wait.. please dont get me wrong, there's no maniac trying to harass me or anything.. im referring to myself actually. im not really a maniac. but when it comes to MANCHESTER UNITED, im leaning towards that category nowadays. not in total meaning, but i get very defensive when people are trying to say anything bad or downgrading man u. ok, most probably i am not the right person to talk about man u. but who cares, its a democratic world, its my blog anyways!
i cant remember when i first started to fall in love with man u. but it was for sure during my high skool years. (yeah, i wasnt an early starter. the premiership began on 1992/1993, but wasnt a fan by then) my eyes were on king eric at that time. his upright collar shirt trademark was already definitely intimidating if i were on the opposing team. hahah! the French talisman presence was so fundamentally important. and then he left.. of course, by then giggsy, keano and becks were already around. it was a great loss but i already have faith in giggsy. he was fast back then, occasionally the same now, but he still plays vital role in all the matches he's on. of course, you grow wiser and more experienced by the years, giggsy is the best example.
i remember my sister was so into becks. i dont like becks. from my point of view, he was completely overrated. every football advertisement will feature a glimpse of him, when u talked about football in those days, u know people will mentioned his name. which is which actually? becks is football or football is becks? either way, im not too keen on the prospect of him being the football icon / phenomena at that time. and what's up with people who thought that every single female who watches football must be admiring becks? like duhh!! i always got that impression before; when guys jumped to the conclusion that i must have like becks cz im into man u. no way jose! and that's the difference, some girls dont really watch football, they watch the player instead. and when that player left the team, they stop watching coz man of their dream has gone! its a pity. i guess they must have not realize that in football, its the team that wins, not individual victory. i got to meet the team when they came to KL. we got special free tickets to watch the training session (cz i was registered with man u official southeast asia supporters' club). it was cool. jaap stam was around back then, he is so tall! becks was still around, barthez. and i was excited to be able to see giggsy from afar. that was totally unbelievable!
i didnt get to watch so many games when i was in uni. especially when i was doing my degree. i only got to see a few matches. i had to negotiate with the cafe owner to let me watch the match on weekends. but most of the times he wont let me cz more people wanted to watch af. i had to go to kingfisher area at some mamak restaurant with some friends and halfway through the match, we got to speed back to the campus because of the curfew. hampeh isnt it? but this time around, i have easy excess to tv =) in fact i dont watch tv all that much. heroes and amazing race asia were the only tv series i'd watch. and the news bulletin. other than that, its football! or else, i'll be in bed by 9.30pm! weird huh?
anyway, i watched yesterday morning's match. the second half that is. (u see, i dont know why, but i dont dare to watch the first half in all the matches we played. coz i almost got a heart attack everytime i did! but i watched full time matches on weekends. and yes, i was so close to be admitted into ICU each time) it was an away match with 'kota bharu', hehehe! newcastle that is.. i thought we played well. good game, good team effort, i just wished that was the same team to play carling cup final with spurs the other day! (now that was a long game!) i even texted my adorable fiance, people must be crazy not to be a man u fan. i mean, at the rate we are going, who cares if we get quintuplet or sextuplet cups? we are the best club in the world, need i say more?? and of course charity shield should be counted as one of the cups! therefore we actually have won 3 cups, not 2! why do we need to first justify whether charity shield is considered as cup or not? we've won it, so it must have meant something! look at it this way, if chelsh*t won it and lost premiership this season, they might say, "its ok, at least we got charity shield". so why cant we glory with the fact we have won it? so, i will still consider us to have won 3 cups already, and 3 to go. case close! hehe!
the Carling, gosh! the Carling.. it was frustrating not being able to penetrate spurs. i say they were pretty good. and to be able to hold us right till extra time, that was superb. the juniors were a frustration actually. i totally understand that the gaffer wanted to give them a chance after their efforts in man u's journey to wembley. but, i was not expecting them to be in the 1st eleven and leaving out core players. maybe one or two will be sufficient. rooney was not even on the bench. i hate penalties. and to win by penalties was not something i expected with spurs. and the morning after the match was not 100% winning feeling. but nonetheless, we got the cup, so i have the liberty to gloat!
i have a dream.. to go to old trafford one day. its my daily weekday routine actually, to come to work and first thing in the morning to check my emails and at the same time log in to man u's website, download the latest wallpaper, read the news and finally go to the ticketing page, browsing the ticket price, the seating plan (gosh the seating plan! i could almost felt i was there at old trafford!), the hotel package and fantasize me booking my ticket to go there! i once told my twin about the package price and was actually deliberating on where to get the flight tickets (as if we really are going?!). but, i really hope that one day i'll step my foot there. at the theater of dreams.. my dream.. one day OT.. one day..
