The Manchester Derby always manages to transcend the boundaries of a standard football match. It&rsq...
The Manchester Derby always manages to transcend the boundaries of a standard football match. It&rsq...
Manchester vs. Manchester: The derby goes beyond a City being far from United
The scarf vs. the ‘sir’. An enigmatic Italian vs. a hot tempered, highly talented English talisman. A young, earnest Mexican vs. an Argentine taking the Premier League by storm. The future of Spain’s goalkeeping vs. the future of England’s goalkeeping. Football as a pastime vs. Football as a way to spend hundreds of millions.
The Manchester Derby always manages to transcend the boundaries of a standard football match. It’s an event, a two-hour timeslot when the whole of Manchester shuts down. The angles are there for journalists to create whatever storyline they desire, but in reality it’s hard to remember a time when the whole city shined with such talent. While Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Tottenham are all (relative) forces, it’s not a stretch to say that many, many trophies will brought to Manchester over the next two years. Thousands of Tevez kits will be trashed and around 70,000 representing the blue and red will be bursting their lungs inside Old Trafford. The future is unknown, as is the sports betting surrounding the fixture, but surely success is on the horizon. May the fight for superiority continue to flourish. What happens next?
