there are a lot of Man U fans like me in their 40's who understand exactly what you mean. The 1970's and 1980's were pretty barren years for us and continually living in the shadow of Liverpool was painful. City were the better team yesterday and I also hope they go on to win it. But therein lies the issue. You are celebrating like you have won something. You havent. You won a local derby which the rest of the football world will scarcely even notice. The record books will show nothing if you fail to win the final and more to the point if you continually benchmark success against the occasional times you beat us the blues will have progressed nowhere (if the semi is so much bigger than the final). We still have the Premiership and Champions League in play. Wouldnt it be great if all 3 major trophies resided in Manchester? I hope it happens - do you??


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Quite right William, they sure did.... and they've been so spoilt over the years that they
could never appreciate what it meant to every blue yesterday. To get that monkey off the back after all this time was a fantastic feeling.

It's not that United fans don't understand it's that they CAN'T understand. They've not had a single hard time to live through, no typical City for them. So they don't understand what this really means. It wasn't our cup final yesterday, it was so much bigger than that! We shot the monkey and turned the corner as a club finally!