The Munich Petition

Originally Posted by chorleyred

and tufty

Zing!

anyway, I hope it does happen Denis and the right person is given credit if it does.

I am horrified by that petition; wtf does it mean by "properly" anyway? Does anybody really think United won't do something to mark the anniversary?

I think the idea of the kit is very good.

A backdrop similar to the Everton game in 94 would do for me - lone piper, guard of honour of old boys and survivors, maybe even Busby's famous message played over the PA, that sort of thing. A bit of snow like 93 would probably finish me off tbh.

The plain red shirt idea is superb and I believe it was given serious thought, dont completely rule it out. There is a committee made up of some of the munich survivors, family and senior United officials who have been considering ideas. Fans have bombarded them with hundreds of suggestions, fro the decent ones such as the shirts to some over the top ones.
Something is planned for the 6th Feb, rumoured to be a service inside the stadium.

Originally Posted by denis the king

The following is what I said in the beginning and it is from this that the whole thing has snowballed.

I would like to see at the home game nearest to the 6th February 2008 the team play in an EXACT replica kit of 1958. No names,no AIG, no PL Logos and players numbered 1 -11.

I would NOT like to see the shirt being offered for sale by the club.

It could happen IF the club had the will to do it. I know the PL might kick up about it but I am sure they would understand that it was a gesture from the club as a mark of respect for those who died.

A lot of people contacted me to say they agreed with the idea.

Some one else decided to set up the petition and I was not aware of the wording or even the existence of the petition before I saw a link to it.

It was obvious that United would look to commemorate the 50th anniversary in some way whether you liked it or not. I personally wanted to see this done in a tasteful way that remembered those who died as United players and not some names on a sheet of paper, nor did I want to see it turn into some commercialised money making exercise.

I thought the Kit idea fitted the bill.

I know that a few people have an issue with the whole thing turning into a 'Scouse-esque' weepathon, so do I.

United were always going to do more than a 'minutes silence/applause', so the idea was put to them. Theres no more or less reasoning behind it.

If you agree with it thats great, if you don't well ask yourself what could they have come up with.

The knuckle dragging element of the Cithai fans will no doubt abuse a silence / applause. How do they abuse a Kit?? Hopefully its going to be right in front of them for 90 minutes.

sorry mate if my rant was misread. i wasn't intent on calling you or any other red that was behind getting something done. my fear is that like always the board will try to outdo themselves in a "look at what we've done for the fans" way. the PL obviously don't give a flying £#%&! pairing us up wit city on the day so any idea of unsponsored un badged shirts is well and truly out of the window.

my own idea of a tribute nowadays would be to see a sea of flowers under the busby statue surrounded by thousands of reds singing their £#%&!ing hearts out. who then would give a £#%&! about the odd bitter #@&%! tryin to make his bitter mates proud. in the ground, again, sing your £#%&!ing hearts out. let sir matt and the rest of the babes look down and feel rpoud of what they have achieved and what they have left for us. let them look down and think this isn't about the PL, this isn't about the Glazers this is about a legacy of fans than were born from us.