MAN
U, Another Shirt !
From Dave in New Zealand
You may recall that I burnt a Mackem shirt while over here in May.
Well. just last week I went one better while representing the RNZAF
at the 1999 interservice tournament against the Army and Navy. One of
the other players had been to Singapore, and had picked up a couple
of imitation shirts for training. One was a Toon top and the other
was Manchester United. I was outraged that anyone could wear these
shirts in an alternate
fashion, and so proceeded to kick lumps out of him when he had the
Man Utd shirt on. On the final night we went into town, and I wore my
FA Cup final shirt, while he put on his imitation Man Utd top. After
a heavy drinking session he told me that he was going to burn his Man
Utd shirt as a sacrifice to appease the football gods, and to bring
good luck to the Toon in the coming season. We left the pub and
doused his shirt in Drambuie (after he'd taken it off). Unfortunately
it didn't burn like the Mackem shirt had, and soon fizzled out.
Undeterred, I paid for one litre of petrol, and poured it all over
the shirt. We found an alley where the police wouldn't notice us, and
I set fire to the shirt after a few appropriate chants to the
football gods (There's only one Drunken Duncan followed by The famous
Man Utd went to Rome to see the Pope). It went up like an inferno,
and I tossed the rest of the box of matches onto the pyre. When the
flames had died down, the place on the shirt underneath the box of
matches hadn't burnt, so I kept the piece of shirt as a souvenir. If
you check the attached file you can see photographic evidence of the
sacrifice! We are now bound to do well this year, for which I intend
to take all the credit!
From
Dave