a hike into "here-be-dragons" territory.
@billbennettnz 😂 Salford ... I mean its t'other side of the world!
My mother grew up in Salford - but generally people don’t know where that is - so she's from 'Manchester' - which at least positions it somewhere north of The Watford Gap!
These days City and United are equidistant - about 2 miles / 3 clicks to either stadium from what used to Lewis's and is now Primark - and both a lot closer to the center than say the Mancunian delicacy of Eccles Cakes. 😂
(side note - why doesn’t ~~strike out~~ work?)
What did you study at Manchester?
@JohnPhilpin Started in Physics and Computer Science, switched to straight Physics, worked on the student newspaper and took a totally unexpected career path.
@JohnPhilpin It's all about perception. I remember walking from Fallowfield to Salford University to watch Blondie and the Talking Heads... I think the buses were on strike or there was some other reason everyone walked in the rain. It felt like miles and miles, took an hour and half. Did much the same journey years later in a car and it was, maybe, 10 minutes.
@billbennettnz AhHA - in a different universe, we might have stumbled across each other in Manchester (age differences aside - but that doesn’t matter in a different universe does it?). Same studies, but more importantly - same music. Alas it was not to be since Manchester did not recognize my 'keen intellect' (or saw through me more likely!!). Manchester was definitely the place to study Computer Science though - home of LEO and all that and definitely recognized as 'THE' place - once outside of Oxbridge and for CS - even they were not keeping up in those days.
Perception - yes indeed. Two miles is everything when you are walking them. Yet from the other side of the world ... "Wait - Manchester' - you must know my friend ..... "