Finally, the new book by Andy Mitten has arrived in the mail in the weekend. This is my Christmas reading this year between the football and dinners.
Short story
I’m a late bloomer as Manchester United fan. Growing up, I was a ice hockey player in my hometown Stavanger, and I didn’t start watching football before University in Oslo. I went to the pub with friends for the beer and shit talking. But since one of my friends were Leeds and Liverpool supporters, I was introduced to one certain player – Eric Cantona – while he was in Leeds. I loved the French arrogance. I was so stoked that I even bought a shirt in the summer of 1992. Little did I know that this shirt would not exist 6 months later.
26th of November 1992 marked shift if my thinking of being a football support. The next time I went to the pub for watching football, I still had the Cantona Leeds shirt on, the bartender put huge grim on his face. Obviously, he was a Manchester United support and picked up a new Cantona United shirt and said to me: “You can’t wear that shirt now. You can get this one for free if you burn the old one”. From that day, I was a Manchester United support, and will till the day I die.
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