Sven-Goran Eriksson has called on Manchester City's fans to be respectful of commemorations planned for the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster.
City play at Manchester United on 10 February and Eriksson has written to fans asking them to pay tribute to those killed in the Munich plane crash.
Eriksson has urged fans not to disrupt a minute's silence before the match.

Former Manchester United club secretary Ken Ramsden, who has helped organise the commemorations for the day said: "What happened at Munich was not just a disaster for United but for the whole of the city of Manchester.

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this will end badly

I think City will bite their lips for once.

But under the concourse last Sunday when we played at their place, before the game you could hear them all singing Munich songs behind the dividing gates. When they were playing us! Madness.

Very surprised the fixture list has got United playing City on same weekend. I know United are going to wear the 1958 kit as a one off for this and I would hope City would do the same for this emotional game. I just pray City fans behave themselves and a few mindless ones dont drag their name into the gutter.
Erickson is spot on it was a travesty for the football world.

i heard a few munich songs when we played city as well

You won't hear a peep from them because they know they will get wiped out if they play up. Every man and his missus will be wanting a go at them.

I just hope the media don't start giving it 'What fantastic fans those loyal Manchester City followers are blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzz'

F.ucking scumbags.

Couldn't give a f*ck what they do on the day, their colours have already been nailed firmly to the mast regarding Munich for years.

1 minute in forced silence won't change that.

it hasn't stopped them in the past what makes you think they won't do it now

Fat chance.

This is a different kettle of fish pal. Tensions will be running VERY high. Plus, they haven't given it Munich inside the OT for a few years now. They tend to leave it until afterwards and in the concourse.

If they do, it will probably be the first time kicks off properly inside OT since leeds 5 or 6 year ago.

I wouldn't like to be a blue trying to get across the forecourt if they decide to ruin it.

Amazing quirk of the fixture list there :rolleyes:

They brought up our nearest rivals for the 2 things close to leeds fans' heart. Istanbul when the blunts came over and billy bremners 10th anniversary when huddersfield came this year...obviously both times they stirred it up and got the reactions they wanted

Thats all they do if for...the reaction. When teams have incidents like that opposition teams will always use it to wind them up. The police will have it covered everywhere though or will just keep them in for afew days

we played City on the Munich anniversary a few years back (About 3 0r 4), during the playing fo the flowers of Manchester, they all sung Blue moon. They also stayed in theri seats at half time singing, making the point they werent giving utd any of their money at the tea bars.

You see numerous Munich City shirts at Wastelands, their main supporters club, even played footage of the Crash on a big screen before last years game at wastelands.

They will be quiet for the silence, to get a "best fans in the wiorld" badge.
then sing Munich songs later on in town etc and at future games.

Bolton fans are just as bad, with their silly obsession, yet fail to remember the Burnden park disaster.

That is what's really getting to me.

I want everyone to know what a bunch of utter, utter scum they are. Filth.

Nobody is holier than thou.

Remember the Hillsborough Anniversary when you lot played Sunderland?

We played on the Sunday, and I was sat in the house watching Grandstand. BBC when to Old Trafford, as they went round every ground during the silence, and could clearly hear singing and the silence being broken, so the BBC moved on sharply and covered it up.

Sunderland then broke into a rendition of YNWA straight after it and booed your lot.

Munich songs were sang at Anfield throughout the 80's, but not since. Munich was sang at Old Trafford by our lot last season for the first time in a long, long time. After the K stand had spent the rest of the game singing "that day at Hillsborough, you killed your own fans", along with that charming hand over face, squashing jesture they do.

We've never broken a minutes silence for Munich, or anything for that matter. Well ones that matter. The George Best one was a joke. 2 or 3 lads broke that one. Shouldn't have taken place anyway. Leeds certainly didn;t think so with their reaction at Millwall that day.

Nobody is clean and it's people in glass houses all over in this sort of thing

City take this thing to a whole new level.

