Yee-haw - they are definitely not Durham donkeys
Last Saturday, FC United of Manchester entertained Durham City, the club rooted at the bottom of the Unibond Premier without a point from 30 games. FC United of Manchester have risen from the Manchester Sunday Combination Division 19 to the Unibond Premier in the time it has Glazer to run up an equally impressive multi-million debt at the club from which the disgruntled folk of Manchester hatched the idea of FC United of Manchester. FC United and AFC Wimbledon have similar histories, except that AFC Wimbledon have kept rising and could get into the Football League via the play offs this year.
FC United of Manchester this year are struggling in the bottom half of the Unibond Premier, but were expected to knock a few past Durham City, but Durham City won 2-1 at their opponents’ ground to record their first points of the season. The FC United of Manchester faithful even applauded their opponents off the field. It got better this week as Durham City defeated mid-table Whitby Town 4-3. If Durham City win all of their remaining games, they could, in theory, escape bottom spot. We will follow their sudden burst of form. Below: Durham City fans at FC United of Manchester - they don't know it yet, but they will be celebrating wildly soon
FC United of Manchester this year are struggling in the bottom half of the Unibond Premier, but were expected to knock a few past Durham City, but Durham City won 2-1 at their opponents’ ground to record their first points of the season. The FC United of Manchester faithful even applauded their opponents off the field. It got better this week as Durham City defeated mid-table Whitby Town 4-3. If Durham City win all of their remaining games, they could, in theory, escape bottom spot. We will follow their sudden burst of form. Below: Durham City fans at FC United of Manchester - they don't know it yet, but they will be celebrating wildly soon
Lady Knobhead and I decided not to visit our favourite Italian restaurant last night as Luigi, the chef, was on holiday and the replacement chef - also called Luigi - is not what we expect. For a change, we ventured to a local pub and were surprised to find a country and western band playing lively music. The audience was throwing hats in to the air and cheering wildly with yells of "Yeehaw". Lady Knobhead jumped in the air with the first few shouts of "Yeehaw" as she thought a donkey had entered the bar. I explained to Lady Knobhead that donkeys make an eeee-awww sound rather than a yeehaw. National Geographic, a fine TV channel (Lady Knobhead only puts it second to a shopping channel she loves) have scientifically proved that it is actually wee-snaw but for once I am not sure they are right. Sadly it was not the sort of entertainment we liked nor particularly the type of customer we like to mix with, to be frank. The audience did look like a bunch of donkeys - or a herd or a pace, I believe. Fortunately Luigi is back next week. Good luck to Durham City of course. (FootballCynic writes: Wee Snaw, indeed. Isn't he a tricky stirker that plays for East Stirling?)
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My mother always taught me that a donkey made a very simple e-or sound. No yeehaw, no eeeeeeeee-awwww and certainly not wee snaw. Put them right. (FootballCynic writes: FootballCynic is not sure what you mean by 'Put them right', Danielle. He thinks that wee-snaw is probably nonsense and that people in Yorkshire are more close to the truth with assumptions such as e-or being the right sound for a donkey)
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What everyone has failed to mention about donkeys is that they were important to both the collapse of the slave trade aswell as getting women the vote.
More recently they helped the female professional tennis players recieve equal prize money to their male counterparts.
So what they are actually doing is promoting their website (Equal Opportunities Review). (FootballCynic writes: Can I have some of what you are taking, Funky Docker?)
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