Man City snub United switch plea

[ARBUCKS]

Manchester City have refused to move back their derby fixture against Manchester United on 5 May by 24 hours.
United asked for the match at Eastlands to be moved to give them more time to recover from the 2 May Champions League semi-final, second leg in Milan.

The Reds will only have 48 hours to prepare for the derby and felt it was reasonable to ask for the switch.

However, City rejected the request and insist the game must go ahead as planned, with a 1245 (BST) kick-off.

Extra spice had been added to the Manchester derby when it appeared United would clinch the Premiership title with victory at Eastlands.

However, that scenario is now an outside prospect as United would have to beat Everton at Goodison this weekend, while Chelsea would need to lose their home game against Bolton.

That would leave Sir Alex Ferguson's side holding a six-point advantage, knowing a win over Stuart Pearce's City would effectively seal the championship.

United won this season's reverse fixture in December at Old Trafford 3-1, with goals from Wayne Rooney, Louis Saha and Cristiano Ronaldo.



I think if it had of been anyone else they probabaly would have switched it!!!

[united4ever]

What do you expect from SCUM !!! lol :p

[David.Q]

never expected anything less to be honest, it will all feel better knowing that city got trashed by a tired united squad :)

[ARBUCKS]

Just hope we're going into the City game on a high!! It will be a great lift going into that game knowing wer on r way to Athens on the 23rd May!!!

[Wolfster]

seriously... no one expected them to agree on the switch....i hope we can beat them with a very large margin...so they can really knw wat kind of trash they are!!

[lil_miss_united]

Seriously, that might not be a bad thing. man utd playing the derby so close after the champions legue semi final would give them more motivation.
whereas if there was a longer period it would be harder to get going.

[Rumpole]

I can't beleive we even bothered asking in the first place! What were we expecting the answer to be???

[GeordieMancunian]

The footballing fixtures are too compact anyhow, I think Man City have done this because they think we'll be too tired to play them after the away Milan leg, and therefore conceed the title to Chelsea, *******s!