Cockney Reds: The Story of Manchester United's Southern Army

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Stormzy: That’s tough. I’m going to get cooked for this. My goalkeeper is [Peter] Schmeichel. My defender I’m going Rio, I think Rio. That’s my GOAT. I love Rio. [Lionel] Messi, [Cristiano] Ronaldo and then R9 [Ronaldo] up top. That’s all time. But for those of us who remember The King as Law, not Cantona, something - strangely - was lost once Sir Matt had his hands on the European Cup. The convicted yob, who wears an electronic tag as part of his early release on parole, insists his business is legitimate. He has argued that the seven-year injunction banning him from within a mile of a football ground on match days infringes his human rights. Again, it's about population, everyone in Manchester could support them and it would still be a relatively small percentage of their overall support. It's unfair to call someone a glory hunter because they aren't fortunate to be from the city of a club they support. A football club isn't a national team, teams attract players from all over the world, so why are non local fans frowned upon?

callum1975: You continue to inspire young people (and us oldies too)! Your actions carry such integrity and genuine care and belief. Congratulations on this wonderful initiative. By definition, uttering something malicious about someone is a slanderous act, while, it being in print, is considered libelous. So, you're half-right in a pedantic sense. Congrats.I’ve always took the opinion of your from London, go watch a local side like Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Chelsea, Fulham, West ‘am, Spurs, QPR, Millwall, Charlton, ect. I just think it’s abit pointless if you’re from the other side of the country to travel all the way.

The campaign’s launch following the FA’s second annual report on the Football Leadership Diversity Code which showed English clubs are failing to meet six out of eight pledged targets. They bring them into the centre of the pub and sit them down while the whole pub is singing "kill,kill,kill the bill" I've never seen anything like it, they then piss in pint pots and make the old bill drink it!! All the while singing the same song.

Stormzy: I just hope to inspire change, which sometimes sounds like such a worldwide, such a massive ambition and sometimes it sounds unrealistic. I always hope that 20, 30, 40 years from now, there is some kid who has no idea who I am – I’m way too old, he don’t care about Stormzy – but there is some initiative that we started like now which allows them to have some ambition and a dream and a future. Just keep the ball rolling, domino effect and hopefully that inspires my kids’, kids, kids, kids and we put some infrastructure and real change there that actually allows them to be stronger and more empowered. Their ‘end’ was down the side and I was with some fellow yids one game where we filled up one side of it in 71 After that day I knew I much preferred a few beers and a sing song in the pub pre match rather than the mayhem some people loved. I loved hearing stories of what they all got up too, but you can't get up to that stuff with a belly full of beer A further nobility of purpose perhaps, replaced now by something more tangibly measured on the plc's balance sheet?

This is what social media users said as Rapper Stormzy launches Merky FC with a special reason behind his new project in football… Whilst I have got used to this kind of baiting, I feel it is quite an ignorant stance taken by outsiders looking in and I myself have been more than welcomed by Mancunians I have encountered and I’m pretty sure nobody screamed abuse at none of these players either. A 41-year-old man from Old Trafford, a man, aged 43 from Moss Side and a 33-year-old woman from Baguley have been arrested in connection with the shooting of O'Neill. A celebration of achievement and talent, which made no apologies for glossing the 25 barren years that followed 1967 and the Moneybags United themes of the current era. No one really deserves to be shot, but their are more people in the world suffering that deserve my pity rather than clowns like this fella.Following Best, Law and Charlton felt like following football itself, a glorious game of excitement, glamour and unpredictability, where being present for the drama seemed just as important as the result. Player spotlights falls on Scott McTominay and Harry Maguire who have gone from summer outcasts to match winners. Tony O'Neill, 46, who wrote a book boasting about his 30 years as a football hooligan, was shot in the stomach in the Sedge Lynn pub in Chorlton, on Saturday night.