Woah, massive apologies then guys as i am completely unaware of any munich incident thats happened with man utd. My intended use of it was reefrecing cow shit. Apologies definitly in order if it was taken another way. that type of shit isnt on and its not something i'd willingly take part in. will definitly keep to callin you manc bastards instead.
Cheers for informing my ignorant ass.
Mate, to be fair, it was something I was unaware of for a long time. I used to call the team Man U a lot (offends United fans in the same way, as they see it as a shortening of Manure), but I don't these days. I wasn't having a dig at you personally, as I could tell you were just stirring shit and didn't mean anything by it (although my response is worded poorly and doesn't really indicate that).
The actual chant the Bolton fans came up with (Leeds and Liverpool fans took it up pretty quckly) included the line "Duncan Edwards is Manure, rotting in the ground". They probably used the same line about all of the United players who perished, but Edwards was the chief target, being the brightest star in a team of stars. This was in 1958, so you can see football fans mocking the dead and engaging in other tasteless taunting is no new phenomenon. I've never understood it, because I grew up a long way from the culture that spawns it.
It's hardly a one-way street either, as United fans have definitely been known to taunt Liverpool fans about the Hillsborough disaster (the "96 - not enough" I referred to above; 96 being the number of Liverpool fans killed in the disaster).
As I said, I can't comprehend why this shit is regarded as acceptable by (some) football fans.
If you don't know much about the Munich Air Disaster (which killed 23 people, including 8 United players, on 6 February 1958), or the Hillsborough Disaster (in which 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death on 15 April 1989), Wikipedia has very good articles on both, which I would recommend reading. You can't fully appreciate either club and what it means to be a supporter of either club until you understand these pivotal events in the history of the 2 clubs.
I can also highly recommend the book "Manchester United: The Biography" by Jim White as a very readable account of the entire history of the club, from the days when we were Newton Heath LYRFC up until our Champions League victory in 2008. Importantly, it's not something commissioned by the club itself, rather written by a journalist who happens to be a massive United fan (from Manchester, unlike most of us ;-)), so it's a proper warts and all account. Well worth tracking down in a library (where I happened to stumble upon it).