Do we casually refer to you as Hillsboroughs? Do we advertise games in our pubs as Hillsboroughs Vs Reading? Does our whole end sing blatant songs CELEBRATING Hillsborough at Anfield? Despite having years of sh*t off yourselves about Munich? No.

I'm only young, but have been to Anfield each time for the last 5 years, and only on one occasion have I heard a Hillsborough song get a proper airing off more than 50 people. The Cup game while you bastards were launching anything you could get your hands on at us.

I know we are not exactly angels, but City are THAT bad. They are worse than you and Leeds put together. Bitter, bitter bastards.

Far more worrying is why United have allowed some (more than likely) god awfull rememberance at the England game before hand at Wembley.

Why on earth would anybody in that stadium be bothered? This is a United thing which City just happen to be invited to, no idea why any other club (or international side) want to do anything.

As you say, it's a United thing. You just happen to be playing City that day. Nothing to do with England or anyone else.

The same reasons why I don't think there should be a minutes silence at other games on the 15th April. Maybe at 10yr and 20yr anniversaries at a push - but it's our history, our loss, nothing to do with anyone else. Maybe have one if Sheffield Wednesday are at home - but them horrible, inept, gutless c*nts can burn for all I care.

And I agree on the City thing. Refering to you as "Munichs" in their programme was bad enough.

Wasn't it a "song of the season" feature and they selected "same old munichs, always cheating" in the top 5? And printed in an official programme!!

I know its your history and all but personally I would like to have a minutes silence for those that died on that day. I think it shocked the whole country (although obviously Liverpool more).

It's just that I don't like feeling like we're forcing people into it. If they decide to pay their respects, good on them. I don't know, difficult one.

But I do find all this manc shouting of "they better not disrespect the silence" quite hypocritical.

So they forget what they did at Anfield when Tony Bland died and we held a silence for him? Sang right through it.

For those unaware, 95 died at Hillsborough on the day. Tony Bland was critical and on life support, dying a good while later. We played United at Anfield a few days after he finally passed away. They sang through the entire minutes silence.

And now call for respect for their own?

We played Man City at home around the same time. The week Matt Busby died. Anfield respected the minutes silence, City all sang through it, and were booed by the Kop at the end of the 60 seconds.

The only minutes silence we've ever disrespected was the one for George Best, and even then it was only 2 or 3 lads. The only one we'll ever disrespect again, if they have one, is for Maggy Thatcher!! And never mind booing a silence, we'll be setting off party poppers and streamers!!!!

So when United start crying about silences....

Thing is it only takes a few to spoil a minutes silence, hence the minutes applause has become popular

Utter, utter, utter sh*te. We didn't sing right through it for f.ucks sake.

ONE dickhead shouted something, then proceeded to get smacked straight between the eyes. I've heard that story a million times. My dad was stood 3 seats down from the lad who shouted. Everyone was gutted.

Just had a read through the thread on RAOTL, never have I heard such unsubstantiated crackpot excuses.

'Ohh, we barely ever sang Munich, the Mancs all sing Hillsborough every game all the time blah blah blah'

Face the FACTS. You sang Munich for years on end, the whole ground. Banners, the works. We sing about Shankly as a retaliation. You then have a disaster of your own. You then only sing Munich sporadically because you know how it feels. Hypocrites? Over the last few years, some young lads have sang about it Hillsborough. They are the facts. Why can't you idiots deal with them?

the fact is liverpool fans and united fans are both as bad as each other they have both sang about munich and hillsbrough and heysel and some still do so today we could go on all day about who has been worse the fact is they are both in the wrong

I've never denied we sang Munich for years. Regular Munich 58 banners on The Kop, on European away trips, even a big one at Heysel. Nobody can deny that, and I don't think anyone does.

What people do deny, is singing about it post-Hillsborough, which they are right to. I've only heard it 3 times in the ground since.

1. Roma away 2001, when a massive mob of ours went over and the lads sang it in the second half and was booed down by the rest.

2. Slovan Liberec away 2000, when the same mob were in their main stand and sang it. Nobody in our end joined in.

3. Old Trafford 2007. Covered in an earlier post.

You weren't at that Tony Bland game, I was. I don't remember it as clearly as others, I was young, but I do remember the silence being broken. The same as it was at Goodison in 2001. That was more surprising. They're meant to be scousers and they broke the silence.

In short, everyone's got dick heads. But for United to preach the holier than thou script when they've ruined minutes silence before is a little pathetic.

If we'd booed or sang through a silence for Munich or Matt Busby, then cried for United to respect one for Hillsborough, we'd look like pricks. Exactly what United look like to some this time round.

I've been to Old Trafford every year since 1994. Including when away fans were banned. I've only started to hear the Hillsborough stuff in the past 2 years really. And in the FA Cup game at Anfield when it was rife in your end. Only heard Munich sang once from our lot, as described earlier, after the 70 mins of Hillsborough stuff from the K stand. Loads of ours walked out when we responded with that and won't be going back. Disgusted. But everyone's different.

You might get a few clueless Liverpool fans playing all innocent, but the rest of us know the score, I thought you lot would as well? United are no angels.

This conversation gets air'd in some format every month on some forum or other, nobody ever agrees (obvisouly).

Who gives a flying f*ck

I'm on about the way you portray us. Bollocks like us 'Singing all the way through the Tony Bland silence' It is a load of wank. Yes, one complete knobhead ruined it for 3000 people who know full well what it was like to be crushed on terracing. Did we sing any Hillsborough songs at Anfield last month? I never heard any, a bit like I didn't hear any last year, or the year before that in the League, or the two years before that. Do you c.unts make this s.hit up?

That thread on raotl has really pissed me off. Bunch of f.ucking whoppers on that thread. Some who know the score, others who are getting a bit giddy and basically, haven't got clue what day it is.

I'm staying away before I get banned because it's a good forum and I like non football stuff.

Well said.

Common sense prevails for the England game

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2241430,00.html

er it's not disappointing me fella

They'll boo it just to noise you lot up. It's what fans do to eachother. The same fans distrupting the minutes applause/silence will be the same one's who are on mancity.com writing R.I.P in the thread titled Munich disaster with all there other fellow blues. No big deal IMHO.


The funniest minutes silence has to be at Celtic Park for the Queen Mother. ''Can we ask all fans to be upstanding for a minutes silence'' BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :D
The ref cut it to a 20 second 'silence'

:lol:

they've decided not to do a minutes silence in the england v switzerland game as they do not trust the english supporters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7191530.stm

:D :D :D

Quite a good one when we played Ipswich away just after some Princess or other had died. I was bladdered so might be wide of the mark. Just remeber everyone carrying on talking and random "who gives a fcuk about her" shouts throughout. Wasn't even booed, just completely ignored haha.

Can't wait for the Maggie Thatcher one. That should be fun :ph43r:

That'll be a good day. The old harridan's virtually the only person in the world whose minute's silence I wouldn't respect.

"Ding, dong, the witch is dead
The wicked witch is dead..."

:)

I pray they give her the state funeral they were boucing around the other year.

I know a fair few lads who'll enjoy a trip to the smoke for that.

Would they even dare?

Every working class city and town destroyed by Thatcher will have thousands prepared to make their feelings known. Surely "they" must know that?

Changing the subject slightly, I thought the tribute West Ham did after George Best died was superb. Man Utd fans appreciated our efforts and everybody in the ground was, for a short period, united and a great footballer was appreciated by football supporters.

Very proud to be West Ham that evening.

:lol:

also - they need to make the national anthem a bit shorter. It's murder trying to boo all the way through it.

Cardiff did that also, now don't get me wrong I hate the royal family and britain as much as any Scot or Taff but i find that as disrespctful as Hillsborough/Munich/leeds in Turkey songs.

Ye, she destroyed many places, Ipswich included, don't think a silence would go down very well in a lot of places.

I dont see why there should be a mintue silence for a ex prime minister anyway.

The latest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ity/7201817.stm